The Greater Columbus Convention Center will host this year's annual Ohio LinuxFest, which will take place on October 10-11. Now at its sixth edition, the Ohio LinuxFest will include a large expo and popular speakers, while welcoming free software developers, open source enthusiasts and virtually anyone who is interested in taking part in this event.

Next to the conference rooms, there will be an expo area featuring both exhibits from the sponsors and a section especially reserved for Open Source/Free Software projects.

Besides many speakers, this year's event will also feature the speeches of two important figures, who promise to reach a wide audience among the participants:

Joe Brockmeier, openSUSE Community Manager - the man who gives the latest info on openSUSE and who makes sure the openSUSE project has the tools and support required. He contributed to many open source subject books and has worked with many publications from this field.  

Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager - contributes to the growth of Ubuntu and selects the best community members' suggestions to be implemented in Ubuntu. He worked on many books like “Building the Perfect Website with PHP and MySQL,” “Linux Desktop Hacks” and more.

About the Ohio LinuxFest

The Ohio LinuxFest is mainly an event dedicated to the Linux/Open Source Software/Free Software community, which started in 2003 from an idea to bring together Linux users from Ohio to spend a day talking, socializing and exchanging information. Since then, the event rapidly gained in popularity, in that the most recent Ohio LinuxFest brought important speakers from highly regarded companies in this field, such as the Apache Software Foundation, Novell, Red Hat, Samba Team and many more.

The community's positive feedback is the main reason that led to the formation of the Ohio LinuxFest Corporation, a non-profit organization created by the promoters of this event and that has the primary objective of improving the OLF year after year, trying to make it one of the most appreciated events of its kind. That is almost inevitable as the Ohio LinuxFest is already very popular, while future editions cannot but turn out to be big successes, despite the challenges associated with organizing such a large-scale event.