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…
“So this was an out of the blue decision for a CFP this year, and before you ask yes I have used Apple Mac OSX but I do not own a Mac at present. However, as the story goes, good friends of mine the lovely guys at Secret Labs help to put on Dev World in Melbourne each year and had told me about the conference. The funny thing was I thought well I actually…
“So shortly after a visit to the USA for OSCON and back to Australia, I jumped back on a plane and headed towards Seattle for LinuxCon America to give a talk about Open Source and Australian Government Policy. The trip was great and I also managed to fit in a flight to LA to visit a friend who works who NASA and lives in the Hollywood Mountains. The conference was my second American LinuxCon attending…