Prospective upcoming ones

Collaboration Summit

April 8-10 2009

in San Francisco, CA

http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit

invitation only
steve gave a talk; zahl was on a panel

Northwest Linuxfest

April 25-26 2009

in Bellingham, WA (south of Seattle)

http://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/

see Dan's page for planning:

https://techbase.kde.org/User:Danborne/NWLF

we had a booth
we had speakers (zahl, chani, jefferai, condordes)
hardware transport was problematic (shipping to school)
gave out candy and pepsi

Penguicon

May 1-3 2009

http://www.penguicon.org/

in Romulus, Michigan

This one is just goofy: a science fiction convention mixed with an open source convention. Nixternal went one year and had a blast. We've missed getting on the program, though, and this isn't something where you'd do a booth.

Southeast LinuxFest

June 13 2009

http://wiki.southeastlinuxfest.org/index.php/Main_Page

in Clemson, South Carolina

Registration is open as of March 11, 2009
geiseri is in BIG BOLD on the front page as giving a talk. :D anybody else?
Presenting: gesieri, ?
Attending: geiseri, ?
Possibly attending: ?

Gran Canaria

July 3-11 2009

just noting....

O'Reilly's Oscon

July 20-24 2009 During the week

in San Jose, California

http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009

we have a booth, maybe can get someone to do unconference talks?
Probably big; Probably somewhat corporate
Unconference presenting: ?
Definitely attending: ?
Possibly attending: alex/zahl

LinuxWorld (SF)

August 12-13

in San Francisco, CA

http://linuxworldexpo.com/

This is now called "open source world"; very corporate
Big, but not as big as it once was
more disorganized... contacts unreachable
Looks like we are skipping.

Atlanta Linux Fest

September 19 2009 (Software Freedom Day)

in Atlanta, Georgia

http://atlantalinuxfest.org/

There is a call for papers right now (as of March 21, 2009), they can be emailed to:

papers at atlantalinuxfest.org

Presenting: ?
Possibly attending: mpyne
Definitely attending: ?

LinuxCon

September 21-23 2009

in Portland, OR

http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon

Check cfp?
Presenting:
Possibly attending:
Definitely attending:

Ohio Linuxfest

Sept 26 2009

in Columbus, Ohio

http://ohiolinux.org

inquires:

Locals nearby willing to help? People who are familiar with it and have been? We currently have nothing set up.

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