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.

Comments

Re:Linux needs more flashy conferences

[dangermouse]

No. Damn hell ass NO!

And I speak as one who has worked booths at ALS, LWCE, and the LBE.

Linuxworld Conference and Expo (mostly Expo) and COMDEX's Linux Business Expo are more than enough shiny/marketroid/free-crap for Linux.

What Linux needs is more conferences like ALS. Or better yet, more frequent ALSes (yes, I know what the 'A' stands for.. it didn't stand for that until recently, y'know). ALS is an excellent conference put on by great people with a real grasp of the diversity and depth of the Linux field. It's the only one of the three big Linux events I felt was worthwhile from a technical standpoint.

It's also the only one where I genuinely enjoyed sitting in a booth, because the people who came by to talk were typically clueful or at least there to become so, and not just looking for whatever shiny bauble I might or might not have stashed under the table.

Atlanta

[tstock]

I would love to go, as I have for the past 2 years, but the move to the west coast makes it impossible.

Why do we need more shows in California and less in the rest of the country is my question... Seems to me Atlanta was pretty well located for the east coast, which has few opportunities like this.

Bring it back

[lophophore]

Atlanta needs ALS. The first three ALS shows seemed very successful to me. (Plus I got to meet CmdrTaco there.) The number of people who showed up demonstrated that the audience is either already in Atlanta or are willing to come here.

ALS used to held right around the Networld+Interop show.

Now it seems that all the Linux shows are in either NY/Boston or SF Bay area.

Bring back the Atlanta Linux Showcase.

Re:Hijacked

[jmu1]

I mean, it was the only technical conference in this reigon... Last year after it was announced that Usnix was moving the conference, I emailed Mr. Andregg(Who was chairman of the conference). His reply was that to keep the conference alive, it must be moved. I did appreciate getting any response at all, but I just wanted to shove it down his throat. He said that attendance had gone down that year on both sides of the fence(booths and attendants). Well, it couldn't have been because everyone was trying to make money and the cost of going to one of those expos isn't that cheap(mainly for the demonstrators). If they felt they had to move it, fine, but they could have kept it within traveling distance... not everyone can afford to take several days off and a damn plane ticket. The moving of the ATLANTA Linux Showcase to Cali-fornicate-ya was the most betrayed I have felt in a long time. I have done everything that I could to be an evagelist, and this is how I am repaid! I will use Linux until something better comes along that you don't have to sell your soul for.