Well, that’s it. Linux Bangalore/2002 is over and done with. A stupendous success from most perspectives, though I do have issues with some aspects.

From the persepective of participation by delegates and speakers, this event blew away any doubts that Linux and OpenSource are now truly mainstream. Almost 2000 delegates, 70+ highly technical and much appreciated talks by industry and academia speakers, lots of fun for everyone, and a finale that rocked!

I am not going to get too deep into the happenings – all that will be duely recorded on the LB/2002 website over the next few days.

The things I wasn’t too happy about was the stuff and opportunities we missed out because the event was simply too big for those few actual people doing all the work. Don’t get me wrong – everyone pitched in, especially the volunteers who did a fantastic job, but when it is down to 2-3 people actually having to take all the decisions *and* following up on them, things tend to get missed.

Small things (like forgetting to hand over mementos to Phenom after their fantastic show) and big things (with the amount of money left, we should have hosted a dinner for all the delegates and speakers – our caterer Catering Inn would have managed that with ease!).

Not looking into stuff like quantity and quality of photos taken was a serious booboo that we are going to regret for a long time. Ditto audio recordings at the halls. And also photo subjects – many important aspects of the event simply weren’t photographed!

But the biggest miss-out for me was community interaction – there was just so much going on that no one had time for sitting down and exchanging notes on LUG operations, ideas and other brainstorms.

Ah well, next year, I guess.

For me, a highlight at this event was my standing on stage and singing after almost 20 years! I didn’t sing very well (my voice was all over the place) but Phenom covered for the majority of the boo-boos.

I was rusty, but hell – I enjoyed myself!