The Domino Chick

LinuxWorld

Monday, August 9th, 2004

I went to LinuxWorld in San Francisco last week. As Ed mentioned, the show really seemed to be more about the Expo and vendor displays than about session content. Every session I attended or assisted with had no more than 20-30 people in it, and in my opinion there weren't enough sessions. But I learned some stuff and got some swag for my colleagues, and I spoke to a woman who runs another conference about another possible speaking engagement. I like presenting. :)

I'm officially on vacation this week, through next Tuesday. The travel plans have changed slightly - I'm at home today and tomorrow getting some much-needed work done around the house, and then I'm off to New York and Philly on Wednesday. After I get back, I'll be home for a few days, then I think there's an extra trip to Virginia in the works for me before the Boston trip. I should hit platinum status on American in the middle of the return flight from Virginia. I know a lot of people think traveling all the time on business is glamorous - believe me, it's not. But if you can get elite status on the airlines you travel the most, it certainly makes things easier.

Even though I'm on vacation, I'll be working a little during the next week on a presentation I'm giving at the end of the month. It's basically a (much) shorter version of my Running Domino on Linux presentation from the View conference - I'm not reusing much, just following the same general outline and skipping the installation stuff. I also need to finish my laptop project - I'm repartitioning the hard drive, installing RedHat on one partition and Debian on another. I'll need to at the very least have RedHat installed with Domino running on it so I can do some demos during the presentation. But I'm really curious to see if I can get Domino running on Debian. I know it's not officially supported, but that's what makes it fun!

On a non-techie note, I want to wish a happy belated birthday to Ed, whose birthday was Friday, and a happy birthday to Libby, whose birthday is tomorrow.

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Posted by: Kathleen McGivney at: 11:57:44 AM
Location: Los Angeles, CA