I’m a bit behind on a number of posts (as well as a few things in the Real World). I still need to post a few more pictures from the westward travel, for example. I came back and have been moving fast ever since getting students bootstrapped on summer research. I’ll have to point to their work in another post—I’m very excited about all of the projects they’re working on.
In the meantime, I can relate a bizarre experience I had while on my travels. While headed east, I was asked if I could give a talk as part of the opensource.com Open Your World forum. “That’s cool,” I thought, but I wasn’t about to cancel my travel. As it turns out, it was a webinar, and that meant I could “phone in” my talk.
Because I was traveling, I didn’t have time to give a presentation in my typical highly visual style. Instead, I had one content slide (an outline), which (given the travel) was about all I could put together. On the day of the talk series, I got up early (I was on mountain time), dialed in, and gave my talk. Personally, I thought it was a hoot, and was proud to have been included in the webinar series. Many thanks to John, Max, and the others at Red Hat who made it possible.
An overview post is up at opensource.com, and you can grab the audio from the series here. There were a number of great speakers, and I’m working on listening to the ones I missed.