Ontario Linuxfest: The conference
We just got back from the conference. Wow, what a great day!
I took more than 100 pictures.
maddog gave a keynote similar to his talk at Ohio Linuxfest, so I think I’ll have all the slides between the two presentations.
Of particular interest to me was the talk on open formats. The presenter is the guy who implemented all of the import and export formats for Gnumeric, an open-source spreadsheet program that is a part of GNOME. He basically said that the ODF vs OOXML argument is silly, and that open source people should be advocating open office suites such as OpenOffice.org, KOffice, and GNOME’s office programs (Gnumeric, Abiword, Gnome-DB). He said that Microsoft is doing a very good thing in releasing the specs for its format, and that we wishes that ODF was subjected to the kind of scrutiny that OOXML has endured. I’ll write more on this in my write-up; I took pics of all the slides and made a lot of notes because his argument was so well-developed and his experience so deep that he is really quite authoritative.
We’re headed out now to get some sushi at a nearby Japanese bistro, then we’re headed to the after-party at the Toronto Congress Centre, the same location as the conference.
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