Kiwicon 9 Day 1 Morning
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,
Conferences
Being Kind to Speakers
The first time I did an LCA talk I spent the week before having chest pains to the point I thought I was going to have a heart attack. I was nervously scratching
linux.conf.au 2015 Day 4
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.
linux.conf.au 2015 Day 3
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
linux.conf.au 2015 Day 2
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