LCA 2010 Day 1: The Wellington experience

I’m spending this week in Wellington for Linux.conf.au 2010, the annual Australian Linux conference. It’s only the second time I’ve ever been to New Zealand (the first was a quick trip to Auckland last year), and coincidentally it’s also the second time LCA has headed offshore. The weekend was pretty grey (as the photo demonstrates), but we’re now seeing some actual sun, and Wellington itself is a damn attractive place and easy to get around.

In typical fashion, the whole trip is providing grist for stories. Indeed, the Wellington Airport Flyer service is so well-implemented that it got a post on Lifehacker all to itself. The weekly Road Worrier column also drew on the trip, looking at the onboard DVD player service provided on the flight over.

The first two days of LCA are devoted to “miniconfs” that delve into specific topics, and yesterday I hit the conference sessions dedicated to Google Wave. That resulted in a story for ZDNet (my first in a while!) looking at how Wave integrates with Novell Pulse, as well as a piece for Lifehacker on the forthcoming Wave extensions gallery. I also kept my hand in at APC, looking at the IE vulnerability at the centre of the Chinese hacking scandal.

Also on Lifehacker yesterday: