Yesterday’s panel on Tomorrow’s Open Source went very well, and my thanks to Matt Westervelt, Asa Dotzler, and Scott Collins for making it so fun. I think if you were to summarize the entire panel to one thing, the key to the future of Open Source is to “listen to your mother.”

Open letter to free schwag people: Not all geeks are XXL! There is a reason the small and medium shirts are the first to go. Please keep the smaller geeks in mind when purchasing your merch. Conference organizers: make t-shirt size part of the registration so you can give your vendors a heads-up to the size makeup of the conference. (Other than that, Gnomedex is going great.)