Heading North to fosscon.

Tomorrow afternoon we'll begin our drive (about 5 hours) up to fosscon along with a few others from Philadelphia. Last time we made such a trip was SELF last year (we went to CPOSC too, but we took the train) and it was quite a bit of fun.

I believe we still have room for one on our return trip only, so if you find a way to get there but not home let me know!

The conference is being opened by members of BaseKamp, located in Philadelphia. BaseKamp presents a completely different view of open source culture, going beyond free software and into free arts and culture. Just the other night they did a great session on free art session.

I'm personally looking forward to the POSSE panel, where a group of educators who have just completed a week long POSSE course (http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_RIT) on how to use open source in their classrooms will share with everyone what they learned.

I'm also looking forward to meeting Bryan Østergaard (http://kloeri.livejournal.com/), coming all the way from Denmark to talk about how to build a developer community around a project. All in all it should be great.

If you aren't already coming, take a look at http://fosscon.org/ to see whats what, and maybe to come along.