The LugRadio team were invited to Skycon 2007 in Limerick, Ireland to cover the conference, talk about stuff, drink beer, nearly get deported for persistently making jokes about the fair sons of Erin in conjunction with pigs, and generally enjoy the hospitality of our Irish compatriots. A big thanks to Laura Czajkowski, the president of Skynet, and the whole Skycon team for inviting us and making the stay a happy one! We took the chance to interview a few of the people there about their talks and what they thought of the conference. Roll on next year!

There will also be videos of our individual talks available from the Skycon team at some point, and a certain amount of videoing of the actual recording of the show went on as well; keep your eyes on the Skycon site for all that.

• We’re at Skycon! Three-quarters of the team, without our bald compadre Ade, introduce the show (0.00)
• The legendary Matt Garrett and his interesting suspend and resume stories! Why your computer’s hardware doesn’t work properly, how all laptop manufacturers are fascist murderers who hate freedom, and why Matt hasn’t fixed it all yet(3.50)
• David “tyrion” Dolphin, PR officer for Skynet and Simon Willison lookalike (ya rly!), talks about Skynet, how Skycon came about, and what organising the conference has been like (14.50)
• Niall “digitaldeath” O’Brien, attendee at Skycon and LugRadio forums poster, talks about what the conference is like to attend and how shit Dublin is (25.42)
• Alan Cox (for it is he) on the different groups of non-programming people in the open source community and how to get non-coders more interested in free software (33.20)
• Sumup: how Skycon was for us (41.12)

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Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Matthew Revell, and Ade Bradshaw talk about Linux, open source, and a variety of other stuff, including:

• Does everyone hate the FSF? The reputability of online news sources (1.10)
• What would Eric do? Acceptable uses for open source software, and just what “No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor” actually means (11.15)
• Wouter van Heyst talks about the Bazaar source-control project (22.45)
• Web applications versus desktop applications: the old chestnut rears its head again, with a definition of what “progressive enhancement” means in the context of the web (32.12)
• The community speaks: many emails from all of you (67.15)
• More LugRadio Live information! The website is now available, we’re starting to pull the speakers list together (and please submit your papers!), and it’s beginning to rock harder than Ayers Rock and the Rock of Gibraltar on top of one another. Prepare yourselves: 7th-8th July 2007 (96.50)