The following things are making me happy:

Finding I'm volunteering for One Laptop Per Child nearly every day and changing the world, and really enjoying it.

How the OLPC effort in Aotearoa is growing growing growing.

How many people came out to talk about how stupid Mark Shuttleworth's comment was (you know which one). "Girls" are among those that made open source what it is today, whether shuttleworth realises it or not.

Statusnet project going from strength to strength (and starting on the journey to world domination)

How Drupal is no longer this unheard of strange CMS that Brenda keeps pitching -- it's being used everywhere, for years now, in place in NZ that i've never been near. Clients turn up already wanting Drupal.

Public sector remix project gaining steam for being awesome.

How many amazing people are coming to Wellington for LCA2010 - including open source ninjas i've "known" for years and never met.

oh, and the thought that in about 2 months I will be able to see my own feet again.

The mini confs have been announced. These are the one day conferences within a conference.
full announcement

They're all excellent FOSS topics, and in amongst these are some favourites that I'm really looking forward to.

The Education miniconf will be run by Tabitha Roder, the person i picked as my hero for Ada Lovelace day. She's also a moodle ninja and sensei by day, and the leader of OLPC/Sugar open source work in New Zealand. The Wellington "Friends in Testing" group has been growning from strength to strength this year, and now meets every Saturday to test the latest build. Education, of both the young and the not-so-young is one way the free and open source worlde grows and bring in fresh ideas from new people. It's also a much nicer community than some other parts of open source.

The "Free the Cloud" miniconf will be run by Evan Prodromou, most famous for founding and building http://identi.ca and the Laconica software behind it. He also wrote the Open Micro Blogging specification. "Cloud" is a common buzz word these days, but it's a real concept (once we agree on what it means). Licences like the AGPL (the William Wallace of open source licences) are unlocking code for the world to reuse and build apon.