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[school-discuss] Triumphal LCA2003 wrap-up



    http://linux.org.au/~leonb/lca2003/LCA2003-wrapup.html

    A penguin ambled out on-stage at the opening session, and then off
    again. After a few minutes, Rusty appeared with a penguin head under
    his arm. "Ha, ha" said everyone, very funny, Rusty wore a penguin
    suit, yay. Then when everyone was thoroughly disarmed, Linus came
    back on in his usual casual way, wearing the headless suit. It took
    a minute or two for the penny to drop for quite a few people, but
    the cheers came.

    [...]

    The PenguinMeister wrote a book, and called it "just for fun." He
    tells us that's the secret to getting him to come to a conference:
    make it easy for him to come, make it fun, have some real content
    (not just marketing). Not the forced-hilarity commercial kind of
    fun, but the laid-back, playful, amateur, spontaneous fun that
    characterises so much of open source. Computer-illiterates reading
    that sentence might think I've been staring at monitors for too
    long, but yes, computer software can be fun, and we had some
    (software and fun) at LCA2003.

More pictures at:

    http://linux.org.au/~leonb/lca2003/

Cheers; Leon

-- 
http://www.cyberknights.com.au/  Modern tools, traditional dedication
http://slpwa.linux.org.au/       Member, Linux Professionals West Aus
http://conf.linux.org.au/        THE Australian Linux Technical Conf:
                                 22-25 January 2003, Perth: be there!

-- 
http://www.cyberknights.com.au/  Modern tools, traditional dedication
http://slpwa.linux.org.au/       Member, Linux Professionals West Aus
http://conf.linux.org.au/        THE Australian Linux Technical Conf:
                                 22-25 January 2003, Perth: be there!