Got back from Penguicon late last night, and I’m digging into the email that’s accumulated over the past few days…

Penguicon is definitely not your average Linux show. It’s a little bit Linux, a little bit sci-fi, and a lot of carrying on. On Sunday, I did a presentation on Vim and a few folks in the audience asked if I’d make the slides available — so here they are as a PDF. 

A big thanks to Aaron Thul and the Penguicon folks for the invite! Penguicon was run exceptionally well, and that’s no small task for a show that brings together such a disparate group of people and topics. The logistics for booking all the various speakers (”Nifties,” and “Guests of Honor” for the keynote-types) has to be insane, but it all came together really well.

I had a great time at the show, had the opportunity to talk to a lot of people about openSUSE and Linux in general (and Vim, always one of my favorite topics…), and got to meet (very briefly) John Scalzi (an excellent sci-fi author), Randall Munroe of xkcd fame, Webcomic author Jennie Breeden and nerdcore rappers Dual Core. It pleases me greatly to know that there’s such a thing as geek rap.

Anyway, I’m very glad that I made the trip — it was a great time, and I hope to be invited back next year.

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