Last weekend was my first attendance in open source conference, FOSS.my 2008. I traveled all my way from Singapore during the midnight 12:30AM and reach Kuala Lumpur in morning 5:30AM. It was very tired, I swear! But, I was so exciting and can’t wait to see it.

We got awesome speakers in this conference. We got Jaya Kumar - one of the great Linux kernel contributor, Toru Maesaka - one of the memcached developer, Pia Waugh - the director of OLCP Austrialia, Pamela Fox - one of the Google Map API developer and much more.

Who say no chick in OSS? Dare you say it again!

Aizat Faiz talked about building the awesome Jabber Bot.

Toru Maesaka unveiled the scene behind mixi.jp and talked about memcached.

Pia Waugh presented us with the OLPC, deployments and communities.

I got my first hand on experience with OLPC. Pia Waugh said we can request a unit of this little machine. To try, to develop, and to hack.

Our cute little penguin grab away a OLPC just because of her reason “I want!” 囧

I really enjoyed and learned a lot from this conference. I begin to feel like contributing to the open source rather than just being a user or bug reporter.

There is a BarCamp next month in JB. I will defintely attend it.