Monday
Duncan and I got to see a little bit of the setup phase. I was impressed by the lack of security associated with registration for badges: to get a speaker badge, I just had to give my name (and no other information); to get an exhibitor badge, I just had to mention an exhibitor (and no other information). It's probably just as well, because I didn't have any photo ID.
That was an issue earlier in the day Monday, when I went to the Hall of Justice and was told that I couldn't get an amplified sound permit without having government-issued photo ID. I have none -- so I couldn't get an amplified sound permit.
(I wonder if you have to be a U.S. citizen/permanent resident to apply for those permits. This gets back to the nature of non-citizens' free speech rights, which has seemed to me to be an embarrassingly weak corner of U.S. civil liberties legal history. I think Gwen has been looking into this recently.)
The LWCE speakers' room had good food, all the time, for speakers; I hear the press room had the same, for the press. We also saw some people there, like Chris DiBona.
