i survived Detroit
April 19, 2004
Well back from Detroit now (actually been back since last night). I had alot of fun this weekend and it was awesome meeting a alot of the regulars from #linux. Its pretty neat being able to put faces to names now. Also the panels this weekend rocked. I learned a quite a bit from the web and network security. Epsecially the network security one. I just cant believe the amount of traffic that get sent over plain text and can be sniffed. Its just mind boggling. Remeber kids ssh/ssl is your friend. I was also quiet shocked at the some of the people that they had speak at the con. This sucks because i cant remember some of their names, just know what OSS projects they are from. They had someone from the Mozilla Project, the Samba project, someone from Novell was there. Harshy the Rhythmbox developer was there, he pretty much hung out with us the entire weekend. ESR was there, man that guy was creepy. John “Maddog” Hall was there and i got to sit in on his keynote talk Friday night which was pretty cool. Listening to some of these guys talk was just amazing, i cant really express how much (especially if you got to sit in on the interview Jorge was doing with the Mozzila guy).
All in all it was an awesome weekend and i wish it could have been longer. Now i am looking forward to next year already.
