Returning from OSCON

I'm sitting in PDX (yay for free wifi!) ready to finish off my trip to OSCON, with a couple of bottles of Oregon Pinot Noir in my carry-on (mmm).

Overall I was somewhat disappointed in the content of the conference. It must have at least something to do with incorrect expectations, but I expected a lot more technical, process-oriented talks. There were a lot of talks about specific technologies, but relatively few high-level talks and surprisingly few that I was interested in.

The hallways track was overall very good, although a bit more insular than LISA usually is, I think. I spent a lot of time hanging out with John Lam, which was very interesting -- he lives entirely in the Microsoft world, but is a heavy Ruby user. Very smart, lives in Toronto, and loves Ruby -- what's not to like?

There also seems to have been a huge uptick in attention to Puppet this past week, and I can only think that it's because of OSCON. I've got a lot of emails to respond to, but I've been working on some interesting stuff in the last week.

No rest for the wicked; see you all on the flip side!

Sat, 29 Jul 2006 | Tags: sysadmin