Ohio Linuxfest 2007 September 30, 2007
Posted by alan in : tech , trackbackFor the third consecutive year I attended the Ohio Linuxfest in Columbus, Ohio on Saturday 9/29. It’s certainly a worthwhile event, and interesting to see how far people travel to attend the show. I overheard several people talking about their travels from Michigan and I also noticed that there were more than a few people attending from Canada. The biggest disappointment I have each year is with the talks that are canceled at the last minute. This year I was looking forward to two talks that were canceled: The Challenges of Building a Linux Distro by Warren Woodford and Free Software, in Africa: a Perspective by Nayyar Ahmad. My favorite talk of the day was Introduction to Python and/or Solar System Demolition by Catherine Devlin. I’ve been studying Python for about three months now, which helped me to follow most of her discussion as she described how to create a physical model of the solar system in Python. Catherine’s blog is here and she has posted all of her files from the presentation. Ohio Linuxfest is also supposed to be making the audio of each talk available at a later date. It was great to see the guys from The Linux Link Tech Show. I was lucky enough to visit their table early in the day and they gave me all of their podcasts on DVD. It will be great to catch up on the earlier episodes!
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