March 13th, 2008
SCALE 6x: Wrapup – People
While I met a lot of great people at SCALE (Michael, Moose, Sharon and a host more) I had generally interesting non-private discussions with (or observations about) the following:
- Allison Randal – OSCON co-chair and Parrot architect – gave a great presentation on Parrot and an excellent low-stress guide to effective speaking. We also spent some time plotting how to make OSCON a better vehicle for serving and growing the FLOSS community. I’ll post more about these discussions later.
- Chris Blizzard – Mozilla evangelist and OLPC‘r – despite us both working with the Mozilla project, we’ve never managed to sync up. It was a real pleasure to do be able to do so at SCALE. I heard great things about Chris’ presentation but unfortunately missed it.
- Danese Cooper – FLOSS advocate, OSI board member and mensch – Danese gave an exceptional mostly off-the-cuff presentation on gender and open source that I hope she’ll redo for OSCON.
- David Fetter – PostgreSQL advocate and man-of-wany-interests – PostgreSQL users in the Bay, go to the San Francisco Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup! The group is active and friendly, and meetings are well-attended.
- Dru Lavigne – Canadian BSD advocate and trainer – Dru and crew are producing a BSD certification – visit http://www.bsdcertification.org/
- John Mark Walker – FLOSS advocate and Hyperic Community Manager – JM has started up http://bytesfree.org – an initiative to preserve citizen’s rights to access government provided information.
- Jono Bacon – Ubuntu communtiy manager, FLOS advocate and fellow metalhead – Jono is working hardto get people out to LUG Radio Live USA 2008. They’ve got a great lineup of speakers and a cheeky attitudethat should make it a fun event.
- Josh Berkus and Josh Drake – who are working to promote both PG Con 2008 and PostgreSQL Conference East. Also, around the time of SCALE, the PGSQL team shipped PostgreSQL 8.3, which David, Josh & Josh assure me now contains 93% more awesome. Both events are great values and are very community-focused. I’ll be at PGCon, giving a presentation on what the PGSQL community can learn from MySQL.
- Luke Kanies – FLOSS hacker – go check out his awesome Puppet system-admin tool.
- Rikki Kite – journalist – Rikki writes for Linux Magazine and is doing a series on women in FLOSS (such as this profile on Groklaw’s Pamela Jones). Rikki also wrote up a review of SCALE. Interestingly, she wrote of Adaora Onyia’s, “Hello, Can Anyone Hear Me?” session: “I wish I’d seen her talk earlier in my career because I picked up a lot of her lessons the hard way.” – I’d love to chat with Rikki about this, as the presentation left me feeling rather conflicted.
- Stormy Peters – Director of Community and Partner Programs at OpenLogic – her excellent, “What is a Community Manager?” presentation was useful for and interesting to many attendees.
Posted on Thursday, March 13th, 2008 at 13:27
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