After a lunch of churros, main course not needed because it turned out the Food for the People bacon and egg butty that had for morning tea rendered a savoury lunch meal unnecessary,
So another year, and I'm back for another Kiwicon. If I have any misgivings about Kiwicon, it's that I didn't start going earlier in its existence. How,
Keynotes
Cooper Lees - Facebook
* Facebook open source all their infrastructure code (btrfs, HHVM, etc, etc).
* 100s of GitHub reports, 1000s of contributers.
* 10x growth in pull requests in the last 2 years.
Keynote - Bob Young
* Don't interrupt a good story with the facts (as long as they're within an order of magnitude of reality).
* Used the M word.
* "I
Keynote: Eben Moglen
* Patent warfare broke out as predicted - the cst has been so high that even many of the proponents of using patents have begun to rethink their strategy.
* The courts