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+Episode: 2242
+Title: HPR2242: Interview with Colin J. Mills, organizer of KW Linuxfest
+Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2242/hpr2242.mp3
+Transcribed: 2025-10-18 23:34:38
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+This is Bob Johnkman. Today is Saturday the 28th of January 2017 and today was
+KW Linux Fest, a Linux Fest in Kitchener Waterloo. I'm talking with Colin Mills,
+the organizer. I call him. I had Bob, how are you? I'm pretty good thanks. So good
+event. This is just a tale end of it. We've just finished off. Yeah, it was. It was a really
+good event actually. I wasn't quite sure what to expect going into it since it's only the
+second year. It's pretty. It's in an infancy stage, but I'm glad that it went. So as
+well as it did. Yeah, yeah. So thanks for inviting me to present. Oh sure. Yeah, we always
+need we always need good presenters. We always have the interactive demos. Those are usually
+a hit. So I'm glad. The demos are a little scary. Yeah, unless the demo gods wait.
+Yeah. Today they weren't too bad. A little rough in the beginning, but then we have a
+trouble finding presenters. Actually, it wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be. One
+thing that did happen was that presenters started to come out closer to the date that
+they would. For instance, like I put the so it's January now and I put the announcement
+for speakers out in July and only got one or two hits. But then closing in on the end
+of December and even into January, I got more, more speakers. So that definitely definitely
+changed the schedule and things like that. So it was one of, it was one of those. It was scary.
+Yeah, how was registration? Saw the notice on the website, you know, registration was
+free. Yeah, it was a little interesting because I think it was it was a capacity for the
+venue, but I think I learned a couple things because a lot of the people that registered
+did not. I know coming to the event. Yeah. So I think some empty seats. Yeah. So I think
+I mean, it wasn't too bad. It was probably about half. But I think maybe that's something
+you have to expect from an event as well. And I shouldn't have been too hasty to just
+say that. That was definitely I should almost mistake them. But yeah, next year, I think
+I'm going to try a couple different strategies in terms of trying to retain registrations
+and things like that. One day I was, have you ever heard of a straight payment service?
+I heard of it. Yeah. So it's basically a payment as a service. So they they have a nice
+API that you can use in your web application to process credit cards, not type of thing.
+So I think I maybe next year, I might start integrating straight into actual registrations.
+So when you're registering, you say, here's my five or 10 bucks or whatever it is. And
+you'll see when we event because I think that might give a little more incentive. Yeah.
+People who have prepaid our formal, I think remember that. Yeah. And another thing is
+more notifications and more communication. Those two things. Overall was a really good
+event. And you know what? It's really not about the number of people you have in the seats
+about the content that they enjoy. So I still mark this year as a success. I think it was
+a success. Yeah. About 1700 people in the audience. And that was after some of the early
+presenters in the audience had left from the morning session. So no, 25 or so people
+just running out. That's a good number. I think that's definitely reasonable. And hopefully
+next year we'll get a little more out as well. You keep saying extra. I like hearing those
+words. Yeah. When you start planning for next year, I'm probably going to look into it
+around June or July because one of the things I want to do is even get a get a solid
+venue and get a solid start on getting your registration and things. And it's actually
+much easier this year or this upcoming year because this event, we had the website created
+for this event. We have registration. But now going into next year, we have that foundation.
+The website is KWlinXFest.ca. So you can go check it out. But I think I think one of
+the one of the best things that had happened even compared to last year was that the marketing
+was actually really on point in terms of where I wanted it to be. And I did get a large
+amount of registrations. It's just the fact that once you get those registrations, you've
+just got to keep them. So I don't think it's a matter of actually getting more registrations
+though, because I think we had a really good presence overall. Yeah. So this past
+and started in July or August, I remember seeing it. Yeah, it was July. It was July. So mid
+July. I was a little late, but I think next year we'll probably go a little earlier
+probably. So you lucked out on this ending this year? Oh, yeah. For sure. Yeah. Right now
+and actually I'm a co-op. So for those listening in other countries in Canada, a co-op is
+like an intern or something like that. So, right. So I'm on an internship right now with
+my company vehicle and their web app consultants. It's been really good. They agreed to sponsor
+the event and give me their space to use for the dance. And vehicle is not spelled
+conventionally. It's V-H-I-K-L. So there you go. Yeah. Yeah. It's definitely not a mechanic
+shop. That's fair. Not at all. So they've offered the venue. It's a nice space. It's
+one of these cooperative working spaces, open spaces. We're in the boardroom right now.
+A nice conference room in the back for the actual presentation. But a good bit kitchen
+here too. Yeah. First coffee I heard you grinding coffee. Oh, yeah. Lots of grinding
+was going on. People need their coffee. So this is the second one. Second one. How to
+discuss last year as well. Yeah. Kona Stover College. How did you happen on that? Oh, well,
+I was a student there for like I said, I'm still a co-op. So in my, you know, I'm still
+technically a student. So in my internship, I'm still technically a student for a big
+long internship. So basically what happened last year was that I was going to school there.
+And I said, well, I would like, I would like a really nice event where we can discuss
+Linux and we can kind of come together as a community because I didn't see much around
+the Waterloo area in terms of that exact thing like those the KW love, which is the Kitchener
+Waterloo Linux user group. But I didn't see like a day of the year that we all just got
+together and talked about some pretty interesting things. So I decided to all of a sudden at the
+school. That wasn't part of the school program. It was something that was completely independent.
+Oh, yeah. That was that was that was a direct offshoot of my my inspiration. So it wasn't
+anything I had to do some schooling with that. It's pretty ambitious, but I'm glad I worked
+out and it actually gave me a much, much bigger appreciation for the community and the nice
+people that are in it. It's good to get my name out there as well. That's really interesting.
+Oh, it does it does look good on you because you know you're the driving force behind the KW
+Linux test. You haven't had a Linux Fest in Ontario since 2009 and we had the last
+events around us. It's good to have it have it back again. Yeah, I think one important thing
+because is that you look at Linux events and since it's actually been blowing up like like
+Linux in itself and the international community and that type of thing, you don't see a lot of
+smaller events focused directly on there. So for instance in Toronto, which is not too far away,
+we had the it was Linux Linux con North America. There's a limestone. Yeah, yeah, that was that was not
+for your average. Yeah, that was $1,300 a ticket. So it was not so I think having that having an
+affordable event that was around the corner is kind of nice in this area, especially since we're
+kind of a tech hub in that. We've got Waterloo University, we've got Connistoga College,
+Laurier University, lots of technical startups coming out of kitchen a lot of the day. So I think
+yeah, having having that accessible medium for a very good day of fun. But you were still
+be on the co-op next year. So how it would work is actually my program is one of the few that has
+a really generous co-op program. So I started in May of 2016 here. So it's 16 months co-op.
+And it's actually pretty generous in terms of so there's four months, four months, four months,
+but vehicle, vehicle decided to keep me sure the entire 16 months. That sounds pretty good.
+And then I and then I have two semesters left of school. So so eight months of school last
+coming back to vehicle. If I if all goes well, that is the plan, but we'll see.
+So you think vehicle might be a sponsor for the event again next year? Oh, I definitely think so.
+They're really generous in their communities as well and they want to make sure that they're
+they have a presence and I think this is a good outlet for that as well. So with if
+the greater kitchen or water community wants to give you a hand in organizing limits test for
+few guys in 18, how can you get all of you? You can you can email me at
+kwlinicsfestatgmail.com. So if you if you're interested in hosting that in the area, you can email
+email that email address and we will continue talking from there. And keep an eye on the website.
+Keep an eye on the website for sure. All the talks, all the slides of the talks and there was
+some demonstration that get repost stories and that didn't change. All links of those will be up
+and there's some pictures as well. And I'll be up in the next couple days. You know,
+if any kind of luck, you'll get some video out of the video as well. Hopefully, yeah, that would be good,
+yeah. Yeah, I really couldn't say the event could go any better, so I'm pretty, pretty proud of it.
+That was a good day. Thank you very much, Kala. And thanks to the interview. Yeah, for sure.
+This is Bob Jockman for Hacker Public Radio. Good to see you, staffed everybody. Bye.
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