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I ended up watching six videos from the conference, these being:
* [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=qOB6J4E53Hc David Eaves' interview on Saving Open Source Communities With Data]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2To8vEsDkOg Patrick Curran's Who Needs Standards?]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohHdZXnsNi8 Raffi Krikorian's Twitter: From Ruby on Rails to the JVM]
* [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]
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.
Out of the videos listed above I chose to analyze [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKmQW_Nkfk8 Steve Yegge], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOB6J4E53Hc David Eaves], and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2To8vEsDkOg Patrick Curran and David Eaves' s] videos. While the others were interesting, they turned out to be less about open source, and more so about specific software or projects (with the exception of Paul Fenwich's talk.) One in particular - Steven Harris' – - turned out to be exceptionally uninteresting. Being an Oracle employee, he rightly felt a little out of place at an open source conference, and hence spent his talk essentially explaining Oracle's position on open source, rather than discussing anything new or interesting.
==Steve Yegge in a talk entitled “What would you do with your own Google?”==