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I ended up watching six videos from the conference, these being:
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohHdZXnsNi8 Raffi Krikorian's Twitter: From Ruby on Rails to the JVM]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKmQW_Nkfk8 Steve Yegge's What would you do with your own Google?]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnX5v0uwNjc Paul Fenwich's All Your Brains Suck - Known Bugs and Exploits in Wetware]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDlsJF52iKY Steven Harris' Open Source, Java, and Oracle - Cracking the Code]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2To8vEsDkOg Patrick Curran's Who Needs Standards?]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOB6J4E53Hc David Eaves' interview on Saving Open Source Communities With Data]]
My overall impression of the conference from these and some press release articles and blog posts were quite positive. Most of the speakers held interesting positions and brought good topics to the table. There seemed to be a fair bit of excitement around the conference itself, given its reputation. Its history shows that it was founded in 1999, as a successor to 'The Perl Conference' from 1997, and hence has a well known stature.