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OhioLinuxfest 2004 Gearing Up

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the places-to-go dept.

Damin writes "The Ohio LinuxFest is a free event, open to all interested on a first-come, first-serve basis. Aside from the impressive lineup of speakers, what makes this event so cool is that it is organized entirely by volunteers from all of the Ohio LUGS. Last year, people travelled from nine states to participate. The event will be hosted at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday, October 2nd, from 10:00AM until 6:00PM. While this is a free event, registration is required. Full details & registration information can be found at the event's website."

11 comments

  1. Yay by oKtosiTe · · Score: 1

    I live too far away to attend...

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    1. Re:Yay by macdaddy357 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Did anyone invite Darl McBride? I've got some rottern eggs!

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    2. Re:Yay by puff+the+barbarian · · Score: 1

      Usually, I'm lamenting as well, 'cause all of the conferences are too far from me.
      I live in Columbus; this one's for me!

  2. Another repost....... by Nagatzhul · · Score: 2, Funny

    http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/23/ 1325228&tid=163&tid=106&tid=218

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  3. free? by pizza_milkshake · · Score: 2, Funny

    how good could something be if people just give it away? ;)

  4. Free and Worth Every Minute! by william_lorenz · · Score: 3, Informative

    We're not a 501c3 organization this year, and so we don't have the needed infrastructure in order to charge for admission. We do have some CafePress gear available with a $1.00 markup on each item to help us cover some of the costs we're footing from our personal funds. No donations required, though. Besides, it's better when it's free (sex AND conferences)! ;)

    We have some excellent speakers coming in this year from Red Hat, Novell (SUSE), the Apache Software Foundation, the Samba Team, and more. We're having an excellent speaker on the Asterisk PBX for Linux and VoIP technologies.

    Hosted at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio and with plenty to see and do in the city during the visit, as well! I'm looking forward to seeing a lot of friends this year, and the afterparty should be grand!

  5. Volunteers by Brandybuck · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...what makes this event so cool is that it is organized entirely by volunteers...

    I'm so glad they've stopped the practice of involuntary servitude...

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  6. Just Registered by mrkurt · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Geez, this is just down the street from me. I am grateful that the organizers were able to get some vendors and OSS people to attend; even with the Internet, it's still useful for people in the Linux/OSS community to get together F2F.


    If you don't already attend a LUG or computer user group, consider joining one or starting one-- the outreach to your city/town/neighborhood reinforces that OSS is a community effort, even if it's a global community.

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    1. Re:Just Registered by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      agreed. im not in one. i live in wooster, ohio.
      i have a hell of a time finding people who know how to even operate a computer. much less install a unix or unix-clone operating system. pesh. :/ what a horrible world we live in, where kids arent taught at a young age, how to install minix, bsd, hpux, linux and more. what has this world come to? ;)

      i think im going to attend. but i have no for sure way of knowing, until the day of. so i've registered. hopefully i'll be able to meet up with other zealots.. and lets pray they don't hate gentoo users ;)