Woo! SCALE6x is over. Although I had intended on going Friday to set up the booth, I put it off until Saturday morning, knowing that there would not be much to do. As I had expected, it was a quick process getting everything connected and configured. The network was a bit more of a hassle, but that did not take up too much time either. The switch I had brought with me was useful until we got wireless working on the laptops.

Developer turnout was not as expected; nightmorph and I were the only two who actually attended. However, I did bring my friend with me, and while he has no real Linux experience, he was still helpful at the booth. In terms of giveaway items, we unfortunately did not have too many. While we had stickers and flyers last year, we had only Gentoo discs and various snacks this year. It's worth noting that a number of people asked about buying shirts. I'll try to get some for the event next year.

Also, I was able to give a brief introduction of Paludis to a few people, mostly those who were already using Gentoo. I have been using the package manager exclusively for nearly a year, with not one package emerged since the day I installed Gentoo on my current hard drive. I would like to see Paludis overtake Portage as the standard package manager, as it is already much better in nearly every way possible.

Anyhow, I would like to thank the SCALE team for the great job they have done in organising the event. It was executed professionally and flawlessly from what I could tell. It was great visiting some of the other booths, and we had the extremely interesting OLPC booth beside us. I had a lot of fun and look forward to next year's event.