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  From: Ian Loxton <ilox@airnet.com.au>
  To  : Linux SA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 03:13:33 +1030

LCA 2003 Conference wrap-up

Just in from Leon Brooks who put together the educational mini-conf as 
well as many other tasks associated with the conference.

Cheers,  Ian

 http://linux.org.au/~leonb/lca2003/LCA2003-wrapup.html

 A penguin ambled out on-stage at the opening session, and
 then off again. After a few minutes, Rusty appeared with a
 penguin head under his arm. "Ha, ha" said everyone, very
 funny, Rusty wore a penguin suit, yay. Then when everyone
 was thoroughly disarmed, Linus came back on in his usual
 casual way, wearing the headless suit. It took a minute or
 two for the penny to drop for quite a few people, but the
 cheers came.

 [...]

 The PenguinMeister wrote a book, and called it "just for
 fun." He tells us that's the secret to getting him to come
 to a conference: make it easy for him to come, make it fun,
 have some real content (not just marketing). Not the forced-
 hilarity commercial kind of fun, but the laid-back, playful,
 amateur, spontaneous fun that characterises so much of open
 source. Computer-illiterates reading that sentence might
 think I've been staring at monitors for too long, but yes,
 computer software can be fun, and we had some (software and
 fun) at LCA2003.

 More pictures at:

 http://linux.org.au/~leonb/lca2003/


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