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Re:Context
Atlanta Linux Showcase 1997
Me being "lectured" by Patricia on the finer points of the kernel, along with Linus, Tove, and ESR himself (who I gave a ride back to the airport - he's a real nice guy) -
Re:Been to things like this
Surely, would'nt one of these tshirts be incentive to show up?
Honestly, I don't remember seeing these awful rags being handed out at the last ALS's. Perhaps the 1998 tshirt, but the others look like the puke from Maximum Linux magazine. Remember that thing hawked at airports gift store magazine racks? -
Linux in Gatlenberg
It sure would be nice if some of us poor yokels down in the land of gnats and mosquitoes got a chance to go to a great Linux show... esp. seeing as the Atlanta Linux Showcase has now become the Anual Linux Showcase link. I think that Gatlenberg would be a great place to have it... It is a somewhat central point to the SE US. Great place too!
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Re:Debian developers never meet face to face?There was a small section in the article that said that many of the Debian developers have never met face to face. Whilst this is clearly true, most of them will never have met this way, I thought that before you get accepted as a Debian developer you had to go through a face to face meeting, to exchange public keys and the like. Is this true? Or am I barking up the wrong tree here?
Well, the procedures have changed a bit since the days of ~100-200 developers; I never met anyone, nor even had my key signed, for the first few years I was in the project. I only met another developer in the flesh 10 months ago (and then a whole bunch of them), at Atlanta Linux Showcase last October. Since then, I've met a few more (out in the Bay Area in March). I've still not met most of the developers; pairwise, I doubt any of us has met a majority of project members (although maybe Wichert and a few others who get around a lot have).
I guess it would be interesting to see a graph of "who's met who" in Debian. I suspect there are two large clusters (Europe and North America) with links between them, and lots of nodes off on their own or in small groups.
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Re:Linux Expos
Generally the decision on where to hold a show is made by the people organizing it. I know that sounds a little redundant, but there isn't a central Linux Conference Authority or anything.
The folks running LinuxWorld hold it in places where they expect the biggest attendance since they make their money off of the showfloor, and more people means higher booth charges.
The Atlanta Linux Showcase, of which I am on the Board of Organizers, is run mainly by Atlanta natives. This year we had a lot of help from USENIX, who are out in CA, but we're still keeping it close to home.
I believe the Ottawa Symposium is the same way; run by folks who live there. Linux Expo, likewise, was handled by folks who lived/worked in the Raleigh,NC area.
As for getting a show in your area, the best I can suggest is to travel to one that's relatively close - the Atlanta Showcase isn't that far, compared to Ottawa or California.
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Re:Conference sites?
I find humor in the fact that Emmett didn't even provide a link to the Ottawa Linux Symposium website... Anyway a couple others are listed here: Most notable and/or accessible for North-Americaners would be the Linuxworld Expo in San Jose, August 14-17, and the Atlanta Linux Showcase Oct 10-14. Also, here is a list of Corel tradeshows.
If anyone knows of others, please speak up (It took 2 minutes on Altavista to find these).
And I don't see why Slashdot couldn't announce every upcoming conference, or at least every conference that requested announcing. iT's only an inch of screen space... this is supposed to be a community site, after all. Sounds like a slashbox-in-the-making.
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Re:First ALS, now Expo??
>A friend told me last week that ALS is probably going to cancel their 2000 show
As one of the organizers, I can tell you that the 2000 ALS will take place as announced on the ALS website.
Levien
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Linux Expo Explanation
Donnie Barnes, a founding member of the LUG @ NCSU which hosted the first two Expos has posted an explanation on the Linux Expo website.
Also, the Linux Expo has joined forces with Atlanta Linux Showcase. -
Atlanta Show Still OnThe loss of the Linux Exp is unfortunate - LE and ALS have always had a friendly competition going alongside of a mutual defnese against the IDG mentality of Linux Shows.
The 4th Annual Linux Showcase and Conference is once again going to be held in Atlanta and we hope that those of you planning to attend the Linux Expo can make it to Atlanta instead. We're working closely with USENIX to make sure that the technical conferences are of high quality and we're also working to keep the sense of community we have strived for in the past.4th Annual Linux Showcase and Conference: www.linuxshowcase.org
Call for Papers: www.linuxshowcase.org/cfp
Blake Sorensen
4th Annual Linux Showcase and Conference
October 10-14, 2000
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Atlanta Show Still OnThe loss of the Linux Exp is unfortunate - LE and ALS have always had a friendly competition going alongside of a mutual defnese against the IDG mentality of Linux Shows.
The 4th Annual Linux Showcase and Conference is once again going to be held in Atlanta and we hope that those of you planning to attend the Linux Expo can make it to Atlanta instead. We're working closely with USENIX to make sure that the technical conferences are of high quality and we're also working to keep the sense of community we have strived for in the past.4th Annual Linux Showcase and Conference: www.linuxshowcase.org
Call for Papers: www.linuxshowcase.org/cfp
Blake Sorensen
4th Annual Linux Showcase and Conference
October 10-14, 2000
Atlanta, GA -
Prove it wrongThere are two ways I can think of to fight the deployment of Mosaic-2000 (M2k) in our schools. One is to protest it on the grounds that it is an intrusive unconstitutional invasion of privacy. The second is to prove it doesn't work.
With the rise of the internet and Geeks running these new companies, it is now ok, among many (but not all) people to be geek.
My proposal is to ask these successful, socially productive geeks, Who game, play doom, were different in school, and get profiled by M2k. I suspect that M2k (if it is as bad and dangerous as we say) will profile these socially productive geeks as being dangerous, and we can prove by example how dangerous M2k will be.
Chris
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Re:Pioneers and SettlersWeren't you surprised by how few exhibitors there were? I was shocked. FreebsdCon was _much_ smaller than I anticipated. Quite a few folks like myself who also were also at the Atlanta Linux Showcase were caught off guard--the contrast in size was dramatic. Comparing the two shows illustrates that in reality it was Linux "that got the land".
And I think Per Bergman's comments about FreesbsdCon excluding other BSD and Linux systems from the show were right on target. It is a _big_ mistake to exclude others. It's like shooting yourself in the foot, because of the lack of exhibitors hurt the overall image of the Freebsd show. I would have liked to have seen NetBSD and OpenBSD represented. NetBSD had a very nice booth at ALS, and the atmosphere was very congenial.
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Contact VC Firm That Is KnownThe suggestions concerning making sure that there's documented proof that you produced design material as at a particular date seem wise; whether this involves using a notary public, submitting sealed copy with lawyer, getting a copy postmarked, or going through some formal legal bureau responsible for such is something that you should ask your lawyer about. Safer is obviously better than probably safe enough.
The CEO of Digital Creations, the Zope people, did a talk at the Atlanta Linux Showcase pretty much describing this sort of thing. They looked for a venture capital firm that they felt they could trust; surprisingly, it was actually the VC people that suggested releasing Zope as free software.
The big point here is that it would be wise to contact a company that produces free software that has IPOed, and see what firms they have dealt with. Such firms are likely somewhat better choices to deal with than firms that haven't done VC work with "free software" companies.
In the case of Digital Creations, the VC firm was the Verticality Investment Group.
In the beginning, there are obviously not many VC firms that "grok" free software; those few firms that do, and get extra business as a result, will doubtless be noticed by those that are "later adopters."
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Re:good showsWell, ALS has all of that.
www.linuxhshowcase.org
Three nights of BOFs
65+ Vendors who know this is a technical audience
The largest Technical conference track
WIPs, and an introduction to Linux for people migrating from windows
Chris
(Yes, i'm one of the people running the thing)
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Re:good showsWell, ALS has all of that.
www.linuxhshowcase.org
Three nights of BOFs
65+ Vendors who know this is a technical audience
The largest Technical conference track
WIPs, and an introduction to Linux for people migrating from windows
Chris
(Yes, i'm one of the people running the thing)
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Re:Dress Code?Wear jeans and a t-shirt and you won't stand out. Wear a suit and you will. If you're really trying to look professional, Business Casual.
Chris
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Move your PC overseas?What if we combined the DataHaven idea from Cryptonomicon (yes I know it isn't an original idea from the book), with some kind of remote PC, using strong encryption? Then ppl who wanted privacy could keep their computers in a bomb proof vault in SE Asia, and only have a dumb Xterminal in the US. Of course TEMPEST monitoring would still work, but at least then the feds would need to get off their donut eating asses and work for a living.
What the world needs is massive bandwidth.
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Re:Oh great (not)Has it maybe occured to you that if you want conferences like ALS/OLS/LWCE etc to cover KDE you need to have KDE developers submitt papers on what they are doing with KDE? I would have loved to see some KDE talks at ALS, but we didn't get any submissions from them.
Chris
VP of the Atlanta Linux Showcase
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Re:Oh great (not)Has it maybe occured to you that if you want conferences like ALS/OLS/LWCE etc to cover KDE you need to have KDE developers submitt papers on what they are doing with KDE? I would have loved to see some KDE talks at ALS, but we didn't get any submissions from them.
Chris
VP of the Atlanta Linux Showcase
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Re:Sun's License good. Free SoftwareAh, but theres the rub. Any redistribution is under the SCSL and therefore won't really be open.
Looks to me like Sun is trying to limit who is in their "community" and can receive code. This violates one of the Open Source principles.
Besides, I think sun is niave if it thinks it can build a community like Linux has got. The Linux community built up around almost no rules (other than the GPL). The SCSL's redistribution limitations and compatibility requirements will be a serious hinderance.
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Re:Now all we need....Is for Compaq to support linux?
So the fact that they're going to be an exhibitor at the Atlanta Linux Showcase means that they don't support Linux?
What about the Active Answers for ISPs running Linux on Compaq hardware?
Or the guide they published to help install Linux and set up the web server?
Or the Alpha Linux support?
It looks to me like Compaq does support Linux. I don't think that they're preinstalling it right now, but they are supporting it, and are even setting up call in tech support.. -
Re:Now all we need....Is for Compaq to support linux?
So the fact that they're going to be an exhibitor at the Atlanta Linux Showcase means that they don't support Linux?
What about the Active Answers for ISPs running Linux on Compaq hardware?
Or the guide they published to help install Linux and set up the web server?
Or the Alpha Linux support?
It looks to me like Compaq does support Linux. I don't think that they're preinstalling it right now, but they are supporting it, and are even setting up call in tech support.. -
Why did the Linux Pavillion Suck?Contrary to the other posts (ie trolls), I think you will find the reason the Linux Companies have the larger presenses at shows like LWCE or ALS is that they can get more bang for their buck. Linux companies like RedHat, VA, etc are more likely to sell to Linux people that to the folks at a PC Expo.
Also, there are a lot of computer shows around, Comdex, Interop, PC expo, beyond the Linux shows. Most companies probably don't have the resources to do to all of them. Even with RedHat IPOing, they still don't have the resources of an Oracle or IBM to hit every major show they would want to sell at. What might be a better idea is if the Linux companies pooled their resources under say Linux International, and sent one rep from each company to sell the Idea of Linux. Then they can be sold on VA or RedHat or SuSE.
Finally, If the audience of PC Expo is IT professionals, then maybe a less glitzy presence is what they want. Selling to the Linux Community is different than selling to the Suits, even if there is some cross over at both kinds of shows.
Chris
I'm not speaking for any Linux Comapnies or any Linux shows here. Just tossing out stuff to think about.
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Gorilla Warfare
Microsoft may be the 800-pound gorilla, but IBM is King Fscking Kong. I guess it really is true: Be careful what you wish for; you may get it. World domination, here we come, if we aren't squashed in the process. It's going to be an interesting year.
(And that's a pun, not an error.)
