We spent the first hour gabbing about all sorts of political and organizational issues of a fairly boring and mundane nature. Partway through, Jon Orwant comes in, and stands there for a few minutes listening, and then he very calmly walks over to the coffee service table in the corner, and there were about 20 of us in the room, and he picks up a coffee mug and throws it against the other wall and he keeps throwing coffee mugs against the other wall, and he says "we are fucked unless we can come up with something that will excite the community, because everyone's getting bored and going off and doing other things".
And he was right. His motivation was, perhaps, to make bigger Perl conferences, or he likes Perl doing well, or something like that. But in actual fact he was right, so that sort of galvanized the meeting. He said "I don't care what you do, but you gotta do something big." And then he went away.
Don't misunderstand me. This was the most perfectly planned tantrum you have ever seen. If any of you know Jon, he likes control. This was a perfectly controlled tantrum. It was amazing to see. I was thinking, "should I get up and throw mugs too?"
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Night of the Prom (From the Newspaper of the Andrew )
"It must here be night of the prom in the farm of Irvine/Lake Forest/Foothill!! Goodie of the OH.
"?subito after the midnight, the lottery of parking of the?imballato hotel and pi?capretti in their pi?fine still they are arriving. Ascolter?musica fortune teller who strongly, barfing, humping and puking this evening.
"Perhaps I would have to go vague around and I see that what I see.
"Sad, but true."
—Lisa Wolfisch Nyman
"Life is too short to wear ugly underwear."
Get the facts at quickfacts.census.gov
"When you hit a wall in development it's often time to ask not whether you've got the right answer, but whether you're asking the right question."
—The Cathedral and the Bazaar
—A plea for reviewers
- Home page
- Linux Magazine Interview
- His wife to be said...
"I thought he was a naive dork, and he thought I was a cynical bitch."
Brian Behlendorf &bbehlendorf;
- Founder and leader of the GNOME Foundation.
- Time Magazine profile
- Slashdot Interview
- Intro
- Open Office project owner
- Open Office project owner
- the GNOME Foundation
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&atorkington;
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Nathan Torkington &gnat;
&atorkington;
Tom Christiansen &tchrist;
esr: In the short term, proprietary will win, but free software will win in the long term.
Heidi: But what is the long term except for an endless succession of short terms?
esr: [thinks]
esr: [thinks]
esr: That's true, but over the long term, there is time for second order effects to accumulate, and it is because of those second order effects that free software will succeed in the long term.
The book she's holding is by Yoshitomo Nara
Elaine Ashton &eashton;
Elaine Ashton &eashton;
&lnyman;
"Perl is quirky, fun, and creative. It attracts people who are also quirky, fun, and creative."
"If anything, we now have Larry with his mouth full of "P6 pie", and he's having a hard time swallowing it all, but people are already offering him seconds."
"I normally dream full-colour films - with credits."
- Monty Python scholar
- Perl Druid and Treasurer for Perl mongers
- His article on the conference.
- Giovanni Maruzzelli is one of the founders of Incube.
- Actually the daughter of author Ian Darwin
Jason Hunter &jhunter;
Jason Hunter &jhunter;
Jon S. Stevens
&jstevens;
&derrick;
Allen Noren is the author of:
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- 10 tips for travelers
- Online communities
-From "Mirage" by Jon Parise
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- So who is this guy?
- Is there something you wanted to ask Brian?
- Author of Running Weblogs with Slash
- Intro
- Author of MySQL Reference Manual
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Center for Inherited Disease Research
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