OLS 2005 - Keynote and Dinner
This year’s keynote was given by Dave Jones, Red Hat’s kernel maintainer. Concentrated very much on problems in current error regression principles (or actually lack thereof). There exist quite a few problems - fault maintenance is not very well taken care of, and escalation principles between distribution vendors and the mainline are not really clear to anybody. The keynote was indeed a very single-minded affair, and contrasting it with last year’s world-embracing alternative does it no good. But then, last year’s talk was given by Andrew Morton, and he certainly did not feel constrained to stay under a single topic. Not a bad keynote, not at all; and if it brings better analysis/debugging tools, it definitely served its purpose. And no presentation where there’s talk of monkeys having crashed the speaker’s space ship can really be thought to be boring (”I know the guy on the left will not be piloting mine”).
I think next year’s keynote will be given by Greg Kroah-Hartman, but the identity was never made explicitly clear.
No additional swag was dealt out post-keynote, which was too bad. Previously google and O’Reilly have seen fit to reward attendees with shirts and books, respectively - but that didn’t happen this time.
Retired to Keg Steakhouse for dinner. Had a truly magnificently tender chunk of medium-rare cow accompanied by a twice baked potato. Dessert choice was not as optimal, as the “chocolat mousse cake” turned out to be both very heavy and Gargantuan-sized, though very tasty. Had to stop around the halfway point and was duly disrespected by both colleagues and the waitress.
Time to chill out for a while and then check out the official symposium nachspiel at Black Thorn.
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