[Eug-lug] OSCON & OSCamp pre-report - More on OSCAMP

[Ben Barrett]

Thanks for the great summaries, David!!  Sorry I had to miss out on Thurs &
Fri... I'm sure the fancy-shmancy dinner costs were paid by XP Pro, Office,
Exchange, and other higher-end licensing fees, as the standard OEM and XP
Home costs wouldn't have covered that place ;)
As for OSCamp being new -- I thought this was simply the first time O'Reilly
embraced it (since it threatened to some degree to undermine their
conference)... it had happened in the past, so far as I know, just like all
the other camps that have been better-attended and wildly popular lately.
Hopefully it was just successful enough to become a bigger deal at next
year's OSCON, and hopefully the Google lurkers and other curious folks with
useful and powerful associations will feel confident enough to speak
openly... for now I'm perectly happy to have the anonymity presence, as it
was said, we have plenty of accountability even without a disclosed
identity, assuming there is plenty of participation ;)

Kudos to you, especially, David, for speaking so well there and helping to
keep the representation balanced.  I don't think it would've done any good
to give them (MS folks) more of a beating than they got.  They really were
receptive and participatory (when they weren't busy out of Camp at the rest
of the Con... hey if I had a nice engaged employer these days I'd have
enjoyed more of the Con too).

cheerio,

    Ben


On 7/28/06, David Mandel <dmandel at pdxlinux.org> wrote:
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> OSCAMP was a big success - thanks to Brandon Sanders of
> brandon-cs-sanders.com who did everything, to O'Reilly Media who
> gave us space in the OSCON conference, and to Linux Fund and
> many others who also helped.  It was great and I hope we can
> to it again next year.
>
> It is true that Microsoft was the only big company that participated
> in OSCAMP.  However, many non-profits and developers and .orgs dropped
> by and many others including some of the big companies would have come
> if they had been invited and felt welcome.  This was the first time
> anyone had tryed anything like OSCAMP and we learned a lot.
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