Going to Portland!
The trip that I talked about here got approved Friday. I would have posted about it Friday, but I was too busy booking the conference, the hotel, and finding the cheapest non-stop flight from home to Portland. I managed to get all of that done before end of day Friday.
I can’t tell you how excited I am to be going. Work is paying for the full trip, and since it’s a “work sponsored event” I don’t even have to use my vacation time while I’m out of town. This is going to be great. I can’t wait until the end of July when I get to go to Portland to geek out with my fellow open source enthusiasts. I also hope that I get to meet a few notable people like Larry Wall (creator of Perl), and Rasmus Lerdorf (creator of PHP). I’m sure there are lots of other people that are going to be there that I would like to meet, but I really have no idea who they would be. I’d like to meet Richard Stallman, but I don’t think that he’s going to be there.
I’ll make sure to give you a full report on the trip when I get back from it in July. It’s 8 weeks away, and I’m going to be counting down every day of it!
