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nmh and I went to the Pacific Free and Open Source Software Conference (PFOSSCON) yesterday (2007-01-20). The event was organized by the Hawai`i Open Source Education Foundation (HOSEF) and held on UHM campus.
nmh and I went to the Pacific Free and Open Source Software Conference (PFOSSCON) yesterday (2007-01-20). The event was organized by the Hawai`i Open Source Education Foundation (HOSEF) and held on UHM campus.
R.
Stallman, the guy who initiated the GNU project, was there to give a
talk. I've heard of the word "idealist" before, but I didn't think that
anyone like that would exist in today's world. Mr. Stallman has gotta
be one of them. I enjoyed his talk eventhough I can't say I completely
& whole-heartedly agree with him.
The other two speaks
were from Vyatta and Sun. Vyatta guy was talking about "Open &
Flexible Router"-which uses an x86 machine that runs Debian based OS to
act as a router. The guy from Sun (graduated from Punahou! yay!) was
talking about their FOSS: OpenSolaris, OpenSparc, and Java. Sun++
actually sponsored all free food and goodies. The event was packed with
Haoli (hawaiian for white people) - and more importantly - all geeks! I
have to say I've never seen these many geeky white guys in the same
place on Oahu before. They are like.. rare species or something,
consider that most guys here are either jocks or surfer dudes (or
both). It's nice to see that geeky white boys do exist under the
Hawaiian sun too!
Anyway, I was just there for the free food.. what can I say... I'm a grad student!
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