Linux Conf 2004 Gives in Many Ways

Noddy writes "The Australian Linux Conf 2004 wrapped up today, with a few geek notables being dunked for their contributions.. to charity that is. Cystic Fibrosis benefitted from the likes of Andrew Tridgell, Damien Conway and Linus Torvalds stripping down, Linus getting into his speedos, and all getting wet. Video of the Linus dunking and a few images are available (thanks Internode). Bet the girls can't wait for the 'Geek Boys of Open Source' pinup calendar after seeing these shots of Linus. Great work guys! More conf wrap-up info also at ZDNet."

Comments

AVI

[digime]

Is it just me or is there something blasphemous about a video of Linus in MS-Video format?

Re:speedos?

[StringBlade]

As I gather, nearly everyone outside the United States. When I was in Germany for a few weeks I went to a nearby swimming pool with my German friend (their swimming pools beat the crap out of most U.S. swimming pools by the way!). I'm quite sure every other man except myself and one other American was wearing speedos. My German friend thought my swimming trunks looked funny.

I held my tounge.

Say what you want

[andih8u]

but it takes a lot of guts (I'll refrain from saying a big set of balls from all the jokes that would lead to) to do that. Especially given the leadership role he has in the open source world. I don't think you'd find many CEO's of major companies willing to humiliate themselves in that way for charity.

Re:Beards!

[Anonymous Coward]

BTW, is anyone intelligent enough to tell when the beard should start growing wildly? I'm 30 years old man and I have just a little beardgrowing. It's really small I could never grow a beard like Stallman has. Not yet anyway. What is the average age men start to have really wild beard growing?

Fat-so-what?

[MsGeek]

To quote the great Captain Beefheart: "Better a big waist than a big waste." So he's still got the "incipient paunch." Big fsckn deal. So he won't win Mr. Universe. Again, big fsckn deal. I don't think many of you all reading this site can boast of being physically fit. I'm not. So what?

If the "Guys of Open Source" calendar was for a good cause, like this dunk tank party was, then dammit, I'd buy it. Even if the centerfold was RMS. ^_^

Re:That calendar that was mentioned...

[dotwaffle]

Tell you, what, i made one for my Uni wall... Just uploaded it to my website (I love the smell of slashdot in the morning...) if you fancy a peek. It's at http://www.walster.org/Calendar.pdf

Just one thing, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, if you like it, either send a donation to a local charity that is worth giving to, like in the UK, we have the British Heart Foundation. Either that or gimme loads of paypal donations ;)

Feedback to bfg [at] amigascne [dot [org].
Thanks! Enjoy!

Percentagewise...

[leonbrooks]

...I'd say Linus was pretty competitive. If Linus' real worth was worth $1M and he gave $10,000 this way every year, that's 1% of his worth; presume that William Henry "Trey" Gates III, son and grandson of rich lawyers, is really worth $100G and he has to donate $1G every year to match that proportionally.

If you disallow donations which feed straight back into his own company (e.g. here is a donation for software but it must all be Microsoft; here is a donation for scholarships but the beneficiaries must use our software and mention it positively on every significant public occasion; here is a donation for vaccines, which you must buy from my new drug company... starting to get the picture?) because they're really investments (we won't get into image value yet) Bill's largesse is effectively zero.