[ Thanks to Thomas
Chung for this link. ]
“Screaming fans, cheerleaders and streets blocked by the police
greeted SoCal’s Linux geeks last weekend. Admittedly the cops and
frenzied crowds were there for the Grammy Awards and the
cheerleaders were competing at whatever cheerleaders compete at,
but the LUGs, commercial exhibitors, GNU/Linux and *BSD users and
speakers couldn’t help feeling special.“Just over 900 Free and Open Software users attended the
exposition which presented 32 talks and 40 exhibition booths over
the two days. Notable events included a presentation by Larry McVoy
of BitMovers telling us that ‘BitKeeper is like crack!’,
well-attended tutorials on wirelessand kernel internals, a GPG
keysigning party and a controverisal VoIP panel during which ISPs
were accused of port-blocking, the issue of wiretapping was
dismissed and foreign governments and ISPs accused of hostile
actions…”