Thanks for sharing that, Keith - I love those random moments in Portland.
Nice work getting him to stick around for OSCON. :)


On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 4:36 PM Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]>
wrote:

> After a late night purchase at Powell's Burnside, I waited in
> the shelter for the streetcar at 11th and Couch, looking at
> bus schedules stored in my laptop.  A 25-ish fellow sitting
> next to me looked at the screen and said "Oh!  Gnome 2!
> I /loved/ Gnome 2, but Gnome 3 sucks, I'm using XFCE now ..."
>
> He was from NYC, in PDX to look for a site for a satellite
> sales and development office for his company.  I told him about
> Calagator, that OSCON was next week, recruited him into PLUG
> (say "I am a member"), and gave him the PLUGEXPO discount code.
> He changed his flight to stay another week.
>
> Funny thing - I remember his distro (his own clonable modification
> of Gentoo) but not his name.  I'll find him at OSCON, and recruit
> him for a PLUG talk or two, because Of Course he is moving here.
>
> Late night streetcars are good for meeting interesting people
> and getting desktop environment tips.  Food carts also - three
> weeks ago I "had dinner" with a UC Santa Barbara prof working
> on computer security for human brains ...
>
> Keith
>
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