Ohio Linuxfest 2009 is only 35 days away

[Doug Hunley]

------------ONLY 35 DAYS UNTIL OHIO LINUXFEST 2009------------

It's only a little more than a month from now, the
seventh Ohio LinuxFest. This year we will be
celebrating 40 years of Unix!

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.

-- 
Douglas J Hunley, RHCT
doug.hunley at gmail.com : http://douglasjhunley.com : Twitter: @hunleyd

Obsessively opposed to the typical.