WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Monday 23 November 2009 –

Showcase your free and open source projects at the LCA2010 Open Day!

On Saturday 23 January 2010 from 11am to 2pm the doors to the LCA2010 Open Day will be open to the general public. The LCA2010 Open Day is an opportunity to showcase the use of free and open source (FOSS) software in your project, organisation, community, classroom or government agency. OLPC NZ (One Laptop Per Child) will be there to entertain children with the new XO laptops. There will also be a number of talks scheduled during the LCA2010 Open Day, which will introduce you to FOSS software. The event is free for all to attend.

The LCA2010 Open Day will abate your curiosity in many technical areas, with its stalls showcasing technical products and services. Stallholders and attendees can rub-shoulders with some of the world's most prestigious technical gurus.

"Having a stall at the LCA2010 Open Day is free to stall-holders and a great opportunity to showcase your company, community or project", said Jayne Foster, Open Day co-ordinator. "The event is open to the public and often their first exposure to FOSS software!"

There are only a limited number of stalls remaining. To take up this invaluable opportunity, contact Jayne on openday@lca2010.org.nz and arrange your LCA2010 Open Day stall today!

For more information, including an Open Day Info Pack for stall-holders, please see: http://www.lca2010.org.nz/programme/open_day.

About linux.conf.au
linux.conf.au is one of the world's best conferences for free and open source software! The coming linux.conf.au, LCA2010, will be held at the Wellington Convention Centre in Wellington, New Zealand from Monday 18th January to Saturday 23rd January 2010. LCA2010 is fun, informal and seriously technical, bringing together Free and Open Source developers, users and community champions from around the world. LCA2010 is the second time linux.conf.au has been held in New Zealand, with the first being Dunedin in 2006.

For more information see: http://www.lca2010org.nz/

About Linux Australia
Linux Australia is the peak body for Linux User Groups (LUGs) around Australia, and as such represents approximately 5000 Australian Linux users and developers. Linux Australia facilitates the organisation of this international Free Software conference in a different Australasian city each year.

For more information see: http://www.linux.org.au/

Emperor Penguin Sponsors
LCA2010 is proud to acknowledge the support of our Emperor Penguin Sponsors, InternetNZ, Google and HP.

For more information about InternetNZ, see: http://www.internetnz.org.nz/

For more information about Google, see: http://www.google.com/

For more information about HP, see: http://www.hp.com/

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