The audience responses to FOSS Means Business were really
positive. Perens' delivery was as good as I expected, and the content
of his talk was better than I expected. I think everyone
liked him. To me, Stallman's talk did not seem well adapted to the
business audience, but all the comments I got afterward were
positive. There were a lot of "he actually had good
points", and many other comments with the word "actually"
in them.
Recordings of both should appear
online, but it will be a slow process unfortunately.
Organising FOSS Means
Business, I hit a lot of situations where free
software had to be explained to someone who didn't care too
much. I got more practice this evening when my uncle asked me what
I do. So I've started a new rewording of
the intro of my
homepage, using a new approach which talks about "a minimum
standard for rights for software users" - instead of mentioning
"free".
I met someone who hadn't heard of the Everyone Loves Eric
Raymond web comic, so I thought I should pass that link on.
Myself and others from IFSO had Sunday lunch with Fernanda Weiden of
FSFLA. We discussed organising some future events in Ireland.
Last thing: I didn't know there was free software speech synthesis
programs but today I found Festival and
Flite.
