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What was the best speaker/talk this year? 132 responders, many people gave multiple answers.

General tracks

  • 2 7 Habits of Ineffective Mgrs (Smith)
  • 1 Command line Magic (Krenz)
  • 1 Configuration Management with Chef (Willis)
  • 5 Cross Developing for Consoles (SIGFlup)
  • 1 Documentation Syntax (Campbell)
  • 2 Glorious Failures in FOSS & Education (Chua)
  • 1 Hacker Public Radio
  • 6 IPV6 (Otte)
    • The most helpful (talk), personally
  • 8 Kdenlive (keyes)
    • Not only informative, but instructive - definitely best one I attended
  • 1 Linux Security Myth (Maco)
  • 1 Merging Authentication (Szymczak)
    • The most informative talk
  • 11 Now They Own You (Heiland)
    • Excellent speaker and provided a lot of great information
    • Learned something new, and saw examples of what he was talking about
  • 10 Open Source Biz (Balog)
    • Standout presentation
    • The most helpful and informative to me
    • The best talk of the day
  • 1 Origin of Open Source (Woodman)
  • 2 PC-BSD (lavigne)
    • Love her enthusiasm and knowledge
  • 2 Perl & Arduino (Blackwell)
    • Lots of good fodder for my brain
  • 3 PyGTK (Frields)
  • 5 SELinux (Nalley)
    • It will probably be the most applicable topic for me for the near future
  • 5 Sikuli (Devlin)
    • Of all the presentations that I saw, I think (this) was the best
  • 2 Ubuntu on ARM (Mandala)


Keynotes

  • 389308 Maddog (I gave up counting: most people didn't differentiate between friday & saturday and at least half mentioned him)
  • 6 Stormy
  • 6 Monty
    • It is truly an honor to have been able to listen to someone so high-standing in his field speak at the conference.


Med Track

  • 1 Comparing OS Medical Records (Trotter)
    • The best for me
  • 1 Electronic Medical Revolution (Rose)
    • Very interesting
  • 4 OSCAR (Chan)
    • Quite good
  • 1 Virtual medicine (Barbash)
  • 1 Medical track (general)

OSSS

  • 7 Asterisk (Todd)
    • Very good speaker
    • Presentation was really tight
  • 8 Irrelevance of the Desktop (HP - robb)
  • 4 Nagios (galstad)
  • 1 Zenoss (ray)

Other

  • 2 Ubucon
  • 1 person "Obstain"ed.
  • 1 person liked "the keynote".