fyi, in case anyone is interested in attending or presenting at LinuxFest NW in April up in bellingham.
cheers, -- Nimret Sandhu http://www.nimret.com http://www.nimsoft.biz On Friday 08 January 2010 04:48:09 pm Jakob Perry wrote: > The LinuxFest Northwest organizing committee is pleased to announce the new > LinuxFest Northwest website to kick off the countdown for the 2010 > festival! Take a look around the site, as it is drastically different from > years past. Attendee participation is a key theme for this year’s fest. > > http://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/ > > The fest will be taking place April 24th, 25th 2010 in Bellingham, WA. The > site this year has been redesigned in Drupal, allowing us to do some pretty > cool things, including: > > Community Input for sessions: > All sessions will be submitted via the website, and available for public > viewing. Session authors can update their sessions at will, and people can > select if a particular session is something they're interested in > attending. If there are more sessions than spots to fill, the staff will > choose sessions partially based on what people are thinking of attending. > > Online billpay for Sponsorship and Exhibit booths: > You can now create a sponsorship and exhibit booth and pay online > automatically! For those who don't use a CC/paypal, you can submit a PO > number, and we will process your order similar to years past. As always, > the fest for attendees is free. Sponsors and Exhibitors help keep this > event free for attendees every year. > > Online IRC, forums, ride share, etc: > We're really hitting hard the ability for attendees to get to know each > other and plan ahead before the event. We hope the site will be a gathering > place before the event so we can build a larger community than just the two > days we're together. Get online soon and chat with your fellow colleagues! > > Twitter/social networking: > continuing from years past, we have setup our LFNW twitter feed, @lfnw. > People are suggested to use #lfnw hash tags if they're talking about us. > > Post-event networking: > Our plan this year is to have video, images, audio, and other media > associated with presentations easily available on the site after the fest > concludes. The site is setup so that each year will be archived and easily > available for all to see. > > We hope you'll make time for the event. Tell your friends and signup online > at http://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/ > > See you there! > > Jakob Perry > Linuxfest Northwest Organizing Committee member > http://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/
