#CUSEC09: No day 3 report

It’s been what feels like ages since CUSEC 2009 has ended. I had a blast, even though there weren’t quite enough academic talks, but it looks like that will be changed in the next conference lovingly dubbed CUSEC 20 GOTO 10.

In place of a day three report I offer a link to Ben Kane’s summary of the conference. It turns out that not only did Richard Stallman give the same talk as last year, he gave the same talk at the University of Toronto a few days later, and still hasn’t bothered to look up any of the figures that he prefixes with “and I think that..” You may as well just read Joey deVilla’s notes. While you’re at it, read how as a Microsoft evangelist he subsidized the Free Software Foundation. I guess the hundred bucks was worth the thousands of dollars in publicity. Clever move.

3 Comments to “#CUSEC09: No day 3 report”

  1. Guillaume Theoret 8 February 2009 at 4:56 pm #

    Any changes you’d like to see for next year’s addition we’d love to hear about. You can email info@cusec.net with any suggestions and a link to a short feedback survey will soon (I think) be sent out to this year’s attendees.

    I was very impressed with this year’s academic talks. Steve Easterbook’s and Caitlin Kelleher’s in particular.

    I’m happy you enjoyed the conference.

  2. Blaise Alleyne 8 February 2009 at 7:31 pm #

    Stallman gave the same talk at UTM in July 2007 too, that’s where I saw him first. I’m pretty sure all those “I think that…” disclaimers mean it’s something he’s researched and believes is one way to the best of his knowledge and research, i.e. admitting there could be something he’s missed.

  3. lance 10 February 2009 at 9:23 pm #

    @Guillaume,

    Thanks! I’ll certainly fill in the survey, and I’m also in touch with Andrew Louis. I sat in on Caitlin’s presentation as well but missed out on Jonathan Edwards’. What was there was good, but I’d prefer a higher academic to pep talk ratio.

    @Blaise,
    Fair enough.


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