[SoCoSA/discuss] Fwd: SysAdmins/Linux and Open Source at LugRadio Live USA 2008 in San Francisco

Tue Mar 18 19:16:23 PDT 2008

Hey,

Thought this might interest some of you, so passing it on.

----- Forwarded message from LugRadio <show at lugradio.org> -----

Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:21:04 +0000
From: LugRadio <show at lugradio.org>

Hi,

I just wanted to drop you a quick note about a community organised and
run Open Source and technology event that we have been working on that
your group may be interested in. It is called LugRadio Live USA 2008
and has over 35 well-known speakers, nearly 40 exhibitors and takes
place on the 12th and 13th April 2008 in San Francisco. It is very
much a community event, and designed for the community - we have been
working on it for the last six months or so with a large number of
volunteers. To make it as accessible as possible for people, we don't
believe in charging the $600-$1200 that other commercial shows do -
our show is just $10 for the full weekend.

We figured your group may be interested in LugRadio Live USA 2008, and
would love to see you there (we also have exhibition space available
if you would like to exhibit your group - it is free to exhibit!).

Also, we have an opportunity to win an Asus EEEPC or Neuros OSD, some
O'Reilly books and a limited edition LugRadio t-shirt, as well as a
bunch of prizes for your friends for recommending LugRadio Live USA
2008 to people. See the bottom of the announcement below for details

Anyway, below is the announcement of the show, if you could pass it
onto your members, that would be great. :)

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LugRadio Live USA 2008
12th and 13th April 2008
The Metreon, 101 4th St., San Francisco, CA, 94103

Registration for LugRadio Live USA 2008 is now open at
http://lugradio.org/live/USA2008/register, and tickets for the two-day
spectacular cost only $10 for the full weekend, including full access
to all talks, the exhibition, evening events, and a free bag o'swag
for visitors. Pre-registrations also enjoy additional benefits at the
show and the first 50 registrations will receive a free copy of Postal
2: Share The Pain (subject to age verification), thanks to Running
With Scissors. All pre-registrations will also be entered into a
raffle to win prizes by a variety of vendors.

LugRadio Live USA 2008, the 'rock-conference' from the team behind the
popular LugRadio podcast (http://www.lugradio.org), brings the
successful and unique formula of the UK LugRadio Live events to The
Metreon in San Francisco on the 12th and 13th April 2008. The event is
supported extensively by Google and also supported by Dice.
LinuxQuestions.org is a press partner.

LugRadio Live USA 2008 brings together over 35 speakers across three
stages, 30+ exhibitors, a range of BOF sessions, debate panels,
lightbulb talk sessions, demos and much more, all wrapped up in the
unique event that the UK incarnation has become known for, combining
an incredibly loose, social, inclusive, and amusing atmosphere - if
you are new to LugRadio Live, it is nothing you will have seen before.

Confirmed speakers for the event include:

 * Miguel de Icaza (Mono / Novell / Co-Founder Of GNOME)
 * Ian Murdoch (OpenSolaris / Founder Of Debian)
 * Robert Love (GNOME / Google)
 * Aza Raskin (Mozilla / Humanized)
 * Benjamin Mako Hill (Ubuntu / Debian / FSF)
 * John Buckman (Magnatune)
 * Val Henson (Kernel / VAH consulting)
 * Christopher Blizzard (Mozilla / GNOME)
 * Mike Linksvayer (Creative Commons)
 * Alex Graveley (VMWare / GNOME)
 * David Schleef (GStreamer)
 * Matthew Garrett (Power Management / Kernel)
 * Danese Cooper (Intel / OSI)
 * Aaron Bockover (Banshee / Novell)
 * Liana Holmberg (Second Life / Linden Lab)
 * Emma Jane Hogbin (Hick Tech)
 * Joe Zonker Brockmeier (OpenSuSE / Novell)
 * Kristen Accardi (Kernel)
 * David Lefty Schlesinger
 * Joe Born (Neuros)
 * Selena Deckelmann (PostgreSQL)
 * Stewart Smith (MySQL)
 * Dan Kegal (Wine)
 * Ben Collins (Ubuntu / Kernel)
 * Jason Kridner (Texas Instruments)
 * Jeremy Allison (Samba / Google)
 * Christian Hammond (VMWare)
 * Ian McKeller (Songbird)
 * Alison Randall (Parrot / Perl / OSCON)
 * David Huffman (LVM)
 * Brian Will (Pigeon)
 * Belinda Lopez (Ubuntu)
 * Ilan Rabanovich (SoCal Linux Expo)
 * Eddy Mulyono (Packaging)
 * Matthew Walster (Demo Scene)

The show will also involve a large exhibition area with a range of
projects, organisations and companies with plenty to see and do. The
first batch of confirmed exhibitors (at the show there will be another
twice as many exhibitors) include:

 * Google
 * Dice
 * GNOME
 * PostgreSQL
 * O'Reilly
 * OpenSuSE
 * Linden Labs
 * Magnatune
 * gOS
 * Neuros
 * Sun
 * Texas Instruments
 * South California Linux Expo
 * Komputers 4 R Kids
 * San Francisco LUG
 * BytesFree.org
 * Ontario Linux Fest
 * Frets on Fire
 * OpenNMS
 * One Course Source
 * Haiku
 * Hyperic
 * BitRock
 * Ubuntu
 * OpenStreetMap
 * The Digital Tipping Point
 * FreeBSD
 * Inkscape
 * Mandriva
 * OLPC San Francisco
 * Linux Pro Magazine
 * KDE
 * San Francisco Community Colocation Project
 * Indamixx
 * untangle
 * San Francisco Perl Mongers
 * ZaReason

In addition to this, the LugRadio team will be recording a live
performance of their cult-hit podcast, which has over 20,000
listeners, in front of the LugRadio Live USA 2008 audience - like the
UK event, this is always quite a spectacle, and excellent fun for all
involved.

More information about LugRadio Live USA 2008 can be found at
http://lugradio.org/live/USA2008/

##> REFER PEOPLE TO LUGRADIO LIVE USA 2008 AND WIN PRIZES!

Would you like to win an Asus EEEPC or Neuros OSD, some O'Reilly books
and a limited edition LugRadio t-shirt, as well as a bunch of prizes
for your friends too?

Easy. Simply encourage people to come to LugRadio Live USA 2008 and
ask them to pre-register at http://lugradio.org/live/USA2008/register
- when they do this, they will be asked for the person who referred
them. In this box they should type in *your name*. Now repeat with
lots of people. If you get the highest number of referrals (as in, the
most amount of people that said you referred them) you will win your
choice of an Asus EEEPC or Neuros OSD, as well as two O'Reilly books,
and a limited edition LugRadio t-shirt. Also, each of the people you
referred will get an O'Reilly book and a limited edition LugRadio
t-shirt too - so everyone is a winner! We will also have a runner-up
winner who will win the Asus EEEPC or Neuros OSD that is left - lots
of opportunity to win! Thanks to efficientpc.co.uk, Neuros and
O'Reilly for the prizes. :)

So...get people along to http://lugradio.org/live/USA2008/register and
tell them to tell us that you sent them!

Note: only people that have pre-registered a ticket and actually show
up to the event will be counted as referrals - no trying to stooge the
system, folks. :)

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Thanks!

  Jono and the LugRadio Live USA 2008 team

----- End forwarded message -----

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