OSDC Day -1

The day started with the flight from Adelaide to Melbourne - the first amazing fact was that from the air you can see that everything is so dry. Australia could really do with rain from heaven.

Arrived at Melbourne airport and experienced the ease of taking the SkyBus into the city - a very good system that Adelaide needs. What I wouldn't want to see copied is the long wait SkyBus gives you for the hotel transfer - we had 30 or so people waiting for hotel transfers from their depo, and they were servicing them 4 people at a time, leaving their smaller buses half-empty :-(

So after that I checked into my hotel, and did the wander around the city. Melbourne is a pretty exciting place, although the 33C day didn't make exploring much fun after a flight.

Being an Adelaide boy, I'm not very train-familiar, so I did a trial run out to Caufield - wall-to-wall school girls and grannies - but there were no problmes finding he conference venue. Afterwards it was out to Stewart Smith's place, just a few train stops further down the line. We sat around chatting on MySQL stuff, MythTV, Linux Australia, and hacking in general.

Off to LUV was next, heard a very interesting talk on Perl's ACME namespace (love that ACME::Bleach :-) by Jose Castro and a talk on GPLv3. Interesting to note the momentum building around v3 given the Novell-Microsoft death-spiral.

Then off to dinner at some nice authentic Italian restaurant. Good chats with Robert, Martin, Jon and others.

Ride back to Collins St in the city by Stewart (thnx), and get some well-needed sleep. Conference proper starts tomorrow!

| 06 Dec 2006 | #