It’s post-KCA now and there’s still a buzz around and people are talking and enjoying stories and recounting presentations.

All in all, it was an excellent conference and I think James did an excellent job to pull together such a great event with limited resources and time.

These conferences are often the one time we can get together to put face to name - all those people who change from email addresses and IRC nicks to real people (at the pub, no less!).

There are some snapshots of the speakers up at http://mexico.purplecow.org/static/kca_spk/ for those who are interested.

Kernel Conference Australia is coming up soon, and shouldn’t be missed.

Excellent speakers already lined up (incl. Bonwick & Moore).

Details at http://www.kernelconference.net

 I wrote an article on my BLOG with a rant about open source community work and what you can do, even when you’re not a  programmer .
You can read the article here

Okay. In very short: Do not compile onnv-gate with Sun Studio 12, even when people tell you it might work.

Even when things appear to compile fine, you’ll possibly be in for some suprises.

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There has been considerable debate over licensing in the Open Source community of late, sparked by this example of incompatibility between the GPL and the BSD license. Theo de Raadt responded to the issue in detail here and a further discussion of the mess turned up here.

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