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Southeast Linuxfest 2010: Building Strong and Lasting Connections
Friends gathered once again in South Carolina to learn about Linux and check out what is new in the Linux community. It is a time of learning as well as time of camaraderie and a over all great time if you are a fan of Linux and Open Source technologies.
My trip to SELF started on Thursday as my new found friend, Ed Liddle and I headed down to my Mom’s house for a pitstop. Mom and Dad put together a great dinner of Smoked Pork Roast and Chicken and all the fixens and we rested up for the rest of the trip to South Carolina. After we woke up, we grabbed a quick breakfast and headed over to Spartanburg, SC to check in to the hotel. The trip through the Smokies to the Piedmont was uneventful as much as it was gorgeous! All trips to Linux Fests should have scenery like this!
After arrival in Spartanburg, Ed and I unloaded the van and met Dann Washko of the Linux Link Tech Show and Chad Wollenberg of the Linux Basement Podcast. We hung out with some of our fans in the bar and caught up on things since we last talked on the show. Eventually, the crowd grew to a point where we decided to go get dinner. We ate across the street from the venue at a Sushi Bar called the Sake Grill. Many had Sashimi and other forms of sushi and I had some stir fry that was great! What was even better was eating with friends I only see twice a year.
Eventually, the rest of the Tech Show came down from their rooms after resting up from their drive and we headed to the pre party. The pre party was kind of fun, but I mostly hung out with my good friend Linc before turning in to rest up for Saturday, the meat of the Southeast Linuxfest.
Saturday, we setup our booth across from the folks at Linux in the Ham Shack, the Free Software Foundation and next to us a guy from OpenOffice.org. In that time, we were able to chat amongst our neighbors while we setup the booth. Finally, we started having people hit the stand for T-Shirts and raffle tickets. We raffled off books from Prentice Hall and Apress as well as two great pieces of hardware. We had a Nexus One and a Neuros Link “Phantom” to give away.
As the day went on, we all got a chance to checkout the booths at Southeast Linuxfest. I saw the guys at Zareason, some ambassadors at the Fedora Project booth, Nerd Core Rapper Dual Core and many others. Ed picked up CD’s from Dual Core and he was nice enough to copy some mp3s to his iPod as well.
Max Spevack of Red Hat did a excellent job at the closing keynote, but then came the part everyone was waiting for. Prizes. We passed out our prizes as well as the prizes from the Southeast Linuxfest as well. The Neuros Link “Phantom” complete with Keymote and Remote and that went to a awesome 12 year old named Ian who was really excited to win this great machine. The final prize was a system from Pogo Linux. Jon ”Maddog” Hall did the drawing for us since we also had tickets for the system. Maddog did a great job with the drawing.
After the keynote, we packed a great BBQ place in Spartanburg called Carolina BBQ. We had some pulled pork, chicken, hush puppies and more. The waitress, Tabitha did a wonderful job keeping us supplied with drinks and getting the food.
We then all headed to the party on Saturday night and listened to Dual Core rapping about stuff we care about and headed back to our rooms to collapse.
Sunday was sparsely attended, but I still had a great time chatting with my co-horts of the Tech Show as well as Claudio Miranda of the Linux Basement Podcast. I even got to see part of a talk on Linux Multimedia Workflow before getting ready to go home. If I had to say anything bad about the show is that there was no incentive for attendance on Sunday since the prizes had all been given out. I think some reorganizing of the schedule may make Sunday better.
While I didn’t get to see many talks, for me, the best part of the show is the hallway track as SELF President Dave Yates calls it. Talking with fans and friends and other people who are into the exact same things I am is very liberating and fun. It’s great to be in a place and rattle off something technical in a conversation and not get a glazed over look from the other half of the conversation! 
Plus, when your hanging out with great friends chatting about stuff we care about, well I know of nothing better. The talks are awesome, but catching up with those who you only have met on the internet before is way better. It’s not long until the Ohio LinuxFest 2010 and I cannot WAIT!
Finally, I hope to see y’all next year in the GNU South! (I hope!) If they have a show next year, and you love Linux, you need to check out the Southeast Linuxfest. You will have a great time.
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South East Linux Fest 2010
South East Linux Fest
Wow, what a trip. Allan and I drove to SC from my place in PA in the middle of the night, which took up 10 hours. It was a nice drive compared to last year where it was foggy and rainy the whole ride there.
The conference was great. It was 2 days long, and, contrary to what I heard from some people, I thought it was just right. During the talks/conferences there was hardly anyone in the hallways. This tells me that there was something interesting there for everyone. I, however, only got to see Dann’s talk about the linux boot process. It was quite good I thought. The only real downside there was the vendor/hallway track, which was spread out a little too much.
Mordancy made us some SELF ’10 TLLTS shirts, which turned out great and were a hit. We do have some left as well and will be announcing how you can get yours on the show. Gorkon brought cookies and chex mix which were also greatly appreciated. And, of course, there were the books by Prentice Hall (Pearson Ed), APress and the wickedly cool Neuros Link and Nexus One we had to give away. I had a great time talking to all of you who stopped at the booth and I even got the chance to install Linux on a visitors laptop! I also enjoyed visiting with the other vendors and dot org booths there. I still really enjoy being a part of this community. You all are a bunch of great folks!
Probably the best “conference track” there was one tat was totally unannounced and impromptu. On Sunday night, after all was quiet and we were relaxed, Dann, Allan and I had time for a good executive TLLTS meeting. It was really nice to go over a lot of TechShow information, ideas, problems and solutions, face to face, so we could all get on the same page. We are coming up on our second season and we have some interesting things in store.
All in all I had a great time, which was exactly what I expected. I cannot wait for OLF this year nor can I wait for SELF next year. They just keep getting better and better!
Review: Neuros Link
Imagine being able to watch Hulu, Fancast, Youtube and many other streaming services on your TV. How about Boxee? Yes, that too. What if you don’t want to share your local video viewing? XBMC is on it too. What can do the things I am talking about? The Neuros Link, one of the latest products from Neuros Technology.
Setup
To setup the Link, you plug a HDMI cable into your HDTV, plug in the power, and then plug in the keymote’s dongle. If you do not have a HDTV, you can use it with a DVI or VGA monitor, although Neuros states they will not support this. It works fine for me and that is how I am using it right now. If you are using HDMI, the sound should come to your TV out of the box, but you may have to go to a menu to change where your sound comes out. You can have the sound come out on the HDMI, the standard 1/8 inch jack or S/PDIF. Internet connectivity is via 1 Gbps Ethernet or Wifi.
Once you have everything connected, turn on the Link, and it will boot until Linux and bring up XBMC.
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Qi Hardware’s Ben NanoNote: A Completely Open Source Pocket Computer
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Imagine not only building your own computer, but making the boards yourself. Yeah, it’s not something the common person would do, but Qi Hardware’s Ben NanoNote is open in a way most hardware isn’t. This is a similar model to the OpenMoko Freerunner and has been started by former members of the OpenMoko team.
Not only can you download the Linux operating system it runs, but you can also download the Creative Commons licensed schematics for having your own version made for you if you have those kinds of resources. … [visit site to read more]
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OLF 2009
Wow! What a weekend!
We had a great time again this year, no surprise. It’s always great to be able to hang out with all your friends and all you linux folk and TechShow listeners are my friends!
My thoughts are still a bit disjointed from the weekend so here are some random notes about OLF this year:
Special thanks to Richard Querin and Mordancy for the new logo and t-shirts. They were fan-freaking-tastic! We took small donations in exchange for a TLLTS t-shirt this year and that provided us with enough money to pay some of the booth and bandwidth fees and get a good head start on getting some more shirts for next year’s festivities.
Prentice Hall, Neuros Tech, Oreilly and APress deserve BIG thank you’s for once again sponsoring us with some excellent giveaways for our free raffle this year.
This weekend was the start if our 7th broadcast year on the TechShow and I am still consistently amazed when someone walks up to me, recognizes me and tells me they listen to the show!
I saw Ubuntu’s netbook remix v 9.10 boot from bios to full desktop in 4 seconds while I was there. Astounding!
Oracle has this python sql interface that they are working on that is probably one of the coolest things, as a developer, that I have seen in a long time. It’s like stuffing bash into the sql command line. Nifty things like colored columned table listings, easy piping from sql command line to bash commands and files. This was some seriously cool stuff. I can’t wait for them to get it working with not only orcacle but mysql and postgres too!
This year was definitely the year of the netbook. It seems like everyone had one, they were all constantly using them, they all loved their netbook and anyone who didn’t yet have one was dying to get one. I must have seen hundreds of them this weekend and they were all running Linux except one.
The one netbook that wasn’t running Linux was at the booth right next to ours. They were the guys from Haiku, the new BeOS implementation. This is some seriously neat stuff and these guys are to be commended. While not ready for primetime just yet, they are going that direction full force and have some really slick stuff going in their favor. This OS is FAST man. I saw an average netbook doing some AMAZING video rendering feats like playing high def movies while running 3D video demos at 700fps and the thing wasn’t even breaking a sweat. There was another old thinkpad laptop playing 5 different videos at the same time with no lag whatsoever. I Bet it won’t Be long Before this OS has the full attention of, at least, some video processing nuts! You can bet I’ll be keeping an eye on this one.
There are a few things I will do differently next year, mostly with my time management, like getting there a day earlier, but I had a great time. If you haven’t been to one yet, make sure you go because you are missing out. Put it on your calendar for next year. I’ll see ya there!
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