[d] Flourish 2007 Conference

The UIC ACMers and LUGers organized a very successful Flourish 2007 Conference. It is the same group of people who turned SEL 2262 from a boring TA office into a friendly lounge for computer science lovers. My respect goes to these young & energetic boys/girls. They are the real hope of pushing UIC forward towards one of the top school names, well, at least from the current 50-or-so ranking in CS.

Being one of the attendee, One of my pleasures is being able to listen to Chris Dibona's talk in person, and take a picture with him. Information age shortens the communication distance, but not necessarily the geographical one. Obviously getting travel money to go to open source conferences like OSCON and PyCon will be a dream for my Ph.D. career at UIC ... , not even likely after starting full-time job... So, thanks Flourish!