[PLUG] Fosscon 2013 in one month.

[Jonathan Simpson <jonathan@jdsnetwork.com>]

Well folks, it’s almost that time of year again! We are just 
under 5 weeks away from our favorite day of the year! 
Fosscon 2013 will be held on August 10th, 2013. We have had 
so many submissions this year for talks and workshops, that 
we are excited to bring you a wide variety of topics ranging 
from hobbyist level to professional implementation talks.

We are very excited about this year’s keynote speaker, 
Philadelphia’s own Jordan Miller, who leads a research team 
at The University of Pennsylvania. Jordan makes heavy use of 
open source software and is doing amazing work with 3D 
printing as it pertains to transplant organs. 
http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/news/penn-researchers-improve-living-tissues-3d- 
printed-vascular-networks-made-sugar. He was recently 
nominated as Philadelphia's scientist of the year in the 
Philly geek awards http://www.phillygeekawards.com/.

Listed below is a just a quick peek at some of our confirmed 
speakers and their topics:

Bhavani Shankar will be speaking on how to bring in new 
developers to open source projects.

Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph will be speaking on Open Source 
Systems Administration.

Corey Quinn will be speaking on configuration management 
with Salt.

Brent Saner will be speaking on Project.Phree, a wireless 
mesh project.

Dru Lavigne will be speaking on FreeNAS 9.1.

Jérôme Jacovella-St-Louis will be speaking on cross-platform 
development with the Ecere SDK.

John Ashmead will be speaking on the math and science of 
invisibility.

John Stumpo will be offering a workshop on the Challenges 
facing FOSS game projects.

Walt Mankowski will be speaking on Scientific Programming 
with NumPy and SciPy.

Chris Nehren will be speaking on bridging the gap between 
development and operations.

Christina Simmons will be speaking on starting and managing 
open source events/projects.

Hector Castro will be offering a hands-on workshop on the 
Riak database engine.

Dan Langille will be offering a workshop on Bacula: The 
Networked Backup Open Source Solution

With a total of 12 talks and 10 workshops, we have more 
content than ever before. In addition to these talks, check 
out our exhibition area, our Hackerspace room run by Philly 
hackerspace Hive76, and our installfest.

If you haven’t registered yet, please do so here: 
https://www.wepay.com/events/fosscon-2013! We’ve had such an 
awesome response so far and are so excited to see how far we 
can go this year! Invite your friends, your partners, your 
business associates, and everyone else you know! We’ll see 
you soon!
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