Toronto Social Technology Un-Conference

[Colin McGregor]

Regarding Xane's comment about if this is a Linux user group mailing
list (as opposed to recent discussions about transit and the recent
municipal election), let me turn attention to last Saturday's  Social
Technology Un-Conference...

Last Saturday I was out at the FreeGeek Toronto's
(www.freegeektoronto.org) Social Technology Un-conference. The
location was near Bloor and St. George (great for me as I came by
subway, would not have been so good for the car drivers). This was a
fairly last minute semi-replacement for the canceled Ontario
Linuxfest. While much of the conference dealt with Linux, it wasn't
directly a Linux conference (ie: there was a talk about making money
with open source, which was generic enough to apply to things like
FreeBSD, etc...). Classic problem, 3 program tracks, so no way
possible to see everything. In a few cases I bounced from one talk
area to another, and sampled bits from different speakers. There was
an element of the surreal regarding the Toronto Free-Net talk, an
organization I've been involved with since 1993 (there was an element
there of knowing more than the speaker... :-) ).

Not sure how many GTALug folks were there, I did see GTALug board
member Myles Braithwaite who gave a talk about CouchDB...

During the un-conference part, where people were asked to do a talk
about their favorite open source project, I volunteered to talk about
my favorite hardware pig and Linux application, MythTV (see:
www.mythtv.org ). One of the people there wondered about using MythTV
as the basis of a video-on-demand system for a large apartment
complex, something I could instantly see several major issues with ...
mind you if someone were willing to offer me buckets of money, I would
be happy to tackle said problems :-) . Some MythTV related contract
work would be neat :-) .

Not sure if the FreeGeek people will repeat something like this next
year, but if they do I would recommend it...

Colin.
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