Annual Linux Showcase Free Registration

po8 writes "The 2001 Annual Linux Showcase (ALS) is offering free registration until October 15, to try to increase attendance. If you're in the Oakland, CA area, perfect! If not, plane tickets are really cheap right now." In the past, this has been the Altanta Linux Showcase, which was always one of my favorite shows to attend. If you can make it, definitely check out - run with USENIX, it tends to be a more programmer/developer oriented show, rather then marketing.

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ALS?

[Faux_Pseudo]

As a person who has found themself recently single I would love to go to a place with lots of cleanly shaved Linux useing females.
/burn karma

Convenient excuses

[Anonymous Coward]

Their web page sounds like they're using a national tragedy as an excuse. It seems to me a far more reasonable explantion for the poor attendence is simply the declining interest in Linux as Windows XP captures more and more of the market.

Re:Too many Left Coast conferences

[shredds]

Instead of trying cram another tech event into California, why not try and fill the void that needs filling, namely a worthwhile Linux conference in the Southeast.
Hmmm...
Why California? I don't know.
Its not like every major technology corporation/interested party doesn't have an office there.
Its not like the birthplace of the modern computing industry wasn't there either. (Everyone always says Northern California, but I am convinced it was Kalamazoo, Michigan).
Besides that, the weather is so terribile. It makes me shudder to think of it.
All in favor of relocating to Dothan, Alabama say "AY". That will totally boost attendance. I mean the last big thing that hit there was the National Peanut Festival.