From: Jim Freeze <jimfreeze@...>
Date: 2005-08-05T05:07:40+09:00
Subject: Re: FOSCON Photos

On 8/4/05, Phil Tomson <ptkwt@aracnet.com> wrote:
> 
> Last night in Portland we had a very good turnout for FOSCON (the Free
> Open Source Convention).  Speakers included:
>  - Why the lucky stiff (Music, shadow puppets, audience participation
> via drb, Rubyfun, animated Least Surprised)
> 
> Why's performance is hard to describe.  Suffice it to say he had us all
> in stitches.  I think he's really on to something with this drb/irb
> audience participation thing. At a greedier venue patents would be
> filed. This will no doubt set the trend in interactive presentations for
> years to come.  Perhaps the end of PowerPoint is near. The age of
> mixed-media drb-enabled shadow puppets is here.

Please describe more about this drb/irb.

-- 
Jim Freeze