[Announce] Countdown to Ohio LinuxFest 2009

[schultmc at cinlug.org]

It's less than two weeks until the seventh Ohio LinuxFest. This year we
will be  celebrating 40 years of Unix!  Registration is open until
Friday, September 18, 2009 at http://www.ohiolinux.org/register

If you haven't heard, we are very excited and proud to have Doug McIlroy give a
key note address this year. Doug was the head  of research department at Bell
Laboratories where Unix was  invented and is credited for the inventing Unix
pipes  as well as writing many of the Unix tools we still use in some form
today.

Shawn Powers of the Linux Journal will give an address on the current state of
Linux, 40 years after the invention of Unix.

Dr. Peter Salus, Bdale Garbee, and Elizabeth Garbee will be returning this
year, and more speakers will be announce shortly.

Again, as last year, a set of training classes will be held on Friday before
the main conference. These classes are available with the Professional Package
registration, and if you are interested, you may upgrade your registration
online at ohiolinux.org.  Space is limited, so please register early.

Classes include: 

      *  LPI Certification Level One Cram 

      *  Black Magic: Troubleshooting and System Administration 

      *  Disaster Recovery - Will You Survive?  

      *  Spam Filtering With Open-Source Tools 

      *  Linux Terminal Server Project Administration 

      *  Advanced Security - A Self-Assessment Study 

      *  Introduction to LDAP: Provisioning, Managing, and Integrating

See http://www.ohiolinux.org/olfu.html for information and details.

A Diversity in Open Source workshop will be held on Sunday September 27. Please
join the conversation on how to improve the way we work together and attract
much needed talent to the open source development model.

We are quite pleased to announce Novell is a Platinum Level sponsor Digium as a
Gold Level sponsor of Ohio LinuxFest 2009. Other sponsors include Hurricane
Labs, Zenoss, Scalable Informatics, Linux Fund, Red Hat, and Peak 10.  There is
still time left to be a contributing organization. Please send sponsorship
inquires to sponsor at ohiolinux.org.

As we are a 501c3 non-profit organization, we depend on sponsorships and
attendee registration fees to hold the Ohio LinuxFest.  Given the current
economic downturn, we are proud to move forward, but if you haven't done so,
please consider purchasing the Supporter Package. With the valuable support
from you, we can continue the tradition of Ohio LinuxFest.

Finally, we would like to make an appeal to you to help us get the word out.
Time is short! Please tell your friends, coworkers, fellow students, and fellow
LUG members about the Ohio LinuxFest. Send emails, post blog entries, and invite
people. We have banners and audio at ohiolinux.org and please feel free to use
and distribute.

Thank you and see you in Columbus, Mike

PS.

I want to send out a thank you to the people that made Ohio LinuxFest 2009 a
reality:

Beth Lynn Eicher, Greg Boehnlein, Dennis "Bear" Palmer, Robert Ball, Moose,
Klaatu, Dan Chen, Carol Rutz, Makenzie Morgan, Scott "Skippy" Merrill, Paul
Ferris, Kevin Otte, Nicholas Schembri, Sabrina Downard, Jon "maddog" Hall.