At the AUUG 1999 annual conference, Melbourne

Last update: 12 August 2001

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The BSD BoF

This year, all the BoF (Bird of a Feather) sessions were held during the course of the day. Well, most of them. After we established that the BoF (Boring old Fart) BoF got crushed between two sessions, we decided that the same thing wouldn't happen to the BSD BoF, so we adjourned to the bar after the last session on Thursday, the 9th.

I don't know everybody in these pictures. If you recognize somebody I left out, or if I made a mistake, please let me [ grog@lemis.com ] know.

Theo de Raadt, Warren Toomey, Chris Maltby, Andrew McRae.

Andrew Tridgell, Luke Mewburn.

With backs to us: Warren Toomey, Theo de Raadt. Partially obscured: Andrew McRae. Next to him, Eric Raymond.

David Newall, Theo de Raadt.

Tridge is into wireless networking.

The conference dinner

The theme of last year's conference dinner was balloon networking. This year it was lighter-than-air vehicles. The extremely long time between courses was conducive to good design.

David Newall, Luigi Cantoni.

Andrew McRae the way we usually saw him.

David Purdue, Mark White. Mark represented Compaq, who paid for the dinner, so we needed a photo of him.

Luigi Cantoni, Maddog Hall.

Adrian Cockroft, Andrew Tridgell.

Mike Padden.

The party after

Theo de Raadt, Andrew Tridgell.

Mike Padden.

Greg Lehey, Andrew Tridgell. We were making some final adjustments to Tridge's lighter-than-air vehicle, to make it of the same density as air, so it neither rose nor fell. You'll note the use of Jolt Cola in the balance mechanism; we had found better use for the wine.

We subsequently tested the validity of Newton's second law in the lift. Unfortunately, the balance turned out to be far too temperature sensitive, so we never quite got to conclusive proof.

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