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== General Impression ==
The presentations ended were quite well done and were overall easy to grasp and understand though they did end up getting too overly technical at some points however and as a result their messages what they were saying ended up going over my head. 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.
== Conclusion ==
I have to admit, I did end up attending the FSOSS event somewhat begrudgingly. I had gone into study week with far more than enough work to keep me occupied and the prospect of having to spend the next few hours attending an event rather than finishing up my work or more preferably catching up on some much needed sleep wasn’t something that I wasn’t to crazy with. In retrospect though I am glad that I went, that event opened up a new level of understanding of what kinds of open source projects are out there that I can, hopefully someday, participate in once I get a bit more time on my hands. Here’s looking forward to FSOSS 2012, hopefully I won’t be so swamped with work that I can participate on all three days.