"Linuxfest Northwest 2007 is coming to Bellingham, Wash., on April 28 and 29.
"Mark Ashworth, one of the original founders of Linuxfest Northwest, said the conference got its start in 1998 when a small group of people invited a couple of local Unix gurus to discuss forming what became the Bellingham Linux Users Group. 'We held our second meeting at Bellingham Technical College (BTC) a month later...'"