The first day of LugRadio Live was a blast — arrived at the Metreon bright and early to set up the booth and check in about 8 a.m. The LRL staff were already there setting up, and were amazingly cheerful at such an obscene hour of the morning. (All the more remarkable, given the fact that I understand most of the staff were out quite late the night before.)

The atmosphere is markedly different for LRL than most community shows I’ve been to. It’s every bit as friendly — but it’s a little less techish, a little more Lollapallooza. We set up booths with a soundtrack of AC-DC and other assorted loud music, and the entire show had a bit of a festival feel to it. The organizers have done a fantastic job, and I hope the U.S. version becomes a regular thing. (Though I wouldn’t mind going to the UK for LRL either…)

I spent most of the day at the openSUSE booth, handing out the Banshee shirts we made up for the show in honor of Banshee’s pending 1.0 release and Aaron Bockover’s talk at LRL yesterday. If you’ve heard rumors about Mr. Bockover running about the show in his skivvies, I’m afraid that — yes — they are true. No, I don’t have pictures — I’m still trying to get the image out of my head, actually — but I’m sure someone does.

Banshee t-shirt

I also gave a talk in the, shall we say cozy, Lightning talks room. Some people may have trouble giving a talk in 30 minutes or less, but I didn’t have any trouble squeezing the topic (World Domination through Marketing: Learning How to Promote Open Source Projects) into 30 minutes.

After the show, and a short break so folks could recove, there was a Google-sponsored shindig at Jillian’s, which is attached to the Metreon. It seemed like lots of folks turned up, and were having quite a good time. We’ll see how good this morning.

Today’s the last day of the show, unfortunately. I hope to catch John Buckman’s talk on Magnatune, and I would also recommend catching Ilan Rabinovitch’s talk on BytesFree in the Lightning room if you’re here and you have time. If you’re in the San Francisco area, drop what you’re doing to day (if you weren’t already headed to LRL…) and join us!

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