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GnomeDex 3.0

Posted by michael on from the come-all-ye-faithful dept.

HackerStickers writes "The Fellowship of the Geeks - Aka Gnomedex 3.0 is the geeks conference of the year. This weekend-long geek-a-thon has had upwards and over 500 attendees all having the common love of technology. Des Moines, Iowa is where the Geeks will tromp July 25th & 26th both in business and pleasure. The lockergnome crew will be there and the list of speakers keeps growing with great topics by Jim Louderback, your very own slashdot man - Rob Malda, Tim O'Reilly, and not-so-decided topics by both MS and Google."

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  1. Soooo what your saying.... by MeanE · · Score: 4, Funny

    is if I am looking for a place to pick up chicks this is not it?

  2. I'm going to make a prediction... by confused+philosopher · · Score: 5, Funny

    "the Geeks will tromp July 25th & 26th both in business and pleasure"

    I'm going to say that the pleasure is going to be limitted to "computer related" joy, and not associated with the female gender.

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  3. Des Moines? by binaryDigit · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm sure this will end up being the 30th post about this but, Des Moines? I guess the Des Moines tourist board lobbied hard to get GnomeDex. It probably came down to a choice between Des Moines, Bryan Texas, and "that little town outside of Salt Lake that no one can pronounce". I guess they are offering attendees all the corn they can eat and a free plastic pig snout? Is the conference being held in the back of a general store? Cheap rates at the Motel 6 Des Moines?

  4. Resolved: NOTGNOME by jdub! · · Score: 4, Informative

    Can someone please take this out of the GNOME section? It has utterly zip all to do with the far cooler, arse-kicking, totally Free Software GNOME Project.

    Thanks. :-)

  5. What do these small shows offer? by joeflies · · Score: 3, Insightful

    500 attendees is very small compared to the mega shows like JavaOne and RSA. What could one learn at this show that's not covered by the bigger shows or information that's above & beyond the standard press release/documentation of the products.

  6. Iowa by FortKnox · · Score: 5, Funny

    Des Moines, Iowa is where the Geeks will tromp July 25th & 26th both in business and pleasure.

    Bet you NEVER thought you'd ever read that sentence in a non-fictional sense, did ya? ;-)

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  7. Not GNOME-related by jejones · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's run by a guy named Chris Pirillo (who's from Des Moines, but since moved to California), who has a web site called lockergnome.com because someone tagged him with the nickname "Locker Gnome" in high school. It's nothing to do with GNOME, and when I was at GNOMEDEX last year about all there was to do with Linux period was a good talk by Doc Searls; aside from that it was M$ all the way. I can't vouch for this year, though.