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Episode: 904
Title: HPR0904: Frostcast Northeast GNU/Linux Fest
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Transcribed: 2025-10-08 04:43:42

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Hello and welcome and thank you for joining us on this episode. It might be a slightly different
different episode the normal, but I'm going to take this time an opportunity to talk about the
second annual Northeast GNU Linux Fest. It is going to be on March 17th 2012. It's a Saturday and joining me on today's
episode is Bruce Patterson from DistroWatch. He's been helping organize along with me and my partner in
Crime Mike and it's been great to have Bruce on. He's been helping out a ton. We've been able to get much
more done, even with just one more person. Bruce, thanks for coming on tonight. Not a problem, Jonathan. It's always great to be here.
Great. We'll just talk about what's been going on. Inform people of what's going on with the Northeast GNU Linux Fest.
Get people excited to come and experience the event for themselves. I guess I'll start off the first major thing
that's been done is instead of a half a day event, we will be having a full day event. So instead of I think last year,
we went from 10 to 3 or something like that. We are now going from 9 until 6. So it's considerably longer,
have 3 or 4 more speakers in last year. I'm pretty excited about that. On top of it, we'll have an extra room.
We'll actually two extra things going on and we'll lead into that. But yeah, I mean so far this year,
it's going to be considerably, I don't want to say different, because it's at the same place. It's at Worcester State University.
And if you want to check out to all of what's going on, you can go to northeslinuxfest.org and you'll see everything that's going on there.
Bruce, is there anything for you that sticks out? And I think I have a feeling I know where you're going to mention.
Well, there's actually a lot of things, but I wanted to take a quick step back. And I wanted to simply put this question out,
because I know there are some folks that are going to ask it anyway. But the goal or the theme for this year's event is accessibility.
So I guess the short of it is that why should folks come to the north eastlinuxfest?
Well, I guess even slightly step back farther from that is like this, I've only been to the Ohio Linux Fest this past year.
I've never made it to self. I'm hoping I can make it this year. But from what I saw at Ohio, and even before going to Linux Fest,
I myself am a free software advocate and also depending on accessibility.
For myself, I started the north eastlinuxfest as a free software advocacy conference.
I'm not too concerned about corporate businesses and stuff promoting themselves there, which it's fine if they do.
But I want to use the event as a way to advocate free software to college students and maybe even high school students or whoever wants to come.
So my idea of the event is more of a grassroots take and where we want to just inform people about free software,
what they can gain by using free software, maybe things they never thought of using non-free software and open their eyes to different situations and things.
And accessibility is a, I believe, you know, my whole thing right now is trying to make a considerable difference in the accessible world, leveraging the power of free software.
And I think I heard you say it before on a Linux basics, and I love the word you use. It's a great equalizer.
It levels the playing field for accessibility by using free software.
So that's one of the many reasons why this year is kind of about accessibility to bring awareness to accessibility and to show how easily accessibility can be changed through free software and possibly even hardware.
And not to mention it, it actually has a doubling effect because first of all, not only is it being approached from the side of which you're coming from being visually impaired,
but it's also reaching out to folks that may be possibly physically handicapped, maybe we could work out something there, which is what we're planning through the hackerspace competition.
But more importantly, for those who are financially impaired, because this is free software. And I think Linux gives folks a great outlet to keep up with their counter parts who are working in the business world,
because a word processor is a word processor. It doesn't matter whether you're using word, open office, or library office for that matter.
You know, Abbey word and numeric are also fine products. So there's a lot out there.
Absolutely. Yeah. I like that. Would you say financially not disabled? What was that word you just used?
Impaired. Yeah. That's good. I'm sure there's a lot of that going on this day and age. So that's really good.
Well, what inspired me was when I heard your interview a little while back. She's actually, it's probably well over a year ago, when you actually first came on to Linux basics, because you were throwing out some pretty heavy numbers about the folks who are blind who are unemployed.
It was like an astounding 80% or something like that. Yeah.
You know, and I think the fact is is that what makes your mission that much more impossible. Well, actually the community's mission is through software like Orca and an OS like Linux. It's giving folks a fighting chance.
Things that they may not have had before.
Absolutely. And again, I'm going to use your word. It's a great equalizer. It definitely can level the planning field.
And you know, free software and accessibility. It's definitely usable right now, but it could be considered considerably better, you know, just like anything else. But I think if, you know, with the right effort and the right manpower and so on and so forth, I think a great difference can be made with free free software and accessibility.
So again, that's what the Northeast can do. It's for Linux. It's for not just particularly accessibility, but just how can free software change your life? How can it change your company's life? How can it change your you you at school? How can it change your school's
program? How can, you know, how can you benefit by using free software, not just from the cost, but from all of the freedoms that come with free software, you're in control of your own destiny.
And that's, you know, what I want to do with accessibility and people that depend on accessible hardware is put everyone in control of their own destiny.
And if you're motivated, you can get quite a bit done. If you're not motivated, well then you can benefit from everyone else's hard work.
So, well, and added bonus for that is one of the folks that I reached out to was the Worcester Chamber of Commerce because like anything else in these financial strap times or small businesses who need a leg up and let's face it, they can't continue to pay for these licenses for, you know, Microsoft or even for Mac stuff.
And I think that by inviting these small businesses to the Northeast Linux Fest, you're helping them make informed decisions about possibly including this software into their businesses.
No, licenses, they don't have, I'm not going to say you don't have to worry about security, but you can, you know, be a little more sure that you're a lot more secure than you were to begin with if you switch over to free software.
Well, entirely. And in fact, that sort of ties in with the talk that actually happened last week over the Boston Linux users group. Basically, it was a talk that was a discussion on how to get enterprise level departments and companies to start thinking about free software.
That's a discussion that I think is right up the alley of the Northeast Linux Fest because it is about information and making people informed of these choices.
Absolutely. That's definitely what it's about. And I encourage everyone to come down. If you didn't make it last year, you'll be happy you came. Well, we will make it worth your while.
Let's see, one, another thing I'm excited about that Bruce was able to bring to the table is we are going to have live coverage of the GNU Linux Fest through the, it's the Worcester cable access right Bruce? What's the like the technical name for them?
WCCATV. And what's really awesome about this is that it looks like we can get a lot of other students involved with this too because, you know, they'll have folks who are showing in the main room, but we also have, you know, two simultaneous events, you get open street map, which is showing a workshop all day, I believe, correct?
I told them they can have as much time as they want them and got back meat, but there will be some sort of workshop going on with the street map. I don't know how many talks they're going to have, but I told them they can have rain of the whole room and do what they wanted with it.
And then, of course, we have the hacker space competition, which up until quite frankly, last month, since we didn't hear anybody around November, I thought we would have to scrap it, but then all of a sudden, overnight, we literally have quite a few people responding now.
Yeah, it was like a week before we were talking amongst ourselves saying, all right, well, if we don't hear from anyone by this time, we'll just have to go to plan B and figure out what we want to do with like the extra room or whatever.
And I got an email from this guy in the hacker space asking questions, and I said, huh, and I forwarded you the message and then you get a hold of him and turned, you know, from that one email, this guy was like, oh, yeah, you know, these, these guys are coming down, these guys are coming down.
And I just blew us out of the water.
Well, one of the other parts tying into the Worcester Cable Access TV is that they also have an additional show called soapbox.
Of course, you should be appearing on that at some point in January, but we're also offering it to the top three winners or voted winners of the design for hacker space.
So they each get their own episode, which I thought was pretty cool of them.
Yeah, I'd have to say with the registrations are, I mean, we're probably not that we had that many registrations last year.
I want to say we had like maybe 50 people register and we are already out about like 30 people registering and we're still quite a few months away from, you know, the event.
And I'd have to say at least 20 out of the 30 said they will be participating in the hacker space that have registered so far.
So it's, it's, it's had quite the uptake, I think.
Well, one of the things is that well, college kids have been our main focus over the week.
I decided that maybe we should also start reaching out to high school kids because I mean, it really is.
If it's, if we're going to go with accessibility, we might as well start folks off early.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, we've had a great response with registrations again.
Like I've seen some Harvard emails coming in some MIT emails coming in people from the physics lab at Harvard coming in WPI.
So it's been great like just seeing these people already registering and I can imagine, you know, we can expect quite a few more from those schools coming down.
And their response has been great because the folks that I've contacted, the chairman of the computer science department over at BU contacted me almost immediately after I sent out.
The email so there's a lot of colleges most certainly on board.
Yeah, I think it's either BU or BC.
I don't know if they still maintain it anymore, but I know for a while they actually had their own Linux distro that they that they made.
I'd almost guess that it's BU because they're a very much a red hat shop.
Okay, yeah, I'm pretty sure they maintain their own Linux distro for, I don't know if they still do, but I've seen a few times.
So, yeah, that'd be cool to have, you know, those guys come down.
And of course, some of the added bonuses too is we've definitely locked down the BSD exams on the morning of the event.
Yeah, if you're interested in the BSD getting certified in BSD, we have links on the website, right Bruce?
They're all there up there and ready to go.
Okay, so if you go to the northeastlinuxfest.org, you can sign up for the BSD certification.
I believe it's $75.
It is.
Okay, and so basically this is just to take the exam.
So, what we're going to do is she drew Levine who is also going to give a talk.
She wanted to have an hour and a half.
So, what we decided to do was we're going to be at the school at 8 a.m. anyways, but we're not going to really open the doors.
Why me and they'll be open, but we don't really expect people to come until nine.
So, the people that are taking the test can show up at 8 30 and you'll have from 8 30 until 10 to take the exam.
And the actual fest won't start until 10.
That's when the first talk will be which I'm giving.
So, that way, if you're going to take the test, you won't miss anything.
So, if you want to take the test, come nice and early, take the test and you still have the whole day.
You won't worry about missing anything.
And let's not forget Dan Fry and his open scheduler.
I think that's awesome that he's on board with that.
Yeah, Dan Fry who has created the Android app open schedule.
We talked him two weeks ago and he was all on board helping us out.
And we basically gave him all the information.
He's going to be setting that up.
So, I'm hoping we can have a set up kind of like what he was saying that self did where we can have a QR code like at the registration table.
And if you want to get the open schedule app on your Android phone, it'll give you like who's talking when, bios of who's talking and give you all kinds of information.
You can just scan the QR code and boom, it'll download onto your phone and you'll be ready to go.
Which reminds me, hacker public radio had a very cool book last year where they apparently had a QR code for every episode.
And all you had to do is just flash your phone at it and bang, download it.
I want to download all QR code.
We'll have to talk to Pokeer, Ken Fallon about that.
Next to it, it should say don't make any plans.
What are that episode like 850 or something like that?
Oh, it's pretty crazy. It's really up there.
And we will have Wi-Fi at the school too.
Last year it was a bit annoying.
At my school, you basically have to log into the network to connect.
And they said, oh, don't worry, you know, that day will give you like a generic login and password.
And whoever was in charge of that was never around.
And so people connected was awfully annoying.
So I'm going to make sure that that's all set.
It wasn't a technical problem. It was more of an administration problem.
And so there should be no problems with Wi-Fi this year.
And the Wi-Fi is pretty good at my school.
I mean, I'm never like, I can stream stuff.
So it's obviously good enough to stream stuff.
I don't know what the upload is or anything.
But there should be no problems this year for Wi-Fi at the school.
Speaking of facilities, let us not overlook the $5 all you can eat buffet.
Oh, yeah, that's a...
I know another thing that I didn't promote well that I'm sure people would have appreciated.
There's a cafeteria, like two floors up.
And it's, yeah, it's like Bruce said, $5 all you can eat.
The food is well worth $5.
It's not crap by any means.
So it's definitely good food.
It's not like cafeteria food from like some weird hospital or whatever.
Food's good.
I think one of the great parts about it is that this also gives folks that option to take off any time to grab food upstairs.
And they don't have to go very far for anything.
No, everything's right up there.
There's soda machines all like on the main floor that we're on.
Soda machines, water machines, I think juice machines.
So everything's easily accessible right there.
I mean, there's also drinks.
I think drinks are included with the $5 all you can eat.
I'm 95% sure.
So if you go up there and eat, you can drink as much as you want to.
And yeah, I guess speaking of facilities or whatever, we also have the hotel is on Grove Street,
which is the same street that the after parties on in Gillian's.
This is a, it's called the Courthouse by Marriott.
So it's part of the Marriott chain.
It's a really nice, you know, nice hotel.
There is free Wi-Fi at the hotel, but there is no breakfast that you get included in the room.
So if you want to eat there, you will be paying, you know, whatever they charge.
I have no idea what they charge for breakfast.
So breakfast is not included in the room.
But I got a really great rates on the rooms for a king size bed and a pullout.
It's a hundred, it's a hundred bucks a night.
And for two queens and a pullout, it's a hundred and ten a night.
Normally these rooms are like 180 and 190.
So I got a great deal on them.
So if you want to get a room, you must, must get a room before like February 17th, I believe.
They said about a month before the actual conference.
The rooms that are blocked off, they're going to put back into the pool for the hotel if they're not taken.
So you must get a room before February 17th.
I might be able to work something out, I'm not sure, but don't trust in that.
If you do plan on coming and you want those rates, you must get it before February 17th.
And while we're on information, why don't we also talk about the directions aspect of it?
Because what I've done is I've put in directions from folks coming from Boston.
But in the upcoming week, this week, I'll also be putting them from Providence and from the western side of the state.
So folks know how to get there.
Most folks do know how to get to Worcester, but there are a lot of options.
If you're coming from Boston, there are buses and trains that go out to Worcester.
Also, the Worcester station.
The train is from Providence too.
Yeah, it's exactly.
The train will go from Providence to the Boston and then you can probably take it from Boston to the Worcester.
I don't think it goes straight to Worcester.
Although there may be bus services straight to Worcester.
But again, I'll put those rates and prices up as well.
And before I forget, if you're coming from across the country and are flying in,
you can actually fly into the Worcester airport, which is literally not even a quarter mile from Worcester state.
Yeah, I'm not sure.
The flights that go into Worcester might be fewer far between, but you might be able to find something.
I'm not sure.
You know, it's not like a heavily traveled airport.
No, but I believe Southwest flies out of there, so that's kind of important.
Okay.
Yeah, I didn't know the details on it.
And from the school to where the after party is, it's like a three-minute car ride.
It's like right down the road.
And like I said, the hotel is on the same road.
I'm not sure how far the hotel is from Gillians, where I have the after party,
but it's on the same road.
So it can't be, you know, it can't be more than a mile.
It's going to be relatively close.
And again, all of this information can be found at NorthEastLinuxFest.org.
And this is under the Information tab.
Yeah.
And speaking of Gillians, we had the party there last year.
It was a little loud, but we were there early enough the day to where it wasn't like really bad,
but it's going to be later in the night this time.
So we are renting.
They have like a private room.
I believe it holds up to 200 people or 150, something like that.
And so we're going to have this our own private room, our own private bartender,
private waitresses and waiters or whatever.
So we'll have the room completely to ourselves.
It won't be all like crazy loud.
We'll be able to hear each other talk.
But you will be able to go out.
You know, there's tons of pool tables, tons of arcade games.
So if you guys want to leave the room, you don't have to obviously stay in the room.
But we'll be having the party in Gillians.
I'm thinking we'll get the room for like three hours.
So it'll be like from seven to 10.
And then, you know, if we want to stay there, we can just leave that room and go into the main part of Gillians.
But I'm really looking forward to the after party.
Now, one of the other things that we do want to stress too on the website is the registration page.
This is more important too for the folks who are going to attend the hacker space.
So we can make sure we have adequate space for everybody.
Because like I said, when we first got the ball rolling, I mean, we didn't hear anything for a little bit.
But now, I mean, being conservative, we probably have 40 people coming to this right off the bat.
And, you know, from New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts.
I know that Mike's been looking at Connecticut in New York.
So, you know, a lot of folks are expected to show.
Yeah, I know.
Like I said, I think NY Bill said this could be some guys coming, you know, from New York with hacker space stuff.
So, yeah, please register as soon as possible.
Don't wait until the last minute.
It really helps us out.
It's not just like a, you know, something to be annoying about.
Like it really does help to know, like, do you plan?
Like we basically asked two questions.
Do you plan on coming to the party?
And are you attending the hacker space?
And then that's, you know, that's all we ask.
So we definitely need to get some, you know, solid numbers.
And it's a lot better to get those numbers, you know, a few months out instead of like a week before.
Because really a week before, five days before, two days before, that really doesn't do us any good.
No doubt.
It's nice to know, but there's not much we can, we can do about it.
And we don't want to turn people back, believe me.
No, no.
But speaking of helping out too, we also put up a link for supported pack.
Yes.
And what have, what have we organized for that?
Right now, we have the supporter pack.
It's $40.
I'm thinking of maybe adjusting a little bit.
I'm not, I'm not sure, but right now it's $40.
And for the $40, you'll be supporting the Northeast.
It's going to be Linux fast, but also instead of this year of doing t-shirts,
we still have some t-shirts left from last year, like maybe 18 shirts or something like that.
So if you do want a shirt, we'll have them there and they'll be 20 bucks.
But for this year, if you get the supporter pack for $40,
we're going to be doing business card-sized USB drives, USB pen drives.
And what we're going to do is we're going to have the Northeast,
New Linux, Festival logo on it, and like the URL.
And on the pen drive is going to be pre-installed.
It's Trisk-Scale 5.0.
And what's great about that is the 5.0 release is the one that I was able to work with Ruben Rodriguez.
And we were able to make that version of Trisk-Scale accessible.
So if you have a blind or vision impaired friend, you could stick this drive in their computer.
Orca will start talking in a live environment.
They can install by themselves or they could even just use the live environment and see how they like it.
So we will be pre-installing Trisk-Scale on the business side, business size, USB pen drive.
And I think there are going to be four gigs, I'm not sure.
I don't remember off the information right in front of me, but I believe they're four gigs.
So that's what we're looking at doing.
But I also might, I have to talk to the school.
I don't know how I can work this out or like how I can put it together.
But I might also include lunch for people that get the supporter pack.
So you'd be able to just go upstairs and like hand them a ticket or something.
And then you could, you know, you can get lunch.
And during lunch from between noon and one, there'll be no talks going on.
So if ever wants to grab lunch then you could grab lunch.
And then so there'll be talks from 10.
10 through noon.
And then from one to six, there'll be talks.
And then no talks from noon to one.
So yeah, I'm thinking I'm trying to add lunch into that $40.
I just don't know how I could like work out the logistics because I, like I said,
I guess I'll talk to my school and see what I could do.
Very cool.
And speaking of other items of interest to the sponsor tables, how are those going?
Well, we have five to seven of them taken.
And right now if you're like a dot edu, a dot org or dot net or whatever,
we will give you a table.
So email Northeast Linux at Gmail.
And we'll set you up on the table right now.
We have Ubuntu, someone from KDE.
Hopefully someone from FightForTheFuture.org.
BSD.
Free BSD is going to be there.
Open street maps.
Can have a table.
Who else?
I can't think of any old self-time.
I had this couple more than I'm missing.
But I think I'm hoping hacker public radio will be back.
Poke if you're listening and get a hold of me.
So yeah, that's what's going on right now.
But if you do want a table, get a hold of me once they're gone.
That's it.
But I'm hoping that we're going to have decent sponsorship this year.
That's why I'm able to just give the tables away to, like,
non-sponsors.
So if you do want a table, just go to hold the me, email me,
and we'll give you a table.
Very cool.
And one of the other things that we'd also like to mention too
is for folks who want to help spread the word.
On our page, we also have the propaganda section.
And we've got our spots there, our audio spots.
But we've also got posters for both the hacker space
and for the event itself.
So definitely check those out.
And of course, they're in LibreOffice format.
Yeah.
You will be able to, and that's another way you can help out.
Go to the propaganda page, print out some flyers, hand them out,
send people to the links to the propaganda page,
have them print them out, hand them out, email attachments to people,
do whatever you wish.
There's also audio promos.
If you have podcasts, please play them.
Just spread the word, do whatever you can.
We appreciate any help.
And again, it's a grassroots movement.
So it takes the community to build the community.
So we appreciate any help.
Yeah, and I'd also like to thank Carrie from Maker Space
from Cape Codmas.
They also supported us.
And in fact, they posted it on their website for the Northeast Linux Fest.
And I'd linked off of that so you guys can take a look at it at some point.
And of course, your interview from the Linux link tech show,
which was also informative.
Yeah, we also had, I think there's a lug from Rhode Island.
That's going to be coming down to you.
All right, so an email comes through.
Yep, the lug from Rhode Island.
And actually, they're contacting two other lugs in Rhode Island.
So this is a snowball that's getting bigger.
Yeah, yeah, definitely.
So, ooh, man, is there anything else that we need to cover?
I think we just the bamboozled everyone with a lot of information.
Hey, that's what this is all about.
Remember, northeastlinicsfest.org.
Yeah, and I guess we danced around the hacker space.
That's one of the things that you also brought to the table.
Bruce was the hacker space.
And we also danced around the contest where we're encouraging hackers to come down
and make some sort of accessible hardware,
something that can improve someone's way of life through accessible hacking on hardware.
And so we're, I'm really encouraged by the response for getting tons of people
are excited about this.
And I'm looking forward to be blown away by the stuff that we see there.
And not to mention, I'm hoping that the folks from Make Magazine are listening in
because we really want them to judge this event
and it wouldn't be complete without them.
Yeah, yeah.
We've reached out to them.
We've been in talks.
We're sort of in, I guess, sort of a limbo, I guess.
But we'll wait till after the new year.
We'll reach back out to them and, you know, unpersistent.
So I don't stop until someone tells me to go away.
Or gives in.
Yeah.
They'll either say uncle or go away.
One of the two will happen.
Oh, one last thing.
We can't forget, let's see, the makers of MariaDB.
Yeah.
What are they?
Sky?
Yeah.
Sky SQL.
There we go.
Yeah.
They'll be at the event, correct?
Yeah, yeah.
They'll also be giving a talk too.
So.
It'll be nice to see Monty's new venture.
Because MariaDB, you know, I'm sure it's been well received.
But I think that this is kind of an important niche to fill as well.
Yeah.
And I guess speaking of speakers, we can also kind of run down.
There's still one spot open, but don't, don't ask for it.
It's already been taken if it doesn't get filled up somewhere else.
But yeah, we have John Sullivan, the executive director of the FSF, Matt Lee.
They can't, a campaigns manager at the FSF drew Levine from free BSD.
We have to do do do do do do.
James Turk.
Yes.
Thank you.
James Turk from the Sunlight Labs Foundation.
He's doing the open state project.
We also will be having someone from open street map.
We'll be having myself, someone from Sky SQL and one last spot.
It might be someone from Red Hat slash Fedora.
Not sure yet.
So if not, it'll be Dan Frye who created the open schedule program.
Yeah, I'm really actually looking forward to a lot of these people showing up.
So this is all exciting stuff and we hope you folks can make it.
Yeah, and some people asked about like, you know, how can we only have one track?
I myself, even before going to the Ohio Linux Fest, I myself think only one track is,
you should only have one track because you lose, you know, if you're there,
and there's three tracks going on, two people, three people could be talking at the same time.
You want to hear all three of them.
What if those are three people that you want to want to hear?
Then now you're like, okay, now I have to decide, you know, who's worth missing out of the three,
or who, you know, whose talk is expendable.
Like, you know, hopefully they're recording it so I can listen to it later.
And then, you know, you just have to make hard decisions this way.
It's one track, home run hitters every talk.
You know, you're going to get something good with everyone talking,
and you're not going to be, you know, I don't want to decide between this person and that person.
Maybe the talk will be something you're not interested in.
Then you don't stay in the room and you walk around and talk to other people,
talk to people at tables, and you know, have a great experience.
Or check out the hacker space.
That's one of the great things.
Exactly.
Or going to the open street map workshop.
Maybe you want to learn something about that.
So, I mean, you know, I don't, no matter, you know, the northeast,
the new list fest goes to two days, three days.
If it goes 24 hours long, I think they'll always be just one track.
Unless there's, I guess like the open street map workshop is kind of like a second track,
but not really, because it's completely different.
So, if there was like sort of another track, which I wouldn't call that,
it would be something laser focused on a specific topic.
And it wouldn't be competing with, you know, the main track.
Well, I think also the best part about it is that it is an all day event.
And really, I mean, if it turns out that we have to stretch it to another day next year,
we'll do it next year that way.
But I mean, right now, this is the best of all worlds.
Yeah, yeah, definitely.
And you don't have to worry about missing the talk,
because we are absolutely having it recorded.
Could it be streamed live over the...
Is it W-T-T-C?
W-C-C-A-TV.
Ah, there we go.
And it's going to be streamed on their website.
And they're going to dump all the footage to us when they're done too.
And they're going to do whatever you want with that.
So, you don't have to be worried about missing anything.
We'll probably put out the videos and audio of all the talks.
And, man, is there anything else left, Bruce?
We've gone from start to finish the entire site.
And the website is northeastlimicsfest.org
and please register, please register.
And if you're thinking you might please be a supporter
of the Northeast Community Life Fest.
It helps out with the costs.
I mean, sponsors sometimes don't cover everything
or sometimes sponsors like to wait until the week before the fest
to give you the money.
And that also makes things a lot more difficult too.
So, with people supporting throughout the time,
it helps pay things up front, so.
And don't forget, we have a couple of other outlets too.
If you're on Identica, we're certainly on there.
Facebook, let me get the information here.
Yeah, so on Identica.
Yeah, Identica and Twitter is slash Northeast Linux.
Both of them are the same name.
And on Facebook, you can find it Northeast Linux Fest.
And it wasn't sure if it was that or not.
Yep.
Okay.
So yeah, I think that's about everything.
You know, go to the propaganda page.
We look forward to you coming.
We hope you all have a good time.
We look forward to the after party.
It's going to be great.
That's sort of reminds me of that Simpsons quote.
Yeah, let's see.
If you can't make it, you better be dead or in jail.
And if you're in jail, break out.
Exactly.
Although we can't promise Chuckosaurus, but we'll do our best.
Hey, maybe a hacker guy will bring something like that.
No doubt it.
Awesome.
Well, I think that's about it for this episode.
If you have any other questions, we'll be answered if you visit
NortheastLinuxFest.org.
Very sweet.
All right.
Thanks a lot, Bruce.
We will be talking to you again.
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