Thursday
The show floor opened, and people came by all day; Marc and I were working in the booth, and some volunteers, too. Biella did a number of interviews with developers who were in town; lots of people stopped by our booth and asked questions about our cases.
I met some people from LinuxTag who knew Klaus Knopper and who gave me two CDs -- an "OpenMusic" audio CD and a LinuxTag conference CD based on the Knoppix distribution (which is astonishingly good, among the best software products I have ever seen).
I caught part of the conference presentation on lobbying, and then went to the Debian BOF session, in which people had a protracted argument. (I ducked out briefly to see the "Linux 10th Birthday Party" -- not to be confused with Linux10 -- which featured Linus Torvalds and was hosted by Maddog. I didn't actually stay around for the party, which was going on at the same time as the Debian BOF, but I did try both kinds of birthday cake.) After that, we walked out to 19th street and had a big group dinner at a very nice Indian restaurant there. I sat opposite Bradley Kuhn, a fellow left-handed vegetarian, and we ordered together (to get a $20 two-person dinner special). Don tried to figure out under what conditions a certain set of people, some of whom are vegetarian and some of whom are left-handed, can arrange themselves at a table so that no right-handed person sits to the left of a left-handed person, and no vegetarian sits opposite a non-vegetarian.
David Thompson from UW Madison made a kind offer to host the LNX-BBC download site on mirror.cs.wisc.edu, which I think we will take.
