Vapier wrote:   [Fri Feb 18 2005, 10:29:13PM EST]
> - paraphernalia !  people asked about shirts and some thought large
> posters of our sexy G would bring them that extra uNF in the bedroom
> ... which is to say they wanted to buy one

Yeah, I think we could have sold lots of stuff if we'd had it with us.
Posters, t-shirts, hats, sweatshirts, etc.  People were willing to
shell out $10 for a CD just to support us, so we would have done well
with more stuff.

> - cds !  people loved our x86 livecds, but next time i bring my own box, i'll 
> bring copies of every arch's livecd on it so that when we get the few 
> ppc/amd64/sparc request, i can just burn em a quick copy

*nod*

> - embedded !  almost every question was about ARM ... got like two MIPS 
> questions, but they were related to running Gentoo on old school SGI boxes

Maybe we should talk with the folks at handhelds.org about using their
development machines.  They have a few available on their network.
We're going to need the binary support in portage polished, though,
for handheld support to be viable.

> - free crap !  other than your standard free shirts, O Reilley was so bad ass 
> as to give out TONS of free books to us open source guys.  man, i'm so only 
> buying their books from now on :D.  vmware hooked up open source linux devs 
> with free licenses if you showed up at their booth.  bit defender was giving 
> out condoms for your bits ...

*grimace*  I bought my O'Reilly books on Wednesday before they started
giving them away.

> - devs / users !  so much fun actually meeting all of you in person, hanging 
> out and shootin the shit, going out afterwards for booze/food.  i think i 
> touched all your bums ... sorry if i missed anyone, didnt mean to make you 
> feel left out.  FYI, agriffis has a hot wife, but her husband is hotter.

You're a freak.

> - pics !  i've uploaded all my LWE pics here:
> http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/misc/pics/LWE/2005/Boston/?root=gentoo

I added mine there too...

Regards,
Aron

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Aron Griffis
Gentoo Linux Developer

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