Posted by Scott Laird Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:21:00 GMT
I just arrived in Portland for OSCON. I’ll be wandering around most of the week, but if anyone really wants to flag me down, either send me mail at scott@sigkill.org, or drop by the Google booth either Wednesday or Thursday morning.
Posted by Scott Laird Fri, 23 Mar 2007 03:49:00 GMT
Well, it looks like I’m going to be going to Gnomedex again this year. I had a good time last year, but I felt a bit out of place–I’m a programmer and a sysadmin, and I was surrounded by pundits and hyper-bloggers. I had a good time, though and work’s willing to pay this year, so I’m going back again. I’ll have to make sure that I actually give a business card to Scoble this time, though, to avoid a repeat of last year.
Posted by Scott Laird Fri, 21 Jul 2006 23:49:27 GMT
I’m headed for OSCON in Portland next week, along with about half of my blogroll. I’m heading down to Portland on Sunday via Amtrak’s afternoon run; if anyone else is taking the same train, feel free to stop by and say hi. I’ll be the guy in business class editing Ruby code with TextMate on a 17” PowerBook.
Monday and Tuesday are tutorial days at OSCON; I’m going to be sitting in on Amy’s Javascript tutorial on Monday morning, followed by tutorials on Linux drivers, Haskell, and web testing.
The rest of my schedule is still in flux. Here’s the bits that are nailed down:
Leave a comment if there are any talks that I really shouldn’t miss.
Posted by Scott Laird Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:38:03 GMT
Just a quick note–I’m spending today and tomorrow at Gnomedex, Chris Pirillo’s technology conference. This morning’s speakers are Michael Arrington (Tech Crunch), Dave Dederer (The Presidents of the United States of America), and John Edwards (Democratic VP candidate, 2004).
I’ve been looking forward to this for a while. It should be interesting.
Posted by Scott Laird Wed, 17 May 2006 18:35:38 GMT
I’m signed up for two conferences this summer–Gnomedex in Seattle in late June, and OSCON in Portland in late July.
I’m looking forward to both conferences. I’ve never been to Gnomedex before, but I’ve been kicking myself for missing the past two years, and decided months ago that I wouldn’t miss this year’s conference. Besides, I owe Chris for buying me dinner last summer, so the least I can do is attend his conference.
OSCON is another conference that I’ve never quite managed to attend. I drove down for ”FOSCON” last year, when the Portland Ruby Group had most of the OSCON Ruby speakers give their talks for free. I had a really good time, but I couldn’t afford to take the week off and attend the real OSCON conference. Fortunately, Google is going to have a big presence there, so I get to spend a week at the conference in exchange for spending a bit of time pretending to be a recruiter. Feel free to ask me about working for Google :-).
I have one question for readers who have been to OSCON before–it is worth staying in the official conference hotel, the Doubletree in Lloyd Center? Unfortunately, the Doubletree isn’t actually all that close to the conference center, and I’d hate to spend a lot of time commuting back and forth between the hotel and the convention center. For FOSCON last year, I stayed at the Jupiter Hotel which was really cool. I’ve also stayed at the Red Lion a block or so from the convention center. The Jupiter and Red Lion are both closer to the conference, and the Jupiter is just cooler. The big thing about conferences is that the conference sessions themselves aren’t really all that important–everything interesting really happens in the hallways and afterhours during BoFs. So, does anything actually happen at the Hotel during OSCON, or is everything at the convention center?
