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*Keynoters
** Kirk McKusick
*** President of the USENIX Association from 1990 to 1992 and again from 2002 to 2004  (is not still on board!)
*** On the editorial board of ACM Queue Magazine
*** Started with BSD by virtue of the fact that he shared an office at Berkeley with Bill Joy, who in essence spearheaded the beginnings of the BSD system
*** Helped design the original Berkeley Fast File System (FFS)
*** Implemented soft updates, an alternative approach to maintaining disk integrity after a crash or power outage, in FFS, and a revised version of UFS known as "UFS2"
*** Primarily responsible for creating the complementary features of filesystem snapshots and background fsck (file system check and repair)
** Robyn Bergeron
*** Fedora Project Leader = "ultimately accountable for everything that happens within Fedora"
*** Fedora Program Manager = scheduling and feature wrangling
*** Involved with Fedora since 2009
*** Organized 2011 North American FUDCon
*** Previously Marketing Team Leader, Cloud SIG Wrangler, and Ambassador
** Mark Spencer
*** Original author of the GTK+-based instant messaging client Gaim (which has since been renamed to Pidgin)
*** Original author of the L2TP daemon l2tpd
*** Original author of the Cheops Network User Interface
*** The creator of Asterisk, a Linux-based open-sourced PBX in software
*** The founder, chairman and CTO of Digium, an open-source telecommunications supplier most notable for its development and sponsorship of Asterisk
** Jon "maddog" Hall
*** Executive Director of Linux International
*** Project Caua
*** Author of "Linux for Dummies"
*** Worked with Linus Torvalds since 1994

* OLFI 2013
** Professional trainers from leading technology firms (e.g. Red Hat, PuppetLabs, CFEngine, EnterpriseDB, Best Practical)
** Lowest cost for this high-level training.
** Request Tracker (RT)all day training - Ticketing, help desk, network operations, change management, bug tracking and more
** Puppet all day training - Automating IT system administration
** PostgreSQL all day training - The open source relational database that can replace Oracle
** Half-day training:
***SELinux
***vim editor
***cfengine & vagrant - Configuration management and provisioning virtual machines
***RPM building 
** LPI Cram session all day training - learn what you need to take the basic LPIC 101 and 102 tests 
*** Tests available on Sunday for additional cost (needs separate registration)
** Linux Basics all day training - learn to install Linux with a hands on class  
*** Discounted price (only $250)
*** Smaller class for more personalized help
*** Laptops for training provided, available for purchase after class at low price


* Newbie Training Track 2013
** Linux basic training
** LibreOffice
** ???
** Profit!
*** You've never even seen South Park, have you??

* Career Track - All day Saturday

* Regular tracks - Friday and Saturday
** See below for Early Penguins
** Talks range from topics you want to hear to names you know who can talk about anything
** We value knowledge of subject over experience speaking - everyone has to start somewhere!
** Knowns:  Catherine Devlin (Python), Jono Bacon (Ubuntu), Klaatu (Video editing), Jorge Castro (Juju & Ubuntu), Dru Lavigne (ZFS), DoorToDoorGeek (Podcasting), ???
** Topics: IPv6, CopyLeft, Amateur Radio, Xen, MySQL, encryption, music software, MongoDB, Raspberry Pi, ARM, and more

* Open Source Solutions Stage - All day Saturday
** Our sponsors will talk about the latest thing they're working on and what's got their interest today


* Certification Exams - Sunday

* Diversity in Open Source Workshop - Sunday

* Dinner with the Keynotes
** Confirmed as of 8/17: maddog and Kirk McKusick
** Be one of only 30 people to have dinner with FOSS notables
** Be prepared for tales of Way Back When

* BOF sessions - Friday night, sign up in advance, first come, first served
** Place to get together and talk with people who have the same niche interest as you
** Way to share information, brainstorm solutions to problems, or just meet others

* Saturday Party
** Three Legged Mare (same venue as 2012), 9pm to Midnight (really, until close)
** Low cost of $5 is given right back to you, with a ticket that will buy you one of a variety of beers, house wines or well drinks
** Free munchies provided
** Regular menu available at normal cost
*** Irish pub; they have an amazing scotch menu as well as tasty food

* Early Penguins
** Open to all with a basic registration
** Get a sampling of talks like the ones that will be available on Saturday
** Wide variety of topics
** Ends with maddog's keynote

* UbuCon
** Open to all with a basic registration
** Ubuntu users? developers?  Torturers?  Bueller? (waiting on info)
** Talks by Ubuntu people
** Not run by Canonical but by the Common Folks
** Film at 11