[LUNI] Flourish 2008

[Michael Labowicz]

Hi Samir,
I looked on the Flourish site and through the LUNI archives, and I couldn't
find a breakdown of the planned events for April 4th and 5th.  Is there a
schedule of events available anywhere?

Regards,
Michael Labowicz

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Samir Faci <sfaci at cs.uic.edu> wrote:

> To everyone interested,
>
> The University of Illinois at Chicago Linux Users Group (UIC-LUG) and
> the University of Illinois at Chicago Association for Computing
> Machinery (UIC-ACM) are hosting their second annual Flourish
> Conference promoting the adoption and use of Free, Libre and Open
> Source Software (FLOSS). The UIC-LUG and UIC-ACM would like to invite
> you to attend this glorious event.  The entire conference is free
>
> with registration (or $5 at the door), but please do register if you
> plant to attend to lets us know how many people we should expect.
> http://www.flourishconf.com/register.php.
>
> Some of our featured speakers will include:  Bruce Perens from Source
> Labs, Jon "maddog" Hall from Linux International, Brian Fitzpatrick
> (and Ben Collins-Sussman) from Google, Dru Lavigne from Open Source
> Business Resource and BSD Certification Group Inc., among many others.
>
> We will be hosting a variety of events which include but are not
> limited to:  BarCamp Mini, Flourish Mini-expo, WAFD (Web Application
> Framework Development) Rumble, Networking Events,  and Hack-a-Thon,
> BSDA Examination.  For more information please visit:
>
> http://www.flourishconf.com/flourish2008/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=30
>
> Flourish 2008 will be held on Friday, April 4th and Saturday, April
> 5th of next year. We expect the conference attendance to be between
> 300 and 400 people. Please reply and let me know whether or not you
> will be attending Flourish 2008. If you have any questions about
> Flourish, please e-mail me at samir at esamir.com and I will get back to
> you as soon as possible. You can also visit the Flourish website at
> http://www.flourishconf.com/
>
> Organizations/Developers:  We still have open tables in the expo
> space, if you'd like to use one of the tables to advertise your said
> organization or promote an event.  We are also still looking for
> developers to represent the various Web frameworks.  If anyone is
> interested in participating, please feel free to contact me.
>
> Also, please redirect and forward this email to any list that you
> think may have an interest in this conference.
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Samir Faci
> Flourish Public Relations
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