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 -- Aron Griffis Gentoo Linux Developer
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