The technicians day was overall much more interesting than the business day. I attended several talks:

• Wietse Venema – Postfix as a Secure Programming Example. Wietse described what considerations lay behind the structure and design of postfix. Very interesting.
• Ronald Jaramillo – Webapplications with Turbogears. I have some python experience, so I found this talk very impressive. Although I’m wondering how well the utilities in the associated toolbox scale?
• Alan Cox (no link provided — you know who that is ) talked about the changing face of PC storage and problems posed to the Kernel developers. He also described the solutions implemented along with pros and cons.
• Poul-Henning Kamp talked about leap-seconds and how they are not standardized and how the people in-the-know cannot agree on a standard. Very entertaining
• Finally, I heard Dan Klein talking about perfect data in an Imperfect World. Very funny talk. The gist was to raise awareness to issues associated with the growing amount of data collected about people in their everyday lives.

As a technicians day, the entry-fee was much lower than the business day, but there was no free coffee, water nor food . So I had to pay exorbitant prices for breakfast, lunch, coffee and supper. I will gripe about this another day.

However, that evening consisted of beer and smalltalk. Very cozy

On the business friday, I attended several talks:

• Louis Suarez-Potts talking about migration to OO.org — Louis is very well-spoken and it was fun hearing his talk. Although it seemed that he was preaching to the already converted.
• Bent Jensen talked a little about Ingres RDBMS as Open Source. This talk really reminded me why the friday is called Business-friday. Very boring and mostly about how the “new” ingres company is so good a partner.
• Peter Lind Damkjær talked about OpenOCES. Peter works at TDC as a PKI specialist and is a member of the OpenOCES coordination group. Very interesting to hear a little about the organisation of a Open Source project like OpenOCES.
• Christian Givskov from IBM talked about 64-bit power and Virtualization. Christian gave a very enthusiastic talk about how well the “worlds best CPU, the Power5+” performs, scales and handles virtualization.
• Martin von Haller gave a talk about some Danish legalese with regards to Open Source software and solutions. I found this talk very informative.
• Flemming G. Jensen from ValueObjects talked about practical applications of clustering file systems for Linux. The title was very alluring but the talk was below par. Very shallow and not very concrete about anything.

Also, as this was the business day, there was free coffee, bottled water and lunch.

Mikkel and I went to LinuxForum 2006, Denmarks largest open source conference. LinuxForum consists of two days and we attended both: the ‘Business-friday’ and the ‘technicians-saturday’.

I will post more about the individual days when I have the time.