A great week at OSCON
It has been a great week here at OSCON in Portland, and I want to thank O’Reilly for allowing me the opportunity to speak this year. The session on Trac was well attended and I had some great contributions from the audience. The presentation materials will be available from the OSCON website in the next couple of days.
The BoF session on MythTV and Video on Linux was also well attended, and I really enjoyed getting the chance to hear the US perspective and chat with some fellow MythTV users. The US analogue switch off is in February 2009, well ahead of most other countries, which will dramatically change the US TV market.
Of the various sessions I’d like to make special mention on the opening keynotes by Robert “r0ml” Lefkowitz and Damian Conway, it is always inspiring to see speakers of this quality. The Why Whinging Doesn’t Work keynote from Danese Cooper also hit quite an interesting note. Lastly I really enjoyed the chance to see Stormy Peters speak again. Her keynote at this years LCA in Melbourne was excellent, and at OSCON she provided and update on the Open Source Census being run by OpenLogic.
Once again this has been an excellent technical conference, and it will be quite interesting to contrast the OSCON audience with the Linux World attendees when I speak there in just over a week.