{"id":47,"date":"2007-07-08T20:10:32","date_gmt":"2007-07-08T20:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/08\/lug-radio-live-07\/"},"modified":"2007-07-08T20:10:32","modified_gmt":"2007-07-08T20:10:32","slug":"lug-radio-live-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/lug-radio-live-07\/","title":{"rendered":"LUG Radio Live ’07"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I’ve just got back from LUG Radio Live ’07<\/a> and I’d like to say I’ve had a fantastic weekend. I met Martyn<\/a> on Friday evening (after a 4 1\/2 hour journey that was only meant to be just under 2 hours) and checked into the hotel before going along to the Hogs Head in the middle of Wolverhampton. The location of the hotel was a pleasant surprise having not checked exactly where it was in relation to the venue or the pubs and finding it was less than 30 seconds away from both! Definately going to stay there next year!<\/p>\n

Everyone was fantastic and friendly, and the exhibitors must not have any voices left after being constantly bombarded with questions and happily answering every single one!<\/p>\n

There was the usual caliber of speakers too, ranging from well know linux kernel hackers (Linus’ number two, Alan Cox) and Ex Novell employees (Ted Haeger<\/a>) to some smaller companies with some new technologies and ideas (Collabora<\/a>). Even Microsoft was present, tho’ I think after the Mass Debate he was wishing he wasn’t! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

One thing that did crop up quite a lot this weekend was the subject of our rights in relation to both media and government. Until recently there hasn’t been anyone to fight for our rights who didn’t have a financial agenda. The people making the decisions were, through no fault of their own, not technically minded and were being led by large corporations (*cough*, Microsoft) with noone to tell them differently. Well, now there is an Open Rights Group<\/a> who are going to parliment and fighting to keep our rights in check on everything from music copyright to digital voting. Join in the effort by signing up and donating.<\/p>\n

\n\"Support<\/a><\/p>\n

It has definately been a fun filled weekend, with plenty of things to check out and keep me going for a while!<\/p>\n

I am proud that I managed to resist the temptation of buying a GP2X<\/a>, maybe next year! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[96,115,117,169],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-linux","tag-geek","tag-linux","tag-lugradio","tag-wolverhampton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}