“I get invited to give lots of talks at conferences; it’s part
of the job really. I tend to turn down most of them: unless it’s
something that has a clear connection with Samba, or it’s a place
I’ve never been before, or it’s somewhere I have to go anyway. This
is why I almost always speak at Linux World London in order to get
a free trip to see the Sheffield relatives.“So I wasn’t too surprised when I got an invitation to speak at
Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference in San Francisco. The
timing was a little inconvenient. Linux World, which was also in
San Francisco, was scheduled for the week after. Due to being the
host of the Golden Penguin Bowl quiz show, this is the most
stressful part of my year. Creating the costumes and questions is
hard. But because it was Apple, and I was asked by an engineering
manager there I get on with very well, I decided to do it…”