As for OSCamp being new -- I thought this was simply the first time O'Reilly embraced it (since it threatened to some degree to undermine their conference)... it had happened in the past, so far as I know, just like all the other camps that have been better-attended and wildly popular lately. Hopefully it was just successful enough to become a bigger deal at next year's OSCON, and hopefully the Google lurkers and other curious folks with useful and powerful associations will feel confident enough to speak openly... for now I'm perectly happy to have the anonymity presence, as it was said, we have plenty of accountability even without a disclosed identity, assuming there is plenty of participation ;)
Kudos to you, especially, David, for speaking so well there and helping to keep the representation balanced. I don't think it would've done any good to give them (MS folks) more of a beating than they got. They really were receptive and participatory (when they weren't busy out of Camp at the rest of the Con... hey if I had a nice engaged employer these days I'd have enjoyed more of the Con too).
cheerio,
Ben
On 7/28/06, David Mandel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OSCAMP was a big success - thanks to Brandon Sanders of
brandon-cs-sanders.com who did everything, to O'Reilly Media who
gave us space in the OSCON conference, and to Linux Fund and
many others who also helped. It was great and I hope we can
to it again next year.
It is true that Microsoft was the only big company that participated
in OSCAMP. However, many non-profits and developers and .orgs dropped
by and many others including some of the big companies would have come
if they had been invited and felt welcome. This was the first time
anyone had tryed anything like OSCAMP and we learned a lot.
David Mandel
CoConveners
OSCamp
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