Linux World Expo – my schedule

Linux World Expo – my schedule

On Friday, I wrote about heading down to Linux World Expo.
Since then I’ve become convinced that this event has not been widely advertised. I’ve heard
from at least a dozen people who didn’t know it was on. That said, perhaps such events
don’t need to be widely known to be both heavily attended and extremely useful. I’ll find both answers
soon enough.

The events

Here are are the events I am planning on seeing. This list was compiled
through the Linux World Expo site. It’s a nice feature. You create yourself
a login, click on the talks you want, and you have a schedule. Conflicts
are highlighted, as well as walking times between talks. You can add items to the
schedule, such as meetings with other users. It’s very handy.

You can also select the exhibitors you wish to visit. You can then print out a
custom map. That’s useful, but I have two gripes about that feature.

1. Hightlighting the selected vendors in red isn’t much useful when printing in black
   and white. It makes the booth number impossible to read. A grey scale instead
   would be better.

2. I selected well over 40 vendors. When printing the map, the vendor list was
   printed behind the map. Not very useful. See for yourself on this
   screenshot.
   I tried Opera, IE, and Netscape.
   They all had the same problem. I saved the output to a file, then manually
   massaged the file until I could get something worth printing.

My schedule is:

• Wed, Jan 21, 2004
  • Introduction to LDAP
  • The Golden Penguin Bowl
  • PostgreSQL
• Thu, Jan 22, 2004
  • Open Source in US and International Government
  • Linux Solutions – Ubiquitous Computing
  • Open Source is Open for Business
  • Linux Impact On The Public Sector
  • NYC *BSD Users Group
• Fri, Jan 23, 2004
  • Preparing for PHP 5
  • The Complimentary Nature of SSL VPNs and IPSec VPNs
  • Programming Weblogs with Python
  • Open Source Licensing for Commercial Applications

If you think there are other absolutely-must-see talks, please let me know.

Progress

Since Friday, I have redone the brochures for
Bacula and BSDCan. I decided that
folding several hundred pieces of paper was not a good thing to do.
Staples printed 750 copies of the BSDCan brochure
and 500 copies of the Bacula brochure for about CAD$87.00. Remember: both brochures are double
sided.

On Sunday night, I also did up a brochure for Open Source Weekend.
I’m taking about 100 copies of that, single sided, so I’ll just print those off at home.

Side trips

I haven’t seen my friend Dana since she visited New Zealand. Since then she has accumulated
a husband and 1.5 children. I’ve met none of them despite living just 8 hours
drive from them. I’ll be visiting them too.