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On the 1st and 2nd of May 2012 there is an unconference being held in Liverpool – OggCamp 10. An excerpt from the site describes what this is:

“More formal conferences have the usual people speaking every time; an unconference is an opportunity to interact with new and interesting people. You are guaranteed to learn something, but we have no idea what! At an unconference there won’t be a published list of speakers before the event. Watch this site though, and we might publish names of people who have said they’re planning on turning up and giving a talk. And that can include you!”

If you’re going, you might want to go a day earlier and attend the “special free cuture gig” – good company, good music, good vibes what more do you want to start the weekend!

Ii’ll be going, not to do a talk, but to revel in the atmosphere of what is going to be an awesome event. If you want to say hello, give me a slap, buy me a beer, then come along…..preferably not to do the slap You can’t really miss me i’m quite tall Hope to see you there!

I’ve just surprised myself with the amount of email addresses i currently have, i think i need to consolidate them and have one, currently i have

hotmail
gmail
yahoo
own hosted email about 4 here

Do i really need this many email addresses I think it’s time to close accounts

It’s a shame apps i use are linked to these, flickr for instance is linked to my yahoo account….picasa is linked to my gmail, is it time to go totally self hosted?

I’ve probably mentioned this sometime in the past so apologies if i’m repeating myself..

I’ve decided that next year I’m going to attend at least one major linux show, after seeing numerous reports from SELF, LinuxTag, various FUDcons, it’s about time i went to one. Now i’m in the UK so where to go? Europe? the US? who knows, i’ve still got plenty of time to think about it

I don’t know about you, but I can’t get to many Linux Fests, especially ones in the US. I’m in the UK so it’s a bit far to travel. But like many people I would love to see what’s going on, perhaps if you’re at an event and have a spare 10 mins with your laptop and a webcam and you have access to a wired lan port, or wireless, you could stream it using ustream, or livestream? then blog it, twitter it etc

I know I would watch just to see what’s going on, yeah i’m sad

I thought of this while watching a SELF stream by ubuntupodcasts Nick Ali

It was quite interesting seeing the amount of people that were around and the stalls, hmmm i’m trying to get to Lug Radio Live this year, I might do it myself there…..