In July 2012, we told the history of the Linux Clinic, from its founding in a Palo Alto garage in 1938 (and renamed Hewlett Packard) through the construction of the Oregon Linux Clinic Center, renamed the Oregon Convention Center when we moved to Free Geek at 1731 SE 10th Ave.
The saga continues; over the past year, PLUG has put on a dozen Linux Clinics, while Tim O'Reilly managed to put on only one OSCON. We help people with distros, installs, application debugging, while OSCON just has keynotes, lectures, and closet-filling swag. We will get a whole clinic done from 1 to 5 PM on Sunday July 21, while OSCON needs a whole week. Indeed, many people leave OSCON with the same old Apple or Microsoft software on their laptop, while we won't let you out of the building without some kind of Linux or BSD on yours. Keyboards and screens for your desktop? We've got 'em, you probably can't bring your desktop into the convention center without hassles from security. The convention center has the same free wifi that we've got, but they split it up among thousands of people, instead of a dozen or so. And we've also got wired ethernet, just the thing when NSA spooks are lurking outside with Tempest scanners. Cookies? Ice cream? Frankly, OSCON has us beat there, but they won't give you cheese and carrots and celery and other healthy stuff. And their coffee? Ew! Out of dispenser boxes and urns, probably brewed a month ago. You can watch us brew ours fresh. For their slow, inferior product, OSCON charges as much as $2000, while the Linux Clinic is Free As In Beer. We won't have beer, I'm afraid, but you can sneak into parties for free during OSCON week. Tell them Randal Schwartz sent you. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 _______________________________________________ PLUG-announce mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce
