OSCON 2007 Trip Report

As
reported earlier
jMaki and
GlassFish, along with a host of
other Sun-led open source technologies (NetBeans,
OpenJDK,
OpenDS,
Project Indiana,
etc.), were present at
OSCON 2007 last week. I spent my entire 2 days at the jMaki booth which
had a consistent stream of visitors on both the days. In case you are
interested, here is what I presented:

• What
  is jMaki ?
• 
  Running Mashup with jMaki
• 
  Displaying RSS feed in jMaki widgets
• 
  jMaki on Rails

The videos of other demos shown at the pod will be made
available on this blog in the
next few days.

I could not attend any of the sessions except some of the
keynote sessions on second day. Of all the keynote videos the one I'd
like you to watch is Overcoming Bias
by Prof Robin Hanson. The professor, an
Economic Theorist, talks about how
cognitive bias cause
software projects to slip. Some of the quotes from his talk are "Be more
honest about writing code" and "If you really care about truth, you'll
work at it and try to overcome bias".

Here are some pictures.

Sign Board	List of sponsors	Welcome Sign
jMaki and NetBeans booth	Sun booth	Sun booth
Sun booth	Marguerite @ Sun desk	Job Board
Mozilla Booth	An old friend - Tim Riley	Myself explaining jMaki
Cool give-away	OpenSolaris and OpenJDK booth	Joyent booth
Sun Microsystems in the keynote	Greg @ NetBeans booth	Ken @ GlassFish booth

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