LinuxFest First Impressions

Well The Ohio LinuxFest was Saturday. I ended up going with four others, two of which (plus myself) went Friday night for the Fark party. The audience was huge but I won't guess at any numbers – I'm sure the LinuxFest guys will post some eventually. Despite apparently lower registration numbers I feel confident the actual number of visitors was greater than last year and the vendors had a fair variety to them. The talks themselves were the point I was a bit disappointed on. I'll have a full write-up later on tonight but despite some downsides I'm still glad I went. I also snapped plenty of pictures so I'll toss those up later tonight as well. For anyone who didn't go I'll say don't feel too bad, but do try catching it next year. I just hope they have more technical talks and less about the organization and politics of open source.

O and one last thing – why no Internet access?! I'd have uploaded pictures in real-time if I could have! One of the 2600 guys I went with had a Sprint card but well, the performance wasn't exactly solid enough to upload a couple dozen images via...