Watch the 2009 Linux Plumbers Conference (Linux.com)

The problem with humanity is that we take things that work for granted, and when something doesn't work it stands out, and we like to complain about it. In a way it's not that bad, since the best way to improve oneself is to fix what is wrong more so than concentrating on what is right.

But that said, I was there for only one day, unfortunately, and I thought they did an excellent job. Plumbers concentrates on developers (both kernel and userspace), and they do a good job at keeping that focused. Plumbers is still very new, and there's lots of places that they can improve on. But what they have accomplished so far, is worthy of compliments. Kudos to Plumbers and those that worked it.

I'd have to say that the whole week, from the co-located LinuxCon events, to LinuxCon itself, and LPC, was amazingly well organized and executed overall, probably the best I've seen (or at least on par with LCA).

I hope that what we're seeing here is a case of most people being happy and not having to say anything, with a small minority of people commenting who simply don't understand what it takes to make anything like this work at all, let alone exceptionally well.