After much deliberation, I decided to attend foss.in this time. The reason for this deliberation is not the content, but inability to take so many days off. The venue turned out to be pretty close to my office, and there was company to shuttle between office and the venue for certain talks.
Some pluses and minuses, registration was too slow (at some point in the queue, I wondered, whether, I would be playing with my grandchildren, by the time the registration completes). I had just one lunch in the event (excluding tomorrow). But food tasted (much)+ better than what was dished out last time. And the queues were much faster.
Coming to the main event..
Few days back, I had an argument with a friend. His point was, for some reason, Americans are better off making presentations, compared to their European/Far east counter parts (definitely not talking about the quality of content). I had vehemently opposed the view and argued they were baseless.
But now, I think I see his point of view. I think the ability to mix (quality) humour with the content is what sails them through... Whatever..
Rusty Russell, I enjoyed his talk the most. I dint imagine the person who wrote netfilter / iptables to sport such a good humour. His talk made the whole event worthwhile. Going back tomorrow to his talk on talloc.
Wish I could attend au.conf..
Some pluses and minuses, registration was too slow (at some point in the queue, I wondered, whether, I would be playing with my grandchildren, by the time the registration completes). I had just one lunch in the event (excluding tomorrow). But food tasted (much)+ better than what was dished out last time. And the queues were much faster.
Coming to the main event..
Few days back, I had an argument with a friend. His point was, for some reason, Americans are better off making presentations, compared to their European/Far east counter parts (definitely not talking about the quality of content). I had vehemently opposed the view and argued they were baseless.
But now, I think I see his point of view. I think the ability to mix (quality) humour with the content is what sails them through... Whatever..
Rusty Russell, I enjoyed his talk the most. I dint imagine the person who wrote netfilter / iptables to sport such a good humour. His talk made the whole event worthwhile. Going back tomorrow to his talk on talloc.
Wish I could attend au.conf..
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What's au.conf?
http://lca2008.linux.org.au/ - One when I earn enough..
the question was more of 'what's special about au.conf?'
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Well.. Lot many kernel hackers as speakers.. Not just kernel.. filesystem, database.. Should be very interesting to attend.. but costs $352.00!! way beyond means..!!
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