Linux 10th Anniversary Celebration Report

Marc MERLIN wrote to us with his follow-up report on the Linux 10 celebration in Silicon Valley. Marc comments "The event was a great success, several hundred people showed up, and the money left over is going to the EFF." Marc, in addition to being a great guy, also has lots of reports from other shows.

Comments

Re:This looked rather informal....

[Mike Buddha]

Judging by the pictures this whole thing didn't look that organized to me...

Damn. I'd thought I'd seen it all. You can't even run a story about a fricking BBQ on Slashdot without someone trying to one up the writers. I suppose I should chime in to run this mother into the ground.

The park people said they "really had their shit together". No where in that comment does it say anything about how organzied the operation was. It said they "had their shit together". You inferred that this meant that it was a particularly organized event, but it didn't. It meant they "really had their shit together" just like it said.

Having one's shit together, to me, means that someone has meat, someone has buns, there's a place for garbage, there's a method to get food, there's coolers filled with beverages, and someone seems to know what's happening. It doesn't necessarily mean that this is an efficient, organized troop of BBQ commandoes dispersing from a truck in swat-like fashion to commence operation: cook-out.

It was a freakin' BBQ, how organized would you expect it to be?

Re:several hundred people

[cnkeller]

Why are there several photos of just a few people at a time in a huge empty field?

I must admit, I agree with you. My girlfriend and I were there from 10:45am to about 3pm. We estimated about 100 people, possibly 200. The parking lot was about half full. That being said, there are probably a few factors: people were encouraged to take public transportation; the park was huge and they didn't keep us in cages, so people roamed about. They definetly planned on having a massive amount of people show up after the big headlines, however it seems to me that most people bloew it off. It was a good time though and I consider my donation well spent.