OSB day 2

Today was the second day of the Open Source Bridge (OSB) conference. I was in several good sessions, and again the best conversations were the ones not in sessions but in the hallways. I'm not the only one who recognizes this phenomenon. Today's keynote speaker talked about hacker spaces (permanent spaces for a hacker group -- "hacker" in the "white hat" sense) and discussed the notion of "permanent hallways". A permanent hallway strives to duplicate the hallways of conferences, to let people meet and talk about random interesting topics.