The first annual Southern California Linux Expo, presented by the USC,UCLA , and Simi-Conejo Linux User Groups will be held November 2nd at USC. This event will provide new insight in the growing technological Linux community and where it is headed. This operating system created by a grass roots effort has grow robust enough to be embraced by companies such as Sun and IBM. The Southern California Linux Expo will contain a blend of business leaders and technical experts that are required to truely understand where Linux is at and where it will be in 5 years.

Speakers include: Rasmus Lerdorf (creator of PHP), Marc Hamilton (Sun Microsystems), Jay Clark (MSC Linux), J. P. Lewis (USC's IMSC), Darren Moffat (Sun's Security Technologies Group), and many more.

This one happens on the second of November (pretty soon) and lasts just that one day, from 9am until 5pm that night - a workday (well, for some people...) at the Davidson Conference Center on the University of Southern California campus. For more information, check out http://www.socallinuxexpo.com/.

(Why are they always in CA, why not TX for a change of pace? heh)