For Atlanta Linux Fest 2009 and UbuCon Atlanta 2009, Mark was kind enough to sit down with us and announce Ubuntu 10.04: Lucid Lynx.
If you can’t see it, click here.
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Ubuntu @ Atlanta Linux Fest 2009
UbuCon @ Atlanta Linux Fest 2009
On and off the last few months, we have been thinking about having an UbuCon as part of Atlanta Linux Fest (ALF).We struggled with the notion that an UbuCon would make ALF seem biased towards Ubuntu, which was not our intention. Even though the Georgia LoCo is doing most of the heavy lifting, we didn’t want to make it uncomfortable for other distributions to participate.
After lots of hemming and hawing, Amber Graner took charge and decided to run with UbuCon Atlanta. In hindsight, it should have been a no-brainer. Looking at the presentations, there will be lots of speakers who are part of the Ubuntu community, and plenty of individuals from neighboring LoCos will be attending. Why not take the opportunity for various parts of the community to come together, learn, teach, share experiences, and most importantly, have fun?
UbuCon will be run like an unconference. On the day of ALF, there will be a whiteboard, where community members can sign up to lead a session on anything Ubuntu related. But if you already have an idea of what you want to talk about, sign up here.
Is Your Hardware Ready for Karmic?
Several members of the Ubuntu Kernel Team are going to be on hand to help determine if your hardware will work with the upcoming Ubuntu 9.10 release. They will have custom built USB sticks that can be booted and used to run a test suite. This will not touch the hard disk and will let users know what of the new kernel/hardware features will work on their machines, like KMS.
Live Hack Session
Interested in learning how to hack drivers? The Kernel Team will be running a live hack session to show you how. Using a USB dongle that is a thermometer and a “shell” driver, users will be taken through writing the drivers, compiling it, and running it.
Hotels
If you are visiting Atlanta for this event, there is a block of hotel rooms being held ALF. To get the best rates, they should be booked by September 1st. To find out more, see here.
To find out more about Atlanta Linux Fest 2009, visit http://atlantalinuxfest.org.
Atlanta Linux Fest 2009
To coincide with Software Freedom Day, Atlanta Linux Fest 2009 will be held on Saturday, September 19th 2009!
We have lots of exciting talks lined up this year! Paul Frields and David Nalley will be showing off the Fedora community, lots of Ubuntu representation, with Rick Clark (Server Team manager), Pete Graner (Kernel Team manager), Ken Vandine discussing the desktop, Richard Johnson covering KDE/Kubuntu, John Pugh doing virtualization, and Daniel Chen will be giving his vaunted PulseAudio talk.
Sure its called Atlanta Linux Fest, but we want to spread the love to all open source projects. Roger Wickes is a certified Blender trainer and will be talking…well, Blender; Tarus Balog, CEO of openNMS will discuss running an open source business; Josh Sweeney on the cool stuff you can do with SugarCRM; multi-site Drupal Management by Michael Haynes and David Tomaschik; Mark Hinkle on Zenoss; also, Michelle and Michael Hall will present our favorite distro for children, Qimo 4 Kids. Last but not least, Rikki Kite will present “Her PR Problem — Tooting the Horns of Women in Open Source.”
Registration for Atlanta Linux Fest 2009 is free (but required if you want to use the wifi!).
To keep with updates, follow http://twitter.com/atllinuxfest or http://identi.ca/atllinuxfest.
To find out more, visit http://atlantalinuxfest.org.
Countdown to Atlanta Linux Fest 2008
This Saturday, from 11am to 6pm, the Ubuntu Georgia LoCo will be sponsoring the Atlanta Linux Fest (ALF).
ALF will be a non-distro specific event, part install fest, part demos.
Let me provide some background on how ALF came into being. Around six weeks ago, Joshua Chase, who runs the Georgia LoCo, Jim Popovich, and I were lounging around our favorite cigar store. We were trying to come up plans for a fun event.
Now, the Georgia LoCo holds real life meetings every month or so. We’ve held install fests for Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04 at Emory University. Forty to fifty people have shown up for both.
But we wanted something more interesting. Considering none of us had any experience organizing such a thing, we thought we should start small.
A linux fest seemed like a good way to test the waters. Atlanta Linux Fest was born.
Jim works at IBM and they have large amounts of office space and conference venues around Atlanta. He secured us a location pretty quickly. Since we didn’t need money for space, there was no reason to look for sponsorship.
Next, we needed to figure out why people would want to attend. The install fest part is easy to understand. Potential new Linux users could get help with installation, current users could get help with any problems they were having. But we wanted attendees to get something more out of ALF. Powerpoint presentations can be mind numbing. So we have decided to do live demos instead. Then we started asking people what they would like to show others.
In the meantime, we needed to find ways to market the event. Since this isn’t an Ubuntu only event, we wanted to get other distributions involved. Jorge Castro suggested I talk to Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier, the openSUSE community manager, and contact Paul Frields, the Fedora Project Leader. Paul got me in touch with David Nalley, who is a Fedora Ambassador, and had attended a previous Ubuntu install fest. David will be demoing Fedora 10 at ALF.
Zonker in turn introduced me to Ilan Rabinovitch, the chairperson of the famous SCALE. Both of them provided great advice on how to get the word out there, especially using existing news outlets. I didn’t realize how easy it is to get published on Linux Today, Linux.com, and Linux PR, simply by filling out web forms on the respective sites!
David passed on my information to Dave Yates, host of the lottalinuxlinks.com podcast, and he interviewed me about ALF. Jon Reagan, the hardest working member of the Georgia LoCo, got ALF mentioned on the Linux Action Show. Jon and Carter Sills did a marvelous job posting about ALF to lots of Linux-related forums.
After all that, we also settled on a set of demos:
- Dual booting (Carter)
- Fedora 10 (David Nalley)
- Virtualization (Joshua)
- Privacy and Encryption with SSH and GPG (David Tomaschik)
- IBM Symphony (Jim)
- Gaming (Bill, aka compiledkernel)
We will also stream video (and record for posterity) from ALF. Keep an eye on the website for more details if you can’t attend. With the ever increasing use of Twitter and Identi.ca, we’ll try to use those tools to keep everyone up to date once it kicks off (twitter.com/atllinuxfest and identi.ca/atlantalinuxfest).
You can’t hold an event like this and have no swag. Thanks to Zonker and openSUSE for shipping us goodies to hand out.
It slipped my mind that we could get a conference pack from ShipIt. I hurriedly put in an order, hoping that it would arrive in time. It did. In 3 days. Don’t believe me? Check out the tracking number.
Dan Trevino and members of Florida LoCo will also be joining us to celebrate Software Freedom Day. Several folks from the Alabama LoCo will be attending as well.
After doing these few things, ALF has gotten to be a considerably larger than we expected.
And we are excited!
Hope you all can attend.
