[Balug-Talk] Free software event this weekend

[Jesse Zbikowski]

On 10/12/07, Ruben Safir <ruben at mrbrklyn.com> wrote:
> Very Cool.  It looks like somemthing that would dovetail with
> Freedom-IT.  Do they have a list of presenters?

There was not an official list.  The talks were generally very
informative and interesting.  The Metavid guys talked about native
support for streaming Ogg video in Firefox 3 -- exciting!

One word of warning: if you go to a conference with people who
describe themselves as "radical" or "activists", do *not* under any
circumstances allow yourself to be dragged into a "roundtable on
gender issues" (aka "why aren't there more women here?").  No matter
how fascinating this topic sounds, realize that everybody is going to
have an unending stream of opinions that they will not shut up about.
If you absolutely cannot stop this from happening, try to get it
scheduled last so it will not interfere with other sessions, as it
plods on for hour after hour after hour.

As an alternative, suggest a panel discussion on what color to pain
the bikeshed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_of_the_bikeshed