As you all know, the PLUG Linux Clinic has achieved worldwide fame and inspired a host of imitators since it was founded in a Palo Alto garage in 1938. Since Linus Torvalds hadn't been born yet, the founders got bored and started Hewlett Packard, but the dream remained alive, inspiring the Torvalds, the Stallmans, and the O'Reillys to have sons, and raise them in the F/OSS way.
The young Tim O'Reilly dreamed of the day he could participate in some small way in Linux Clinic. Since Linus was still in grade school, Tim decided to start a computer book business, earning the money and building the staff he would need to someday create OSCON. Which is like the Linux Clinic, but way more expensive and taking a whole week once a year, not every third Sunday from 1pm to 5pm. As the clinic moved from Palo Alto, to Massachusetts, to Helsinki, and to Riverdale High School, the city of Portland anticipated every move, and built the Oregon Convention Center, hoping to host the Linux Clinic. Instead, the community built Free Geek at 1731 SE 10th, a much better home for the Linux Clinic. All was not lost, however, as Tim O'Reilly moved OSCON to the Convention Center, a mere 1.6 miles from his heros at the Clinic. Like the Clinic, Tim's OSCON provides wifi. The Clinic also provides wired ethernet, screens, keyboards, and mice - Tim only offers registration on those. The Linux Clinic skips the long, boring general lectures and focuses directly on your individual issues. We have distros, we can do installs, repairs, debugging. We've even rewired automobile speedometers. Tim only dreams of such accomplishments. He is a smart lad, he'll figure it out. So, fly to Portland, and join us at the Linux Clinic at Free Geek on Sunday July 15th. In the unlikely event that we do not satisfy your every desire, stay for the rest of the week and blow two kilobucks on OSCON. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug