Rhymin & Stealin – Monday at linux.conf.au
First thing Monday I decided to go to the Virtualisation Miniconf to something labeled “Keynote”. Unfortunately it appears their schedule was completely screwed so one of the later talks was happening. I didn’t find this interesting so I snuck off to Debian and caught the “State of the Debian Project” talk which was pretty interesting.
Due to the brochure being printed a few weeks ago, the timetables from many of the Miniconfs are out of date. While this is 100 times better than last year when nothing had been printed it is still frustrating. The organisers were really cool and let me print out a couple of our the Sysadmin Miniconf schedule so I’ll hang this outside our room tomorrow to give people the latest schedule.
At this point I really have to thank the organisers, so far they have been incredible efficient and helpful beyond the call of duty. So when I’ve asked for weird and non-standard stuff like printouts they have been really nice, helpful and complete good about doing all them. I’d like to give them a big thank you and a “You guys rock!” .
I dropped into the Multimedia Miniconf for the next session and caught an overview of some new Dirac codecs from one of the people at the BBC and then 3 quick talks. The first was a great update on the ogg projects by Chris Montgomery , the second was a report on a FOSS survey which was a little wasted when the presented spent the first 10 minutes going on about her organisation and I missed the 3rd.
For lunch ended having a very nice Italian lunch of pasta and bruschetta ( I love bruschetta) with some guys so I was a bit late back to the next session.
I caught the end of a session at the virtualisation Miniconf ( I apparently missed the good ones this morning) and then over to debian for a discussion about “Why don’t the big guys love Debian”, some good points discussed although I think some people are hung up about shipping binary modules, for large companies that want to run Debian on servers binary modules are not important, solid support and someone to yell at is. For the last session I squeezed into the security Miniconf to heard about ssh exploits
Afterward a bunch of us went to Lydon St for the Sysadmin ( and friends) dinner. After a bit of problem with the venue we ended up in a nice place and had a good pizza dinner with a bit of ice cream afterward
