Its Tuesday night and went through two tutorials here at OSCON today. One on Chef which is an infrastructure management tool and the other on Puppet which turns us all into Masters of the Puppet Kingdom. Both were okay. My take on OSCON for the most part is that its interesting but I won’t be doing it again. I think honestly the cost point for the quality is a bit over the top. I think they should drop the cost to $250.00 for the entire thing. All tutorials, sessions, events. The cost now is ridiculous and out of the reach of a whole group of open source devleopers, QA, documentarians, users. My feedback is make the cost more reachable and stop with the elitism based on price. We all want to feel the power of open source; but O’Reilly has priced it beyond the reach of mere mortals. C’mon dudes. Do what’s right here. Drop the cost.
Tomorrow I’ll go to a few sessions on community, business and stuff and a evening BOF. That will be just about it for me I think unless I go to a Thursday morning session or two. May do that and leave the hotel for the AMTRAK station by 1pm. Then I get back on the train and start the voyaging part of things again. Back to home, back to that reality. I’ll be leaving again in about two weeks though to go to a Linux show in Boston. I think I will fit better there. I know a few linux people here and there. Perhaps the one or two I know will even be there…
I also used my NexusOne’s wifi tethering today to good effect. The wireless that OSCON provided sucked big time most of the day. Hardly could do gmail. Anyways, the freely available wifi tethering works like a charm. So glad I had the phone with me. I got to put my Nexus One next to a Droid X at the show. Very snazzy phone. But I’m glad to not own one. Its pretty but its not really there. I want a developer phone which has the same characteristics made by HTC and not big, bad Moto. I guess I am a HTC fanbois.
Anyways, end of this here thing. I’ll capture my trip back hopefully on Thursday on the blog here.
