Just a basic idea about the who and why of SCALE 4x and to thank the guys that organize and deliver this great show. I think we had a great time this year and we’re already planning on next year’s attendance; so that’s a great sign. Unfortunately, last year I got to go to more papers/preso’s and this year I wanted to do booth duty. Its been a few months since I did the LWE in SF and was at the FSG booth. Then I felt less than happy because of the location of all us grubby .org’s. Basically, put us out in the middle of nowhere, no signs pointing to us, remove us from the show essentially. In one swell foop, IDG managed to really get bunches of people pissed off. Don’t even get me started on the whole OpenOffice.org thang.
Anyways, as a report this blogpost focuses on a day of meeting friends, telling the organizers a heart-felt thanks for their efforts and building out new partnerships for our rather unique and interesting appliance that runs Linux and serves up managed systems. I got to talk with a variety of people as diverse as KDE, IBM, SGI, Debian (duh… of course), Fedora Team Members, and on. The booth hours were announced as 11 to 530pm but I got here this morning at 930am and people were already on the expo floor. Very interesting. As I look around at the tail end of this year’s SCALE, I see booths from X.org, Novell, IBM, SGI, and others. It really promotes how the big guys see the value in the other things.
I’m flying back to the Bay area tonite. Catch everyone on the flipside of the sunset.
