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The Ontario Linux Fest for 2008 is being held this coming Saturday 25th in Toronto. The day's schedule has been posted, as well as the detailed table of presentations and topics. Please check it out... there are some pretty interesting topics this year again, from the return of Open Moko, to human-machine interfaces, to legal matters and intellectual property, to OpenStreetMap.

If you haven't registered yet, there is still one more day.... today! Online registration closes on Thursday morning (the 23rd), which means if you want to get the lower rate of $40 (as opposed to $60 at the door), you need to do it today. You can register and pay for the Fest here.

With 27 presentations, birds-of-a-feather sessions, and labs, sandwiched between a Friday welcome party, and a Saturday night reception party, it'll be a fun-packed day of Linux and Free Software.

Hope to see you there!

At long last, the list of presentations at this year's Ontario Linux Fest is now available!

Please have a peek at the list, and then head over to the registration page to sign up in advance.

The Days Hotel, where the Fest will be held, has a special arrangement for the attendees. When you mention Ontario Linux Fest, the room price is only $89. I hear there are plenty of rooms available, but it never hurts to book in advance.

There is a welcome party on the Friday night before the Fest, and an after-party on Saturday night. Both will be held at the Days Hotel as well, so if you're attending the Fest from out of town, you may want to stay for both nights, and meet some of the presenters face to face.

If you or your organization were pondering being a sponsor for the Fest, the deadline for the show guide is in 1 day! The show guide includes your logo and ad, depending on your sponsorship choice. There's still time, but you need to signup quickly, and email me your desired logo and ad right away.

That's all the announcements I have for tonight. Hope to see you there!

For those of you who want to help spread the word of this year's Ontario Linux Fest, we have a poster available in PDF format, in both black-and-white and colour.

There are other ways you can help spread the word too. Here I'll swipe the suggested list from a recent email that John Van Ostrand sent out about the Fest:

• Tell your friends, family and co-workers
• Post on suitable forums, groups and mailling lists
• Tell your fellow students, alumni and professors
• Post flyers at your regular haunts: the water cooler, break room, server room door, classroom or favourite computer store
• Tell your favourite Open Source friendly company about it
• For all those writers, blog it
• For Facebook or LinkedIn users, join the "Ontario Linux Fest" group to show your support
• For users of other social networking sites why not create an Ontario Linux Fest group?
• And if you're hard core about it, add it to your email signature