OSCON: Day 0
Roughly two hours ago I found my hotel after wandering the streets of downtown Portland and registered at OSCON. It’s official, I’m here. I got my sweet OSCON bag, badge, and free O’Reilly book. I’m typing this from the convention’s free, open wifi. Geeks roam the halls and elevators of the hotel freely, many of them terribly unsure of just what they’re doing.
Tomorrow I have two tutorials, “Object Oriented Programming with PHP5” and “Subversion: Version Control Rethought“, both of which will be incredibly interesting. This being my first conference, though, I’m unsure how attendance works in these early days. There’s a decent amount of people here for the conference already, even though the first two days are just tutorials. I assume that come Tuesday evening, the geek population will explode, consuming everything within a two block radius.
So far it’s fun, in a this-is-all-new-to-me kinda way. Hopefully tomorrow I’ll get to know some interesting people and learn some fascinating things. In the meantime, I’ll continue to sit here and laugh, watching people try and find registration. It’s hard.
P.S. I’ve taken some pictures already. Nothing interesting. At all.
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