Lulu Tech Circus
Stacy Doster writes "Lulu Tech Circus, the latest endeavor of Red Hat co-founder Bob Young, is coming to Raleigh, NC, Sept 27-29th. Then on to Boston, DC, Chicago, Toronto and Atlanta. Lulu Tech Circus is going to have everything geek - Don Becker, LAN tournaments, a swap meet, Robot building and more. Check out the cool experiences. Stop by or nominate yourself or someone you know in the Raleigh area for The Lulus. Three Lulus will be given to the three winning uber-geeks. The winning prize is a trip for two to Kennedy Space Center."
Mildly interesting tangent, we had a sales guy from this group show up at our second Slashdot Meetup in Raleigh, NC. He showed up and pretended to be interested in Slashdot and geek stuff, but really was trying to recruit people to show up or present or whatever. I was never quite sure what he wanted, but he really came across as a sales guy.
He made sure everyone used the right buzzwords.. it's not a conference, it's not a trade show.. I don't remember what he called it, but I wasn't impressed. He had to explain what the heck a Lulu was (all I could remember was the little girl from my mom's old comic books). One of the guys I was with had a beef with RedHat, as well, as he had lost a tad of money, and the guy who was starting Lulu Tech Circus was still making tons off it.
Anyways, the guy was giving out cards and stuff, but he didn't really impress anyone, I don't think. We were far more impressed with the fact that the bar we happened upon had a wireless network and two people had randomly brought laptops..