[LUNI] Chicago Free and Open Source Conference

[Andrew Close]

On 7/31/07, Kevin Harriss <special.kevin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I interested in setting up a Free and Open Source conference in Chicago.
> This conference is to focus more on the desktop/enthusiast not the
> business side of Free and Open Source software.  If you would be
> interested helping out our sharing ideas please join us in our irc
> channel #chicon on freenode.  Also if you would be interested in a
> conference like just please reply saying that you are interested.  This
> will help us gage the interest.  I am really hoping to show everyone
> that the Midwest and more specifically Chicago is a good city for
> conferences and Free and Open Source Software, this can be done since we
> are hosting PyCon and Flourish.

i think it's a good idea, but...  businesses are willing to pay to go
to conferences and learn, most 'people' are not.  it's definitely a
worthy cause and i'd be interested in it. :)
maybe organizing this conference in conjunction with another one,
partially to spread the word amongst attendees and partially to help
mitigate costs, would be a good idea.
just my $.02