Geeking at OSCON

[connatic]

I'm spending some quality time at the Open Source Conference in Portland this week - getting in touch with my (not very) inner geek.

It's been good to see various old friends and meet new ones - nerds of all nations unite! The subjects at the first two days of sessions have ranged from fun (advanced perl hacking, automated web testing) to utterly boring (web services and other letter soup). There will be three more days of this and I hope to find time to see more of Portland - I haven't been to Powell's in two years and cannot wait to browse the stacks.

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[ladykalessia.livejournal.com]

Wow. The Rats were invited to Morris Dance at OSCON. I figured it was another SciFi con, but now I have to wonder what part Morris has to do in the open source process.

[connatic]

I can assure you there's nothing Open Source about Morris. However, the type of geeks here would probably never have heard of the Rats but be huggely appreciative of them - we're fans of otherness, appreciate talent, and are generally lacking in physical grace. Which makes it our loss the Rats aren't here.