LugRadio Live – Saturday

Saturday was the first day of the “Official” event. I eventually got up from simply lying down in the bed for a while (I did get some sleep, but the heat of the room woke me up quite early), went for a shower and then for some breakfast. Sward wanting to get there early so I rushed and just had some cereal and orange juice. Then spent about 30min sitting around waiting for some other people who wanted to go down. Could have had a proper breakfast :(

Anyway when we did get down there we where waiting in a small queue and then into the venue. It was a reasonably sized student union, although as its actually part of the rest of the uni building and not a separate building it was hard to gauge it size. The bar was open and plasma screen where displaying some pictures and a now and next off what was to come. A small intro from the Lug Radio team and the event kicked off.

There where 5 room – The main room and bar, with the 2 BOF points and lan gaming off to the sides, and exhibition room which forms the rest of the bar (if it was open), The Chin and Beard rooms (for smaller talks) and the third and last bof point. The talks I attendants on Saturday where

  1. Gervase Markham – How to Destroy the Free Software Movement
    An entertaining talk on well how a fictional company was working on Destroying to free software movement
  2. Matthew Somerville – MySociety and Pledgebank
    I did try and see Ewen Spences talk, but he never turned up so I went to see the MySociety talk. It was quiet interesting – especially as I’d already used part of the site and not realised
  3. Stephen Lamb (Microsoft) – Microsoft and Security
    Should have really gone to another talk to be honest – felt a bit lectured to and bored during this one
  4. Lunch – Unfortunately we turned up on mass to a very busy and understaffed Varsity and missed the mass debate, but it was decent enough food at least
  5. Des Burley (Mills & Reeve) – A lawyer on open source
    Interesting talk on the problems facing open source law wise
  6. Matthew Bloch (Bytemark) – Virtualisation
    An interesting talk on a technology I’d like to play with but haven’t found a reason (The stuff we could use virtulisation for at work unfortunately is all done on Microsoft stuff)
  7. Ian Lynch – The OpenDocument Fellowship
    Some details on the way the OpenDocument Fellowship is working. Would be nice to switch to an Open format at work – but need to wait for Microsoft to get their word pluggins sorted first. Assuming they do one for all the version of office we use.
  8. Bruno Bord – This Talk May Contain Swearing
    AKA LugRadio Live and Unleashed warm up talk :) An excellent talk, especially given English isn’t the speakers first language.
  9. LugRadio Live and Unleashed

All in all a great day. The Bar was well used, the aircon was a little ineffective but it wasn’t too warm. Its colder than my office at work anyway.

After the main event we all got very wet walking back to the hotel, stayed wet while a few of us got a KFC. Showered changed then off to the party.

Party – Was better than I was expecting, attendance was down from the main event of course, but still pretty well attended. Unfortunately the bar eventually ran out of Guinness, Cider and Grolsch so I ended up having to have a pint of Stella at one point, but at least been a Student union it was cheap. The DJ wasn’t bad – but given he was a club DJ was lacking in the wide range of Music demanded by the crowd, so the dance floor remained fairly empty most of the time. His rock selection was worst of all having to resort to repeating a few tracks. Next year I’ll pay attention and bring a cd with a few decent tracks (No Rammstein I promise – unless anyone else wants some played). The SU tried to kick us out early, but Jono sorted that out and we stayed till just before 2 and headed back to the hotel for a quick chat with a few people then off to bed for the night.

July 30, 2006 · robert · Comments Closed
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