[colug-432] Ballarat and Lexington and Columbus

[Scott Merrill]

Ohio LinuxFest (https://ohiolinux.org) typically pulls about a
thousand attendees. Maybe a third have been paying supporters in years
past.

We're an all volunteer organization, and a 501(c)3 charity.  We can
always use more volunteer helpers. If you'd like to help this year,
send me an email.

Don't discount the smaller conferences like VM/L, though. They
generally draw a more technical audience, and the networking
opportunities can often be a little more useful for the long term.

Cheers,
Scott

On Jun 19, 2012, at 8:01 PM, Rick Troth <rmt at casita.net> wrote:

> I'm preparing talks for the upcoming "VM and Linux Workshop".  As I
> do, I'm reviewing some YouTube videos from LinuxConfAU, which was held
> this
> past January in Ballarat (Victoria, Australia; that's near MEL-bun).
> Wow!  I especially liked the talks by Karen Sandler and Matthew
> Garrett.  The "channel" is http://www.youtube.com/user/linuxconfau2012
>
> LinuxConfAu probably has like 800 attendees, and the VM/Linux Workshop
> will be lucky to get 80.  So ... we're talking completely different
> scale, but it's growing.  But the volunteerism is the same.  I'm
> guessing OLF draws almost as many as LCA.  (Skippy would know the
> numbers.)  This community stuff is awesome.
>
> Just making observation.
>
> Most of you are aware of OLF and will probably attend.  (If not, you
> should!)  Few will have as much interest in the VM/L Workshop since it
> is mainframe centric.  (But it's not exclusive ... and frankly I
> wonder if KVM will be a bigger part in years to come since z/KVM is a
> reality.)  I could go on and on about virtualization.
>
> -- R;   <><
> '::1, sweet ::1'
>
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