[Gllug] [Lonix] Anyone go to CLOUD EXPO EUROPE?

[Dave English]

In message <1243004859160641 at lonix.org.uk>, Tushar Joshi 
<tjoshi at lonix.org.uk> writes
>
>Anyone go to this cloud expo europe thing? Supposed to be a Linux type show
>but I didn't even know about it. What was it like?

It seemed a bit quiet to me.  I went because I happened to be available 
that afternoon.  I went hoping to learn something about cloud & was 
disappointed in that respect.

When I got there I discovered it was billed as "Cloud Computing, 
Virtualization & Open Source".  The show seemed pretty quite, not that 
many stands & certainly not that many visitors.  I did wonder whether 
the remit pof the show had not been widened just to try to fill it up.

That said, I attended some conference sessions & saw Michael Meeks from 
Novell with someone from Intel, ex OpenedHand, demonstrate Moblin.

What did impress me though was seeing a lecture by Jon "maddog" Hall:

http://koolu.com/The-Koolu-Team/maddog.html

He talked about an Open Source phone, the FreeRunner:

http://koolu.com/Content/About-FreeRunner.html

Apart from the usual Open Source benefits, the idea is that one has a 
free choice of phone service provider, WiFi VOIP, application to run on 
the phone etc..  The price paid is just the up front purchase, instead 
of a subsidised deal.

It all really does look like quite a well done affair.

There is more in Mad Dog's blog, not the easiest of URLs:

http://koolu.com/component/option,com_mojo/Itemid,225/

Later that afternoon I was lucky enough to get a quarter of an hour or 
so discussing open source in general with him, going all the way back to 
Decus (well actually, going back to Harrison's marine chronometer).

Regards
-- 
Dave English - dave at lutnos.com
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