Happy Things: A busy day of panels

[jducoeur]

Just got my preliminary schedule for Arisia. It's entertainingly unbalanced, but likely to be fun. I have one panel on Friday, one on Saturday, and *seven* on Sunday. So basically I get to relax and see the convention on Saturday, and then go into full-scale Panel Marathon on Sunday, starting at 10am and running until 11pm, with a few two-hour breaks in the middle to eat and get my head together.

Should be amusing: I've never done quite so *much* blathering in one day before, but I suspect it won't be too hard. And the most important of the bunch -- The Future of Online Community, which I'm moderating and expect to be jam-packed with both people and ideas -- is smack in the middle of Sunday, so that looks to be the high point of the weekend...

Comments

[laurion]

They only put me on 4 panels, which makes my decision to drop Arisia this year easier to accept.

It does mean I won't be on an IP Law panel with RMS though. I can't decide if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

[jducoeur]

Well, it's probably good for the blood pressure, if nothing else. Richard is interesting, but I disagree strongly with his approach, and he's way too religious about the subject for me.

(And the GPL is a *horrible* piece of legal writing -- it annoyed the heck out of me the last time I read all the way through it. Too much agenda, too little clarity and specifics. I had one project that didn't use the LGPL simply because the company's lawyers refused to sign off on it because it was too damned vague...)