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First LugRadio Live USA 2008 Exhibitors Confirmed!

by | Thu 28 Feb 2008

Organisation for [LugRadio Live USA 2008](https://lugradio.org/live/USA2008/start) on the 12th and 13th April 2008 in San Francisco coninues apace, and we are in the process of confirming exhibitors. Our first raft of exhibitors have just been confirmed, and I can announce them as:

* Google
* Dice
* GNOME
* PostgreSQL
* O’Reilly
* OpenSuSE
* Linden Labs
* Magnatune
* gOS
* Neuros
* Sun
* Texas Instruments
* South California Linux Expo
* Komputers 4 R Kids
* San Francisco LUG
* BytesFree.org
* Ontario Linux Fest
* Frets on Fire
* OpenNMS
* One Course Source

We are currently working to add another *twice as many* exhibitors. If you would like to exhibit you’re project, organisation or company, get in touch with us at `show AT lugradio DOT org`.

Of course, LugRadio Live USA 2008 is much more than just exhibitors, we have 35 speakers who will be speaking across three stages:

* Miguel de Icaza (Mono / Novell / Co-Founder Of GNOME)
* Ian Murdoch (OpenSolaris / Founder Of Debian)
* Robert Love (GNOME / Google)
* Aza Raskin (Mozilla / Humanized)
* Benjamin Mako Hill (Ubuntu / Debian / FSF)
* John Buckman (Magnatune)
* Val Henson (Kernel / VAH consulting)
* Christopher Blizzard (Mozilla / GNOME)
* Mike Linksvayer (Creative Commons)
* David Schleef (GStreamer)
* Matthew Garrett (Power Management / Kernel)
* Danese Cooper (Intel / OSI)
* Aaron Bockover (Banshee / Novell)
* Liana Holmberg (Second Life / Linden Lab)
* Emma Jane Hogbin (Hick Tech)
* Joe Zonker Brockmeier (OpenSuSE / Novell)
* Kristen Accardi (Kernel)
* Joe Born (Neuros)
* Selena Deckelmann
* Stewart Smith (MySQL)
* Dan Kegal (Wine)
* Ben Collins (Ubuntu / Kernel)
* Jason Kridner (Texas Instruments)
* Jeremy Allison (Samba / Google)
* Christian Hammond (VMWare)
* Ian McKeller (Songbird)
* Alison Randall (Parrot / Perl / OSCON)
* David Huffman (LVM)
* Brian Will (Pigeon)
* Belinda Lopez (Ubuntu)
* Ilan Rabanovich (SoCal Linux Expo)
* Eddy Mulyono (Packaging)
* Matthew Walster (Demo Scene)

It is going to be a kick-arse event. And remember it is only $10 for the entire weekend. Thats it. Ten bucks. If you want to come and join in the fun, please go and [pre-register](https://lugradio.org/live/USA2008/register), it guarantees you’re entry, and also includes a bunch of other benefits. Look forward to seeing you all there! 🙂

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