COSSFEST; A Calgarian Tale of FOSS, Betrayal, and Murder | Linux Today

COSSFEST; A Calgarian Tale of FOSS, Betrayal, and Murder

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 14, 2010

[ Thanks to Marcel
Gagne
for this link. ]

“Okay, I might be exaggerating about the whole betrayal
and murder thing. But this story is about FOSS in Calgary. And it
is about COSSFEST 2010. We did, however, kill a few beer. Does that
count? And we did have a panel about the death of somebody . . . or
something. Muah hah hah!

“Sorry, I’ll come in again . . .

“This past weekend (April 9th and 10th), I had the great
pleasure to attend COSSFEST 2010 in Calgary. COSSFEST is the
Calgary Open Source Systems Festival, a gathering of people whose
passion is free and open source software, coming together to share
information, exchange ideas, and otherwise talk about all things
FOSS. Oh, and drink beer. And eat, too. Yeah, right . . . there’s
that karaoke thing we’d rather not talk about.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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