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I just wanted to remind everyone that the Chicago Flourish Conference is |
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coming up this weekend. Friday, April 6th and Saturday April 7th. |
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If you are planning on attending be sure to mark you calendars and be sure |
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to register on the website. The main website should have information on how |
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to get to the conference, if you have any questions or concerns please feel |
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free to contact me. Registration opens at 8 am, the presentations will be |
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begin at 10 am on both Friday and Saturday. |
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Don't forget to check out the hack-a-thon and come join us after the even at |
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IBM's HQ for the post-flourish social. |
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Samir Faci |
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UIC LUG President |
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---- Blog extract from main website -- |
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Question to the world of Free and Open Source Software: What are my |
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prospects when I graduate? |
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As many of you know by now, for the last few months here at UIC*, we - the |
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ACM* and g/LUG*,- have been eagerly working to put together a conference to |
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discus FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) as an engine of innovation. |
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The Flourish Conf. will take place next 6-7 of April at the University of |
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Illinois at Chicago. |
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I am a self confessed gnu/Linux user, I love gnu/Linux, free software and |
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even open source - sorry RMS!. I am also a CS student at the University of |
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Illinois at Chicago, and curiously enough, even though most of our curricula |
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is done in Unix - we even have 2 RedHat labs here, - it appears as if none |
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of the big players within FLOSS ever come to hire at UIC. Why is that |
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Microsoft comes here semester after semester snatching some of the most |
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brilliant students on campus? Yet, I have yet to see FLOSS big players to |
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come out here looking for people. |
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These has made me wonder: Is there a professional future in FLOSS? .... |
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... and I know I'm not alone in my wonders. |
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To answer these questions, we have invited quite a few of really smart |
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people from different organizations: Google, IBM, Red Hat, and the FSF, and |
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we are going to have a a chance to hear about the opportunities that FLOSS |
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has to offer for our future. |
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We will have two panels, a talk on GPL v3, a talk on Google's contribution |
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and use of FLOSS, among many other really interesting talks, etc. We have |
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also put together a series of technical talks on FLOSS related technologies |
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and topics, and a couple other really interesting activities to give |
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attendees a chance to meet and to be met: Friday's Social mixer, and |
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Saturday's Hack-a-Thon. |
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This is not only going to be a great time for students around Chicago, this |
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is going to be a great chance for community members, and companies to come |
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together and explore how FLOSS is shaping up our future! |
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Come and join us! |
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Roberto C. Serrano |
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g/LUG @ UIC vice-president |