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This year’s OSCON is definitely better than last year’s from a free stuff point of view. While the offerings in the canvas conference bag were meager (a bottle opener and some telephone cable windup thing, which would have been much more useful had it been Cat 5), the free stuff in the exhibition hall makes up for it.

By “free stuff” I primarily mean “free t-shirts”. I have obtained t-shirts from:

1. Google. Black with Google logo on front and “Python: programming the way Guido indented it” on the back. I’d wear it if it weren’t for the Python quote, which is admittedly witty, but still. Python?
2. Sun Microsystems. Black with an OpenSolaris logo on the front and opensolaris.org on the back.
3. OpenGarden. White with an OpenGarden logo on the front and “I drank the Kool-Aid” on the back. Excellent.
4. Intel. White, with picture of Tux thinking about Intel on front, “Intel Open Source Technology Center” on the back.
5. Yahoo! Developer Network. Grey with “hAPI hAPI joy joy” on the front and “Yahoo! Developer Network” on the back.
6. Open Source Software Lab at Microsoft. Blue with “Reports of snowballs seen in Hell…” on the front and “The Open Source Software Lab at Microsoft” on the back.

So yeah, six new t-shirts! Better than the single t-shirt I got last year.