The OpenGL BoF went really well, I think. Nobody showed up with torches or pitchforks. Of course, the free beer may have helped. The most useful part of it for me was the mingling period after all the presentations. I talked with quite a few people and, contrary to the /. reports, nobody was furious. Whew!
He also talks about some SIGGRAPH sessions he attended, with links to relevant papers.
Thanks to people like him and Rob Barris diligently working on the OpenGL forums, this whole storm-in-a-glass should be over soon, and we can then start focusing on the new interesting stuff and what’s coming in less than a year.