Pete's Log: Larry Augustin Rocks
Entry #489, (Coding, Hacking, & CS stuff)(posted when I was 22 years old.)
Today NDLUG met with Dr. Larry Augustin of VALinux Systems. He's here at ND visiting and giving some lecture tomorrow about software development and the internet. But NDLUG was given 40 minutes of his time, which is cool. It started off well, he immediately told us if we want anything to just ask for it. The rest of the time was spent mainly listening to cool anecdotes and stories of his. Stories of how VALinux began, stories of how sourceforge began (originally they had a project called cold storage. as soon as things showed up on freshmeat, they went into cold storage, or at least that was the theory. get it?), and stories of his time at ND (including rioting because they banned beer on campus). All in all a fun time, he seems like a really cool guy.