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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. Why Bellingham? by Chokai · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Unless it's because of facility cost I can't see why. Bellingham is about a 2 hour drive from Seattle, where most of the Linux users in the Northwest are anyways!. I'd pay $10 to have it at some campus in the Seattle area rather than pay $15 in gas to get to Bellingham. Oh well.

    1. Re:Why Bellingham? by Doddster · · Score: 5, Informative

      There are a few reasons for Bellingham, not the least of which is facilities cost. Esentially, we get the venue and a phenomenal amount of on-site support in exchange for providing some publicity for the school. Also, most of the core organizers are Bellingham locals. This is a yearly thing and our first attempt at getting other LUG's involved. We've talked about moving to a more centralized location, but it depends on a lot of factors which include things like the level of interest of other lugs, the amount of vendor response, etc.

  2. Re:Archives? by Doddster · · Score: 4, Funny

    We'll be recording Maddog's speech, and I'm sure there will be a few video cameras around. Someone will probably edit together a video of the event. I hear Windows Movie Maker is great for that kind of thing!

  3. If you live more than 20 mile from Canada... by OwnerOfWhinyCat · · Score: 5, Informative

    Then you're probably going to come at Bellingham from the South.

    In which case, the best place to get great road snacks (fresh baked scones, muffins, bread, coffees) and non-greasy (no fryers in the place) food on the trip is probably going to be the Calico Cupboard in Mt. Vernon, near exit 226.

    I always find myself stopping there on the way to Seattle. Taking exit 226 and turning West on Kincaid street, you'll hit 1st street. Turning north onto 1st, you'll drive past a good pizza place, a great Thai restaurant and an outstanding (hippie, veganesque) food co-oop all on the right with substantial amounts of serv in food (I'd call it a deli, but I don't recall any meat there :) ). Just across Division, the large brick building on the left is CC, and there is a pretty decent bookstore attached (and accessible from the restaurant while your waiting).

    On the East side of the freeway a mile North is a decent sized mall with a many-screens movie theater (a Google-Plex?) and a See's Candies for any family members that will be bored to tears at a LinuxFest. Adjacent to those (to the South) is a largish outlet mall as well (for the shopping addicted).

    I hope this is of help to those whose families are not entirely composed of Penguinistas; Hope to see you there.