| A good-old-fashioned Linux show |
Sep. 05, 2006
If you want the business side of Linux, you should plan on going to LinuxWorld this coming February in New York City. But, if you'd like to go an old-fashioned Linux love fest, you can go to the Ohio LinuxFest in Columbus Ohio on September 30.
This year's Ohio LinuxFest will be held at the Greater Columbus Convention Center. The speakers will include Jon "maddog" Hall, Jeff Waugh, Chris DiBona, Jay Pipes, Michael Johnson, and Jorge Castro.
This year's lineup feature presentations from some of the most interesting voices in Linux and open source. Jeff Waugh, director of the GNOME foundation and winner of the Google/O'Reilly Open Source Award for Best Evangelist, will present a talk on "Linux for Human Beings." The closing keynote, on "The Next Steps" for free and open source, will be given by Jon "maddog" Hall, executive director of Linux International.
Google's open-source programs manager, Chris DiBona, will also deliver a presentation. His talk will be on how Google uses open source, and works with open source developers. Michael Johnson, co-founder of the Linux Documentation Project and first head of the Fedora Project, will introduce attendees to rBuilder and its related Conary software package manager.
The festival won't just be about the kind of stuff that Linux enthusiasts love. It will also include discussions of interest to IT managers.
For example, Jorge Castro, a member of the Ubuntu project and a system administrator, will discuss integrating Linux systems into a network using Windows Active Directory. There will also be a panel on Linux virtualization technologies, featuring HP's Ram Rao, VMware's Bob Good, and Annette Miller of IBM. MySQL's Jay Pipes will also be discussing best practices for tuning MySQL, and Christopher Browne of Afilias Canada will discuss new features in PostgreSQL.
You can find the complete lineup at the Ohio LinuxFest website.
Registration for the event is free for presentations, exhibit floor, and for the conference after-party. There is also an "All Conference Pass" available for $65. Pass-holders are entitled to lunch on the day of the conference, drink tickets for the conference after-party, vendor swag, access to the conference suite at the Holiday Inn, and a limited edition Ohio LinuxFest t-shirt. The deadline for registration is Friday, September 22.
Rooms are still available for those attending the LinuxFest from out of town, at the Midwest Hotel and Conference Center. One conference hotel has already sold out, so if you're thinking of going and staying, make your reservations now rather than later.
-- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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