A New FOSS Conference Comes to Florida (Video)

Bryan Smith has worked with the organizers of several Linux and Open Source events and has spoken at more than a few, but he has always wanted to see more FOSS events in Florida, the state where he lives. There was a Florida Linux Show back in 2008 and 2009, but all that remains of it today is a "ghost" Web page. But that's the past. This year Bryan has put together FOSSETCON, which debuts this September 11 - 13 in Orlando. It's an ambitious undertaking -- but Bryan has rounded up a lot of solid sponsors, and that's often the key to holding a successful IT event. (Alternate Video Link)

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Wrestling

[Anonymous Coward]

Can we get a wrestling ring put in somewhere during the conference, and have a pro-systemd and con-systemd tag team match? That would finally settle the thing, once and for all.

Re:Wrestling

[Anonymous Coward]

Then you can all watch as I wrestle myself into nothingness. Unable to to discern to logical flow of a sysvinit from the madness of an event-based multithreaded startup stack. Poof, I am blinked out of existence into obscurity.

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[Hillgiant]

What happened /.?
It's like I don't even know you anymore.

Finally...

[gabereiser]

After spending a decade in Orlando, FL and recently moving to a whole other state, I can say the lack of local conferences (other than a few HTML5 ones that came and went as nothing more than a novelty *Senchacon*) was one of those things I wish weren't true. Like bands, no one likes to visit florida unless it's for a large eared mouse or to die. On second thought, no one wants to visit florida... Nothing to see here, move along.

Re:Finally...

[CohibaVancouver]

Like bands, no one likes to visit florida unless it's for a large eared mouse or to die. On second thought, no one wants to visit florida... Nothing to see here, move along

Florida is awesome:

Kennedy Space Center

Miami Beach

Marco Island

Key West - Where else can you *drive* to the Caribbean?

-Not- Bryan S Smith...

[Mr Foobar]

But Bryan A Smith. Two different Bryans Smith's.
Thought I should clarify that.

Interesting line up

[Anonymous Coward]

There are quite a few interesting talks happening, people, and organizations/companies @ this event:

Robert Call will be presenting the first 100% free software distribution for embedded systems and talking about the security ramifications of poorly designed and maintained routers on the market.

Canonical will be at the event and holding Ubucon (a Ubuntu-centric community oriented event). This is interesting as Canonical killed off its own event a few years back and doesn't attend many shows.

Libby Reinish will be talking about the Free Software Foundation's Respect Your Freedom Certification program.

ThinkPenguin, Inc, one of the largest (?and only?) and only free software friendly retailers will be at the showing off new variety of new devices including a 100% free software router (soon to be RYF certified).

Deb Nicholson will be talking about software patents.

Canonical, Redhat, HP, NVIDIA, and a number of other big players will be at the event.

Bradley M. Kuhn, the president of the Software Freedom Conservancy will be talking about copyleft licensing and how it impacts you.

* All this mixed in with a lot of more technical speeches, cloud computing, Steam OS, adrino, apache, docker, virtualization and containment, openstack, code review, raspberry pi, ZFS filesystem, freebsd, centos, fedora, openbsd, orangefs, databases, game development, mysql, xen, and a bunch of others.

Re:Interesting line up

[Anonymous Coward]

Orlando is not quite a couple of hours down the road.

BUT--I sure wish I had heard of this sooner. This conference starts less than a week from now.

Rma8e

[Anonymous Coward]

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