Linux Conf, Wikileaks
Jan. 20th, 2010 07:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tcpipDay Zero. Yes, there was some day zero speeches. Graham Lauder spoke on how to speak to an audience. Although not a speaker, I went along for fun. It should be compulsory for presenters to go to talks like this, as there was a few people talking to the screen, not engaging with the audience etc. This said, the presentations on the first three days have been quite good.
Day One. After the introduction Josh Berkus 'Ten Ways to Destroy Your Community' was entertaining. Saw former co-worker's Peter Serwylo presentation of 'Attribute-Orientated PHP'. Lana Brindley's 'Creating Beautiful Documentation' combined both basic principles and practical elements. Nic Steenhout's 'Accessibility and FOSS' was more about the former on a high-level. Joh Clarke's 'Hackers, Crackers and Security Basics' was very blunt and Karen Liesenfield's was very practical. The discussion following Lucas Nussbaum's 'The Relationship between Debian and Ubuntu' was interesting and hopefully there will be more discussion between those communities.
Day Two. Keynote Gabriella Coleman, an NYU anthropologist, spoke about the experience of ethnographic immersion in the free software community and its cultural history. After this went to Lenz Gschwentner's talk on Erlang for parallel computing, followed by the superb evangelism of Threaded Building Blocks by Intel's James Reinders. Douglas Bagnell spoke on FLOSS Manuals, an online resource and then went back to the parallel computing stream for Stephen Blackheath' discussion of Haskell on multi-core systems. For the final session ended up in the database stream, specifically Arjen Lentz's interesting 'Multi-Master Replication' followed by Ben Balbo's useful 'Build Your Own Dropbox'.
Day Three. Keynote Mako Hill spoke very quickly on free software and specifically anti-features, deliberate attempts to cripple software, and often hardware (e.g., mobile 'phone locking, 'digital rights' management) , which results in consumer pain and would not exist in a free world. Currently sitting in the discussion by![[staff profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user_staff.png)
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beagl has already made the joke "You are the answer" (of life, the universe, and everything). My birthday wish is that you donate to Wikileaks who, despite all the incredible good work they have done, are in financial trouble. Note that donations are tax-deductible.
The National, November 19. 2009
Day One. After the introduction Josh Berkus 'Ten Ways to Destroy Your Community' was entertaining. Saw former co-worker's Peter Serwylo presentation of 'Attribute-Orientated PHP'. Lana Brindley's 'Creating Beautiful Documentation' combined both basic principles and practical elements. Nic Steenhout's 'Accessibility and FOSS' was more about the former on a high-level. Joh Clarke's 'Hackers, Crackers and Security Basics' was very blunt and Karen Liesenfield's was very practical. The discussion following Lucas Nussbaum's 'The Relationship between Debian and Ubuntu' was interesting and hopefully there will be more discussion between those communities.
Day Two. Keynote Gabriella Coleman, an NYU anthropologist, spoke about the experience of ethnographic immersion in the free software community and its cultural history. After this went to Lenz Gschwentner's talk on Erlang for parallel computing, followed by the superb evangelism of Threaded Building Blocks by Intel's James Reinders. Douglas Bagnell spoke on FLOSS Manuals, an online resource and then went back to the parallel computing stream for Stephen Blackheath' discussion of Haskell on multi-core systems. For the final session ended up in the database stream, specifically Arjen Lentz's interesting 'Multi-Master Replication' followed by Ben Balbo's useful 'Build Your Own Dropbox'.
Day Three. Keynote Mako Hill spoke very quickly on free software and specifically anti-features, deliberate attempts to cripple software, and often hardware (e.g., mobile 'phone locking, 'digital rights' management) , which results in consumer pain and would not exist in a free world. Currently sitting in the discussion by
denise and mark from Dreamwidth.org (the livejournal that works).Yes, I'm forty-two today.
beagl has already made the joke "You are the answer" (of life, the universe, and everything). My birthday wish is that you donate to Wikileaks who, despite all the incredible good work they have done, are in financial trouble. Note that donations are tax-deductible.Wikileaks has probably produced more scoops in its short life than the Washington Post has in the past 30 years
The National, November 19. 2009
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Date: 2010-01-20 01:00 am (UTC)There's a France-Telecom 'phone booth in Wellington which has a mirrored floor and ceiling, giving the impression of a tube. When you listen to the handset, you get random street sounds from a southern French town (which I presume has the same latitude). There is a NZ telecom 'phone in the the French town which has Wellington street sounds...
For some amusing reason the Wikipedia article says that it's due to deregulation!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9com
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Date: 2010-01-20 07:02 am (UTC)It is to be hoped that eventually we'll figure out a better system for meeting the needs and wants of the world (does 'truth' count as sustenance? It should.) without the need for quid-pro-quo. Money is an outdated system of recompense. One day, perhaps, the fact that you've fed another person, or saved a life, or exposed a lie will be enough payment in itself.
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Date: 2010-01-20 08:07 pm (UTC)Indeed, apropos yesterday's keynote, they are an antifeature of governance.
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Date: 2010-01-20 02:18 am (UTC)Happy birthday Lev.
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Date: 2010-01-20 09:36 pm (UTC)I never quite understand where lj is at, timewise. It's timestamps seem to float between gmt and local time depending on a bunch of factors I don't get...
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Date: 2010-01-20 12:20 pm (UTC)Present redeemable upon safe return.
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