If it’s Saturday, it must be Michigan…

Arrived mid-afternoonish at the Detroit airport yesterday, and was picked up by Jorge Castro, who’s helping out the Pengicon folks by being a wrangler for guests of honor at the show. Enjoyed some good conversation and heavy metal on the ride to the Penguicon hotel with Jorge and Ubuntu community manager Jono Bacon.

Enjoyed Jono’s talk last night, and then hung out with a couple of the guys from Ohio LinuxFest to talk about plans for this year’s OLF. More on that to come — I have been involved in OLF the past few years, and have been attending since 2005, and have a strong interest in seeing OLF continue to rock on.

Also enjoyed a Tesla Coil “concert” from the OLF room balcony. You just haven’t lived until you’ve witnessed a couple of ginormous Tesla coils cranking out tunes…

The vibe at Penguicon is a wee bit different than the usual Linux show. There’s also a major sci-fi contingent here, and it seems the programming runs 24/7.

I’ll be on a panel in a few minutes on “Linux for Casual Users,” and then I’ll be giving a talk on openSUSE at 6 p.m. in Ballroom A for those of you who happen to be at the show. Tomorrow, I give a talk on “10 Easy Steps to Becoming a Vim Expert,” assuming anyone is actually awake by noon to attend. Then it’s back to Florida for a few days before heading off to LinuxFest Northwest.

How’s your Saturday?

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