LinuxFest last weekend was a great success. This year there was more than 1000 attendees, and I would say it seemed a bit crowded. We were in the same space in the conference center as last year (and we almost filled it then) and the exhibition floor would get quite crowded between the talks. They had fewer tables in the ballrooms for people to sit at and some of the talks became standing room only. Which on the whole is an awesome thing, but they will just have to reserve a larger space for next year.

As for me; it was a lot of fun to work the check in table through the morning. I was quite sad that I had to leave the conference at the lunch break. However I was able to go to the first couple of talks in the morning and I have to say that I really enjoyed the talk about the Apache web server. I definitely picked up some good pointers to use at work.

The only thing I wish they would have done differently is that they really didn't organize the talks into different levels of technical prowess. In 2005 they had the same three ballrooms and at any given time they would have at least one talk that even the casual computer user could follow. This year I brought two people with me who were not even Linux users and they found themselves struggling to keep up with most talks.

They have already made September 29, 2007 the date for next year's LinuxFest, so mark your calendars now.

You can read more about the event at their website.
http://www.ohiolinux.org

I also made it into one of the event photos.
http://www.ohiolinux.org/about_photos.html