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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. 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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  6. 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.