Linux/FOSS cons?

Jon 'maddog' Hall maddog at li.org
Sun May 18 15:52:17 EDT 2008


First of all, I will echo Ben's suggestion not to miss an event just
because it is "business oriented", particularly if the Trade show is
free, and even more so if it is local.

Secondly, you did not mention your nephew's age.  Unfortunately some of
the "commercial" events (such as Linuxworld) exclude people younger than
18-21.

That having been said, your nephew just missed "Penguicon" for this
year:

http://www.penguicon.org/

but next year it will be held on May 1st to May 3rd.  How do I
know?...well, on December 13th, 2007 they asked me to speak at the 2009
meeting....

The Red Hat Summit is coming up in Boston.  Unfortunately there is also
a pretty hefty price tag ($695. for a student) to attend.

Ubuntu often has "social groups" that put on events.  You can find them
through their web pages.

If you do not mind traveling, there are a couple of good events each
year:

02_08-02_10 Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE)
Large, volunteer-driven event in Los Angeles

02_23-02_24 Fossdem, Belgium
Large Developer and End User Conference held once a year in Belgium.
Conference is free, which is why so many developers go there.  No trade
show, only tables

05_28-05_31 LinuxTag, Berlin
Large Developer and End User Conference (10,000 expected, 9600 last
year).  Low price for conference


06_23-06_29 Campus Party Columbia
First time in Columbia.  Others in Spain and Brazil have attracted up to
5000 high school, college and post-graduate students of all types of
programming abilities.

07_23-07_26 Ottowa Linux Symposium, Ottowa, Canada
Small, intimate conference of kernel and FOSS developers.  No trade
show.  No marketing talks.  500 or so attendees.

07_28-08_03 Campus Party Spain
5000+ high school, college and post-college programmers, not all
telephony, not all FOSS.


08_05-08_07 Cluecon - Telephony Developer's Conference, Chicago, IL -
speaking slots still available (no speaker travel)%
Open Source Telephony Developer's conference

08_09-08_16 DebConf, Mar del Plata, Argentina
Debian (large, really Free, distribution) developer's conference


08_20-08_22 JRSL - BA Argentina
A "non-Deb" centric FOSS event in Buenos Arie

10_11-10_11 Ohio Linux Fest
One day community driven Linux event in Columbus, Ohio


10_25-10_25 Ontario Linux Fest - Toronto, Canada
FOSS event in Toronto, more or less "community"


10_30-11_01 Latinoware - Foz do Igguassu, Brazil
Large FOSS event at juncture of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay, draws
developers from many SA countries


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