Across town in NW Portland, Perl luminaries Randal Schwartz and Tom Phoenix battled for geek eyeballs with a combination of free pizza, beer and video games at Ground Kontrol on NW Couch. Both events drew large crowds of appreciative participants who were happy for the chance to mix it up with local and international software developers.

In a bid to help publicize his work at SourceLabs, OSS leader Bruce Perens held forth at Kell's Irish Pub in SW Portland. While the crowds were a little thinner at the event when we were there, the fresh pints of Guinness were fine refreshment after a long day on the exhibit hall floor. The most amusing anecdote Mr. Perens had to share with N4N was about Hewlett Packard. After leaving HP, evidently HP re-edited releases of the documentary "Revolution OS" to remove the sections that Bruce himself was in [Editor's correction - Bruce was removed from the cover of the CD case, not from the contents of the film, our mistake] In addition, after making nice with Microsoft, HP is said to have removed the "No Windows" logo from the pro-Linux documentary's packaging materials. Seems petty in the first instance and obsequious in the second, but it's never been easy to buddy up to Microsoft without some accomodations."