Well, OSCON is over, and I'm back in Menlo Park. I've just spamned the poor Utah Open Source Planet with my inundation of summaries. Looking at the two years I've gone I have to say that it can be hard to get everything possible out of the convention. Some topics sound good, but aren't and vice-versa. In any case, here's some of my impressions.
- You learn a lot about where the dynamic languages are headed. Larry Wall and Guido Van Rossum both have yearly sessions talking about where Perl and Python (respectively) are headed. It's good to be in the known with upcoming technologies.
- Big companies make big open source announcements. Intel's releasing of its Threading Building Blocks is a big deal for the community as we find multi-core systems become ubiquitous.
- Swag: I only got ten shirts this year, I wasn't really trying that hard. (Jayce^ got 22)
- Keynotes: Excellent presenters and insightful commentary. Thursday's keynotes (7/26) were especially good, as was Nat Torkington's keynote on Friday (7/27). Watch the talk list for the videos.
- Talking with developers is a great way to really get a feel for people, and an idea where things are headed. I had a good chance to shoot the breeze with Malcolm Tredinnick about Django. That reminds me I need to follow up on a post to the dev list...
- Talk open source and code with people for a week. I've got new ideas I need to start working on, and ideas of how to improve some of the things I've been doing.
Of course, for a miniature version of this, check out the Utah Open Source Conference if you're in the area in September.
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