Kansas Linux Fest

Press Release Feb 2015 For Immediate Release


Kansas Linux Fest 2015 Talks Announced March 21st-22nd, 2015

http://www.kansaslinuxfest.us/

Over 200 attendees are set to meet at the 1st annual Kansas Linux Fest for
a weekend-long program of training, talks and workshops from the 21st to
22nd of March at the Lawrence Public Library in Lawrence, Kansas. The
conferences is free and open to all people, being run by the non profit
Free/Libre Open Source and Open Knowledge Association of Kansas and the
Lawrence Linux User group. There is also no need to pay or preregister for
the conference, but tickets are available and seating preferences will be
given to those who have registered. Donations are accepted via online
ticket sales, or at the door.

There will be over twenty presenters giving technical presentations and
hands-on workshops throughout the conference. Presenters include Dave
Lester, Twitter's open source advocate, Frank Wiles, Revolution Systems,
and Hal Gottfried, Open Hardware Group Kansas City CCCKC. Alan Robertson of
Assimilation Systems will be presenting on an open source network security
system. Oracle's MySQL community manager, Dave Stokes, will be presenting
two technical talks on MySQL, a popular relational database. Researchers
from KU and K-State and Wichita State University will be presenting as well
as Linux User Groups in Wichita and Omaha. Presentations on mobile phone
security and open source phone hardware as well as system and cloud
security are planned.

The conference will run from 9 am to 6pm on Saturday and from 12am to 6 pm
on Sunday with a breakfast event in planning from 9 to 12 am and to be
announced. The full schedule and speakers directory can be found at the
website http://www.kansaslinuxfest.us/pages/schedule.html and
http://www.kansaslinuxfest.us/pages/speakers.html. Sponsors and still
welcome and if you would be interested in supporting the event please find
the contact details on website
http://www.kansaslinuxfest.us/pages/contact.html.

To find out more about the conference and to register, visit
http://kansaslinuxfest.us.

Media logos and posters can be found on the website.
http://www.kansaslinuxfest.us/pages/media.html

What is GNU/Linux? Linux is part of a powerful computer operating system
that is distributed at no cost as an alternative to Windows or Apple OSX.
Many devices from Internet servers to cable boxes to mission critical
systems run Linux. Linux is developed collaboratively worldwide by
companies and individual volunteers. Linux was started by Linus Torvalds in
1991. The GNU Project was started in 1984 by Richard Stallman, and replaces
commercial UNIX software with all free and open source software.

What is Free/Libre open source software? Free and open source software is
software whose source code is open and available to anyone who wishes to
improve it, study it, modify it, and share the original and the
modifications with others.

This press release can be found on the website:
http://www.kansaslinuxfest.us/pages/press.html

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