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We're getting ready to implement one site suggestion. Some of you wanted to see more information about your favourite characters. Starting Monday, we're going to start featuring one cast member per month on the site. We'll have never-before-seen drawings of each character and we'll be giving you the chance to ask questions of your favourite characters.

This starts Monday, so keep your eyes peeled to this space to find out who our first Character-of-the-Month is!

If you are attending tonight.. most of your UF Staff and your Vancouver based UF Site Crew will be in attendance. Staffers san|ty, WebDiva, Yohimbe, Kethryvis (look for the infamous PuppyBoppers... probably near the PSX2 stations), Wildcard, and TikTok among others will be there along with Site Crew members Iambe and Arcterex. Not to mention the hoards of UFies that will be in attendance. And who knows? The elusive Illiad might even show up.

Need directions? Hit their website for more info. See you there!!

Success Story 1

I'd been popping in on Geekfinder from time to time looking at what skills I needed to develop in order to get the job I wanted, and I was starting to lose hope. I found a posting for an ArcInfo 8 Development Engineer. My jaw dropped! ...full story

Thalas'shaya

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I recently graduated college so I found myself looking for work, with little industry experience. I looked at several of the other success stories, and wondered "if only"... Well it happened. ...full story

Rob

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I had been looking for a job for over a month. My friend pointed me here. Silly me, I had only read the cartoons. I posted my resume and sent out tons of resumes, with no replies. Then, out of the blue, someone emailed me. Said they had the perfect job for me. Loved my resume. ...full story

RyAnne

Success Story 4 (added July 7)

I noticed Geekfinder on UserFriendly. I did a search, got too many returns. So I decided to reverse the process and post availability. Well, I got inquires from all over the world, people with interesting jobs/projects who wanted to bring me on board.Geekfinder is great, with just the right focus and feature set for techies.(And I did look at a number of other techie job sites.) ...full story

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Thanks and mucho congrats to Thalas'shaya, Rob, RyAnne and Keith! If you have a Geekfinder Success Story, email it to me If you are a geek looking for work, or a company looking for a geek and you haven't checked out Geekfinder yet then get on over there!

The show itself was housed in the Stuttgart Fair, a modern facility with plenty of room for expansion. If this year's attendance was any indication, the Linux Tag organizers are going to need the extra room for next year. Unofficial counts had the attendance in excess of 17,000 people, which is 10,000 more than the previous year. This is all the more amazing when you realize that the organizers are all full-time university students who have been working on the event for upwards of eight months prior to the show date.

The exhibition floor was filled with commercial booths and a very healthy community pavilion. Companies represented at the exhibition included ID-Pro, Frontsite, Corel, SuSE, Linuxcare, O'Reilly, Red Hat, Hewlett Packard, Compaq, and many others well known to the industry. If anyone had the idea that Linux Tag was just a community or hackers event, I think the business turnout proved them incorrect, and that was even further reinforced by the highly successful 'Business to Business Congress' that was held for one evening, a session where all of the business folks had an opportunity to network (the biz way) and discuss topics such as the legal aspects of free software.

It was nice to see a variety of social events in the evenings, from the massive dinner that was put on by the show organizers (and catered very impressively I might add) to the parties held on the exhibition floor. Linux Tag's strength was, I felt, in the diversity of approach: community, commerce and fun. And this leads me to my final comment - I don't think I had as much fun at a show since Atlanta Linux Showcase last year, mostly because the show organizers didn't lose sight of any of the elements that make the Open Source space so passionately interesting to us.

So, my congratulations to the Linux Tag folks. I'm very much looking forward to the event next year, and I heartily recommend the show to anyone who wants to attend a conference and exhibition that refuses to neglect any of the elements that make our community and industry sector as interesting as they are.