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Ed - cheers for your updates... now to get my company to pay for the
next one ;-)
K
On 6/4/05, Ed Wilts <ewilts@(protected)> wrote:
> Day 3 (the last day) at New Orleans...
>
> This half day consisted just of keynotes followed by a bag lunch. The
> keynotes weren't as well attended which led me to suspect that a lot of
> people had too much fun last night...
>
> The attendees were generally confused about what was going on at the IBM
> offsite party. All the schedule said was to meet in the lobby for the
> parade. Little did we know that it really was a Mardi Gras parade! We
> were given beads to wear, a Hurricane to drink, and we followed the
> marching band to Generations Hall (a half-dozen or so blocks away). We
> were met by a fire-breathing entertaininer, given flashing lights, and
> went inside to find a couple of excellent bands (yes, the place is
> *that* large!), lots of food and drink (6 full-service bars!), and
> friendly geeks. The web site for the place says this about the hall:
> "Originally built in the early 1820s as a sugar refinery and decorated
> with with artwork by prominent artists George Schmidt and Zavier
> deCallatay, depicting the history of New Orleans jazz, Generations Hall
> offers a glimpse into a bygone era."
>
> If Thursday night was like any of the other 2 nights, people went from
> the Summit party to Bourbon Street for more partying so that could
> explain a half-empty keynote Friday morning.
>
> The day started, as usual, with a hearty breakfast. I happened to join
> a couple of gentlemen and one of them was saying that "you know, there's
> a guy by the name of Ed Wilts posting about the Summit to the mailing
> lists." I grinned and held up my name badge. I'm glad that the Summit
> attendees were reading this too - that wasn't my intention, but what the
> heck - information is meant to be free, right?
>
> At the first keynote, we found evaluation forms on our chairs and a CD
> containing some hot tunes from Magnatune (if you havent' checked them
> out yet, see http://www.magnatune.com - I'm listening to the CD on my
> Linux desktop as I write this and it's a pretty good CD). The first keynote
was Mark
> Webbink, Red Hat's Deputy General Counsel. I didn't know what to expect
> from a lawyer talking at a keynote first thing in the morning on the
> last day but he was a good presenter - in fact, he got the most applause
> (next to Matt Szulik's vocal performance) of any of the keynotes. He
> announced the Fedora Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit that will
> responsible for all of the Fedora products, including the recently
> announced Directory Server (http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/). There
> will be independent board managing it. There isn't any more information
> on the Foundation on Red Hat's web site, but I thought of the Apache
> Foundation when it was announced. Whether it ends up being like that or
> not I don't know but the audience was very enthusiastic about this.
> Webbink also talked about the work that Red Hat is doing with others on
> the patent issues, both in the US and in Europe.
>
> I was somewhat surprised by the reaction since I had just assumed that
> the crowd would have mostly been Enterprise Linux users and not Fedora
> users (frequently they don't mix). I didn't attend any of the
> Fedora-specific sessions to see how well they were attended, but I think
> that there were quite a few Fedora users there after all. That's good
> to hear.
>
> The second keynote was Richard Wirt, a Senior Fellow from Intel talking
> about the non-chip work that Intel is doing and what they've contributed
> to the open source community. Intel has about 85,000 employees and
> 170,000 systems. Of these systems, 20% are running Linux. This doesn't
> mean that 20% of their employees are using Linux since there are large
> banks for things like simulations.
>
> Wirt reported that Gartner recently released their "Top Trends in IT".
> The number 1 trend on the list is open source software.
>
> Wirt also talked about the virtualization work being done in hardware
> (with the VT technology) and in software with Xen. He said that Intel
> does not have a person here and there working on open source projects -
> it's teams of 10, 20 or 30. There are about 30 developers working on
> Xen.
>
> The last keynote I attended was by Bruce Mau. This was a visionary
> keynote and had nothing to do with open source or Linux but it was
> interesting anyway. Matt Szulik closed the Summit with an awards
> ceremony but I wasn't able to attend that.
>
> I had a couple of hours to wander the streets of New Orleans. I saw the
> French Quarter and Bourbon Street but it was just too darn hot and muggy
> for me. I hit the air-conditioned Riverwalk shopping mall for the rest
> of the afternoon before collecting my luggage and heading for the
> airport.
>
> I thought the Summit was over but it turned out that Jon Brassow from
> Red Hat (formally Sistina) was sitting next to me on the flight home.
> We talked some more shop for an hour before we both dozed off for
> well-deserved afternoon naps.
>
> I talked to quite a few people at the Summit with a variety of interests
> and backgrounds but everybody agreed that this was a great event and we
> really hope that this is the first of many. Thanks Red Hat!
>
> .../Ed
>
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