Seneca College is sponsoring another Free Software and Open Source Symposium (they creatively call it “FSOSS”) on October 25th and 26th.  Its become an annual event.  I’ve been there the last 2 years, and can attest that its getting better each year.  I have high hopes for this year, although the workshops don’t look particularly exciting to me.  Some of them sound interesting I guess, but I’ll probably go more to socialize and hear the speakers.  I’m attending this year with fellow nerd Cliff Persaud, but I’d love to meet up with any other area geeks who plan on attending.  If you think you might go, then drop me a line.  Worst case scenario, we can have a beer or three after the conference.

There are a bunch of interesting speakers, including representation from Mozilla, Red Hat (Bob Young), Novell, Komodo, Facebook, Sourceforge and many more (yes I’m deliberately leaving Microsoft off my list of “notables”) The EFF are always great when they present (and yes, I’m a dues paying member), and you meet so many interesting people. You also meet “interesting” people (I’m doing that two-finger quote thing in the air right now), but its always a good time.

Unlike my trip to SxSW, where you couldn’t stumble aimlessly out of your hotel room without stepping on a Mac (there were NO Windows machines to be found), what makes FSOSS notable in my mind is the number Linux laptops floating around.  Everyone is always eager to show off Linux to you.  I still doubt I’ll see any Windows machines though.

So if you’re from Toronto or surrounding area, and have a few days, come nerd out with us.  I’ll make a followup post after its all said and done.