Comments on: OSCON 2009: Overview /2009/oscon-2009-overview/ less helpful Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:08:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Dan Meyer /2009/oscon-2009-overview/#comment-242732 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:08:59 +0000 /?p=4340#comment-242732 @Alice, yeah, Asilomar’s the bee’s knees. No complaint there. My observation is that the OSCON crowd lacks a certain edge, that they carry themselves with a certain humility, that educators – math educators, anyway – lack.

]]> By: A. Mercer /2009/oscon-2009-overview/#comment-242697 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:33:41 +0000 /?p=4340#comment-242697 So I get that Open Source types are warmer and friendlier than ed tech types, but I thought you enjoyed the math conference at Asilomar. How’d it compare to that? I always wanted to go to that one myself.

I recently got to crash my husband’s world and liveblogged at local conference on traffic engineering. Very friendly, and extremely accessible even for an outsider (although it was policy, not engineering-based). They even invited me to drinks afterwords (and not just because of my husband). I think it’s REALLY nice to go to different meetings, etc. just to expand your own thinking. Kudos to you!

]]> By: Dan Meyer /2009/oscon-2009-overview/#comment-242675 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:57:29 +0000 /?p=4340#comment-242675 Driscoll mentioned the steep learner’s curve for R. Something that endeared him to me was the flash mob he organized late one night at OSCON where a group got together, selected the most commonly asked R questions on Stack Overflow and crowdsourced their answers. Nice.

]]> By: Jason Dyer /2009/oscon-2009-overview/#comment-242668 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:53:13 +0000 /?p=4340#comment-242668 R is pretty world-rockin’.

One thing on my pie-in-the-school list is a beginner’s equivalent, sort of the Logo of statistics.

(Or maybe something like that’s already around — Excel programming doesn’t quite fit what I mean.)

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