Pictures from LWCE 2001, Moscone Center North and the SF Marriott:

Looking downstairs at the entrance to the exhibits, before they open on Tuesday.

The IDG pre-Keynote video commercial - 5 minutes worth.

IDG flunky introducing the speaker

LWCE Logo Slide

Compaq CTO Shane Robison working through the demos at the end of the 50 minute long Compaq commercial that he read to us, rather badly.

Cool demo, though. Adding and subtracting nodes from a live, running cluster. Neat!

Exhibits area on entry, day one, just after 10 am. Left side.

Exhibits area Left and Center

Exhibits area Right and Center

Exhibits area Right side

The rather... odd Tuxia inflatable penguin. The arms were continually flapping as they filled then deflated. Mmmm?

At the Golden Penguin Bowl, a geekish quiz game. Chris DiBona in darkess to the back as one of the judges.

Nick Petreley of varlinux.org gets the ball rolling at the GBP.

The Geeks team, including Michael Tiemann with that distinctive red hat.

The Nerds team, including Doc Searls (in blue Floral).

A sample question from the GPB

Another sample question

The Nerds win it all, each team member taking home a lovely urine sample container stylized Golden Penguin rendered in Art Glass.

Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig - a GREAT Keynoter!

Linus and IDG Corporate flunky handing out 25 large, momentarily.

The Free Standards Group takes the cake... and the moola. Well deserved!

Pay a visit to the Ximian booth, you'd swear you were on Gilligan's Island. No comments about a glued-together palm frond and coconut interface, ok?

Robin "Roblimo" Miller, now of Newsforge, a part of the OSDN,

The accumulated loot from a dedicated couple of days to pillaging LWCE by yours truly.

Thanks for joining me - it was fun!

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08/30/2001 Brian P. Bilbrey.