{"id":774,"date":"2008-04-13T02:21:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-13T07:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/13\/at-lugradio-live-usa-2008"},"modified":"2008-04-13T02:21:35","modified_gmt":"2008-04-13T07:21:35","slug":"at-lugradio-live-usa-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/13\/at-lugradio-live-usa-2008","title":{"rendered":"At LugRadio Live USA 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting morning for me. I woke up, had breakfast at the Hilton Concierge Lounge (complimentary, seeing that I&#8217;m on the Executive floor), and decided to find my way, by public transport, to downtown San Francisco, from Santa Clara. Boy was I surprised as to how inane everything was: I spent about 2.5 hours travelling on a light rail (VTA), then a Caltrain, and finally a BART. I almost finished a book I was reading, all on public transport. Talk about a commute.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, arrived at LugRadio Live USA, registered (paid my paltry $10 in cash, since their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/09\/lugradio-live-registration-fail\">credit card provider was wonky<\/a>), and started the day with great talks. Some quick notes about the conference itself, and then my notes shall follow soon.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Turns out its very hard to see the screen, because of all the sunlight that was coming in. The Metreon is a great place, but the light hitting the projector screen was a real issue.<\/li>\n<li>Lack of power everywhere, was a bit of a bummer. Tech conferences, laptops, one must charge one&#8217;s laptop!<\/li>\n<li>When they recorded an episode of LugRadio Live and Unleashed, they looked for the folk that came the farthest &#8211; at first, it seemed like only Stewart (Melbourne) and I (Kuala Lumpur) were standing. Then two others from Kiev and Moscow stood up. Turns out we all walked away with a copy of The Ubuntu Book as a prize. Nice :)<\/li>\n<li>Google was a major sponsor of the entire event. Kudos to them, the stuff was great.<\/li>\n<li>Saw a PostgreSQL booth (and caught up with Josh Berkus). Saw an OpenSolaris booth, and learnt a bit more about IPS. Even managed to sneak a chat with Ian Murdock, about IPS, Sun, and so on. Most interesting. Wished for a OpenOffice.org, MySQL, and even Fedora booth, which were nowhere to be seen.<\/li>\n<li>Lunch was at the food court. MySQL&#8217;er JD Duncan introduced me to some amazing pizza.<\/li>\n<li>We saw a <i>streaker<\/i>, during the Gong-A-Thong. OK, not a streaker, just a guy, in his underwear hitting the gong. I&#8217;m sure pictures of this will be online soon enough.<\/li>\n<li>Dinner? Cha-Ya. 16th and Mission (BART stop), probably closer to 18th and Valencia (by memory). Vegan Japanese food. Interesting, even the ice cream was made of soy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All in all, great networking event. Whole day spent meeting new folk, speaking to old friends, and so on. Definitely worth the trip.<\/p>\n<p>Remember the problem with public transport in San Francisco\/Santa Clara? The BART\/Caltrain\/VTA all stop at midnight. Useless. Your only options are an expensive cab ride back, or sleeping on the street (don&#8217;t even dream of a hotel in downtown SF, they&#8217;re all booked out).<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/lugradio\" rel=\"tag\">lugradio<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/lugradio%20live%20usa\" rel=\"tag\">lugradio live usa<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/public%20transport\" rel=\"tag\">public transport<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/san%20francisco\" rel=\"tag\">san francisco<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/santa%20clara\" rel=\"tag\">santa clara<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/california\" rel=\"tag\">california<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20At%20LugRadio%20Live%20USA%202008&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F04%2F13%2Fat-lugradio-live-usa-2008&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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