Wow, OLF was amazing.

Many photos are available here; feel free to add your own to the pool:
http://flickr.com/groups/938355@N22/pool/

The booth was absolutely crowded for most of the conference. Even though it was slightly odd that OLF was just an expo room over from the US Fencing Competition, it was a great opportunity to introduce new users to Ubuntu and Linux in general, and most of them left the show very impressed. I also had the chance to attend a surprise BoF meeting, though I snuck in late.

A few shoutouts:

• Steve Stalcup (vorian) - setting up the booth the night before and working it


• Derath - getting System 76 and Hackett & Bankwell on board and working the booth


• Delvien - working the booth and helping out the new users and visitors


• Jono - thanks for the shoutout yourself at the keynote!


• Jorge - helping us out with organization of the booth and the BoF


• System76 - provided the nice demo laptops and discount coupons


• Intracorp Ltd - Hackett and Bankwell comic books


• Canonical - thanks for all of the free swag and marketing materials! Seriously, it wouldn't have been nearly as awesome without it all, and made our booth extremely popular.


• Ohio LinuxFest organizers - planning the event itself! We'll definitely be back in 2009!

I'll be posting full impressions tomorrow on FOSSwire.

One particular moment that I thought was interesting was when Jono asked who in the audience (of around a thousand) used Ubuntu, and 90% of everyone raised their hands. Someone post a picture of that in the Flickr pool above!

Though, I think the phrase "Show me some candy" will trigger a somewhat unpleasant mental image for those who attended Jono's keynote from now on.