Unfortunately I can't post all of the pictures from this past OSBC (I have hundreds), but here's a few that I think sum it up nicely: No one told Dirk Hohndel that OSBC is "pass/fail." He seems to be trying to cheat on someone else's paper.... :-) We had a great crowd this year. In this picture you can see Lee Thompson (E*Trade), Mike Vertal (Rivet Logic), Terry Barbounis and Russ Danner (Christian Science Monit Unfortunately I can’t post all of the pictures from this past OSBC (I have hundreds), but here’s a few that I think sum it up nicely:No one told Dirk Hohndel that OSBC is “pass/fail.” He seems to be trying to cheat on someone else’s paper…. 🙂We had a great crowd this year. In this picture you can see Lee Thompson (E*Trade), Mike Vertal (Rivet Logic), Terry Barbounis and Russ Danner (Christian Science Monitor), Steve Parker (Ricoh), Kevin Comolli (Accel), John Powell (Alfresco), Brian Proffitt (Linux Today), John Roberts (SugarCRM), Dan Cahoon (H&R Block), Christof Wittig (Db4o), and a range of others…. We had the open source evangelism from Matthew Szulik……and open source realism (that sounded a lot like evangelism) from Marc West (CIO, H&R Block):“Please reveal to me the secrets behind the Microsoft patent FUD!” (Larry Augustin, open source luminary) “Now, wait. Let me get this straight. The guy up there said that we could sell Linux and other open source software, rather than Microsoft’s patent FUD…I’ve got to call Ron Hovesepian about this!” (Bruce Lowry, PR Director, Novell)“I’m not buying any of this patent FUD. Give me something that works or I’m calling my cousin, Vinnie.” (Dan Cahoon, H&R Block)Eben is selling, but Ken Jacobs (Oracle) doesn’t look like he’s buying. 🙂 “Can you guys wrassle me an open source license?” (Unknown Cowboy talking with Matt Bennett and Bill Mason of EnterpriseDB)“I can’t wait to downgrade my Bank of America stock. Tim doesn’t know what he’s yapping about.” (Jason Maynard, Analyst, Credit Suisse)“I can’t wait until after this session so that I can pummel Jason.” (Tim Golden, SVP Linux Engineering, Bank of America) “Not sure what Tim and Jason are getting so excited about. This is zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.” (Stephen Shankland, CNET)“Why do I have to listen to Matt Asay’s propaganda parade? I’m not getting paid enough….” (Mike Olson, Oracle)“Who knew that open source could be so funny?” (Monica Kumar, Oracle, and r0ml Lefkowitz, some insurance scam) “Yes, it’s true. All Finns do this. They frolic naked in saunas! And drink milk, too!!!” (Stephe Walli)John Roberts (SugarCRM) and Mike Evans (Red Hat) sang our closing song.And Mark de Visser (Zend) and others discussed the relative stature of their open source offerings…. While Larry begged the congregation to come unto open source and be saved.Amen! Open Source