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Ohio LinuxFest 2023 Conference Speakers
- jjice 3y agoI've always wanted to go to a conference like this. I've been to the more industrial ones like re:Invent, which are cool, but way less in the way of actually programming and the tech. How does one find events like this near them? I'm in New England, so I assume Boston would be the spot but I have no idea where to look. What sites do people use for this? Or should I even consider taking time off of work and traveling to some of these if they're further? I'd love to hear about other's experiences with conferences like these. They seem wonderful.
- whymarrh 3y agohttps://confs.tech/ https://confs.tech/ has a decent crowd-sourced list
- bkallus 3y agoI'm also in the New England area. In Boston, there's LibrePlanet, which is in March. I went for the first time this year; it was a lot of fun. I'm still trying to figure out if I'll fly out to Columbus for OLF this year. I went last year and the year before. It's worth the travel to me, but I have a flexible schedule. The talks are good, but the people are the real reason to go. A lot of the people who go to these conferences work on really interesting stuff. There are of course also big names like maddog and Doug McIlroy.
- ecliptik 3y agoThey were a lot more popular in the 90s and early aughts when Linux was still new and people were looking for community. I usually would find out about them through local Linux User Groups (LUGs) at the time [1]. I remember a Linuxfest in 2002 in Southern Ohio (not OLF) and John "Maddog" Hall was also a keynote speaker. Looking at his speaking schedule is probably a good way to find similar events. My most distinct memory of it was someone had a table of NeXT computers setup to use. Along with OLF, SCaLE (Southern California Linux Expo) [2] is another large Linuxfest type event. Much more of a technical and casual vibe, and satisfies personally instead if professionally. I did a GPG key signing party at it once and it was a nerdy and fun as it sounds. 1. https://wiki.ohiolinux.org/index.php/History https://wiki.ohiolinux.org/index.php/History 2. https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x
- ghaff 3y agoProbably more Meetups than larger and more formally-organized volunteer-events. As the sibling notes, there used to be more along those lines in the Boston area in the late 80s/90s but a lot of the more grassroots type of conferences have tended to fade out over time. (And I suspect COVID--and tightening of tech budgets--killed some more that were holding out mostly on the basis of momentum.) DevOps Days is still around and there's a Boston one this year although I haven't been to one of those for a few years.
- ecshafer 3y agoPhiladelphia holds fosscon every year. Also a cheap conference, laid back, non corporate
- mkovach 3y agoI use to goto this conference on the regular (even talked at it a few times). To be fair, I knew the people that originally started it. Always had a great experience. Interesting talks and I have sat down and had conversions with Maddog, Zonker, and a number of other interesting names in Open Source and Linux. Fun time and great people, wish I had the time this year to visit!
- whalesalad 3y agoI try to avoid traveling south into Ohio but this might make it worthwhile.
- rgrieselhuber 3y agoWhy?
- sgt 3y agoZombie country.
- sharms 3y agoI grew up North of Ohio and it was common to joke about driving down to Ohio as being more rural / farm stereotypes. Later I moved to Ohio and found out it was a great state with a larger economy (top 7) compared to most of the states which make fun of it.
- whalesalad 3y agoMichigan will have beef with Ohio until the end of days. Ohio is like the butt of every joke here because it really doesn't have many redeeming qualities. I always breathe a huge sigh of relief when crossing back in and seeing a "Pure Michigan" sign. Finally, I can do 80mph without fear of going to prison.
- rgrieselhuber 3y agoAs an Ohioan, I should have known this was the reason. :) I do love Ohio but Michigan really is gorgeous. I don't care about sportsball so I've never really gotten the rivalry much.
- t-3 3y agoAccording to what I learned in grade school history, the rivalry goes back the the "Toledo War": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_War I wouldn't be surprised if early Michiganders had an inferiority complex due to rough pioneer living in a nasty swamp, and if Ohioans later resented MI's growth into an industrial powerhouse during the early 20th century.
- orblivion 3y agoI think the first time I ever heard of the nerdcore hip hop group Dual Core was their performance at this fest ~15 years ago.
- cpach 3y agoWould love to hear maddog’s speech. He’s been in tech since like the 60s or so. Always has interesting things to say.
- arp242 3y agoPresumably the content will be roughly similar to the article he wrote a few weeks ago: https://www.lpi.org/blog/2023/07/30/ibm-red-hat-and-free-software-an-old-maddogs-view/ https://www.lpi.org/blog/2023/07/30/ibm-red-hat-and-free-sof... HN discussion about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37005937 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37005937
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- supazek 3y agoI agree. We should start leaving Gentoo tarball CDs in minority neighborhoods
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