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The presentations ended up getting too overly technical at some points however and as a result their messages ended up going over my head, though in the case of the Popcorn presentation, the technical components were quite welcome as it gave me additional insight into how to implement the slideshow player.  As to how my impressions of open source has changed after going to FSOSS it’s hard to say, I know that there is quite a bit of open source projects out there but I’ve often held the impression that the vast majority of those projects consisted of small scale stand alone projects that people implemented in their free time either as an academic exercise or just for the sheer fun of coding an application; with only a small minority of large complex projects out there. FSOSS was an eye opener in that I realize that there are far more large complex projects out there and that these projects are highly ambitious in what they hope to accomplish. Anas’ Drupal translator itself would lift a great deal of the restrictions on what content one can view on the internet by providing a means to read and understand sites written in languages that the reader is unfamiliar with, while Jordan, Anthony and Jon’s presentation on ARM based server farms provides the know how that would enable just about anyone to setup their own server farm without having to spend tens of thousands of dollars on both the actual hardware and on maintaining it.