Tom Martin

Just got back home after my flight back from Manchester. I'm very tired, but I'll do my best to scribble down a few things. I apologise for not having any photographs, but there is a video/DVD in the pipeline.

Rob Holland (tigger^) gave a great talk on code auditing, in particular with doxygen and his work with that. The slides were a bit rough and ready (hehe), but it was excellently presented nonetheless. He didn't even swear once.

Stephen Bennett (spb) showed me and a few other people Gentoo/FreeBSD with the Gentoo init script system. Really quite impressive.

Daniel Drake (dsd) presented the kernel and user-relations projects. I think the talk will help a lot of users to report better bugs in the future, and maybe even George will sort out his DMA access now.

My talk was really rather scary for me and I was quite nervous (and unprepared!); I think it went fairly well though. The Zsh demo at the end seemed to get a few oohs and aahs.

Harry Moyes, a guest speaker from manchesterwireless.net, gave a talk on the process of setting up a charity in the UK, and the details thereof.

Also thanks to Gareth Bult for his talk on Flash Linux. It was really informative, and it looks like a very useful and interesting Gentoo-based distribution.

Thanks to the organisers, Stuart Herbert (Stuart) and Reuben Finch (grumpydog), for putting so much time and effort into the event. I'm looking forward to next year very much :).

you can find my talk in both LaTeX and PDF on my devspace. Compilation to any format other than PDF probably won't work (you'll need app-text/tetex or similar and dev-tex/latex-beamer at least, and also I would recommend dev-tex/rubber)