LinuxForum Recap
This year LinuxForum was held at the Royal School of Architecture.
It was kind of funny to held a presentation in a place I once spend 6 years as a student.
I have more than once failed to stay awake during and endless slide/dias based lecture in one of those auditoriums.
I hope my audience didn’t have the same problem during my talk =).
I’m confident that I conveyed my enthusiasm. Unfortunately I didn’t manage my alloted time well, and ended rushing the last part of my presentation. Worse, there was no time left for Q-A, so I kind of missed that feedback.
Anyway I got the impression that people enjoyed the talk.
At the end I got an Acu-screwdriver as a speaker’s gift. It even has a ‘LinuxForum 2006′ logo engraved/printed.
Nice souvenir and cute nifty tool.
LinuxForum has been growing steady year by year. I’m quite amazed at how well manage the whole event was, even though everything is volunteer based.
The only thing that bothered me was that the ‘expo floor’ was kind of lame. I really don’t get it. This is a venue
for ultra-geeks, early adopters, sneezers. Companies should be here shamelessly brown-nosing this guys.
But there weren’t many stands, and a couple of the represented companies had only a stack of brochures and a bored looking sales rep.
On the bright side, Polytekniske Boghandel was there with a terrific sample of tech books.
I bought Alistair Cockburn’s ‘Writing Effective Use Cases’ and Scott Berkun ‘The Art of Project Management’.
They even dropped an O’reilly T-shirt in my bag =)