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Linuxfest Northwest

Posted by michael on from the fun-for-the-whole-family-except-your-parents-and-siblings dept.

An Yong Zheng writes "Linuxfest Northwest is being held on Saturday, April 26 at Bellingham Technical College in Bellingham, Washington. LFNW is a grassroots event put on by a coalition of Pacific Northwest Linux user groups to showcase what Northwest Linux users are doing with Linux and Open Source software. It features a keynote speech by Jon "maddog" Hall from Linux International, lots of great presentations and tutorials, displays of the various cool things that Linux can do, Free Stuff, etc. Click here for more information and here for the schedule of events!"

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  1. Archives? by knightinshiningarmor · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Will any of this event be broadcast live or recorded for later streaming? I'm guessing most of us don't live in the northwest..

  2. displays of cool things by toddhunter · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But do they have a wall of 50 computer monitors running full-screen xeyes?

  3. Irony: giving out free OSS/etc at the Fest by Brian+Hatch · · Score: 3, Interesting
    You want irony? We're going to be near the belly of the beast, and we're going to have all sorts of open source / free software related freebies and raffles. I know of at least the following:

    • Bill Wright (aka the "Hunter Gatherer Penguin") is the main raffle/freebie/swag organizer, and has some books donated by O'Reilly, as well as who knows what else.

    • I've gotten about 40 books (security, perl, linux, web dev, etc) from McGraw-Hill, Addison-Wesley, NewRiders, and Sams, as well as a few copies of EnGarde Linux by Guardian Digital, and possibly some swag from Gibraltar Software. I'll also have some of my books for raffle/signing/etc.

    • Jeremy Reed of ReedMedia will be giving out a boatload of FreeBSD cds. Or maybe that was NetBSD cds. I forget.

    • But, for the real irony, Lee Fisher will be providing some Microsoft .NET development CDs at the LinuxFest.

    There will undoubtably be plenty of freebies at the booths and presentations, so if you want to come and can't justify it to yourself, just think of it as a free Open Source swag shopping spree.