One of my favorite Linux community shows ever was the Atlanta Linux Showcase. It was a fantastic, energetic show with just the right mix of commercial vendors (just a little bit) and community / hacker participation (a lot). (If you’ll pardon me for saying, while the business-focused and commercial shows are necessary and useful for the business side of the community, few people dispute that they’re less fun than community shows.)

Well, the Atlanta Linux Showcase is no more, but it looks like Atlanta’s Linux culture simply will not be held back! Got a note a bit ago from Nick Ali asking for volunteers to do a demo for the Atlanta Linux Fest. It’s taking place on Software Freedom Day, which is September 20th this year, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the IBM Hillside Conference Center.

Since I’m pretty sure Nick would prefer that his email address not be available for harvesting by the platoons of spambots that swarm the opensuse.org domain, please send me a note (zonker at opensuse.org — I already get metric tons of spam, what’s a little more?) find me on IM (xonker on Gtalk, jbrockmeier on IRC/Freenode.) or even send me a tweet (jzb) on Twitter.

Also, if you’re doing something for Software Freedom Day and want some openSUSE 11.0 DVDs to hand out, let me know.

This year, the Atlanta show is pretty small — they’re expecting about 100 people, but if I recall correctly, the Atlanta Linux Showcase grew from a small show as well. I’d love to see ALF (nice acronym…) grow into a mighty show like ALS.

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