Northeast Linuxfest 2012

Northeast GNU/Linux Fest 2012
Northeast GNU/Linux Fest brings awareness of open source software and its benefits to students, their schools, programmers and businesses. The theme for this year's conference is accessibility.

Date and Location
The 2nd annual Northeast GNU/Linux Fest will be held on Saturday, March 17, 2012, at Worcester State University in Worcester, Massachusetts.


 * When:
 * Saturday, March 17, 2012
 * Registration in now open.


 * Where:
 * Worcester State University, 486 Chandler Street, Worcester, Massachusetts 01602
 * Worcester is approximately 40 miles west of Boston.
 * Map


 * Hotel:
 * NELF's hotel page recommends the Courtyard by Marriott Worcester.


 * Conference URL:
 * Northeast GNU/Linux Fest 2012

Event Owner

 * Mario Juliano Grande Balletta

Fedora Representatives
If you are representing Fedora at this event please sign up below, include the link to your personal wiki pages and note the capacity in which you will be representing the project (i.e. helping at the booth, speaking, running special Fedora activities at the event, etc.).

Event Activities
List conference events, including date, start time, and location, below that may be relevant to Fedora users. Relevant events include when the booth might be staffed, when Fedora contributors are giving talks, when special activities are happening, etc.

Booth
There will be a Fedora booth at NELF.

Booth Volunteers
Please add your name and personal wiki page link to the list below if you'd like to help out at the Fedora Booth.

Attendees
If you're attending the Northeast GNU/Linux Fest, please add your name to the list below. This might help consolidate travel and lodging plans. Other activities will be added as appropriate.

Ideas/Brainstorming
I am planning to deliver ad hoc, impromptu information (talks) about Open Source and Fedora. I will be using existing talks as templates and guides.

I will be offering T-Shirts to visitors who allow a Fedora 16 installation on any supported device.

I may have a raffle / drawing for some special items.

Important Deadlines
If you are planning to assist, please arrive before 8AM. I plan to setup as early as possible, and also to connect my kickstart/tftp server for the free installations.

I will need some help breaking down around 6PM local time. Dinner will be provided!

Event Budget
We are requesting shipping of materials, event box, booth, and swag and marketing materials to stock for the event.

Travel Subsidy Requests
Each attendee requesting travel subsidies for the event should be listed here including the information requested in Sponsoring Event Attendees.

Reports
Please use this section to document and report about the event. Nice things to see in this section are blog posts about the event, pictures from the event, and anything else that might be valuable to showing the success of our participation in the event. If there were any "lessons learned" or problems that others might benefit from seeing please do include those here too. Some general information about report expectations can be found on the Event Reports page.

Northeast Linuxfest Event Report