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Scenes From Bob Young's New Tech Circus
Chris Strider writes "Bob Young has left Red Hat, but he's still been keeping busy. I recently went to his new venture, the Lulu Tech Circus. I have to admit some of the stuff there was pretty cool, especially the robotics. On the other hand, some of it was pretty weird, like the electronic band with the alien heads.
Anyway, the local online TV station RTPTV.com put up some video scenes from the Circus if you want to watch it."
1) wmv format files? *groan*
1a) Thanks, mplayer!
2) instructions: "view it with the Windows Media Player that's found on almost all PC's" *groan*
3) I got no sound with the video.
Wish I could have went to Lulu though.
Software Wars
The website linked to may require Windows Media Viewer, but if you had engaged your brain while reading the Slashdot article you would notice that it's not Lulu Tech Circuses website. It is in fact a TV station website *reporting* on Lulu Tech Circus.
Chris
I was very disappointed in the event. If you were interested in any of the speaking tracks it would have been worthwhile, however I didn't have a need for most of presentations.
There were more people there working Saturday afternoon than there were people in attendance.
This was only the first one so hopefully the shows will come around.
I was there too. I really had a good time, but IMO it was a little badly arranged. They had the FIRST robotics team right next to one of the, umm, lecture halls, and we couldn't understand a word of what the Pragmatic Programming dude had to say.
:-P
But overall it was pretty cool, definitely expensive though. If they work on the organization a bit and it comes back through here again, I'll probably go again.
Oh, ps, the Asian girl they had "introducing" people to the place was hot. Keep her around and I'll definitely come back
"Software is like sex; it's better when it's free." -Linus Torvalds
They did have some VR shooters in one corner (although they could have expanded upon it SO much more...) But it DEFINITELY was a geek user group presentation. They should have raised one or two marketing people to help out in organization a bit...
"Software is like sex; it's better when it's free." -Linus Torvalds
I was expecting much more. Turned out to be nothing more the a poorly organized Linux/Geek event, which for the most part was a fragfest, a bunch of tables for User Groups, some legos throw in some pits for the tykes, and a few more assorted 'specialized' events - robotics (which was the only really cool thing I saw), music - walk into a room where the volume is on 13 and some kid is wailing on a drum machine (headache).
What sucked most was the fact you could ONLY pay for all three days for a whopping $20. Frankly after I was there for an hour or so I didn't see a reason to come back. It would have been nice if he had a daily entry price for those that were not interested in attending the tech speeches, etc. Split the 3 day cost would have been a much more affordable $7/day.
At least according to this recent F'd Company post.
like the electronic band with the alien heads/ www.spacemen-are-coming.com/
the band is called Spacemen, and they are pretty interesting to watch live, from what i've read they are a revolving group of artists, much like blue man group. thier site has lots of pictures of the costumes in action.
http://www.innervisionmusic.com/
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Bob did indeed step down as chairman in April of this year and Matt Szulik has become the Chairman in addition to CEO.
/ april 2002redhat2.html
The local press wrote about it:
http://www.triangletechjournal.homestead.com