[Chester LUG] Barcamp Liverpool

[Dan Lynch]

The event was pretty good overall, I had a good time and met some
interesting folks but there was quite a proprietary feel to it I'd say. It
was sponsored by Microsoft and all the competition prizes were copies of
Vista. The MS guys were nice enough and I tried to talk to them but always
seemed to be getting a sales pitch on why closed software is better, I was
wearing a Linux t-shirt and handing out Linux Outlaws cards all the time
though. I think they thought I was going to attack them which I wasn't, they
probably get that a lot :)

There were some great sessions and it was worth going as I said. I like to
meet people from outside our relatively small FLOSS circle who have
different perspectives. There was also a lot of iPhone dev stuff as quite a
few of the attendees were mobile developers. A few folks from the Liverpool
LUG were there and others had even traveled from London. I think they said
there were about 120 people there in the end. The organisers worked really
hard and I'm glad it went well for them. There's already talk of another one
being arranged for the future so keep an eye out for that.

Hope that helps a bit, cheers

Dan


On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Fintan Gaughan <fgaughan at gmail.com> wrote:

> how did it go?
>
>
> Fintan
>
> 2008/10/29 Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>:
> > I booked my place. Is anyone else going and fancies a travel partner and
> > much coffe en route ?
> >
> > 2008/10/28 Dan Lynch <biglynchy at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> Hey folks,
> >>
> >> I was sent this on the Liverpool LUG mailing list but I thought I'd pass
> >> it on in case anyone doesn't know. There will be a Barcamp event in
> >> Liverpool this December and it looks really interesting.
> >>
> >> http://www.barcampliverpool.com/
> >>
> >> 6th-7th December
> >>
> >> Not strictly open source related more of just a general gathering for
> >> geeks but I'm sure there'll be plenty of Linux users in attendance and
> there
> >> is a Wii tennis tournement hehe, should be fun :)
> >>
> >> See ya
> >>
> >> Dan
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