LXer at LinuxWorld 08
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| Scott_Ruecker Jul 15, 2008 10:01 PM EDT |
Guess where I'm going the first week of August.. ;-) That's right boys and girls, yours truly is going to LinuxWorld 08' to cover the event for LXer. I will be going to talks,doing interviews and of course walking the expo floor. If any of you are going to be there I would love to meet you and say "Hi". If there is something you think I should should check out please let me know. Scott |
| Sander_Marechal Jul 15, 2008 11:35 PM EDT |
San Francisco is a bit far for me just to say "Hi". One of these days you really should visit Europe :-) |
| herzeleid Jul 16, 2008 7:53 AM EDT |
Linuxworld West has been a yearly pilgrimage for me since 1999. In the early days I had to go on a shoestring budget and could only afford the exhibits hall. Fortunately, for the past few years my employer has been kind enough to pay my way for a full blown conference. At any rate, I'll try to track you folks down to and say hi - and hopefully I won't be the only other member of the LXer crowd there. |
| gus3 Jul 16, 2008 8:04 PM EDT |
For anyone reading this who is looking for Linux/IT work: These conferences can be interesting places to pass out your resume. It may or may not turn up opportunities, but as they say, it couldn't hurt. Disclaimer: all 3 times I've done this, it turned up nothing. But it doesn't stop me from trying. |
| herzeleid Jul 16, 2008 8:35 PM EDT |
> These conferences can be interesting places to pass out your resume. It may or may not turn up opportunities, but as they say, it couldn't hurt. Absolutely - these are the folks you'd want to work with, should the opportunity arise. |
| vainrveenr Jul 17, 2008 12:40 PM EDT |
Quoting:These conferences can be interesting places to pass out your resume. It may or may not turn up opportunities, but as they say, it couldn't hurt.Perhaps much more significant than any of you might have initially realized, in lieu of the breaking San Francisco news story 'Jailed SF Sysadmin Holds Parts of City Net Hostage', http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/63813.html |
| azerthoth Jul 17, 2008 1:10 PM EDT |
Quoting:Absolutely - these are the folks you'd want to work with, should the opportunity arise. The brewing companies quality control taste testers hire at linux conventions? |
| herzeleid Jul 17, 2008 2:55 PM EDT |
> The brewing companies quality control taste testers hire at linux conventions? The idea is not inconceivable sir. |
| Scott_Ruecker Jul 17, 2008 4:10 PM EDT |
Did someone say beer? I like beer.. |
| flufferbeer Jul 17, 2008 4:20 PM EDT |
.... looks good to me too ;) Gosh, I wonder if InBev will have some of their offerings in the Linux Convention area to compete with those great Northern California ales, now that they've acquired Anheuser-Busch ?? |
| Scott_Ruecker Jul 17, 2008 5:41 PM EDT |
At least now I can't say that an American company makes the worst beer in the world now... |
| hkwint Jul 25, 2008 5:46 PM EDT |
You can say that about software instead of beer however... |
| herzeleid Jul 30, 2008 1:13 PM EDT |
So, what say you? Who's going to linuxworld next week? |
| vainrveenr Jul 30, 2008 4:19 PM EDT |
Quoting:So, what say you? Who's going to linuxworld next week?One can be reasonably certain that AT LEAST one representative from Microsoft will be attending next week's LinuxWorld in San Francisco. Yep, that's correct! Microsoft is much too painfully aware of the threats of GNU/Linux (w/ GPL) and F/OSS developments upon its bottom line NOT to do so, and regardless of any signs to the contrary hinted at in the recent spate of LXer posts over the last few days. To wit : - 'Open source sales growing despite economy', submitted courtesy of this particular thread's starter at http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/106153 Perceived threat to MS:: That products based upon Linux and F/OSS will continue to cut into sales of Windows Vista as well as into Microsoft's other product lines. -- - 'Installfest at LinuxWorld could seed national program', submitted by the same at http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/106138 Perceived threat to MS:: That a tide of educational institutions could end up replacing Microsoft's Windows/Office/InternetExporer with Ubuntu/OpenOffice/Firefox -- - 'Microsoft funds Apache' submitted by the second commentator in this particular thread at http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/106159 Perceived threat to MS:: That major marketable innovation still belongs to successful F/OSS projects such as Apache rather than to Port25, Silverlight and other initiatives over which Microsoft continues to maintain effective control. -- - 'Survey: Economy Pushing Users to Open Source', submitted courtesy of this particular thread's starter at http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/106171 Perceived threat to MS:: That products based upon Linux and F/OSS will continue to cut into sales of Windows Vista as well as into Microsoft's other product lines. -- - 'Microsoft, its time to officially rescind the Linux lawsuit threats' submitted by the same at http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/106203 Perceived threat to MS:: That any possible let up in Microsoft's F.U.D.-attempts could eventually lead companies to shake loose of those "deals" MS continues to encourage (still doubt that another Novell-Microsoft type of deal could arise??) -- - 'Should We Fear the (Microsoft) Geeks, Bearing Gifts?' submitted by the same at http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/106202 Perceived threat to MS:: That major marketable innovation still belongs to successful F/OSS projects that rely on the "bottom of the open source stack" rather than its own Windows-platform initiatives. -- - 'Microsoft: still a business of threats?' submitted by the same at http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/106200 Perceived threat to MS:: That any possible let up in Microsoft's F.U.D.-attempts could eventually lead companies to shake loose of those "deals" MS continues to encourage. ----- The first part of the historical Microsoft mantra of "Embrace, Extend and Extinguish" would no doubt be HIGHLY emphasized by whoever Sam Ramji or his lower-level managers end up sending to this big event. A question to ponder is Who at the level of Microsoft's management -- even possibly beyond Ramji's level -- would actually attend this year's LinuxWorld at some point in time ?? Apparently, that's one more question for IT folks visiting the U.S. West Coast's City-by-the-Bay, besides 'Is Terry Childs Really Guilty As Charged?' http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/106147 |
| herzeleid Jul 30, 2008 4:30 PM EDT |
Yeah no doubt microsoft will be there, like the proverbial fly in the pudding. I have no interest in anything those clowns have to offer, so I'll just have to do a detour around them on my way to talk to Canonical, IBM, Oracle, Novell and other folks I'm interested in seeing. |
| vainrveenr Jul 30, 2008 8:07 PM EDT |
Quoting:Yeah no doubt microsoft will be there, like the proverbial fly in the pudding..... and yet no _official_ representation by Microsoft is currently listed at the LinuxWorld Expo list of exhibitors, http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/ehall//SN991736 , although someone attending last year's event happened to provide an off-the-record anecdote that one or two persons known to work for Microsoft WERE indeed spotted on one of the Exhibition floors. Seems very likely though, that Microsoft employees or those representing them would keenly track very specific projects and events at this year's LinuxWorld Expo, such events as for example the Mobile Linux Conference (re: UMPCs) and the Ubuntu "Ubucon" Community Day. One could also very well guess ---- due to such revelations as the infamous BullyBallmer YouTube video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE (~2/3 million views IS quite sizable!) ---- that a few MS reps would inconspicuously lurk around the DICE booth and other places on the Exhibition Hall to perhaps try to lure in promising F/OSS code developers. .... just a hunch on that one. |
| hkwint Jul 30, 2008 9:45 PM EDT |
Quoting:I'll just have to do a detour around them on my way to talk to Canonica I'd say ask for an Ubuntu CD over there and then head back to the Microsoft guys to give it to them. Sadly, I'm in Europe so I will not be there in SF. |
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