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“Flourish - to grow luxuriantly, to thrive, to achieve success, to reach a height of development or influence.”

Flourish! will be held April 6^th and 7^th at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Some of the speakers include:

• Peter T. Brown - Free Software Foundation
• Chris DiBona - Google
• Angela Byron - Drupal
• Tom ‘Spot’ Callaway - Red Hat
• John Doppke - IBM
• Willy Farrell - IBM
• Paul McMahan - IBM
• John Quigley - Cleversafe
• Jason Rexilius

The venue includes a lot of great speakers as noted above as well as some intermingling time, a hack-a-thon, and a Battle of the Distros (so far Ubuntu vs. Linspire vs. Fedora/Red Hat). So if you are in the Chicagoland area these 2 days, stop on by and say hello. I will be hanging out with the Ubuntu Chicago and the Chicago GLUG crowds, as well as participating in the Battle of the Distros (I am throwing Kubuntu into that mix by the way).

Oh, who I am kidding, you don’t care!

Well, about 100 people did care as they lined up yesterday at the local Best Buy to be met by DuPage County Sheriff, Best Buy managers, and Defective by Designs Bad Vista’ers. Hopefully I will have some pictures soon. All I can say is I froze my ass off in that yellow HazMat suit. And if any of you in Chicago still have prehistoric Comcast (wannabe) digital cable, you might have caught us on CLTV. We chanted, we handed out information, and we shivered! It was still fun.

Thanks Google! Thanks Fede! Anyways, one day remaining Chicago! Saturday, October 28th, 2006 is the big day. The Ubuntu Chicago Local Community Team is gathering for a day of presentations, demonstrations, and Edgy Celebrations. $10 allows you full access to everything we are doing. The $10 is to help cover the cost of the event.

Presentations are looking good, so far we have: Organization, Marketing, Support, Edgy, Contributing, Gaming, Teens & OSS, 3D Graphics, Game Programming in Ubuntu, Crossover Office, Cyberlink, Kubuntu, Launchpad, Cedega, AIGLX (Beryl?), Debootstrapping, KMail, GNU Privacy Guard, and many more. Geek fest is on!

If you are interested in making it out, we will be located at the Best Western on 1231 Lee Street, Des Plaines, IL 60018. We will be there from about 11am (earlier if you are presenting, I will be there between 9am and 10am) until possibly 8pm that evening.

Head on over to http://chi.ubuntu-us.org for more information on the meeting, and if you want to come out, we ask that you please sign-up. Thanks again, and I can’t wait to see you all come Saturday!

It is upon us fellow Chicagoans! October 28th, 2006 from 11am until around 8pm CST, the Chicago Local Community Team will be hosting its quarterly group meeting, this time with some Edgy partying to go on as well. This event will include presentations, demonstrations, food and drink. There is a $10 cover fee in order to pay for the venue which includes the food and drink. The location will be the Best Western located at 1231 Lee Street, in Des Plaines, Illinois 60018. More information can be found on the Ubuntu Chicago website at http://chi.ubuntu-us.org or to sign up, go to the Meeting Wiki page. Everyone is welcome and more than welcome to stop by and make an appearance, pick up some Ubuntu CDs, and take a picture or two. Hope to see you there! Thanks everyone!

P.S. Mr. Harms, aka sharms, I took care of the blog Can’t wait to see you on Saturday bud!