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Conference parties

October 12th, 2008 by Hen

Off to ApacheCon at the end of the month. Not as many parties as the party fest that OScon is. For the non-conference goer, a party is an event hosted by a company to show their involvement in Open Source, market something, recruit or just because they want to say thanks for code being developed. It consists of free alcohol and various finger food.

What I’d love is an ice cream party :) Beer, ice cream, brownie, cookies. Often they feel just a bit too formal and corporate, not really the open source style of fun and agile. Of course… not everyone is the sugar addict that I am. Lots of work hitting me at the weekend means I’ve backslid back to the point of putting sugar on my weetabix. Weaning myself off of that again is going to be painful.

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2 Responses to “Conference parties”

  1. Jukka Zitting Says:
    October 13th, 2008 at 1:22 pm

    +1 to ice cream party :-)

    Did you hear about the Ice Cream Deathmatch [1] that the Gnome people did at GUADEC 2008?

    [1] http://live.gnome.org/GUADEC/2008/Events/IceCreamDeathmatch

  2. Hen Says:
    October 13th, 2008 at 11:58 pm

    I’m jealous.