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Linuxfest Northwest

Posted by michael on Wed Apr 23, 2003 12:57 AM
from the fun-for-the-whole-family-except-your-parents-and-siblings dept.
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An Yong Zheng writes "Linuxfest Northwest is being held on Saturday, April 26 at Bellingham Technical College in Bellingham, Washington. LFNW is a grassroots event put on by a coalition of Pacific Northwest Linux user groups to showcase what Northwest Linux users are doing with Linux and Open Source software. It features a keynote speech by Jon "maddog" Hall from Linux International, lots of great presentations and tutorials, displays of the various cool things that Linux can do, Free Stuff, etc. Click here for more information and here for the schedule of events!"
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  • Of course, for ultimate irony value... (Score:3, Funny)

    by JessLeah (625838) on Wednesday April 23 2003, @01:00AM (#5787355)
    ...they could have hosted it in Redmond...

    (DUCKS!) ;)
    • Re:Of course, for ultimate irony value... by NoRemorse (Score:1) Wednesday April 23 2003, @01:30AM
    • List of Luminaries by Werner Deitel (Score:1) Wednesday April 23 2003, @09:39AM
    • You want irony? We're going to be near the belly of the beast, and we're going to have all sorts of open source / free software related freebies and raffles. I know of at least the following:

      • Bill Wright (aka the "Hunter Gatherer Penguin") is the main raffle/freebie/swag organizer, and has some books donated by O'Reilly, as well as who knows what else.

      • I've gotten about 40 books (security, perl, linux, web dev, etc) from McGraw-Hill, Addison-Wesley, NewRiders, and Sams, as well as a few copies of EnGarde Linux by Guardian Digital, and possibly some swag from Gibraltar Software. I'll also have some of my books for raffle/signing/etc.

      • Jeremy Reed of ReedMedia [reedmedia.com] will be giving out a boatload of FreeBSD cds. Or maybe that was NetBSD cds. I forget.

      • But, for the real irony, Lee Fisher will be providing some Microsoft .NET development CDs at the LinuxFest.

      There will undoubtably be plenty of freebies at the booths and presentations, so if you want to come and can't justify it to yourself, just think of it as a free Open Source swag shopping spree.

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  • Why Bellingham? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Chokai (10224) <kyleshep@hot m a i l . c om> on Wednesday April 23 2003, @01:03AM (#5787361)
    Unless it's because of facility cost I can't see why. Bellingham is about a 2 hour drive from Seattle, where most of the Linux users in the Northwest are anyways!. I'd pay $10 to have it at some campus in the Seattle area rather than pay $15 in gas to get to Bellingham. Oh well.

  • Mono (Score:4, Informative)

    by AirLace (86148) on Wednesday April 23 2003, @01:14AM (#5787397)
    I've been tipped off that the Mono guys are going to be showing their latest hacks. Look out for Jackson Harper's presentation.
    • Re:Mono by Kurt Russell (Score:1) Wednesday April 23 2003, @01:23AM
    • Re:Mono by puppetluva (Score:2) Wednesday April 23 2003, @06:42AM

  • Archives? (Score:2, Interesting)

    by knightinshiningarmor (653332) on Wednesday April 23 2003, @01:40AM (#5787458)
    Will any of this event be broadcast live or recorded for later streaming? I'm guessing most of us don't live in the northwest..

    • Re:Archives? (Score:4, Funny)

      by Doddster (615609) on Wednesday April 23 2003, @01:42AM (#5787465)
      We'll be recording Maddog's speech, and I'm sure there will be a few video cameras around. Someone will probably edit together a video of the event. I hear Windows Movie Maker is great for that kind of thing!
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    • Re:Archives? by rotten_ (Score:1) Wednesday April 23 2003, @01:50AM
    • Re:Archives? by Brian Hatch (Score:2) Wednesday April 23 2003, @08:56AM
    • Re:Archives? by Doddster (Score:1) Wednesday April 23 2003, @02:18AM
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  • ...so I can piss on the cd's and light them on fire.

  • displays of cool things (Score:2, Interesting)

    by toddhunter (659837) on Wednesday April 23 2003, @01:54AM (#5787493)
    But do they have a wall of 50 computer monitors running full-screen xeyes?

  • And while your here... (Score:2)

    by httpamphibio.us (579491) on Wednesday April 23 2003, @02:27AM (#5787576)
    Feel free to pick this [ebay.com] up from me...

  • Community (Score:2)

    by rf0 (159958) <rghf@fsck.me.uk> on Wednesday April 23 2003, @02:28AM (#5787579)
    (http://www.a2b2.com/)
    Its nice to see groups binding together like this to bring a message to the general populus or at least other geeks :)

    Rus

  • Lies! (Score:1)

    by Tuxinatorium (463682) on Wednesday April 23 2003, @02:36AM (#5787597)
    (http://anti-dmca.org/)
    I triple guarantee you, Linux does not exist! It is a fabrication of the lying American-owned Al-Jazeera! I will take you there and prove it IN ONE HOUR!

  • Linux? (Score:2)

    by MisterFancypants (615129) on Wednesday April 23 2003, @02:54AM (#5787643)
    Linux is still around? I thought those guys went out of business.

  • If you live more than 20 mile from Canada... (Score:5, Informative)

    by OwnerOfWhinyCat (654476) on Wednesday April 23 2003, @03:24AM (#5787757)
    Then you're probably going to come at Bellingham from the South.

    In which case, the best place to get great road snacks (fresh baked scones, muffins, bread, coffees) and non-greasy (no fryers in the place) food on the trip is probably going to be the Calico Cupboard [mapquest.com] in Mt. Vernon, near exit 226.

    I always find myself stopping there on the way to Seattle. Taking exit 226 and turning West on Kincaid street, you'll hit 1st street. Turning north onto 1st, you'll drive past a good pizza place, a great Thai restaurant and an outstanding (hippie, veganesque) food co-oop all on the right with substantial amounts of serv in food (I'd call it a deli, but I don't recall any meat there :) ). Just across Division, the large brick building on the left is CC, and there is a pretty decent bookstore attached (and accessible from the restaurant while your waiting).

    On the East side of the freeway a mile North is a decent sized mall with a many-screens movie theater (a Google-Plex?) and a See's Candies for any family members that will be bored to tears at a LinuxFest. Adjacent to those (to the South) is a largish outlet mall as well (for the shopping addicted).

    I hope this is of help to those whose families are not entirely composed of Penguinistas; Hope to see you there.

  • Some local links for any out-of-towners (Score:4, Informative)

    by inkswamp (233692) on Wednesday April 23 2003, @04:11AM (#5787940)
    Just thought I'd post a few local links for anyone coming from out of town.

    bellingham.net [bellingham.net] -- slash-style local news and events site.

    bellingham.com [bellingham.com] -- general info.

    The Bellingham Herald [bellinghamherald.com] -- local newspaper and its local entertainment and events site [bellinghamherald.com].

    Bar Stop [barstop.com] -- should be self-explanatory. ;^) Bar Stop has a guide to places to stay [barstop.com] and restaurants [barstop.com].

    City of Bellingham [cob.org] official site.

  • Short notice. (Score:2, Insightful)

    by kinema (630983) on Wednesday April 23 2003, @05:41AM (#5788140)
    I live in the Northwest United States. I would have loved to have gone to this. I have never been attend a Linux/OSS conference because of my location. It just would have been nice to know a bit earlier. Three days seems like kind of short notice to me. A week would have been nice (my employer schedules a week in advance). Unfortunatly due to this "economy" (especially out here) I was forced to take a job that requires me to work most weekends. If I had a bit more notice I may have been able to get the day off. --adam P.S. Sorry about my ranting. I just hate always missing things like this.
    • Re:Short notice. by libertynews (Score:2) Wednesday April 23 2003, @08:56AM
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  • Linuxfest (Score:1)

    by Nonillion (266505) on Wednesday April 23 2003, @09:20AM (#5789250)
    Ahhh yes my favorite open source get together. I am looking forward to seeing "Mad dog hall" and Illiad again. Not to mention all the cool warez that will surely be there...

    Hmm, I wonder if Microsoft and SCO will be there... ;)

  • so much to do, so little time (Score:2)

    by DuckWing (19575) on Wednesday April 23 2003, @10:08AM (#5789670)
    I'm in Victoria, BC and I'm planning on going provided the boarder doesn't give me any trouble. The only problem I have with this event is there is so much going on, and it's only 1 day! I'd gladly take a week off to go to everything! ;-)

  • Bus and Train schedules (Score:3, Informative)

    by dzelenka (630044) on Wednesday April 23 2003, @10:27AM (#5789868)
    Here's the Amtrak schedule:

    Service From To Departs Arrives
    510 SEA BEL 7:45am 9:52am
    516 SEA BEL 5:30pm 8:00pm

    Here's the local bus schedule from the Amtrak station to the Linuxfest site:

    http://www.ridewta.com/new_route23A.html
    or
    ht tp://www.ridewta.com/route50.html

    See you there!

  • How come they ignored... (Score:1)

    by Karcaw (28053) on Wednesday April 23 2003, @11:35AM (#5790639)
    (Last Journal: Sunday May 02 2004, @05:00PM)
    The largest Linux supercomputer group in the NorthWest, and in the World. Which is located Less than 5 hours away from Bellingham, in southeastern Wasington at PNNL [pnl.gov]. I have not heard of any invitation to present at Linuxfest. Seems like this is a great thing to be shown/talked about at LinuxFest Northwest....

  • Spokane? (Score:1)

    by ruthven78 (644080) on Thursday April 24 2003, @07:09AM (#5797942)
    Hey they could have had it in Spokane....i wouldnt have minded :) WIsh I would have heard about this even before today since Im going to Portland this weekend. I would have loved to take a road trip to Bellingham to go there....you guys whine you have to drive 2 hours to get there. From Spokane its like 6 hours....

  • Re:relevant? (Score:3, Insightful)

    by toddhunter (659837) on Wednesday April 23 2003, @01:58AM (#5787506)
    These sort of things are always good. If one person there announces a new feature or shows off something good then it is worth it for me. Would you rather 10 more articles on what pheonix is going to be called? ;)
    [ Parent ]

  • Re:Funny (Score:2)

    by Call Me Black Cloud (616282) on Wednesday April 23 2003, @02:14AM (#5787545)
    Thanks for sharing your travel plans. Now I can get back to sleep.
    [ Parent ]

  • Re:Bellingham's great (Score:1)

    by ruthven78 (644080) on Thursday April 24 2003, @07:13AM (#5797961)
    camping? its still colder than hell out there..brrrr....and I even live in the Artic northeast corner here and think it would be too cold, plus supposed to rain heav this weekend too, not much of a surprise for seattle coastal area....
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