The Goldfish Chronicles

Bit late in adding this, but I’ve a good excuse - just got back from 3 weeks vacation with very little Internet. I took a little time out from the end of my vacation to go to ApacheCon. Not the whole week as that would have been a bit cruel on the family, just Monday evening to Wednesday afternoon.

Tuesday was mostly spent meeting with people. I attended my first board meeting in which I get to say ‘Yes’ (hugely exciting I know - but was fun as we were mostly all in the room) and I was walked through the details of the ASF tax return (also fun). Dinner was at the same pub as the previous night - an O’Neill’s somewhere in Temple Bar with a very nice carvery.

Wednesday was the beginning of the conference itself - sadly I only had a half-day so after listening to Mark Shuttleworth’s opening speech, the highlights for me were Peter Royal’s talk on MINA and Sally Khudairi’s talk on Visibility for OS Projects. MINA has interested me for a long time, so hopefully Peter’s solid walk through is something that will prod me into having a play. It’s something that would have been very useful at my previous job, but less likely to be used in my current work. Sally is an ASF person of old and donates (through her company) time to the ASF to help out with PR work (I’ve probably defined that incorrectly). It was very interest to hear alternative ways (other than grass roots) to spread word about a project.

Finally, off to Dublin airport where I bought Nathan his first “Daddy’s been away” present - a teddy bear in an Irish rugby kit. He gave it suitable hugs when I got back.

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