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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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second one! who-hoo!
I've been to a few of these things. For the most part they are kind of interesting but I'm not as hard core as most of the attendees. Casual Linux users would be lost. I kinda like the free swag though.
icksnay on hacking my boxsnay.
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i will check your site out now
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theres fucking nothing there!
In the past, this has been the Altanta Linux Showcase
I think I'd prefer to fly to Atlanta where the CDC is. That way, I wouldn't have to wait for my swabs to be overnighted for the anthrax test. Just kidding. I'd really love to go, but I'd miss my youngest's birthday.
We know that many of you have been impacted by the economic downturn...
Yes! Or there are those of us who never were (financially) well-sponsored enough to get into things like this, it's nice to see us fitting in with the crowd.
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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
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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.
What does Linux have to do with a computer case show? People will insert "Linux" anywhere to get posted on slashdot these days.
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Jesse Jackson, target of more than three hundred Cruise missiles, has
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the next thing you know he had social engineered us into the deal."
The Rev. Jackson, while in training for his Celebrity Death Match in
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"Black & Black 4 Life" his entrance music will be available in
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Only dead fish swim with the stream...
JonKatz and Osama like animals. You could even say they love animals. In their
spare time, JonKatz and Osama express their immense love for animals in their own
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JonKatz and Osama made their way into the lab where the animal experiments
were conducted. A cute, fuzzy rabbit had caught their eye...
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Osama tightly fastened the leather straps and was ready to begin.......
Osama began to "grease up". Shoving endless amounts of vaseline and baby
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wheezing.
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the hospital grounds, knowing with confidence that they would strike again,
somewhere, soon.
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.
Why would I want to attend a show that Usenix hijacked from Atlanta?
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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.
I have to agree. I was among the first to test some of the latest Windows XP betas (codenamed "leopard seal") and it rocks! While the linux community is flipping a coin to decide which half-baked memory management subsystem should be put in the next stable release, you can count on a robust, modern, well-designed and professional release from Microsoft. Windows XP is so good that you'll regret having bought Windows 2000. Do leopard seals eat penguins btw?
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Just what I need to make my laptop a terrorist device and destroy my business with its hidden features. I'm rushing out for my copy today.
Even better, send this conference to NYC. We need the dollars right now, shops are closing left and right.
Because of the attacks we've lost countless number of vistor, not to mention trade shows and
the traffic that they bring
I'm not trying to be greedy (the whole country is in a slump right now) but an injection like this could seriously help out the local economy (and my favorite computer store that is being forced to close due to lack of business).
Every little bit helps.
How many times do I have to tell you that blow-up dolls arn't actually humans...
..otherwise it's just lame to have LWE in August and then ALS 2 months later...and right across the bay.
Great, another Oakland vs San Francisco contest. Did Mayor Jerry Brown cook this one up as well?
I can see the headlines on the brochures now:
"Come meet all the sharks and carpetbaggers, reminisce about the good ol' days when it was still fun, and learn about the new and exciting ways they make money off your work!"
No thanks. I think i'll pass on this one.
Bowie J. Poag
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.
I always thought ALS meant: Atlanta Linux Showcase. Once it moved, it lost its luster. I think there are already enough Linux shows in that part of the country. ALS filled the void for us folks too timid to go Yankee.
I wish the ALS was still in Atlanta. We'all really enjoy watching Eric Raymond dance.
Eep. I dunno about you guys, but you'd have to pay me to go to Oakland... some scary stuff going on there...
I totally agree with AC on this:
:-(
-snip-
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
-snip-
And the USofA is now even more of a big brother state that when this was written
and I also like goats!
If not, plane tickets are really cheap right now!
Sheah, due to the fact that a bunch of friggin jerks are TAKING PLANES OVER AND CRASHING THEM INTO BUILDINGS!
I personally don't think I'll be flying again for a while. Tell me what you will about the probability of getting struck by lightning, but at least people have a chance of actually surviving a lightning strike.
The ALS, I'm afraid, is going to have to wait until I'm told that Steven Seagall, Chuck Norris, Mr. T, Hulk Hogan, Jackie Chan, Jesse Ventura and Jet Li will all be on the same damn plane with me...
"Sweet creeping zombie Jesus!"
-The Professor, Futurama
appearantly you don't quite understand... I belief there now are armed personal on about every flight... I don't think a terrorist with a boxcutter is going to kill a person who shoots for
+/- 2 hours a day just to be sure he isn't going to hit the aircraft itself!!!
Sig you!
There aren't enough sky marshals to fly on even one percent of daily flights in the US.
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.
there are 3 kinds of people:
* those who can count
* those who can't
Frankly, I'd trade all those actors you listed for just one actual trained law enforcement person... :-)
Well, there is an Amtrak station not too far away in Oakland, and Amtrak does offer a lot more leg & laptop room than any airline.
That makes as much sense as denouncing Amnesty International because they work in countries that torture people.
-- Will program for bandwidth
> We are making this extraordinary offer because we believe the
> networking opportunities and high-caliber technical content at ALS
> '01 provide an important service to the general open source community
> and to our membership.
should read:
We are making this extraordinary offer because if we don't no one will show
up and we're going to lose our ass. We admit it. We finally looked at our
registration and realized that we needed more than the three people who have
already signed up. oh, dear.... Maybe we should have stayed in Atlanta,
although refuse to admit this out loud because it would be the final straw
on our camel's pathetic back.
ALS - when it was the ATLANTA Linux Showcase - was a techie's dream. A small show with lots of Birds of a Feather sessions and immediate access to the folks actually doing things. I attended the past three years. Last year I got to go to the OpenSource Conference in Monterey but found ALS more enjoyable.
But I won't travel to Oakland for ALS. There are too many other shows competing. In Atlanta they were the only show around and the quality showed. Atlanta is also a day-trip for me whereas Oakland requires effort.