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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.
From what I can see looking at http://www.linuxshowcase.org/fees.html if you want to attend the "Technical Sessions" they're free. but the tutorials cost lots of $$$$$.
Hope that help.s
While the ALS tutorials aren't free, the XFree86 workshops are -- you can spend half a day learning about Gtk+ or KDE programming or even the finer details of XFree86 configuration.
geez - learn a little history - Usenix has been putting on techy for almost 20 years now - asking them to change now is a little late :-) Many years ago 'Uniforum' was formed for this very reason (the Unix-world marketting-droids felt Usenix didn't cater to their need for glitz and suits)
I totally agree with AC on this:
:-(
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From: Alan Cox
To: alschair@usenix.org
Subject: Resignation from ALS, Skylarov affair...
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 12:31:02 +0100 (BST)
Cc: editor@lwn.net, editors@newsforge.com, gnu@eff.org
I hereby tender my resignation to the Usenix ALS committee.
With the arrest of Dimitry Sklyarov it has become apparent that it is not
safe for non US software engineers to visit the United States. While he was
undoubtedly chosen for political reasons as a Russian is a good example for
the US public the risk extends arbitarily further.
Usenix by its choice of a US location is encouraging other programmers, many
from eastern european states hated by the US government to take the same
risks. That is something I cannot morally be part of. Who will be the next
conference speaker slammed into a US jail for years for committing no crime?
Are usenix prepared to take the chance it will be their speakers ?
Until the DMCA mess is resolved I would urge all non US citizens to boycott
conferences in the USA and all US conference bodies to hold their
conferences elsehere.
I appreciate that this problem is not of Usenix making, but it must be addressed
Alan Cox
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And the USofA is now even more of a big brother state that when this was written