LUGRadio Live 2007
The hotel we stayed at this year was The York Hotel. It was really good, very nice staff and excellent rooms – compared to the The Fox, a back alley would have seemed like a palace, so at The York we felt like we were in heaven.
We were all chuffed when we got a big bag of free stuff at the door on Saturday. Cool things like OpenSolaris DVDs, Redhat fleeces, pens, a cool Google moleskin-style notebook and lots of other goodies.
There were some really interesting talks, such as Bungee Connect and Kamelia. Also, much respect to the Open Rights Group for all the good work they’ve done!
I spent a lot of time trying to play some Polarity and had a few people interested, especially when I started playing at a spare exhibitionists table. I got a few good games in.
I hung out with Cillian for most of Saturday evening. Being under legal age, the rather over-zealous security wouldn’t even allow him entry to the party and since I don’t drink I decided to stay with him and talk about various shit after playing some Polarity.
I spent about £200 on books (mostly MAKE magazine and some CRAFT for Dru) and a GP2X cradle (which has some annoying short-comings, such as no bundled power adapter and doesn’t actually fit the GP2X unless you remove the rubber bit attached to the EXT port on it).
I also remember talking to Aaron Seigo about KDE4 and from what he said he’s sold it to me enough to at least give it another go. I questioned him about the whole KIO-slave subsystem – which I have always had troubles with, but like any KDE guy I’ve ever talked too, my complaints were a mystery to him. Oh well, since so much has been redone, refactored, etc for KDE4 we’ll see what happens.
Alan Cox’s talk was pretty cool. It was nice to see one of the big kernel hackers in the flesh and see the unix-beardness 
To be honest, I can’t really remember much of what happened that weekend, my memory being what it is. I just remember that this years LUGRadio Live was pretty cool, though I couldn’t help but feel it wasn’t as good as last years. Maybe it’s because things went a little too smoothly – it just didn’t have the same get-together community atmosphere as last year, it felt a little too professional. I guess it was probably more down to the social ineptitude of all us geeks
Overall, it was awesome and the LUGRadio crew deserves tonnes of praise for the fantastic job they did.