Hi all, I wanted to give a little summary of what happened at Linuxworld and how it relates to our community. The quick synopsis:
It rocked and loads of people want to know about FOSS and community! So, now for the longer version. We had a Linux Australia stand in the trade show, which was seemingly one of the most busy stands for the entire three days. We had some wonderful volunteers help out [1] and they did a great job in informing people, and at the next SLUG meeting (on friday) saw new members who had seen us at Linuxworld, so it is a success already at such short notice of the next meeting. The OSIA stand also did well, so congratulation to those people, in particular David Elson and Donna Benjamin. Donna also put in loads of time for the AV for the Linuxworld conference, so many thanks to her. The conference was pretty good, we had some great speakers but it was at times a little commercial (pesky sponsors). On the other hand Government day was great! Every single speaker was excellent and had something really interesting to talk about and I am hoping that Government day spurs many conversations about how FOSS is relevant above and beyond business case reasons. So, now we can prepare for CeBIT next month (May), after we've all slept this one off :) We also have Software Freedom Day coming up in September so start thinking about cool activities for that. I'll be coordinating both the Linux Australia stand for Cebit and the SLUG Software Freedom Day (and any national stuff that needs to happen for SFD, such as insurance and such like last years effort). Last year we have 15 Australian LUGs participating in Software Freedom Day, lets try and double that this year :) [1] Many MANY thanks to the volunteers who helped out, and especially to Lindsay Holmwood who was the team leader, and to Jeff Waugh who provided the eye candy (Dapper Drake xgl, what else did you think I meant ;). Also many thanks to Steve Walsh who ran around doing required foo (like picking up a wig for Peter Quinn and getting the SLUG pamphlets printed). - Lindsay Holmwood - Jeff Waugh - Steve Walsh - James Gray - Mark T - Stuart Rushton - Craige McWhirter - Stuart Rushton - Sara and Mohammad Kaan - James Purser - Martin Visser and his son :) - Jon Oxer - Stephan Borg - Donna Benjamin - Peter Lieverdink - Darryl Lynch - Mark Phillips - Terry Dawson - Scott Gourlay - Simon Wong - Ben Martin Rock on Australia! Cheers, Pia -- Linux Australia http://linux.org.au/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
