Re: [News] Ottawa Linux Symposium Concludes, LinuxWorld Begins Next Week

[Moshe Goldfarb.]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:25:37 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

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> OLS 2008 wrap-up
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>| Day 3 of this year's Ottawa Linux Symposium featured a number of sessions,
>| most notably a keynote address by

Check out some of the links....
What a mess!

Notice that there are no pics of the event..
Not that I could find anyway.

So how many people attended?

They seem to have avoided that little tidbit as well....

Looks like a huge floperoo to me....


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[Fred]

Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:25:37 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> OLS 2008 wrap-up
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>>| Day 3 of this year's Ottawa Linux Symposium featured a number of
>>| sessions, most notably a keynote address by
>
> Check out some of the links....
> What a mess!
>
> Notice that there are no pics of the event..
> Not that I could find anyway.
>
> So how many people attended?
>
> They seem to have avoided that little tidbit as well....
>
> Looks like a huge floperoo to me....
>
>
I would have attended if I'd known about it. There wasn't a word. Best
kept secret going, I guess.
... Which Ottawa? I'm in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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[The Ghost In The Machine]

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Moshe Goldfarb.
<brick_n_straw@gmail.com>
wrote
on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:49:51 -0400
<1hpi16qs0cgy3$.1ehp2c41c1vjw$.dlg@40tude.net>:
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:25:37 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>> Hash: SHA1
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>> OLS 2008 wrap-up
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Day 3 of this year's Ottawa Linux Symposium featured a number of sessions,
>>| most notably a keynote address by
>
> Check out some of the links....
> What a mess!

Are you referring to http://www.linux.com/feature/142950
or to http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2008/ ?

The latter does have some minor style problems I'll admit I
wonder where the flaw is. Click on "call for papers", then
"schedule", for example, and note the left shift of the
control bar.

The internal implementation is using embedded style sheets.
Naughty. They should be using <LINK>. However, that's
about as relevant to a car's performance as a scratch on
the upholstery.

>
> Notice that there are no pics of the event..
> Not that I could find anyway.

Then you didn't look all that hard, although Google Images
apparently doesn't either. I did find one picture (two
copies!) of a man standing in front of a whiteboard, and
another of a sign (www.engsoc.org). However, the rest
are a very mixed bag -- and in fact one of the images is
from Singapore, showing a near-shadow in front of a green
screen with a presentation. (The words are readable
the title is "Symposium Themes".)

The second page of search results is even weirder, though one
might excuse the microchip as a seminar announmcent. Wrong
seminar, but that's a detail.

Third page shows a fairly attractive blonde young lady
with glasses -- apparently she's "Katie", a blogger at
http://bokunenjin.livejournal.com/tag/ols, who blogged
about the event -- in some detail, though no pictures.

A man in a pink hat (I have *no* idea) points to a Flickr
image set apparently this particular individual has a
predilection for brightly colored headwear. I have no idea
how this relates to the Symposium.

Go fig.

>
> So how many people attended?

It would appear attendance is limited to 500 people,
as of 2002. However, the website states little as to
whether they've changed that.

The schedule suggests it could support maybe 1000, but
that's just a guess, and Keynote: "The Kernel Report" by
Matthew Wilcox is blocked out for an hour on *all* seminar
rooms, which suggests an auditorium setting. This of
course limits attendance to the size of the auditorium.

>
> They seem to have avoided that little tidbit as well....

Yes, they did.

>
> Looks like a huge floperoo to me....
>

It probably served its purpose.

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