Slackathon 2006

Today I attended the OpenBSD fund-raiser, Slackathon 2006, at Stockholm University. Since I arrived a bit late, 3 hours after it started, I didn’t attend all the talks/presentations. But I did listen to Hans Insulander about OpenBSD development in general and Måns Nilsson on DNSSEC and his work to implement it at KTHNOC, both were very interesting. KTHNOC manages SUNET and NORDUNET, SUNET is the swedish network for universities, lots of bandwidth and usage. Måns Nilsson is a great speaker and his presentation was great. I got a good overview how an DNSSEC-implementation could look like… pretty complex compared to ordinary DNS. :-)

I didn’t socialize that much, since well… I’m a lazy slacker. I left pretty early to work and didn’t attend the dinner. But it was a very nice event, hope something similar will be organized next year. It would be cool with a hackathon combined slackathon, were we users and newbies could attend and “Learn from the masters”. I don’t mean the completly clueless, but like for example: You write a patch for OpenBSD, but since you’re not a regular contributor you don’t really know how to write code that fits in the base. Then you could go through the patch with a “developer”, getting the tips and pointers directly. And hopefully an event like that would produce better code and maybe even some new commiters. =)

(More photos here)

I have to say I’m very pleased with my MacBook, this was my first little adventure with it and it has nothing but impressed me. Battery time is great, the sleep function “just works” and the screen is working really good even with some direct sun light. I did some Rails-development on the way from Norrtälje to Stockholm, and I’m writing this on my way back. Great notebook for work!