<div dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e64d1eb6-a911-e820-07f2-135aa84d5108"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">==Complimentary Passes to LinuxCon for Local Enthusiasts==</span></p>
<br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">As you may have heard, The Linux Foundation’s annual LinuxCon North America conference is coming to Chicago in 2014, on August 20-22 at the Sheraton Chicago. LinuxCon is a technical conference for developers, sys admins, devops professionals and other technical talent where they will gain valuable education and networking opportunities.</span></p>
<br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">One of the reasons we move this event around each year if to expand opportunities in local communities and to that end we're we’re giving away 200 of our conference networking passes (includes keynotes (Linus Torvalds, Solomon Hykes and more), sponsored workshops, meals & social events - everything but the conference sessions) complimentary. I’m reaching out to you so that you can forward this offer to your LUG members.</span></p>
<br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">We have an amazing lineup of speakers, attendees and companies participating this year, with delegates coming from 25 countries globally. 500 open source developers, 150 systems administrators, 150 devops professionals and over 200 IT managers, architects, C-level execs, open source & cloud start-up founders, media and other key community members will gather.</span></p>
<br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">To receive the complimentary pass, register here: <a href="https://www.regonline.com/linuxcon_cloudopen_northamerica2014">https://www.regonline.com/linuxcon_cloudopen_northamerica2014</a></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Select Networking Pass and enter discount code CHICOMP. </span></p>
<br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Free passes are available on a first come, first serve basis.</span></p>
<br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">For more information on LinuxCon North America visit: <a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-north-america">http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-north-america</a></span></p>
<br></span>Thank you and we hope you can join us,<div><br></div><div>Angela<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Angela Brown<br>Director of Events<br>The Linux Foundation<br>660 York Street, Suite 102<br>
San Francisco, CA 94110<br>
T: +1.415.368.4840<br>E: <a href="mailto:angela@linuxfoundation.org" target="_blank">angela@linuxfoundation.org</a><br>W: <a href="http://linuxfoundation.org" target="_blank">linuxfoundation.org</a> and <a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org" target="_blank">events.linuxfoundation.org</a><div>
<br></div><div>Check out the Linux Foundation Event Experience - <a href="http://youtu.be/-WUeelICQ2U" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/-WUeelICQ2U</a></div></div>
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