> Yeah! I'm so glad I went. It was quite an experience. I didn't quite > realize this before, but email just doesn't hold a candle to talking to > someone face to face. It was so great to meet everyone and get to know you > better. I was impressed with Jason's enthusiasm and interest in expanding > OOo. Jason, you did great. I hope you'll want to participate more at OOo.
Ah. So I managed to keep it a secret that I'm that high energy and loud ALL THE TIME. Well, next time, in the seagull suit, I'll have more fun ;). > Ryan is so energetic, he was running around so fast he left my head > spinning! I think Ryan talked to more people at the conference than anyone else .... he did leave everyone's head spinning. However, I took the lead in OpenOffice.org --> Penguin/Tux relations ;) >Ian and Rosemary are great. Ian trained Ryan and I to be INGOT > accessors, yeah! Myself as well. Quite excellent. Made my girlfriend very happy that I finally have a certification :) >Talking to Gary Edwards was very enlightening. I think I > learned more about OpenStandards and OpenDocument in those 3 days than > I have in the last 3 months. Like I was saying at the conference, being surrounded by so many great OSS minds, just listening in on a 5 minute conversation makes you feel more enlightened. >And Landon's talk on DBA was a hit too. We > had all these people asking about our upcomming database functionality. Yeah, and they all seemed to want to ask me :( hehe > I think the INGOTs, now > that I understand them well, are a spectacular opportunity to spread > knowledge of open source and open standards. Ian's idea is truly > spectacular. > +1 > The user guides from OOoAuthors were a great hit. And they presented a > good opportunity to tell people about all the great stuff that's going to > happen in OOo 2.0. At the end of the conference we gifted those books to > Novell and Linspire, so they could see what we are working on. Both were > very happy to have them. > Yeah, it's like I was telling some booth visitors, people have a tendency to take electronic documentation for granted -- seeing it all printed out like that really hits home as to how mature our documentation is. > I got to meet some guys from the Mozilla team. Yeah! Those guys love their > work, and they have such a good infrastructure setup to promote their > work. I sat through the talk from the guy who ran the marketing campaign > for Firefox. I certainly learned from that. Yeah. Bart Decrem really gave some insight. Plus the free FireFox shirts helped the goodwill ;) > Ha ha. Yeah, I'm more like a 6-foot tall, scary-looking math geek. Yay! I wasn't the scariest person there! > > It was great meeting you Jason. Once again, I really do hope you'll stay > involved. There are confs on the East coast. We should find a way to send > you to those. Well, as much of a SACRIFICE as it is to go talk about computer geeky stuff at these conferences and visit exotic cities for free, I GUESS I could help represent OOo more ;) ;) ;) (/sarcasm) -- Jason Faulkner Old Os Admin http://oldos.org --------------------------- *Employed full-time now -- thanks for all the emails of support* --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
