Jason L. Froebe - Tech tips and How Tos for Fellow Techies

I missed the Chicago BarCamp earlier in the month but I’m hoping to make the Milwaukee BarCamp in October. I have to check with the boss, but I think I should be able to make it.
Ad video from last year’s BarCamp Milwaukee event:

On August 15 through the 18th, BarCamp will be coming to Chicago.  Don’t know what BarCamp is?  From BARcamp.org:
A BARcamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. The name BARcamp was inspired [...]

From Jeremy Fluhmann:
For all of you first time yapc attendees, I thought you might be interested in some of the photos from previous yapcs.  I’m sure there are others, but some of the links from Flickr are:
Chicago in 2006 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/yapcna2006/
Houston in 2007 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/yapcna2007/
YAPC::NA in general – http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/yapcna/
YAPC in general – http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/yapc/
And, I’m assuming [...]

This year’s Flourish Conference was held at the University of Illinois in downtown Chicago (UIC). The Flourish web site describes Flourish as:
The goal of the Flourish Conference is to promote the use and adoption of Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) by demonstrating the practical applications of FLOSS in the business and [...]

From the Flourish people :
Hello All,
Flourish Conference 2008 starts tomorrow! Flourish 2008 will run from Friday, April 4th till Saturday, April 5th. Everything seems to be coming together and [...]