LinuxWorld Beckons
I’ve been trying to make up my mind whether to attend LinuxWorld this year but with my recent foray back into the world of (technical) writing, as yet unpublished work under my belt and a not insignificant project (which will be announced soon) in the pipeline I’ve decided it will be worth going to, if only for the ‘networking’ which sounds so cold-blooded but in this context seems apt.
I’ll be there for both days with – as yet – no plans for the Thursday evening (before making the trip home) so if anyone wants to meet up, let me know.
Update
Due to a change in travel plans I shall now be on a train on Thursday evening so any meetups will have to take place early Wednesday evening or during the expo.
Blind to the competition
I received this in my inbox the other day (emphasis added):
Once again it’s that time of the year when we start cranking up the activity
for this year’s LinuxWorld Conference and Expo.
We’d be really grateful for your support (and for you to flag up the event to your members) as I’m sure your user group members would be interested in what’s going on at the event. We have a host of speakers from both technical & business background and support from the press; SOCITM; OFE; OSC; plus all the key associations. This is the only major event for Linux in the UK and we also have the .org village, a free seminar programme, The Great Linux Debate plus the exhibition itself.
The only major event for Linux in the UK?!? Have they not heard of the great gathering of geeks that is known as LugRadio Live? Which takes place this weekend (22nd & 23rd of July, 2006) no less.
Whilst I’ll concur that LRL is not of the same scale as LinuxWorld, it is still an impressive event especially considering it is almost wholly community based.
I’m planning on travelling down Saturday morning, returning Sunday evening and residing at the Quality Chin on Saturday night.
Unfortunately there are too many good things going on, so I won’t be able to see everything I want to. My definites are:
Beyond that there are various talks I would like to catch, but I have the feeling there will be many, many distractions!
look good