So this was the first year of OSCON in Austin, the conference was not as large as the ones I had attended in Portland and even the booth area was notably smaller. This did not take away from the focus at professionalism of the conference. They definitely lacked the student crowd that the hall pass in Portland, which for me also meant not seeing alot of the freelance developer crowd who could not justify the…
So we jumped on a plane after an Easter in Australia and made it to Lake Tahoe for Snow, a Blues Festival and a Linux Conference. The Linux collaborators conference was one I had wanting to attend as there are not many conferences that have that many Lawyers in a room who understand what Open Source is let alone work for companies that are growing and fostering Open Source. It was also a great excuse…
I was super excited to be offered a slot to speak at Ignite in Amsterdam, I really enjoy the Ignite format ORiely Conference Ignites tend to be slightly larger then your normal Ignite. The room was as I expected, large and overwhelming and also absolutely exciting to be presenting.
And we are off to Amsterdam, such an amazing pretty city. To speak about the differences in the conferences absolutely huge. The line-up was really different and they went with a local flair, the actual conference itself was smaller which I am told was to be expected. The business hall was smaller but alot more of a community feel then the huge ones in North America. The party well wasnt a party but a canal…
So I missed a flight from Seattle to Dublin and then ended up landing in Dublin about 4hours before my talk. So not an ideal situation, luckily I was not flying from Australia but only Seattle so the flight was half the distance not that it helps you much when you land and your talk is in four hours. I managed to get myself to the conference and to the talk in time and prepared…
So I finally made it to my first Fedora Conference. I was able to swing by Rochester for Fedora FLOCK between 28th August to the 30th of August and make most of the conference. So the conference started very grass roots and continued that way. everything was free/complimentary, lunches, t-shirt and conference ticket. Which left a decent amount to be able to cover the hotel room and stay in the conference hotel which made everything…