Comments on: OSCON Lowlights: greenplum Keynote

By: zak

zak — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:51:17 +0000

Hrm - quite right, fixed.

Silicone enhancements do lead to a very silicon-like look. ;)

By: terry chay

terry chay — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:59:25 +0000

Zak,

Typo I think: silicone, not silicon.

Freudian slip?

Take care,

terry

By: zak

zak — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:26:49 +0000

Scott: Drop me a note at zak - @t - greant.com. I will be back in my office early next week.

By: zak

zak — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:16:58 +0000

Web 2.0 is pretty relevant for OSCON (IMHO). However, I admit that I was busy grumpily writing this post, instead of paying close attention to Anil's presentation. :)

By: Anil

Anil — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 09:13:02 +0000

"not everyone who’s interested in open source is interested in Web 2.0, and I think keynotes should be things with a wider appeal. That’s all."

Totally fair, and hell, there's probably folks doing enterprise scaling stuff on the platform that are saying "why did you focus on web 2.0 crap when we're using this stuff to solve real problems?" I'll definitely take it under advisement — it's hard to squeeze a lot of ideas into 15 minutes!

By: Ugo

Ugo — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 00:47:03 +0000

My main gripe with Scott's keynote was the concept of rock music as a clean, distruptive, dangerous force in society. It stopped being that probably when Elvis started wearing studded outfits, if you discount a couple years during the punk era.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:30:26 +0000

Zak, I'll definitely take you up on that offer. I'm glad we had the chance to talk face to face today. Thanks for finding me at the show. I have to fly back to the bay area today, but let's try to talk next week if you have some time.

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:05:04 +0000

Hi Anil,

My gripe has more to do with OSCON selecting your presentation as a keynote than the presentation itself. I thought the presentation was very well done from a stylistic point of view, but I felt the content was more suited for something at one of the exhibit hall presentations or perhaps one of the sessions in the business track.

The Six Apart platform you're pitching obviously has value to the open source community, but not everyone who's interested in open source is interested in Web 2.0, and I think keynotes should be things with a wider appeal. That's all.

By: zak

zak — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:13:45 +0000

Hey Scott,

Thanks for stepping up to address my feedback.

The concern is that the session didn't offer compelling value to the audience (in my opinion) - the message is redundant to many of us at the conference, and wass likely to give people who aren't a part of the community a completely wrong impression about the Free Software and Open Source.

The presentation seemed like a poorly constructed attempt to gain the approval with the community by pretending to hold stereotypical community values.

If you were expressing your genuine enthusiasm for the community process, my sincere apologies. I don't want to dampen your enthusiasm.

I'll make you a deal - an Open Source type deal of no criticism without an offer to help improve the issue being discussed. You tell me what you want to say and I can round up help to refine the message, and an audience to test it on.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 18:26:05 +0000

Zak, I'm very sorry that my speech offended you. My speech was genuine, and in fact tried to communicate aspects of the industry that I think are important, rather than spend time giving a pitch on our company.

The photo of the woman was meant to illustrate what lows the traditional IT industry sink to in getting peopel to attend. As opposed to shows like OSCON to attract people who really have passion for what they do. Apparently that passion resulted in a negative reaction from you. Again, my apologies that was not the intent.