Ohio LinuxFest Registration and Contest Deadline Extended
Registration for the 2010 Ohio LinuxFest has been extended through September 8th, and the registration contest has also been extended until the 1,000th registration has been reached.
One lucky registrant will win an upgrade to the Supporter Pass, or a Professional Pass registration for Ohio LinuxFest 2011 worth $350, at the choice of the winner. Full details are available at http://ohiolinux.org/who-will-be-number-1000.html Sign up today and have a chance to win!
Online registration also qualifies attendees for door prizes and giveaways the day of the conference.
As always, the main schedule takes place on Saturday. The schedule kicks off with a keynote from GNOME Foundation Executive Director Stormy Peters, followed by five tracks of talks from open source and Linux experts like Taurus Balog, Amber Graner, Catherine Devlin, Dru Lavigne, Paul Frields, and Jon ‘maddog’ Hall. This year’s OLF also features a special medical track for those interested in the use of free and open source software in medicine.
The final keynote will be a real treat for Linux and open source enthusiasts interested in free media. Christopher “Monty” Montgomery of Xiph.org will be talking about next generation open source media formats.
Once again the Ohio LinuxFest is free to all, but space is limited. Sign up today at http://ohiolinux.org/register.html If you want to support OLF, the organizers have made a supporter package available
for $65 that includes lunch and an OLF t-shirt. For those who want to attend Friday’s OLF University sessions, a professional pass is also available for $350.
The Ohio LinuxFest is a grassroots conference for the open source community that started in 2003 as an inter-LUG meeting and has grown steadily since to become the Midwest’s largest open source event. It’s an annual event for Linux and open source enthusiasts to gather, share information, and socialize.
The Perfect Apple Analogy
This comes from Jason Perlow, a tech columnist. He says that Apple is the North Korea of technology companies. It seems to be run by a relatively unhinged leader, everything is shrouded in darkness, and very little useful information leaks past its borders. See the full blog post here.
GIMP Links added
I am not an expert on the GIMP by any means, but I always like to improve. I have a digital camera now, and I want to get started taking pictures and doing things to them. We have a local camera club, and I have some friends there who are helping me to get started. Everyone in the Camera Club seems to be using Macintosh and Adobe Photoshop, and I don’t plan to use either. So I want to learn how to do all the same things on Linux using the GIMP. As part of my research I added some links to pages that seem pretty good.