This is sort of far from you guys, but in case anyone is interested to drive to Chicago. ---------------To everyone interested, The University of Illinois at Chicago Linux Users Group (UIC-LUG) and the University of Illinois at Chicago Association for Computing Machinery (UIC-ACM) are hosting their second annual Flourish Conference promoting the adoption and use of Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS). The UIC-LUG and UIC-ACM would like to invite you to attend this glorious event. The entire conference is free with registration (or $5 at the door), but please do register if you plant to attend to lets us know how many people we should expect. http://www.flourishconf.com/register.php. Some of our featured speakers will include: Bruce Perens from Source Labs, Jon "maddog" Hall from Linux International, Brian Fitzpatrick (and Ben Collins-Sussman) from Google, Dru Lavigne from Open Source Business Resource and BSD Certification Group Inc., among many others. We will be hosting a variety of events which include but are not limited to: BarCamp Mini, Flourish Mini-expo, WAFD (Web Application Framework Development) Rumble, Networking Events, and Hack-a-Thon, BSDA Examination. For more information please visit: http://www.flourishconf.com/flourish2008/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=30 Flourish 2008 will be held on Friday, April 4th and Saturday, April 5th of next year. We expect the conference attendance to be between 300 and 400 people. Please reply and let me know whether or not you will be attending Flourish 2008. You can visit the Flourish website at http://www.flourishconf.com/ Organizations/Developers: We still have open tables in the expo space, if you'd like to use one of the tables to advertise your said organization or promote an event. We are also still looking for developers to represent the various Web frameworks. If anyone is interested in participating, please feel free to contact me. Also, please redirect and forward this email to any list that you think may have an interest in this conference. Thank you, Samir Faci Flourish Public Relations -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080326/f146381d/attachment-0001.htm