Welcome

Information about Atlanta Linux Fest 2010 will be coming soon.

Welcome to the Atlanta Linux Fest website. Atlanta Linux Fest will be held Saturday, September 19th, 2009, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. This coincides with the 2009 Software Freedom day, so come show your support for free software!

The Atlanta Linux Fest is a free grassroots conference for the GNU/Open Source Software/Free Software community to gather and share information about fun and exciting existing and upcoming Linux and Open Source Software.

Attendees of all skill levels are invited to share their experiences to benefit all users of Linux/Free and Open Source Software. Atlanta Linux Fest is the place to learn, make new friends, and have fun!

Register now! Registration required to use wifi.

ALF 2009 Photos

Photos from the 2009 Atlanta Linux Fest are now available! More photos will be posted as time permits, so check back soon. ALF 2009 Photo Gallery.

Ubuntu 10.04 is...

Ready for Ubuntu 9.10?

Want to know if your hardware will work with the upcoming release of Karmic Koala, Ubuntu 9.10? Members of the Ubuntu kernel team will be on hand with custom built USB sticks that will boot and run a test suite. This will not touch the hard disk and will let users know what of the new kernel/hardware features will work on their machine.

Bring your machine and help improve Ubuntu 9.10!

Live Hack Session

Interested in learning how to hack drivers? The Ubuntu kernel team will be running a live hack session to show you how! Using a USB dongle that is a thermometer and a "shell" driver, users will walked through writing the drivers, compiling it, and running it.

Birds of a Feather Sessions

ALF 2009 will offer an opportunity for networking and discussion of topics of interest to selected attendees in the form of "Birds of a Feather" discussions. You can submit ideas for BoFs here.

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Presentations

Title Presenter
Cultivating Contributions Tom Callaway, Red Hat
Debugging the Kernel Steve Conklin, Canonical
Endless Summer - Create your own program based on Google Summer of Code Ellen Ko, Google
Evergreen - the FOSS ILS behind GPLS Don McMorris, Equinox
Fixing Audio in (Ubuntu) Linux Dan Chen, Ubuntu
Free Software Development with Launchpad Deryck Hodge, Canonical
GPLv3: Better Copyleft for Developers and Users Bradley M. Kuhn, SFLC
Her PR Problem/Tooting the Horns of Women in Open Source Rikki Kite, Linux Pro
How To Bring Open Source Network Management Tools into Mission Critical Roles in Your Organization Brady Kern, Mohammed King, Rick Lingsch, eApps
It’s a Platform not a CRM Josh Sweeney, ALT-Invest
Linux & Packet Radio Charles S.Schuman
Multi-site Drupal Management David Tomaschik and Michael Haynes, Kennesaw State University
Open source and Charitable Giving Michelle and Michael Hall, QuinnCo
Open Source and the Cloud John Willis, Cloud Stenography
Open Source in K12 Education: Lessons Learned from a District Wide Deployment James Schweitzer, IBM
Open source, open data Kirrily Robert
Remixing and spinning your own Fedora-based distribution David Nalley, Fedora Project
Running an Open Source Business Tarus Balog, OpenNMS
Securing your Network with Open Source Technologies Nick Owen, WiKID Systems
Sleeping Soundly at Night, Open Source Network Monitoring with Zenoss Core Mark Hinkle, Zenoss
Standing Out in the Crowd Kirrily Robert
The Ubuntu Kernel Pete Graner, Canonical
The weather ahead: Clouds John Pugh, Canonical
Using Reference Video for Game Animation in Blender Roger Wickes, Blender
What Community has to Offer, a Guide to the openSUSE Community Chuck Payne, openSUSE Ambassador