Azrul I agree with you on every aspects you mentioned. Great presentation during the light talk!
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. 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. Otherwise the conference would be too business oriented and become a market place for Red Hat et al to sell their products to CIO/CTOs, like what happened in OSSPAC. 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 also feel that the environment is too large and too serious to have some more casual sessions, like Ubuntu jam, PDF exploit workshop, and lightning talks. The hall is so large and the distance between the speaker and audience is so far that these sessions become more like lecturing, rather than interactive session where discussions can be made without through the microphone. 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. So while the participation of Microsoft do is an irritating fact, I think there are also many other things to improve, if we want to get back our geeks to attend next year's MOSC. Just my 2 cents. :) On Jul 7, 12:47 am, Azrul MADISA <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys > > Here's my take on MOSC > 2010http://ejn3.blogspot.com/2010/07/my-take-on-mosc-2010.html > > Enjoy > > Azrul -- 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
