For the show sponsor. The fancy Red Hat booth. Seems like a good use of that IPO money to me. The IBM booth. That's CmdrTaco in the flannel in the middle.
Cliff is on the beanbag in front on the floor.
Cowboy Neal is in the back, between those two. This was the first thing you saw after you came in the entrance. Random members of the Slashdot crew. The crowd surrounding the Slashdot booth. Before everyone got tired and sat on the floor.