[OSDC Israel] feedbacks from the conference

[Jason Elbaum]

Conference feedback:

I was only able to attend a small part of the conference, due to commitments
at work. The only talks I attended were Larry's (both) and Audrey's
(Haskell), as well as Gaal on Pugs. They were all excellent.

If I had the time, I could easily have found talks of interest to me in
nearly every time slot during the conference. That's pretty good,
considering that many of the conference's topics are not relevant to me at
all (for example, anything related to web development, databases or
Windows).

Three days is a long time. I was impressed to see how many people were still
around by day 3, when I spoke.

The location was good for logistics (size of rooms, etc.), though a bit far
for people south of Tel Aviv.

My only real complaint: Was Sunday's dinner meant to demonstrate the Dining
Philosophers problem?

In advance of next year, maybe it would be good to ask attendees for
proposed topics relevant to them, and try to find presenters for the
higher-demand topics. In other words, some of the content should be
audience-driven, not just presenter-driven.

Finally, a point of terminology: What is an "Open Source Developers
Conference"? A conference for people developing open source software? Or a
conference for developers using open source software? Or both? I use OSS,
but I don't write any.

And if Perl and Python and Subversion are open source, aren't C++ and Make
and Yacc and Mozilla? I'm just wondering what "OSDC" really means in
practice.


Kol hakavod to all the organizers!


Jason Elbaum