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POSSE Rides With Linus during OSCON 72

Posted by Zonk from the see!-the-oss-folks-in-action dept.
amountlad writes "In addition to other activities like FOSCON happening outside of the "official" OSCON this week in Portland, Oregon, N4N.org is running a story and photos of the OSU/OTBC/POSSE party Thursday night. From Linus and IBM's Dan Frye to the OSU's Open Source Lab director and Open Technology Business Center founder LaVonne Reimer - Bar 71 was hopping as the N4N coverage details in word and images. The event was a joint effort by local OSS organizations POSSE (Portland OSS Entrepreneurs), the OTBC (Open Technology Business Center) and Oregon State University's OSL (Open Source Lab.)"
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  • Portland is SO .org! (Score:5, Interesting)

    by linuxbaby ( 124641 ) * on Saturday August 06, 2005 @12:51AM (#13256321)
    I moved CD Baby [cdbaby.com] from New York to Portland Oregon in 2000, and I'm more impressed than ever with the cool tech community here.

    If California is .com, Portland is .org in every way.

    From the INCREDIBLY cool FreeGeek [freegeek.org] ("helping the needy get nerdy") - to the active Portland Linux/Unix Group [pdxlinux.org] to the Portland Ruby Brigade [pdxruby.org] that put together the FOSCON mentioned in the OP - Portland has some great geeky stuff going on.

    A few months back, I ran the exact same Craigslist help-wanted ad, looking for a great programmer for a well-paying job, in both Portland and Los Angeles Craigslist at the same time. (The job could be done from either Portland or Los Angeles.) The Portland ad was answered by about 30 brilliant programmers, all working on interesting things and seemed to be doing it for love more than money. The Los Angeles ad was answered by a couple clueless numnuts. I love Los Angeles for other reasons, but this was a telling experience.

    No sales tax. Great public transportation. More hybrid cars per-capita [wweek.com] than anywhere. Kennedy School [mcmenamins.com]. Free wireless broadband covers the entire city. A damn good place to live and work. And not a single tourist attraction.

    • Re:Portland is SO .org! (Score:4, Interesting)

      by danpbrowning ( 149453 ) on Saturday August 06, 2005 @01:11AM (#13256399)
      And not a single tourist attraction.

      You mean the tourists don't come here to see our rain? I love Portland, too. We seem to have an abundance of great user groups. The Portland Perl Mongers [pm.org] is a great group for us Perl-lovers (and includes several Perl celebrities). The Rose City Astronomers [rca-omsi.org] are a really neat group of people if you enjoy looking up at night.

      The recent interview with Linus Torvalds reveals a little bit about what is so attractive about this place. I've traveled a little, but there's no place like home.

      • The best thing about Portland is that it has virtually no nightlife. Hang out in the very heart of downtown after about 10:00PM on most any day of the year and all you'll run across is the random shopper wrapping things up for the evening or the Blazer fan heading home on MAX. By about 11:00PM, the cleaning trucks come out and hose everything down and empty all the trash and it's dead silent. The very VERY best things are the annual Governor Tom McCall Waterfront Park Pepsi Rose Festival killings that invar
    • Of course, there's state tax and county tax. Gas is expensive. Businesses get it in the ass from the business-unfriendly city hall. And don't even get anyone started talking about "the fourth layer of government" (aka METRO).

      A Native, but by no means suffering from the delusion that it's a wonderful magical place. Especially when those fucking Critical Mass assholes decide it's time to cause trouble, some fucking hippy wanted by the FBI makes his own on a downtown city billboard and the mayor is too wussy t
      • She wasn't blind!

        If you read the article, you'll see that she had a prosthetic eye.

        Just more slashdot jibberjabber.

        PORTLAND -- A legally blind and partially disabled woman is suing the Portland Police Bureau over claims of police brutality Eunice Crowder (pictured) says four officers roughed her up and threw her to the ground on June 9. The officers were called when she reportedly refused to allow city workers to clean up yard debris. The 71-year-old says she was hit with pepper spray and stung by a

      • On behalf of "those fucking Critical Mass assholes" (of which I'm not one, but support on principle):

        please treat yourself to a giant bowl of lukewarm dicks, fuckwad.

        I will agree with you on the other paragraphs though ;X

        xo

        • As someone who routinely commutes to work on a bike, I resent the way a lot of people behave at the Critical Mass events for the same reason people with valid peaceful protests hate those who show up just to instigate conflict with the police and break windows.

          Bikers are fine. It's one of the best things about Portland. I've seen groups of bikers at events act irresponsibly and like petty children - like it's their free shot at pissing off everyone else on the streets which is absurd considering how most of
          • Well said,

            I took your statement in the wrong way initially. Having just gotten home from the bar, i was browsing /. and got a little fired up imagining you to be a SUV driving maniac pissing on the bike crowd, my bad for the knee-jerk reaction. Thanks for the cool-headed reply and the show of class in the face of my initial response.

            xo

            • While i appreciate the mod's rewarding of my apology, why the hell did I get modded up for this when the parent did not? That was serious class on his/her part considering the level of discourse common in this community. Please please reward that if anything. Thank you.

      • Gas is expensive on the left coast, plain and simple. PDXrs complain about $2.30-$2.40/gal gas, but it only gets more expensive the further south or north from PDX you go (yes, been both ways in the last month, PDX->Sunny Ego, PDX->Bellingham, WA).

        Traffic is bad, but doesn't compare to Seattle, Chicago, San Diego/LA.

        If you don't like Multnomah County's tax, it's not too hard to move away from that, but still be "in Portland". Move up to Vancouver like everyone else, for example.

        If you've never lived a
    • Well, our offices [concretecms.com] are situated above the Shanghai Tunnels; although to call that a tourist attraction is probably stretching it a bit. Do people come here to see the sprawling Nike campus? Maybe...but again, probably doubtful.

      Oh, and no mention of nerd friendly Portland would be complete without including Stumptown Coffee [stumptowncoffee.com], which is required sustenance for the first half of any workday, or some of Portland's outstanding [widmer.com] breweries [bridgeportbrew.com], which are necessary for the afternoon.
    • No sales tax. Great public transportation. More hybrid cars per-capita than anywhere. Kennedy School. Free wireless broadband covers the entire city. A damn good place to live and work.

      Don't encourage people to move here. Oregon is full and unemployment is bad enough without more Californians moving up here and fucking it up that much worse.

      And not a single tourist attraction.

      Did you somehow miss:

      • The world's largest city park (Forest Park)
      • The world's smallest city park (Telegraph Park)
      • The world'
      • Don't encourage people to move here. Oregon is full and unemployment is bad enough without more Californians moving up here and fucking it up that much worse.

        So first you tell people not to move here and then you go on to extoll Portland's virtues...

        732 Evergreen, Lake Oswego (Childhood home of Matt Groening, house was inspiration for The Simpsons house of the same address in Springfield

        I don't think it's in Lake Oswego, otherwise how did he go to LHS and Ainsworth? It's in NW Portland. In fact you can fi
        • So first you tell people not to move here and then you go on to extoll Portland's virtues...

          No, tourists tend to be obnoxious bastards, and tourist attractions attract tourists. Anybody living in a touristy city (Victoria, BC; Portland, OR; Bonner's Ferry, ID; Banff, AB; etc) can tell you tourists aren't anything you want to live near in large quantity.

          I don't think it's in Lake Oswego, otherwise how did he go to LHS and Ainsworth? It's in NW Portland.

          I was thinking the wrong part of town because I

      • Although I'd hardly place Widmer in the top of Portland brews...

        A Texan, a Californian, and Oregonian are out riding horses. The Texan pulls out an expensive bottle of whiskey, takes a long draught, then another and suddenly throws it into the air, pulls out his gun and shoots the bottle in midair.

        The Californian looks at him and says, "What are you doing? That was a perfectly good bottle of whiskey!"

        The Texan says, "In Texas, there is plenty of whiskey and the bottles are cheap."

        A while later, not wanting
      • Quick Correction, Portland doesn't have the smallest city partk, Salem (the capital city, about 50miles south) does.) Waldo park near the state capital includes a Tree, and a sign. Technically, not even the dirt between the two is part of the park..
        • The tree in Waldo Park alone is many times the size of Telegraph Park, which is 14" in diameter on the median of OR-43/Naito Parkway somewhere around Ash or Oak street (can't remember which).
        • Well, the original post was wrong. Telegraph Park isn't the smallest park. But, neither is Salem's Waldo Park. Portland's Mill [answers.com] Ends [wikipedia.org] Park [portland.or.us] is. At a whopping 452 square inches, it is too small to even hold a tree.

          (I was going to have a link to the Guiness World Records page on it, but their site is a little wonky right now, and their search seems to be borked. So Answers.com will have to suffice in its place.)

          And about Portland being so .org. . . I'm part of that, as my own personal [hurtley.org] domain is a .org! As

    • Re:Portland is SO .org! (Score:4, Insightful)

      by Black Art ( 3335 ) on Saturday August 06, 2005 @02:18AM (#13256597)
      And not a single tourist attraction.

      What about Powell's [powells.com]?
    • Good beer and Powell's Isn't considered a "tourist attraction"?

    • If anyone wants a better explanation of what Free Geek does, read The Official Free Geek Web Page [dyndns.info]

    • I live in Portland too. But I don't necessarily think it's all it's cracked up to be.

      Firstly, the weather. I love the rain. I love the wind. I love the snow. I love the majority of the year. But these summers have got go. That temperature gauge should never cross the line of 84 F.

      The people. There are some seriously mentally ill people here. They're not coming back from beyond the bend. There's all the young punks and their dogs, the shoplifting and violent addicts all over the place. I lived in San Fr

    • Heh, CD Baby actually appeared in a photo during the N4N coverage of Free Geek's Geek Fair:

      http://www.news4neighbors.net/article.pl?sid=05/07 /16/2356238 [news4neighbors.net]

      Glad to have you in town :-)

  • The UK's got OHUKON (Score:2, Informative)

    by TGIFF ( 905536 )
    Linus frequents it regularly. OHUKON [overheardintheuk.com]...

  • What is this article about??? (Score:4, Funny)

    by cide1 ( 126814 ) on Saturday August 06, 2005 @12:57AM (#13256340) Homepage
    All these TLA's are making me think WTF, but as long as I can get the 10-4, I'll be A-OK. AFAIK, all we need is a FAQ, and then I can forget this 404.

  • Acronyms (Score:4, Funny)

    by NilObject ( 522433 ) on Saturday August 06, 2005 @01:00AM (#13256349)
    I looked at the article summary and all my eyes glazed over. I mean:

    FOSCON ... OSCON ... N4N.org ... OSU/OTBC/POSSE ... IBM's ... OSU's ... N4N ... OSS ... POSSE ... OSS ... OTBC ... OSL ..."


    Ow! I need some aspirin!

    • Re:Acronyms (Score:3, Funny)

      by RLiegh ( 247921 ) *
      I looked over the article and saw that linus is stuck running around with a bunch of suits from IBM and a crowd of mini-ESRs from some obscure OSS club. Poor linus, I bet it's during mind-numbing parties like those that he wishes he'd have heard of 386BSD back when he was considering hitting 'send' on that fateful usenet post!
      • The only thing mind-numbing at this party was the amount of beer I drank. And then the next party brought that numbness to an even greater level, and then...

      • Re:Acronyms (Score:3, Informative)

        by Black Art ( 3335 )
        Actually Linus spent most of his time playing pool in the back. (Where there was some vestige of air conditioning. It was over 90 degrees outside.) He seemed to be enjoying himself. It was not just a bunch of fawning nerds. (How you could tell from only two pictures, I don't know...) Linus is pretty shy around "fans". The main bulk of the party crowd stayed over by the alcohol and food and left Linus alone. (Many of them did not seem to even know he was there.) The crowd seemed to be about 70% men an

  • Wow. (Score:1, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Linus Torvalds has a posse!

  • I was at the party (Score:3, Interesting)

    by jbdodson ( 815746 ) on Saturday August 06, 2005 @01:15AM (#13256414) Homepage
    I work for OpenSourcery(http://www.opensourcery.com/ [opensourcery.com] a member of POSSE. I talked to Linus, he was a nice guy, damn good pool player. I posted my view of the evening, and my best recollection of my conversation with Linus(http://cs.georgefox.edu/~jdodson/getArchive. php?gettedDate=20050805094736 [georgefox.edu]), I talked to him about some Kernel stuff, etc. I was a bit starstruck, oh well, it happens.

  • So it's true... (Score:3, Informative)

    by potpie ( 706881 ) on Saturday August 06, 2005 @01:49AM (#13256515) Journal
    ...Linus Torvalds really does have a posse. [p.lodz.pl]
  • Your decision as to when what should be acronymed and not is bizarre, so I thought I'd tidy it up a bit more for you:

    PERFECTED
    "In addition to other activities like FOSCON happening outside of the "official" OSCON this week in Portland, OR, N4N.org is running a story and photos of the OSU/OTBC/POSSE party Thursday night. From Linus and IBM's Dan Frye to the OSU's OSLD and OTBC founder LaVonne Reimer - Bar 71 was hopping as the N4N coverage details in word and images. The event was a joint effort by local OS
    • While I'll grant that we're a bit overrun with acronym's here in Portland, all you've done is confuse matters by turning the OSL into the OSLD - which is the only possible way to make it more confused with the OSDL (that's the Open Source Development Lab, where Linus works).

      Happily we've got acronym problems because we've got so much happening in town, there are worse problems to have :-)
  • Why does a LINUX story have Comedy and Tragedy as it's icon?
    • Why does a LINUX story have Comedy and Tragedy as it's icon?
      Because that alphabet soup up there is so funny, but its a tragedy nobody can read it without falling asleep. cmon zonk, acronym overload there. Isn't your job to edit not rubberstamp?
  • Check out the FOSCON slideshow [flickr.com].

    Why the lucky stiff's [hobix.com] performance which included his own animations, shadow puppets, and an inside look at a meeting of the Ruby cabal The Least Surprised [whytheluckystiff.net] was hilarious.

  • OMG!!!! (Score:2, Funny)

    by speck ( 29023 )
    Wow, Linus was at a party! Stop the presses! The whole world must know about this development, NOW!

  • Correction of Revolution OS Story (Score:4, Informative)

    by Bruce Perens ( 3872 ) <bruce@perens.com> on Saturday August 06, 2005 @09:02AM (#13257506) Homepage Journal
    After I left HP, HP negotiated a non-agression pact with Microsoft. One of the results of this is that Microsoft required HP to edit the cover of the version of Revolution OS that HP distributed to remove the slashed-cirle containing a Windows logo and my photo on the DVD jacket. As far as I'm aware, the internal content is unchanged.

    Bruce

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