[LUNI] Chicago Free and Open Source Conference

[Roberto Serrano]

Flourish might be open to have a third day we a different emphasis, and even
under a different name all together.

We have Friday with the view in education, and Saturday with a view in
business, it might be great to have Sunday with an emphases on the desktop.

We would need help from the community, because as it is putting together 14
activities/talks takes the sap out of all the resources we have.

Just and idea.

Roberto


On 8/1/07, Andrew Close <aclose at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
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