I will be streaming live from my Android phone at OSCon this Tuesday and Wednesday.  This will be a first for me, so it should be pretty fun.  I downloaded an app from the Android Marketplace called Qik, then signed up for an account at Qik.com.  When I press the start button on my Android phone it starts streaming to my blog seconds later.  I notice a little lag between the audio and video sometimes, but nothing too bad.  This should definitely make blogging on trips more fun.

It is 6pm PST, I am back in California, yet I am still operating on Malay Time. My brain says it’s 9am Saturday morning. I feel a little dizzy. I was only able to get about 3 and a half hours of sleep early this morning. For some reason I just can’t shake the jet lag. I’m sure it’ll get better after the iX company picnic tomorrow.

Malay Time is the term we used on our trip to describe the laid back and relaxed manner in which the Malay people operate. I found it to be nice at times, but also frustrating when trying to get something done quickly. Everything thing was done with care and much attention to detail, which caused simple activities like ordering a burger or checking in/out of the Hotel to take much longer than expected.

We joked all week about Malay Time, and how it’s even more laid back in Hawaii. It made for a nice relaxing trip, for most of us .

Overall, my experience in Malaysia was a positive one. I loved the food, which is good, because they eat about 5 times a day, minimum. The portions for drinks were on the light side, but being an overweight American male, I let it slide. The people were wonderful, welcoming, and quick to make friends. We took a lot of pictures and videos, so I will be posting more stories of my trip as my jet lag wears off. Stay tuned.

So we’ve been promoting BSD here in Malaysia for the entire week.   It’s been really fun, the people here are really embracing open source, and it’s been exciting showing them that there are alternatives to linux.

I have to admit, I am exhausted.  I think my body has decided that it should be back on USA time and that I’m trying to be awake at 3am or something.

The people here have been friendly, and I am really looking forward to this conference running again next year.

That’s right, PC-BSD is going to Malaysia!
Matt Olander, CTO of iXsystems will be speaking on how to “survive an economic downturn using PC-BSD and open source software”. The conference will be held at the Berjaya Times Square Hotel & Convention Center in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. The conference website states the following:

Positioned as [an] International forum for sharing and exchanging ideas on technical advancements, applications, development and business cases on open source, and its positive impact in meeting challenges of the current economic climate. (www.mscmalaysia.my)

Sounds like a great conference to showcase the infinite potential of PC-BSD, I can’t wait!

We will be flying out of SFO in about 12 hours, I’ll keep you posted when we land.

The third annual LinuxFest NW was held at Bellingham Technical College again this year. Denise and I manned the FreeBSD / PC-BSD booths and had a great time demonstrating the new Galileo Edition of PC-BSD. I was surprised at the amount of BSD enthusiasts that came to LinuxFest NW. I wonder why so many shows are Linux-centric. LinuxWorld caught on and renamed their show to OpenSourceWorld; let’s hope to see more of that in the future!

Our booth was next to the folks behind Mer Linux, a linux distro for mobile devices based on Ubuntu. They also demonstrated Linux on the Wii for fun. Everyone came to our booth for the horns, but left with a DVD, a t-shirt, and some stickers as well. We passed out all of our horns, Galileo Edition DVDs, and even some Fibonacci Edition DVDs.

The first day of the show 778 people were in attendance, which means we will need far more DVDs and horns for LinuxFest next year…