{"id":219,"date":"2005-10-07T21:19:36","date_gmt":"2005-10-07T20:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=219"},"modified":"2005-10-07T21:19:36","modified_gmt":"2005-10-07T20:19:36","slug":"linuxworld-expo-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=219","title":{"rendered":"LinuxWorld Expo in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the second year running, I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk\/\">LinuxWorld Expo<\/a> at Olympia in London.  This was quite fun: and fortunately I managed to meet a few more people this year.<\/p>\n<p>When I arrived, the first person I found was Matt Bloch from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytemark.co.uk\/r\/equinox\">Bytemark Hosting<\/a> (this is the company this  and other sites I own are hosted with).  He&#8217;s a very friendly and helpful chap, and when he saw me, the first thing he said was &#8220;Oh, hello, I&#8217;ve upgraded your machine by the way&#8221;.  Which Was Nice.<\/p>\n<p>After touring the rest of the exhibitors and buying a soft-toy penguin (as instructed by a smaller member of the family), I bumped into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omahns-home.co.uk\/\">Omahn<\/a>: I hadn&#8217;t seen him since LUG Radio Live back in June, so it was good to have a natter.  We went along to the Great Linux Debate which was fairly entertaining: the panel included Mark &#8220;Ubuntu Spaceman&#8221; Shuttleworth, Klaus Knopper (of the Knoppix project), someone from Yahoo, Nick Veitch from LinuxFormat magazine and a very brave representative from Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>During the day, I also bumped into <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.randomlyevil.org.uk\/\">Bryn_S<\/a>, propping up the GNOME stand and a colleague of his gave me a very in-depth tour of GNOME 2.12.  Later I met Kat and David as well, but I had to head home before the after-expo drinks session kicked-in &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, last year there were some people dressed up as penguins.  Fairly reasonable for a Linux expo.  This year, however, there were no penguins.  There were daleks instead.  Giving out leaflets.  I have no idea why this was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second year running, I went to LinuxWorld Expo at Olympia in London. This was quite fun: and fortunately I managed to meet a few more people this year. When I arrived, the first person I found was Matt Bloch from Bytemark Hosting (this is the company this and other sites I own are&#8230;&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=219\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}