[PLUG] GOSCON

Vincent Yau v_yau3 at hotmail.com
Wed Sep 21 18:23:40 UTC 2005


I also get the feeling that the conference may deal with OS licensing issues 
as well.


>From: Eric Wilhelm <scratchcomputing at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;civil and on-topic" 
><plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
>To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;civil and on-topic" 
><plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
>Subject: Re: [PLUG] GOSCON
>Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:24:32 -0700
>
># 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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