andrew carter

I’m packing and getting prepared to go to Portland for OSCON 2007. This is probably my favorite conference I regularly attend. Unlike the big corporate sponsored events like Microsoft’s PDC or Apple’s WWDC, I never feel like I am having stuff shoved down my throat. I like that I can walk out a talk and if I am motivated enough, I could be a contributor to that project. Something very cool about that.I wasn’t going to go this year until I looked at the lineup of talks. There were too many I wanted to hear for me not to go. I’m particularly interested in hearing Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote. I’m a fan of Ubuntu but I’ve never heard him speak. Ubuntu is fascinating to me how it did some things differently and achieved so much success so quickly.