For more info and to register click here: http://bit.ly/7shz5 The seventh annual Ohio LinuxFest will be held on September 25-27, 2009 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Hosting authoritative speakers and a large expo, the Ohio LinuxFest welcomes Free and Open Source Software professionals, enthusiasts, and anyone who wants to take part in the event. The Ohio LinuxFest is a free, grassroots conference for the GNU/Linux/Open Source Software/Free Software community that started in 2003 as a large inter-LUG meeting and has grown steadily since. It is a place for the community to gather and share information about Linux and Open Source Software. A large expo area adjacent to the conference rooms will feature exhibits from our sponsors as well as a large .org section from non-profit Open Source/Free Software projects.
Note: Last year over 2,000 there were over 2000 attendees
2009 Keynotes Columbus, Ohio Ohio LinuxFest is celebrating 40 years of UNIX! To celebrate, Ohio LinuxFests will touch on both ends of 40 years of history this year. Ohio LinuxFest is proud to announce that M. Douglas McIlroy and Shawn Powers as keynote speakers for this years Ohio LinuxFest. Dr. McIlroy developed UNIX pipes and UNIX tools such as spell, diff, sort, join, graph, speak and tr. Dr. McIlroy pioneered component based software engineering. A mathematician and engineer, as well as a programmer Dr. McIlroy was at the head of Bell Laboratories Computer Techniques Research Department, contributing to the birth of UNIX. Shawn Powers is an editor for Linux Journal, a collector of vintage Garfield coffee mugs, the Technology Director for a school in northern Michigan, a video podcaster, a writer, slightly overweight, father of 3 girls, and an avid Star Trek fan. Not necessarily in that order. Sadly, he's most often noted as, 'The guy with the funny hair.
Other Notable Speakers
OLF 2009 has the return of popular speakers such as:
* Dr. Peter Salus
* Bdale Garbee
* Elizabeth Garbee
More speakers to be announced later.
Peter H. Salus is an aged technological historian. Among his books are "A Quarter Century of UNIX," "Casting the Net," and (most recently) "The Daemon, the Gnu and the Penguin." Bdale first contributed to Free Software in 1979, has a long history of involvement in the Debian distribution, and is Chief Technologist for Open Source and Linux at HP. His primary hobby seems to be turning all of his other hobbies in to open source projects. Elizabeth developed an early interest in open source, installing her first Debian machine (with some help!) at age 9. Since then, her main computing interest has been graphics manipulation and digital art. Aside from computers, Elizabeth is a dedicated student who is passionate about music, and enjoys reading comic books.
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