Hi All, On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 20:44, Chen Ruo Fei <[email protected]> wrote: > My mind was thinking "what the hell" when I saw Microsoft being one of the > only two main sponsors. M$ is pushing very hard to get into the open source > community, and they will take whatever possible to attract clueless > developers to use their platform. I actually was surprised about how much of a backseat MS took. Normally when they sponsor a conference their name is all over the place. This conference, it was limited to a logo here and there, a small booth and a keynote that I missed (on purpose, sleeping in was so much more attractive ;) ). Believe me, I have seen this a lot differently many times.
> By the way while I do agree that it is very important to get sponsors from > open source giants such as Oracle rather than from Microsoft, it is also > important to get more open source communities to really take part in the > conference. I guess this boils back down to the question of having a clear focus. This MOSC was very confusing: was it a business conf or a hacker/geek kind of conference. It seemed to be somewhere in between, which is a lot harder as a speaker to cater to then either end of that spectrum. > My friend also mentioned to me that the quality of speakers varied greatly. > Its like MOSC just accepts as many presentations as possible to attract as > many audience as possible. To me its like attracting the wrong crowd to the > conference. Heck I don't even want to measure how much proportion of the > audience truly appreciate open source. To cope with the technical level of > these audience, majority of the talks are very introductory and I feel that > it'd be better to put the title of these talks as "Introduction to XXX". I got seriously concerned when I attended the drupal performance talk just before doing my own zabbix talk. There, 3 or so people raised their hand when the speaker asked how many people ever used Drupal. How the hell can you expect someone to go in-depth on Drupal performance when nobody has ever touched it? That's why I finished my talk earlier, I didn't want to go as in-depth as I had planned. I already feel like it was way too much in-depth anyway. > When I asked few of my OSS elite friends whether they will be attending > MOSC, they said that there's nothing much to see and going attending it > would be waste of time. I didn't think it was a waste of time, I learned a lot. Just not from the sessions, more about meta-stuff :) Walter -- Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ Facebook Fan page http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98685301577 http://www.facebook.com/OSDC.my You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OSDC.my Mailing List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/osdcmy-list?hl=en
