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Annual Linux Showcase Free Registration

Posted by Hemos on from the not-much-booth-fluff dept.

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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  1. Linux needs more flashy conferences by aliebrah · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I just took a look at the website and it looks to be a very technical conference, rather than one of the high publicity big flashy conferences that I'm used to seeing advertised.

    I think that if Linux is to be more widely accepted by people then it needs to have conferences that appeal less to technies and sysadmins and more to executives who can go to these seminars and be wowed in the same way that they are wowed by Windows at Microsoft conferences.

    While I know this is meant to be a technical meet, I'm just saying that in general Linux needs more things like WinHEC (by Microsoft) to get the kind of support that it needs to really go mainstream. I wonder if all the large Linux OEMs could work together on something like this to show that Linux is a viable alternative for corporate platforms.

  2. Too many Left Coast conferences by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe the problem with attendance is the fact that they moved yet another conference to the Left Coast.

    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.