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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.
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.