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LinuxWorld Boston – was it worth it?
Raven Zachary, April 6, 2006 @ 6:05 pm ETI’m sitting here at the airport, waiting to fly home from LinuxWorld Boston. My two days at the show were packed full with vendor meetings, sessions, and networking. My talk on open source and grid computing on the expo floor was attended by only a handful of people, as it was the last session on the last day on the conference. I’m glad I went, but I found this conference a bit muted. Attendance felt low, vendors had mixed feedback (where are the end-users?), and there were no major news announcements. The compliments I heard were all about Nicholas Negroponte’s OLPC keynote on the $100 laptop initiative. Maybe IDG World Expo needs to merge LinuxWorld and OSBC on the east coast.
I’m looking forward to attending the main LinuxWorld event in San Francisco. Several people told me that this was nothing like the one on the west coast. I’ll be there in August to find out for myself.
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[...] So how did my experience in San Francisco compare with Boston? Take a look at my prior summary post – “LinuxWorld Boston – was it worth it?” From the summary… I’m glad I went, but I found this conference a bit muted. Attendance felt low, vendors had mixed feedback (where are the end-users?), and there were no major news announcements [...]