I forgot to mention a big thankyou to the TasLUGers who ran a great LUG meeting, were fun to hang out with, showed me a great pub and food in Hobart, but also managed to help me find a place to sleep when I missed my plane! 🙂 Thanks Ben, Leah, Gareth, Michael, Kurt and everyone else!
Month: April 2006
Tasmania – penguins and more!
Last week I had the pleasure of participating in the inaugural Open Source Tasmania FOSS forum, which saw about 190 people attend as well as a good industry/Government focus session the night before. It was a great event, and I’m really pleased to see the Tasmanian Government understanding the value or FOSS, largely due to the FOSS businesses who came up with OST and started talking to the Government about how FOSS can drive the local economy. Very good work to the OST team, in particular Carole who coordinated the conference and Sen who came up with OST.
Also, the TasLUG team are preparing an lca bid which is fantastic! Having lca in Tasmania would be very pretty, and it is somewhere not many speakers have travelled too.
On that note, the initial lca2007 website is up 🙂
I’m unfortunately not going to Brazil next week, and so will have to save up my love of the country and people till next year, when I will certainly be returning there. It is a great pity, but sometimes circumstances work against you. It is probably a good thing as I have been running very busy over the last few months without a break, and without the time to focus on my new business which is coming along well 🙂
Photos from Linuxworld!
Many thanks to Steve Walsh for his photos of the efforts at Linuxworld! My favourite photo and caption is one of Jeff talking to Peter Quinn 🙂
Getting the message across to businesses
I was really happy to see today that Dahna McConnachie from Linuxworld covered my short presentation on building a FOSS strategy for business at Linuxworld last week. I was a little nervous and wasn’t sure if I got my points across ok, but going on how Dahna reported it, I did pretty well at getting my points across 🙂
“Balancing commercial interest with community interest is important for businesses looking at open source, said open source consultant Pia Waugh”
Very happy with that story. We managed to get a lot of positive press around Linuxworld Australia and I’m looking forward to participating next year. In the meantime I am also on the committee for linux.conf.au 2007 and we are starting to ramp up our organising, even though that event isn’t till January. It is certainly lining up to be a very busy year!
Peter Quinn – the “sandals and ponytail” man :)
So it was great to have Peter Quinn at Linuxworld, he is a sweet guy and really understands FOSS. Unfortunately his tongue in cheek comments about sandals and ponytails was taken quite over the top, so we arranged this little photo to show the guy is a great ally of FOSS and that he has a sense of humour 🙂 Thanks for playing along with us Peter!
