Pixelbox

The evening we popped down to Adobe live to be confronted with the normal (and expected) sales stuff, in fact there seemed to be almost as many people there from Adobe as visitors! After buying some books (more on them later) and .net magazine (again more on that later) we made a quick exit and cursed the fact we couldn't get tickets for the, "sold out" development evening. By chance one of the organizers from the event popped into our offices to check out Ceros and Tom managed to ask him to get us on the guest list for the evenings event, result! To be honest I didn't know what to expect, and apart from Aral I knew very little about the speakers. The discussion was chaired by John Davey who did a fantastic job, both entertaining and netural, dispite there only being about 30 people who actualy turned up, lucky we got in! The talk centered around Open Source, and what it really meant. Although discussion often focused on how it's a viable thing to do, why do it, why care as a user, and various other discussions that will never be answered in my mini review at 11:52 at night... or in fact ever! I was lucky enough to have a long talk with David McAllister, Director of Standards and Open Source, at Adobe, after the formal discussions had ended (he was in the room when the term Open Source was coined!!!) which was fascinating, and to be honest left me feeling a little inadequate. It was also great to catch up with Aral and meet Carlos Ulloa and Tink, oh and also get some free food, drinks... and a bag ;)