I'm back home now - feeling a bit worse for the wear thanks to the usual closing party on Saturday night, and the airplane rides home on Sunday. I declare OLS to be a moderate success - our talk was very good (but I am biased), and hopefully it will open up new doors for LinuxBIOS and AMD. Other then that, I generally thought that the talks this year weren't great. Not terrible, but not much that really got me excited, with the exception of cpuidle, which is directly applicable to OLPC and Geode.

As usual, the social aspect was nice - we met lots of folks, and got connected with people, especially Ron and Stefan from LinuxBIOS, and some of our other AMD brethren from around the world.

My favorite OLS moment was definitely when Marc announced during our talk that he had been an open source developer for 50 days, and the crowd responded with a round of applause. Very cool.

The LinuxBIOS talk went off very well yesterday - we had a full room, and lots of questions were asked, which was good. The paper itself will be published shortly, and I'm working on getting permission to post the presentation itself on the AMD website, or at least here if all else fails.

Now, back to async I/O. Fascinating!

Heard outside of the Real Time Linux talk, which was running 15 minutes over...

The RT talk missed its deadline? Thats irony for you.

First off, I'll try really hard not to make any jokes about being in Canada, though I did watch the South Park movie on the flight up here, as tradition dictates. I'm in Ottawa, where I am, believe it or not, at the Ottawa Linux Symposium (funny how that works, isn't it?).

Today is Thursday, and Marc and I are speaking later on today. I do have to say, this is some place in my career I had always hoped to be, but also secretly feared making a big fool of myself on a very large stage. Kind of like Paris Hilton, only, you know... smarter.

I'll post a bit more on the conference later - maybe also some pictures of various folks I meet. I've already been stopped a couple of times in the hall and recognized as a "Geode guy". That sometimes freaks me out - I came so late to the Geode party, yet here I still am, stealing all the left over booze from the bar and bothering the hostess for more of those little hotdogs in cocktail sauce.