[TriLUG] Open Source 101 this Saturday!

[Jeremy Davis via TriLUG]

TriLUG,
We have an event in town Saturday:

Open Source 101 - a one-day introduction to Open Source
Taking place Saturday, February 4 at The McKimmon Center

Open Source 101, a one-day conference designed to teach the fundamentals of
open source, will take place on Saturday, February 4 at The McKimmon Center
on the campus of NC State University.

With corporate open source participation and usage now at all time highs,
along with the demand for open source skills, many current and future
technologists want and need to learn more.  The event is a perfect
opportunity for current technologists working in a proprietary environment
and technology students at the university and high school level to do just
that.

The more than 1,300 technical and c-suite responses from 64 countries
included in the Blackduck/North Bridge annual Future of Open Source survey
explains why this event is so important:
67% actively encourage developers to engage in and contribute to open
source projects
65% of companies are contributing to open source projects
65% leverage open source software to speed application development
55% leverage open source software for production infrastructure

More than 500 are expected to attend. Attendees can choose from nearly 40
sessions delivered by more than 30 industry experts.

Many of the top technology companies found in the Triangle and around the
country will also be represented including Red Hat, Capital One, GitHub,
IBM, SAS, Sparkfun Electronics, Mesosphere, Elastic, The Linux Foundation,
cPanel, Progress, Basho, Cloudbees, and many more.

Registration is just $10 and will be open through February 4.  More
information can be found at www.opensource101.com.  For a full schedule
visit https://opensource101.com/schedule.

Open Source 101 is being hosted by the team at All Things Open and in
partnership with Opensource.com.  All Things Open is the largest open
source/tech/web conference on the East Coast of the United States.  In 2016
more than 2,400 attended from 32 states and 19 countries.  More than 3,000
are expected in 2017.