Ohio LinuxFest 2010

The Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) 8x is happening this weekend, February 19-21, 2010, at the Westin LAX in Los Angeles, California.

Look Into Shawn's Eye...If you dare!

Last week warned you concerning Shawn Powers lurking around this website. Now he is hypnotising the Ohio LinuxFest audience with a Linux Journal: 2010 Linux Odyssey sticker. We've got word that he intends on passing them out at the Ohio LinuxFest. Don't get stuck with one of them and avoid at all costs Shawn's LTSP class and his 8:30AM Saturday keynote. If you happen to catch Shawn in the act, be sure to tell him, enough with the coupon codes. As if we wanted to dress like him anyhow.

The Source released a video interview of Elizabeth Garbee at the Ohio LinuxFest 2008. Back for the second year, Elizabeth will talk about how she's going to college next year and using her interest in open source to pay for it. If you are a high schooler, a college student, or a parent, you can't afford not to see this talk at the Ohio LinuxFest on September 26. In the meantime, see these videos from The Source:

• MP4 - 25MB (Best Quality)
• Theora - 25MB
• Xvid (Nokia Compatible) - 25MB

You can look around here on the Ohio LinuxFest site and see the lists of speakers and presentations and a bunch of other details, but there is one thing you will not be able to discover unless you actually come to Columbus.

What other group will we be oddly paired with?

As a charter member of LOPSA, I'm pleased to announce that the Ohio LinuxFest will be working together with the League of Professional System Administrators to create OLFU.: top-notch Sysadmin Training Ohio LinuxFest style.

Travis Campbell of LOPSA placed the following press release on the wire:
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LOPSA, the League of Professional System Administrators, is proud to announce that, for the third year in a row, it is partnering with the Ohio Linux Fest to present a day-long tutorial program called OLFU.
 

To someone who grew up in an era when state-of-the-art communications meant the phone¹, today's Internet offers a dazzling array of options. Users and developers of Linux and Free Software can use e-mail, forums, the multifarious forms of chat, wikis, and much more to talk with one another at any moment of the day. And it's true that without these channels, many Free Software projects simply wouldn't exist.

But as I once saw a person² put it, "I think of everyone on the Internet as a brain in a jar." Despite the massive value of today's electronic communications, there is still a level of detachment that comes with them.