Organized

I’m back in Bangkok for a few hours with my family and then it’s the overnight train to Chiang Mai for a few days of outdoor activities with the students in the beautiful north of Thailand.

The FOSS.IN conference was amazing. I learned so much, including a lot of technical stuff, but at least five big ideas will stay with me:

1. Linux (especially Ubuntu) is easier to use than Windows or Vista;
2. Free software is big and getting bigger as it becomes more deeply enmeshed in the global network of commercial software;
3. For almost every commercial application available, there is a free and open source alternative;
4. The community of free and open source devotees is interesting, open-minded, polite, helpful, and very clever;
5. Hacking is lots of fun!

In the airport I met a German guy who had attended the conference. “How was it?” I asked. “Fantastic!” he said. “One of the best organized conferences I have been to.”

Imagine, a GERMAN using “organized” to describe INDIA!