[PLUG] GOSCON

[Eric Wilhelm]

# from MJang
# on Monday 19 September 2005 08:50 pm:

>Just wondering if the upcoming Government Open Source Conference
>(GOSCON) might be worth the time and trouble (www.goscon.org) - is
>anyone here familiar with the quality of the sessions? Will it be half
>as good as the regular OSCON?

Good?  You mean tasty technical details about cutting-edge projects that 
were first posted one week before the conference?  No.

As I understand it, this is a totally different beast, meant mostly to 
give government IT guys a rundown on how and why to use open source in 
their everyday problem-solving.  Did you hear something different?

Sure, these guys are a technical audience and there will probably be 
several sessions of nitty-gritty, but I don't think that Larry Wall is 
coming.  You also probably shouldn't expect to see anything like 
Damian's "how to build a beowulf out of laserjets" talk.

--Eric
-- 
Issues of control, repair, improvement, cost, or just plain
understandability all come down strongly in favor of open source
solutions to complex problems of any sort.
--Robert G. Brown
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