FSOSS

Well; what an event! for a first time newbie who has had little or no exposure into the OS world; this was quite an opener. I attended more than two presentations; and volunteered in more than one role for this event, so it was quite an interesting place to be.

The presentations I attended were

• Benjamin Smedberg's reading code presentation
• Mike Beltzner's presentation on user experience design in open communities (funny and intriguing presentation; one of his lines is still stuck in my head "Well since no one has any questions; Ill show you Leopard and my Icons....weeeeeeeeeeee" =))
  
• Mark Surman's open sourcing education in South Africa and rest of the world
• Lawrence Mandel's & Jeffrey Liu's open commercial development
• Bob young's applying open source concepts to non-software industries -- (by far the most friendly, humble and most experienced one of them all in my opinion; not that all the other people who presented were bad; its just he was so much more captivating in the way he presented his topic)
• Community Management as open Source's core Competency by David Eaves
• Community as a Core competency by Bryan Krischner

Oh btw the lunch was great too. My hats off to Dave to for actually organizing (i bet he had help; so my hat is off to those who helped him as well) in all of this and to all the volunteers. Definetly be in next year if it is run again.