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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. ALS? by Faux_Pseudo · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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    Ascii artist &
  2. 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.

    1. Re:Linux needs more flashy conferences by dangermouse · · Score: 3, Insightful
      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.

    2. Re:Linux needs more flashy conferences by taniwha · · Score: 4, Informative

      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)

  3. Re:Is it totally free? by place4linux · · Score: 3, Informative

    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

  4. Re:Is it totally free? by keithp · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  5. Free registration worth losing your freedom for? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    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 :-(