We're happy to announce that we've partnered with O'Reilly and are able to offer a completely gratis pass to OSCON 2016 in Austin, TX (a $1,795 value). Please keep in mind that travel and hotel are not included. To be eligible, respond to this thread with why you'd like to attend and how you think you'd benefit from attending. We'll randomly pick a response on May 6th and that member will be able to attend OSCON 2016 on us. OSCON is always a great event and LQ will once again be in attendance. Please only respond if you are willing and able to attend the conference, which is May 18–19. Thanks and good luck.

--jeremy

As a middleware admin I deal with a lot of installations and configurations of product on Linux. Automation of various tasks can help make an administrators life easy. Also I would like to explore more on dev ops side. All this and just the love of learning more are the reasons I would like to attend.

Actually, this is a great offer but I would be lost in all this information.

I work for one of the large university in Southern California. Lot of ongoing learning but not very much training provided. We have to learn mostly our own.

This would be a great opportunity to learn something from industry gurus and apply in university environment.

me me me. I work with various linux environments at from suse to ubuntu to redhat and it would be very very awesome to see how other companies use linux.

For me.

I'm hpc integrator manager in Spain. I'm used Centos to make HPC enviorements and BigData proyects

Bui this event is not for me.. Good Luck

UPDATE: For a bonus chance to win - after you have posted in this thread, tweet a link to your post and include @linuxquestions and @oscon (along with anything else you'd like). Good luck.

--jeremy

I'd love to meet my peers.
I haven't been allowed outside for awhile.

Jeremy- bonus only for folks who tweet? Not everyone does twitter. C'mon!

@linuxquestions
@osco

That is exactly why it's a bonus, and the main component is based on posting at LQ.

--jeremy

A reminder to all: Keep in mind that travel and hotel are not included. Please only respond if you are willing and able to attend the conference, which is May 18–19 in Austin, TX. We will be verifying that you will actually attend before putting the ticket in your name. If you have any questions, let me know.

--jeremy

I am very happy to announce that O'Reilly has decided to give away an unlimited amount of Expo Hall Plus passes in the event you do not receive the main prize. Simply register with the code "OSCON16XPO" for a complimentary Expo Hall Plus pass ($49 normally).

--jeremy

I work for small software dev company that uses a wide range of OS technologies such as linux (Ubuntu), data stores like PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis and Mongo, languages like ruby, python, php and their attendant web app frameworks, and a bunch more. We have drawn on a lot of different communities over the years but honestly have not done a lot to give back, beyond some of our employee's personal contributions and maybe a bug report or minor patch here or there. I would love the opportunity to have some face-to-face exposure to the larger OS community and hopefully spur my company to make more of a commitment to get involved.

I hope I win. My team lead already gave me permission contingent on my actually winning this.

@linuxquestions
@osco

I am a DevOps/Site reliability engineer and open source is the first place I always start when trying to automate or get something done. As many companies today are taking their first step towards the concept of DEVOPS from traditional operations, open source concepts will help in knitting together a team which spans across multiple skill sets and build a strong skeleton that will address the age old issues most enterprise size applications have, staring from performance to scalability, availability to redundancy etc..
I would like to get an opportunity to participate in the convention and meet people to understand/share the possibilities and extent of open source use in the DevOps roles and emphasize the amount of advantage it can have from operations cost stand point as well. It would be very exciting to meet people and learn the best practices, process and standards that they have implemented in their respective organizations while using OS,as some times using OS may require deviating from the standards, practices that are set forth by ones organization.

Look forward to see if I would be that lucky one

@linuxquestions
@osco

I worked in the low voltage industry for many years, recently I blew out two disks in my lower back and needed surgery to repair the damage and pain.
My surgery did not turn out so well, it left me in worse shape than before. Because of this I have not been able to return to work or do much of anything else.
I have always been the type of person that gets paid for his labor....
I got into Linux about 3 years ago and immediately wanted to learn as much as I could about it, I switched my computer OS to Linux to learn more about it and have not turned
back to windows. Now that I can not do physical labor anymore I have been looking for another career, a change from getting paid for labor to getting paid for my knowledge.
It is hard to work to support yourself and try to attend any type of training. The only thing I can do for the moment is drive a taxi cab.... so I am looking for something new
and I know this is what I would like to do and focus my attention on.