Wed, 08 Feb 2006
One of the most striking things I noticed was that nearly all of the Whore-your-info-and-register-to-win prizes given away at the booths were Apple iPods of one flavor or another (4Gs, minis, and shuffles).
Anywhere from a quarter to a third of the laptops in use around our (Zope.org) booth (100% in our case) were Apple PowerBooks.
Apple had a small 10'x10' booth with an iMac, Mac mini and Xserve (G5 and RAID) set up.
Got some new tee-shirts from Debian, ActiveState, Apress (the wonderful Apress booth attendant also got me a free review copy of Peter Seibel's forthcoming Practical Common Lisp (available online as well)), HP, and LinuxQuestions.
Attended the "For the Love of Free Software" .org Pavilion party on Wednesday night, and drank beers and ate food with the LinuxQuestions.org crew. Fun guys.
Most of the people who stopped by our booth did so for congratulatory reasons. More than a few of them inquired about the state of Zope 3 (we're still working on it). All in all, the mood was upbeat and people seemed to be excited about us.
No pics, sadly.