nmh and I went to the Pacific Free and Open Source Software Conference (PFOSSCON) yesterday (2007-01-20). The event was organized by the Hawai`i Open Source Education Foundation (HOSEF) and held on UHM campus.
R. Stallman, the guy who initiated the GNU project, was there to give a talk. I've heard of the word "idealist" before, but I didn't think that anyone like that would exist in today's world. Mr. Stallman has gotta be one of them. I enjoyed his talk eventhough I can't say I completely & whole-heartedly agree with him.
The other two speaks were from Vyatta and Sun. The Vyatta guy was talking about "Open & Flexible Router"-which uses an x86 machine that runs Debian based OS to act as a router. The guy from Sun (graduated from Punahou! yay!) was talking about their FOSS: OpenSolaris, OpenSparc, and Java. Sun++ actually sponsored all free food and goodies. The event was packed with Haoli (hawaiian for white people) - and more importantly - all geeks! I have to say I've never seen these many geeky white guys in the same place on Oahu before. They are like.. rare species or something, consider that most guys here are either jocks or surfer dudes (or both). It's nice to see that geeky white boys do exist under the Hawaiian sun too!
Anyway, I was just there for the free food.. what can I say... I'm a grad student!
3 comments:
Glad you could make it down there.
Nice write up!
Thank you for setting up the event!!! :)
Thanks for coming and listening.
-- The Vyatta Guy ;-)
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