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What was your favorite thing at OLF this year? 122 responses, some had multiple responses

• 49 People (meeting, being with, community, etc.)
  • I met some cool people and heard some good stories
  • I loved the diversity of attendees and how welcome it seemed everybody (including myself) felt there
  • I don't think I encountered one bad attitude all weekend
  • I love being with my own kind in an awesome atmosphere
  • Networking with like-minded people
  • Watching so many people so passionately involved

• 2 Volunteering/Helping out

• 6 pre-party
  • Nagios scored a BIG win (with the) endless drink tickets at the pre-party
  • The pre-party absolutely the best ever!
  • Meeting all the speakers at the Friday party

• 5 After-Party
  • Dual Core's Performance
  • Dual Core at the After party

• 3 Expo
  • BSD Stress balls!
  • Lanville

• 4 OLFU
  • Python for Sysadmins
  • Nagios class
  • LPIC Cram Session

• 1 UbuCon

• 6 Medical track
  • My girlfriend came with me this year and liked the medical track. She was not expecting to attend, but she is in medical billing and loved the speakers on Saturday

• 21 Speakers/General track
  • PyGTK for Beginners - Paul Frields (While not the "best" presentation, it was my favorite thing to learn.) (A 2nd person commented on this talk)
  • Getting to see an Arduino breathalyzer being (partially) assembled as the "Don't Copy that Floppy" rap played in the background
  • Nagios talk
  • Balog's Open Source Business talk (2nd person commented on this talk)
  • IPV6 talk
  • I thought it was cool that there were so many women speakers
  • Good selection of speakers
  • Very much liked the presentations I attended
  • Variety of topics, some more technical, some less. Nice mix.
  • Both hearing a good security talk and learning about IPv6
  • Good mix of talks
  • I really liked the Intro to Video Editing, makes me want to give it a try. (2 other people commented on this talk)
  • Getting the opportunity to speak
  • Thought-provoking presentations
  • Quality of most of the talks
  • Stormy Peter's Keynote
  • As always, the talks!
  • More topics relevant to the IT professional

• 1 OSSS

• 9 maddog's talk(s)
  • He's always a great source for perspective and inspiration
  • I wish he had more time to speak

• 2 Raffle
  • Chance to win some nice prizes

• Generic/Misc:
  • Everything
  • My lovely wife got me a supporter package
  • The variety of tracks and presentations was good
  • Information
  • This has been the best IT conference I've attended so far
  • The topic selection was good. In years past conference topics tended toward beginner/evangelizing. It was good to see this year that the topics also included things for Administrators/Developers. PLEASE continue to consider the wide audience that OLF attracts and try to provide topics for everyone.
  • The free gifts in the tote bag
  • The Friday lunch rocked
  • Too many great things to pick just one
  • This year's t-shirt
  • The staff