Notes In The Margin » oscon

15 years ago, I attended the first OSCon, in Santa Clara, I think. I was there for the Perl content, and managed to pay my way by giving a full day tutorial on the Apache web server. Amazingly, t...

https://drbacchus.com/happy-15th-oscon/

OSCon starts on Monday. This is the first one that I’ve missed since 1996, but I really hadn’t thought about it until I saw something on someone’s blog about going. I have more important th...

https://drbacchus.com/oscon-2007/

The last two cons that I’ve attended – ApacheCon and OSCon – I’ve hardly taken any photos. I’ve relied on the photographers more talented than I, or at least more shutter-happy than I, ...

https://drbacchus.com/photos-from-oscon-apachecon/

The Perl lightning talks have been a staple of the Perl Conference, and, later, the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, for as long as I’ve been attending it. And YAPC, too, although I haven’t...

https://drbacchus.com/perl-lightning-talks/

Perhaps the best talk of the entire conference was Kathy Sierra giving her talk about passion. It was about marketing. It was about documentation. It was about getting people interested in our op...

https://drbacchus.com/passion/

Someone was saying, the first day of the conference (I forget who, now) that over the years, the number of T-Shirts that one received at OSCon served as a fairly accurate indicator of the state o...

https://drbacchus.com/the-oscon-t-shirthat-economic-indicator/

I attended the Google announcement of their new open source project hosting service. I’ve been trying to log in and create a project, and I’m getting rather frustrated. Apparently my google a...

https://drbacchus.com/google-project-hosting/

Jesse announced Hiveminder at OSCon. Stated simply, it’s a ticket tracking system for your life. A web-based ToDo list. Based on RT, but much simplified, it lets you put your todo lists here, e...

https://drbacchus.com/hiveminder/

Another OSCon, and all my plans of what I wanted to get done during the conference thwarted by those accursed OSCon planners, who scheduled great talks nearly every moment of the day when I wante...

https://drbacchus.com/and-its-over/

Gnat told me this morning that I’ve been doing this talk at OSCon for 8 years. I think it’s actually 7, but, still, wow. Somehow, today’s “performance” was actually kind of fun. It felt...

https://drbacchus.com/intro-to-apache/