We interrupt this regularly scheduled blog for a major complaint: You know, you stay at a hotel with a relatively good national reputation and you think their wireless would work. And when it doesn’t, you would expect them to at least let you hook up to the wired network. Sheesh.
Now that I got that off my chest, the reason I wasn’t able to get a blog item in on a great day yesterday (overall) is that I couldn’t get the wireless to work at the Hampton Inn. Yes, the Hampton Inn which is a good hotel overall but, man, does that wireless need work.
Anyway, Saturday was a busy day for Fedora at LinuxFest Northwest. I gave a presentation before the Fedora Activity Day. My presentation drew about 30 people, which was an accomplishment since one of the presenters in another room — and the presentation I would have gone to — was John “Maddog” Hall. The FAD revolved around three different projects: The 4th Grade Math Project for OLPC, an F11 bug fest, and general Fedora questions-and-answers. The flexibility of the event was its strength, and its weakness was the timing, so while it was overall a success, there were still a few bugs in the FAD system.
Karsten Wade gave his “Participate or Die” talk on Saturday afternoon — a talk that is destined for a keynote at some fortunate Linux festival (Open Source World missed out by denying it, pity). Today (Sunday), Jesse Keating is giving two presentations today — sneak-peeking at F11 and Modular Infrastructure Design with Messaging (the official name) — and sandwiched between them is Clint Savage’s Fedora Remix gig.
The table on Sunday has been relatively quiet since opening. The OLPCs are a hit, as expected, and we’re running out of swag (Live Media especially).
Things are heating up in the booth at the moment, so I’ll continue later.
