On Aug 4, 2005, at 11:06 AM, Phil Tomson wrote:

>
> Last night in Portland we had a very good turnout for FOSCON (the Free
> Open Source Convention).  Speakers included:
>  - David Heinemeier Hansson (Rails)
>  - Rich Kilmer (Flash integration with Rails)
>  - Glenn Vanderburg (Ruby and MetaProgramming)
>  - Why the lucky stiff (Music, shadow puppets, audience participation
> via drb, Rubyfun, animated Least Surprised)
>
> Why's performance is hard to describe.  Suffice it to say he had us  
> all
> in stitches.  I think he's really on to something with this drb/irb
> audience participation thing. At a greedier venue patents would be
> filed. This will no doubt set the trend in interactive  
> presentations for
> years to come.  Perhaps the end of PowerPoint is near. The age of
> mixed-media drb-enabled shadow puppets is here.
>
> Pictures can be found here:
> http://flickr.com/photos/tags/foscon/
>
> A small writeup and another picture (the one in the center) can be  
> found
> here:
> http://rubyurl.com/VhbaO
>
> Phil
>
Yes _why's presentation was _very_ original :-) I loved it!   Modulaise!
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