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Sun, Jun 5th 10:25am 2005: Conferences
Yes yes, I know, Ghosts was about 3 years ago and I haven't blogged anything since. After the Ghosts weekend I stayed on in beautiful Dunedin for a week with my family doing the tourist thing and didn't have much net access, then the morning after I got home I was thrown into several days of chaos while recovering a server from a compromise - built a whole new replacement machine, and had *that* compromised within 12 hours. Gah. And in the middle of that discovering I'd been nominated to present a talk at phpMelb on Thursday night, so I was doing talk preparation in the middle of everything else. I think the talk ended up going OK in the end, I managed to turn it from a 1-to-many presentation into a quite interesting many-to-many discussion so the audience ended up doing much of my work for me ;-) But it's all sorted now, so the daily stress levels are almost back down to normal. Anyway, back to Ghosts! Personally I think it went very well. The Dunedin team seem to be pretty tight - they've been good mates for a long time, they get on well, and they seem to "get" what LCA is all about. Since this was the first Ghosts I've attended I can't compare it, but the format seemed to work well. We started with a rough outline of topics to discuss and a Wiki for note-taking, and over the space of the 2 days lots of notes were added. A couple of times we split into 2 groups to discuss specific topics, with the groups reporting back a summary of the outcome. So by the end of the weekend the organising team had a pretty well sorted guide for what they need to cover. All up it looks like this is going to be a totally rockin LCA, and I can't wait :-) Go Mike!
Yes yes, I know, Ghosts was about 3 years ago and I haven't blogged anything since. After the Ghosts weekend I stayed on in beautiful Dunedin for a week with my family doing the tourist thing and didn't have much net access, then the morning after I got home I was thrown into several days of chaos while recovering a server from a compromise - built a whole new replacement machine, and had *that* compromised within 12 hours. Gah. And in the middle of that discovering I'd been nominated to present a talk at phpMelb on Thursday night, so I was doing talk preparation in the middle of everything else. I think the talk ended up going OK in the end, I managed to turn it from a 1-to-many presentation into a quite interesting many-to-many discussion so the audience ended up doing much of my work for me ;-) But it's all sorted now, so the daily stress levels are almost back down to normal. Anyway, back to Ghosts! Personally I think it went very well. The Dunedin team seem to be pretty tight - they've been good mates for a long time, they get on well, and they seem to "get" what LCA is all about. Since this was the first Ghosts I've attended I can't compare it, but the format seemed to work well. We started with a rough outline of topics to discuss and a Wiki for note-taking, and over the space of the 2 days lots of notes were added. A couple of times we split into 2 groups to discuss specific topics, with the groups reporting back a summary of the outcome. So by the end of the weekend the organising team had a pretty well sorted guide for what they need to cover. All up it looks like this is going to be a totally rockin LCA, and I can't wait :-) Go Mike!
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