From george at metaart.org  Sat Mar  1 21:18:15 2008
From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley)
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 21:18:15 -0800
Subject: [oak perl] Fwd: [pm_groups] Summer of Code -- volunteers needed
Message-ID: <200803012118.15420.george@metaart.org>



----------  Forwarded Message  ----------

Subject: [pm_groups] Summer of Code -- volunteers needed
Date: Saturday 01 March 2008 19:03
From: Eric Wilhelm <scratchcomputing at gmail.com>
To: pm_groups at pm.org

Hi all,

Volunteer pledge drive!  Please forward this to your local PM groups.

TPF needs volunteers to make summer of code happen this year.  It sounds
like the administrators got stretched too thin in 2005 and 2006, and we
really didn't have ourselves together in 2007.  So, I'm proposing a
departmental structure under a TPF umbrella, which will localize the
cat-herding effects within various large projects (so far, parrot and
Catalyst appear to be on board with this.)  I would like to demonstrate
that we have our act together this year, so we need to get a solid pool
of administrative volunteers and mentors together before the 8th.


Administrative needs:

  (Contact ewilhelm at cpan.org or join #soc on irc.perl.org.)

  * backup administrator (reduce the bus number)

  * Department heads for p5p, "modules", etc

  * Suggestions about department structure


Mentors and project ideas needed:

We need to get these pages populated before March 8th or it is quite
likely to be a no-go.

Potential mentors, please add yourselves and your project ideas here:

  http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008_mentors
  http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008_projects


If you hate wikis as much as I do, please visit this handy form and I
will batch the wiki edits on your behalf.

  http://scratchcomputing.com/loveperlhatewiki.html

Thanks,
Eric
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From george at metaart.org  Mon Mar 10 20:04:29 2008
From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:04:29 -0800
Subject: [oak perl] Fwd: Perl at LugRadio Live USA 2008 in San Francisco
Message-ID: <200803101904.29664.george@metaart.org>



----------  Forwarded Message  ----------

Subject: Perl at LugRadio Live USA 2008 in San Francisco
Date: Monday 10 March 2008 17:10
From: LugRadio <show at lugradio.org>
...

Hi,

I just wanted to drop you a quick note about a community organised and
run Open Source and technology event that we have been working on that
your group may be interested in. It is called LugRadio Live USA 2008
and has over 35 well-known speakers, nearly 40 exhibitors and takes
place on the 12th and 13th April 2008 in San Francisco. It is very
much a community event, and designed for the community - we have been
working on it for the last six months or so with a large number of
volunteers. To make it as accessible as possible for people, we don't
believe in charging the $600-$1200 that other commercial shows do -
our show is just $10 for the full weekend.

We figured your group may be interested in LugRadio Live USA 2008, and
would love to see you there (we also have exhibition space available
if you would like to exhibit your group - it is free to exhibit!).

Anyway, below is the announcement of the show, if you could pass it
onto your members, that would be great. :)

--------

LugRadio Live USA 2008
12th and 13th April 2008
The Metreon, 101 4th St., San Francisco, CA, 94103

Registration for LugRadio Live USA 2008 is now open at
http://lugradio.org/live/USA2008/register, and tickets for the two-day
spectacular cost only $10 for the full weekend, including full access
to all talks, the exhibition, evening events, and a free bag o'swag
for visitors. Pre-registrations also enjoy additional benefits at the
show and the first 50 registrations will receive a free copy of Postal
2: Share The Pain (subject to age verification), thanks to Running
With Scissors. All pre-registrations will also be entered into a
raffle to win prizes by a variety of vendors.

LugRadio Live USA 2008, the 'rock-conference' from the team behind the
popular LugRadio podcast (http://www.lugradio.org), brings the
successful and unique formula of the UK LugRadio Live events to The
Metreon in San Francisco on the 12th and 13th April 2008. The event is
supported extensively by Google and also supported by Dice.
LinuxQuestions.org is a press partner.

LugRadio Live USA 2008 brings together over 35 speakers across three
stages, 30+ exhibitors, a range of BOF sessions, debate panels,
lightbulb talk sessions, demos and much more, all wrapped up in the
unique event that the UK incarnation has become known for, combining
an incredibly loose, social, inclusive, and amusing atmosphere - if
you are new to LugRadio Live, it is nothing you will have seen before.

Confirmed speakers for the event include:

 * Miguel de Icaza (Mono / Novell / Co-Founder Of GNOME)
 * Ian Murdoch (OpenSolaris / Founder Of Debian)
 * Robert Love (GNOME / Google)
 * Aza Raskin (Mozilla / Humanized)
 * Benjamin Mako Hill (Ubuntu / Debian / FSF)
 * John Buckman (Magnatune)
 * Val Henson (Kernel / VAH consulting)
 * Christopher Blizzard (Mozilla / GNOME)
 * Mike Linksvayer (Creative Commons)
 * Alex Graveley (VMWare / GNOME)
 * David Schleef (GStreamer)
 * Matthew Garrett (Power Management / Kernel)
 * Danese Cooper (Intel / OSI)
 * Aaron Bockover (Banshee / Novell)
 * Liana Holmberg (Second Life / Linden Lab)
 * Emma Jane Hogbin (Hick Tech)
 * Joe Zonker Brockmeier (OpenSuSE / Novell)
 * Kristen Accardi (Kernel)
 * David Lefty Schlesinger
 * Joe Born (Neuros)
 * Selena Deckelmann (PostgreSQL)
 * Stewart Smith (MySQL)
 * Dan Kegal (Wine)
 * Ben Collins (Ubuntu / Kernel)
 * Jason Kridner (Texas Instruments)
 * Jeremy Allison (Samba / Google)
 * Christian Hammond (VMWare)
 * Ian McKeller (Songbird)
 * Alison Randall (Parrot / Perl / OSCON)
 * David Huffman (LVM)
 * Brian Will (Pigeon)
 * Belinda Lopez (Ubuntu)
 * Ilan Rabanovich (SoCal Linux Expo)
 * Eddy Mulyono (Packaging)
 * Matthew Walster (Demo Scene)

The show will also involve a large exhibition area with a range of
projects, organisations and companies with plenty to see and do. The
first batch of confirmed exhibitors (at the show there will be another
twice as many exhibitors) include:

 * Google
 * Dice
 * GNOME
 * PostgreSQL
 * O'Reilly
 * OpenSuSE
 * Linden Labs
 * Magnatune
 * gOS
 * Neuros
 * Sun
 * Texas Instruments
 * South California Linux Expo
 * Komputers 4 R Kids
 * San Francisco LUG
 * BytesFree.org
 * Ontario Linux Fest
 * Frets on Fire
 * OpenNMS
 * One Course Source
 * Haiku
 * Hyperic
 * BitRock
 * Ubuntu
 * OpenStreetMap
 * The Digital Tipping Point
 * FreeBSD
 * Inkscape

In addition to this, the LugRadio team will be recording a live
performance of their cult-hit podcast, which has over 20,000
listeners, in front of the LugRadio Live USA 2008 audience - like the
UK event, this is always quite a spectacle, and excellent fun for all
involved.

More information about LugRadio Live USA 2008 can be found at
http://lugradio.org/live/USA2008/

--------

Thanks!

  Jono and the LugRadio Live USA 2008 team

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From george at metaart.org  Thu Mar 13 14:44:29 2008
From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley)
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:44:29 -0800
Subject: [oak perl] Test 03-13a
Message-ID: <200803131344.29321.george@metaart.org>

this is merely a test.
i sent an email to the list 
and it hasn't shown up in the archive.
so it will be helpful to see if this test email
shows up in the archive.


From george at metaart.org  Thu Mar 13 14:47:04 2008
From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley)
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:47:04 -0800
Subject: [oak perl] 2 Books to Give Away
Message-ID: <200803131347.04681.george@metaart.org>

hi all,
i have two o'reilly books to give away:
* Learning Ruby
  Catalog URL = http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529864
* Mastering Perl
  Catalog URL = http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527242

the deal is you need to be willing to pick up
at my place in oakland
[close to lake merrit and about 1/2 mile from the grand lake theater].

let me know if you are interested in either of these books.   <<<

skoal,
george
427 burk st. #6, oakland, ca 94610
(510) 839-7781

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From george at metaart.org  Thu Mar 13 14:32:55 2008
From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley)
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:32:55 -0800
Subject: [oak perl] 2 Books to Give Away
Message-ID: <200803131332.55424.george@metaart.org>

hi all,
i have two o'reilly books to give away:
* Learning Ruby
  Catalog URL = http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529864
* Mastering Perl
  Catalog URL = http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527242

the deal is you need to be willing to pick up
at my place in oakland 
[close to lake merrit and about 1/2 mile from the grand lake theater]. 

let me know if you are interested in either of these books.   <<<

skoal,
george
427 burk st. #6, oakland, ca 94610
(510) 839-7781


From george at metaart.org  Thu Mar 13 22:03:49 2008
From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley)
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:03:49 -0800
Subject: [oak perl] Fwd: UG News - O'Reilly Webinar: Control a World of
	Computers from Your Linux PC
Message-ID: <200803132103.49174.george@metaart.org>


----------  Forwarded Message  ----------

Subject: UG News - O'Reilly Webinar: Control a World of Computers from Your 
Linux PC
Date: Thursday 13 March 2008 14:33
From: "Marsee Henon" <webinar at oreilly.com>
...

You are invited to a free webinar:
Control a World of Computers from Your Linux PC:
Secure Remote Graphical Administration

In this webinar, Carla Schroder, columnist, blogger, and author of the
Linux Cookbook and Linux Networking Cookbook, covers the finer points of
secure remote graphical administration from your Linux PC, showing how to
run graphical applications, your favorite desktop, remote helpdesk, and
even control a Windows machine from Linux. It's been said that any
sysadmin would benefit from Carla Schroder's know-how. This is your chance
to get it first-hand.

===================
Register Now and we'll send you a reminder!
Registration: oreilly.com/go/webinar-linux

Date: Wednesday, March 19th at 10am PDT (17:00 GMT)
Meeting link: oreilly.com/go/webinar-linux
Teleconference dial-in (select the number that is closest to your
location)
East Coast US: +1 617 231-0350 and pin 8136507
West Coast US: +1 213-455-0500 and pin 8136507

Questions? Please send email to webinar at oreilly.com

===================
About Carla Schroder

Carla Schroder is a self-taught Linux and Windows sysadmin who laid hands
on her first computer around her 37th birthday. Her first PC was a
Macintosh LC II. Next came an IBM clone--a 386SX running MS-DOS 5 and
Windows 3.1 with a 14-inch color display--which was adequate for many
pleasant hours of Doom play. Then around 1997 she discovered Red Hat 5.0
and had a whole new world to explore.

Somewhere along the way she found herself doing freelance consulting for
small businesses and home users, supporting both Linux and Windows users
and integrating Linux and Windows on the LAN, primarily Linux servers and
Windows clients. She is the author of the Linux Cookbook for O'Reilly, and
writes Linux how-tos for several computer publications.

Carla is living proof that you're never too old to try something new;
computers are a heck of a lot of fun; and anyone can learn to do anything.
Visit tuxcomputing.com for more Carla stuff.

===================
What people are saying about Carla Schroder's books:

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-- JR Peck, Slashdot
books.slashdot.org/books/08/01/16/1513207.shtml

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always do in networking, she sticks to the main thread while pointing you
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such common network requirements as creating a Linux-based Wi-Fi access
point or modem server, using SSH (Secure Shell) for network management or
making a firewall, this book is for you. It is one of the best practical
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answers to Linux networking requirements. "
-- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Linux-Watch

===================

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From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu  Thu Mar 13 23:39:14 2008
From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli)
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:39:14 -0700
Subject: [oak perl] Mark Shuttleworth at BALUG 2008-03-25!,
	and other BALUG News
Message-ID: <1205476754.47da1d922e624@webmail.rawbw.com>

Mark Shuttleworth at BALUG 2008-03-25!, and other BALUG News

Contents:
* Mark Shuttleworth at BALUG 2008-03-25 (note change from usual date)
* Additional upcoming BALUG meeting dates and speakers
* Contacts, etc.

------------------------------

Mark Shuttleworth at BALUG 2008-03-25 (note change from usual date)

NOTE SPECIAL MEETING DATE: 2008-03-25 (no meeting on 2008-03-18)
For our 2008-03-25 meeting we are proud to present:

Mark Shuttleworth[1] of Ubuntu[2]/Canonical[3].

Mark is founder of the Ubuntu Project[2], and also founded
Thawte[4] (which specialized in digital certificates),
HBD Venture Capital[5] (invests in early stage South African companies
with high growth potential) and
The Shuttleworth Foundation[6] (non-profit organization that accelerates
social innovation in Africa with a particular focus on education), and
also formed Canonical[3] (commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, and committed to
the development, distribution and promotion of open source software
products, and to providing tools and support to the open source
community).  In April 2002, Mark also became the
First African in Space[7], arriving via Soyuz TM-34 to the
International Space Station and spending several days there, and
returning via Soyuz TM-33.

If you intend to come, please RSVP to: rsvp at balug.org
Why RSVP?  Well, we probably wouldn't turn you away, but the RSVPs
really help the Four Seas Restaurant plan settings/food/staffing and
help ensure that we're able to eat upstairs in the private banquet room.

Subscribe to our (low volume) Announce list[8] to be sure and be
notified of our upcoming events.

1. http://www.markshuttleworth.com/biography
2. http://www.ubuntu.com/
3. http://www.canonical.com/
4. http://www.thawte.com/
5. http://www.hbd.com/
6. http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/
7. http://www.africaninspace.com/
8. http://www.new.balug.org/#Lists

------------------------------

Additional upcoming BALUG meeting dates[9] and speakers (see our web
page[9] for more details):
2008-04-15 Eric Allman
2008-05-20 Jeremy Allison
2008-06-17 Andrew Morton
2008-07-15 Mike Linksvayer, CTO, Creative Commons
Subscribe to our (quite low volume) Announce list[8] to be sure and be
notified of our upcoming events.

8. http://www.new.balug.org/#Lists
9. http://www.new.balug.org/#Meetings%20(upcoming)

------------------------------

Contacting BALUG: http://www.new.balug.org/#Contact
Feedback on our publicity/announcements (e.g. contacts or lists where we
should get our information out that we're not presently reaching, or
things we should do differently): publicity-feedback at balug.org

From judyrussoniello at yahoo.com  Fri Mar 14 11:01:29 2008
From: judyrussoniello at yahoo.com (Judy Russoniello)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:01:29 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [oak perl] 2 Books to Give Away
In-Reply-To: <200803131347.04681.george@metaart.org>
Message-ID: <957720.69334.qm@web51806.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

greetings would there be any books that you would
need? its a small library of spiritual and historical
books of interest.   paz y bien
--- George Woolley <george at metaart.org> wrote:

> hi all,
> i have two o'reilly books to give away:
> * Learning Ruby
>   Catalog URL =
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529864
> * Mastering Perl
>   Catalog URL =
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527242
> 
> the deal is you need to be willing to pick up
> at my place in oakland
> [close to lake merrit and about 1/2 mile from the
> grand lake theater].
> 
> let me know if you are interested in either of these
> books.   <<<
> 
> skoal,
> george
> 427 burk st. #6, oakland, ca 94610
> (510) 839-7781
> 
>
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> 
> _______________________________________________
> Oakland mailing list
> Oakland at pm.org
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From david_v_wright at yahoo.com  Fri Mar 14 11:29:30 2008
From: david_v_wright at yahoo.com (david wright)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:29:30 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [oak perl] 2 Books to Give Away
In-Reply-To: <200803131347.04681.george@metaart.org>
Message-ID: <907587.48760.qm@web31811.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hello George,

If there are no takers yet, I can pick them up tomorrow.
I can offer learning python in return.

thanks,
dave


--- On Thu, 3/13/08, George Woolley <george at metaart.org> wrote:

> From: George Woolley <george at metaart.org>
> Subject: [oak perl] 2 Books to Give Away
> To: "Oakland Perl Mongers" <oakland at pm.org>
> Date: Thursday, March 13, 2008, 5:47 PM
> hi all,
> i have two o'reilly books to give away:
> * Learning Ruby
>   Catalog URL =
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529864
> * Mastering Perl
>   Catalog URL =
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527242
> 
> the deal is you need to be willing to pick up
> at my place in oakland
> [close to lake merrit and about 1/2 mile from the grand
> lake theater].
> 
> let me know if you are interested in either of these books.
>   <<<
> 
> skoal,
> george
> 427 burk st. #6, oakland, ca 94610
> (510) 839-7781
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Oakland mailing list
> Oakland at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/oakland

From george at metaart.org  Tue Mar 18 18:23:49 2008
From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:23:49 -0800
Subject: [oak perl] Fwd: [pm_groups] Summer of Perl -- call for student
	proposals
Message-ID: <200803181723.49239.george@metaart.org>



----------  Forwarded Message  ----------

Subject: [pm_groups] Summer of Perl -- call for student proposals
Date: Monday 17 March 2008 23:55
From: Eric Wilhelm <scratchcomputing at gmail.com>
To: "PM Groups" <pm_groups at pm.org>

Hi all,  Please forward this to your groups.  (Also feel free to break
into a discussion as to whether or how students are involved in the
perl community, what we can do to connect with more universities and
etc.)


The Perl Foundation is participating in Google's 2008 Summer of Code(tm)
and we have a lot of capable, willing mentors looking forward to working
with some talented, driven students.  So, we would like you to help
find those students (and quickly -- the students must apply before
March 24th.)

This is a rare opportunity for students to get a chance to get a paid
summer of hacking on exciting projects like Parrot, Perl 6, Moose,
Jifty, SVK, Catalyst, or their very own Perl modules or applications.
It also brings new talent into the community and gives the student a
hefty "real world" experience with a knowledgable mentor.  Further,
employers love to see this sort of demonstration of teamwork, handling
deadlines, communication skills, resourcefulness and etc.

We're looking for promising students who are interested in open source
(or maybe you know someone who *should* be interested in open source.)
Knowledge of Perl is optional if the project is Parrot-related.  The
student doesn't need to be an expert in the problem domain (after all,
learning is part of the process), but should bring a big pile of
creativity, problem-solving skills, and determination.

Students should review the page of suggested projects, but are
encouraged to bring their own proposals (those are often the best.)
The most important first step is getting in touch with the community
and discussing their project idea with potential mentors.

  http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008_projects

Additional information and links can be found here.

  http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008

Google has posted some flyers if you happen to have a university
bulletin board or hallway handy:

  http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/GsocFlyers

Additional info:

  http://code.google.com/soc/2008/
  http://code.google.com/soc/2008/faqs.html

(Note that google has particular requirements to do with the fact that
they are paying the students.  The student must be able to show their
eligibility regarding enrollment and employability.)

Remember, the Perl community draws talent from many fields, so if you
came to Perl from a non-computer-science major and still have contacts
in that department from your university, it is probably worth
mentioning to them.

Thanks,
Eric
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From george at metaart.org  Tue Mar 18 18:26:49 2008
From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:26:49 -0800
Subject: [oak perl] Fwd: Re: [pm_groups] Summer of Perl -- call for student
	proposals (correction)
Message-ID: <200803181726.49466.george@metaart.org>



----------  Forwarded Message  ----------

Subject: Re: [pm_groups] Summer of Perl -- call for student proposals
Date: Tuesday 18 March 2008 00:48
From: Eric Wilhelm <scratchcomputing at gmail.com>
To: "PM Groups" <pm_groups at pm.org>

# from Eric Wilhelm

# on Tuesday 18 March 2008 00:55:
>So, we would like you to help
>find those students (and quickly -- the students must apply before
>March 24th.)

Oops.  The deadline is the 31st, but time flies, so the 24th is fair
enough if you already forwarded it.

--Eric
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From george at metaart.org  Tue Mar 25 14:46:14 2008
From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:46:14 -0800
Subject: [oak perl] Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, March 25
Message-ID: <200803251346.14196.george@metaart.org>



----------  Forwarded Message  ----------

Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, March 25
Date: Tuesday 25 March 2008 12:18
From: "Marsee Henon" <marsee at oreilly.com>
...

Hi there,

I'd like to start with a couple of requests for help:

We're looking for Facebook developers to review two manuscripts. One on
FBML (Facebook Markup Language) and the other is a Facebook Cookbook. If
you're interested, send me a note.

We're also looking for middle school contacts who work with technology.
Do you know of anyone who might want to take a look at a new book we're
working on called HackerTeen?
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596516475/index.html>

Here's a video with more information:
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5UAq3_GLuU>

And if you're looking for more videos, we have plenty.
Why not show your favorite at your next meeting?

Our recent O'Reilly Webinar, "Writing LINQ Queries with LINQPad" is a
must-view webinar for anyone working in C# 3.0 and Framework 3.5.
<http://downloads.oreilly.com/oreilly/videos/oreilly-linq-webinar.mov>

Tim O'Reilly at ETech: Why I Love Hackers
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFbahNBnBpQ&e>

David Pogue at MacWorld: Leopard Secrets
<http://missingmanuals.com/dpmw08/leopard_secrets.csp>

O'Reilly wins Five Jolt awards at SD West including Best General book
for "Beautiful Code" and Best Web site for radar.oreilly.com:
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Until next time--

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From george at metaart.org  Tue Mar 25 18:23:31 2008
From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:23:31 -0800
Subject: [oak perl] Fwd: UG News--LugRadio Live USA in SF April 12-13
Message-ID: <200803251723.31961.george@metaart.org>



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Subject: UG News--LugRadio Live USA in SF April 12-13
Date: Tuesday 25 March 2008 16:20
From: "Marsee Henon" <marsee at oreilly.com>
...

Hi

Please share the following event info with your members. O'Reilly is
one of the exhibitors and we want to help get the word out to the
SF Bay area about LugRadio Live.

Thanks

Marsee


LugRadio Live USA 2008
12th and 13th April 2008
The Metreon, 101 4th St., San Francisco, CA, 94103

Registration for LugRadio Live USA 2008 is now open at
http://lugradio.org/live/USA2008/register, and tickets for the two-day
spectacular cost only $10 for the full weekend, including full access to
all talks, the exhibition, evening events, and a free bag o'swag for
visitors. Pre-registrations also enjoy additional benefits at the show
and the first 50 registrations will receive a free copy of Postal 2:
Share The Pain (subject to age verification), thanks to Running With
Scissors. All pre-registrations will also be entered into a raffle to
win prizes by a variety of vendors.

LugRadio Live USA 2008, the 'rock-conference' from the team behind the
popular LugRadio podcast (http://www.lugradio.org), brings the
successful and unique formula of the UK LugRadio Live events to The
Metreon in San Francisco on the 12th and 13th April 2008. The event is
supported extensively by Google and also supported by Dice.
LinuxQuestions.org is a press partner.

LugRadio Live USA 2008 brings together over 30 speakers across three
stages, 30+ exhibitors, a range of BOF sessions, debate panels,
lightbulb talk sessions, demos and much more, all wrapped up in the
unique event that the UK incarnation has become known for, combining an
incredibly loose, social, inclusive, and amusing atmosphere - if you are
new to LugRadio Live, it is nothing you will have seen before.

Confirmed speakers for the event include:

 * Miguel de Icaza (Mono / Novell / Co-Founder Of GNOME)
 * Ian Murdoch (OpenSolaris / Founder Of Debian)
 * Robert Love (GNOME / Google)
 * Aza Raskin (Mozilla / Humanized)
 * Benjamin Mako Hill (Ubuntu / Debian / FSF)
 * John Buckman (Magnatune)
 * Val Henson (Kernel / VAH consulting)
 * Christopher Blizzard (Mozilla / GNOME)
 * Mike Linksvayer (Creative Commons)
 * Alex Graveley (VMWare / GNOME)
 * David Schleef (GStreamer)
 * Matthew Garrett (Power Management / Kernel)
 * Danese Cooper (Intel / OSI)
 * Aaron Bockover (Banshee / Novell)
 * Liana Holmberg (Second Life / Linden Lab)
 * Emma Jane Hogbin (Hick Tech)
 * Joe Zonker Brockmeier (OpenSuSE / Novell)
 * Kristen Accardi (Kernel)
 * David Lefty Schlesinger
 * Joe Born (Neuros)
 * Selena Deckelmann (PostgreSQL)
 * Stewart Smith (MySQL)
 * Dan Kegal (Wine)
 * Ben Collins (Ubuntu / Kernel)
 * Jason Kridner (Texas Instruments)
 * Jeremy Allison (Samba / Google)
 * Christian Hammond (VMWare)
 * Ian McKeller (Songbird)
 * Alison Randall (Parrot / Perl / OSCON)
 * David Huffman (LVM)
 * Brian Will (Pigeon)
 * Belinda Lopez (Ubuntu)
 * Ilan Rabanovich (SoCal Linux Expo)
 * Eddy Mulyono (Packaging)
 * Matthew Walster (Demo Scene)

The show will also involve a large exhibition area with a range of
projects, organisations and companies with plenty to see and do. The
first batch of confirmed exhibitors (at the show there will be another
twice as many exhibitors) include:

 * Google
 * Dice
 * GNOME
 * PostgreSQL
 * O'Reilly
 * OpenSuSE
 * Linden Labs
 * Magnatune
 * gOS
 * Neuros
 * Sun
 * Texas Instruments
 * South California Linux Expo
 * Komputers 4 R Kids
 * San Francisco LUG
 * BytesFree.org
 * Ontario Linux Fest
 * Frets on Fire
 * OpenNMS
 * One Course Source
 * Haiku
 * Hyperic
 * BitRock
 * OpenStreetMap
 * FreeBSD
 * Ubuntu
 * Inkscape
 * Mandriva
 * One Laptop Per Child San Francisco
 * KDE
 * Linux Pro Magazine
 * San Francisco Community Colocation Project

In addition to this, the LugRadio team will be recording a live
performance of their cult-hit podcast, which has over 20,000
listeners, in front of the LugRadio Live USA 2008 audience - like the
UK event, this is always quite a spectacle, and excellent fun for all
involved.

More information about LugRadio Live USA 2008 can be found at
http://lugradio.org/live/USA2008/


Want to promote this event on your site?

Find the banner in a range of sizes at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonobacon/2331012838/sizes/o/

There is another smaller one at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonobacon/2330186473/sizes/o/

And also a button at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonobacon/2299106292/sizes/o/

|---- Refer People and win awesome prizes! ----|

Would you like to win an Asus EEEPC or Neuros OSD, some O'Reilly books
and a limited edition LugRadio t-shirt, as well as a bunch of prizes
for your friends too?

Easy. Simply encourage people to come to LugRadio Live USA 2008 and
ask them to pre-register at http://lugradio.org/live/USA2008/register
- when they do this, they will be asked for the person who referred
them. In this box they should type in *your name*. Now repeat with
lots of people. If you get the highest number of referrals (as in, the
most amount of people that said you referred them) you will win your
choice of an Asus EEEPC or Neuros OSD, as well as two O'Reilly books,
and a limited edition LugRadio t-shirt. Also, each of the people you
referred will get an O'Reilly book and a limited edition LugRadio
t-shirt too - so everyone is a winner! We will also have a runner-up
winner who will win the Asus EEEPC or Neuros OSD that is left - lots
of opportunity to win!

So...get people along to http://lugradio.org/live/USA2008/register and
tell them to tell us that you sent them!

Note: only people that have pre-registered a ticket and actually show
up to the event will be counted as referrals - no trying to stooge the
system, folks. :)


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