Complete OSCON Coverage

An anonymous reader writes "Reporter Jay Lyman attended the O'Reilly OSCON developers' get-together and wrote daily briefs plus a wrap-up that are all posted on NewsForge now. If you didn't make it to this excellent conference, reading Jay's reports is the next best thing." Yes, NewsForge is also part of OSTG.

Comments

Damn !

[Anonymous Coward]

Complete coverage my a** ! No mention of what they had for lunch.

Re:Damn !

[hostyle]

" ... Breakfast menu includes pastries & breakfast sandwiches ... "

Re:Damn !

[zbik]

No mention of what they had for lunch.

Cold wraps: choice of turkey/ham/veggie, with a generous helping of Oreos, chips, and candy. Last year Microsoft heavily promoted their sponsorship of the lunch; perhaps it backfired when people were afraid to eat it... imagine so many great hackers "accidentally" taken out by a case of bad mayonnaise.

Re:Did Parrot Dan get pied by Python Guido?

[Anonymous Coward]

Here's the link where the Parrot group concedes (see paragraph titled Pie-thon). Perhaps if Dan had done less chest-thumping and more coding the outcome might have been different.

Re:Heh...

[ScytheBlade1]

To be completly ignorant of timezones, and other coutries (and timezones) than mine...

on Saturday July 31, @06:48AM

Yeah, looks like they're asleep indeed.

Re:Christ...

[jb.hl.com]

That's true, half the posts are talking about gay niggers.

OSCON comic

[Snaggy]

Our JoT of the event, featuring the Dyson Geekosphere, Microsoft Free Lunch Survival Kit, and the SCO-doo Dolls. enJoy!

Re:Parrot speed

[JRaven]

If you follow the grandparent's link you'd find they're currently only expecting Python-on-Parrot to be two times faster; given the way they shot their mouths off before, I'm going to wait until I see a complete implementation before I'll trust them. I'd be similarly hesitant with IronPython, but they're at least more conservative in their claims.

Brewster Kahle

[zbik]

Although there were many great hackers at OSCON this year, I was personally most inspired by Brewster Kahle, the man behind the Internet Archive repository of public domain media content. He pointed out that there's no use in blaming The Corporations for trying to get as rich as possible; it's the job of society and government to channel that greed with an appropriate legal regime (e.g. copyright reform). There was a good parallel with the destructive railroad monopolies of the 19th century, finally curbed by the Sherman Act. He also praised the VLC media player and called for an open-source SMIL-based "video browser"; perhaps something like AMBULANT.

Some Portland kids called Feel(This)Films followed me around a bit and are hoping to release a short under a Creative Commons license; feel free to contact them if you have anything from the con to contribute.

SCO Moot Court Facts/MP3

[CurtisLeeFulton]

The SCO "stand in" (as NewsForge calls him) was Jonathan Zittrain, from Harvard Law School. Zittrain debated Mark Radcliffe (representing IBM), who is an IP attorney for the Gray Cary law firm. Radcliffe is currently helping Sun open source Solaris.

You can download a recording of the entire SCO debate here.

10 hours later

[geekoid]

and still only 36 comments. Apparently, anybody who cares, was there.

Re:Parrot speed

[YU Nicks NE Way]

The big difference is that the IronPython guys have a release the you can test yourself. The python on parrot guys aren't close to that -- they couldn't even get parrotbench to run on their implementation.

WTF?

[scatterbrained]

What is O'Reilly up to having a conference
about capacitors?

http://www.secc.co.jp/pdf/os_e/download/E55.pdf