ABLEconf 2012 Keynote:

"Getting Animated with Open Source" starts the day for ABLEconf on March 24th. Curtis Zinzilieta is a Principal Engineer at Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS). The former RedHat senior manager will cover Open Source contributions from WDAS. Curtis will also talk about how those contributions fit from a business perspective. A business and technology start to the day gears right into the ABLEconf perspective.

Curtis has more than 18 years of professional Open Source expertise, in which he has assisted many companies on the road to Open Source adoption. His prior stints with RedHat and Dell concentrated on customer GNU/Linux installation and tuning. Curtis will also be speaking on "Discovering Performance Possibilities in Linux".

ABLEconf once again has complimentary lunch for the conference. This year lunch is from epicurean leader, Duck and Decanter.

Register by Monday, March 19th, to get your NOONER fix at ABLEconf. Cost is $25.00 for the annual business and technology conference. There is a student 50% discount ( show current, valid student ID when checking in ).

Further ABLEconf 2012 topics include: "Technical Recruiting and Placement; Resume Writing Strategies and Tips", Tucker Wolfe ( technical and corporate recruiting since 1998 for a wide array of industries ); "Open Source ERP", John Mertlich ( Certified xTuple Business Partner ); and "Mobile Device Forensics", Kristy Westphal ( Director, Security Operations for T-Systems North America ). See the schedule for a full listing

Happy Pi Day.

ABLEconf is an annual business and technology Free Software conference from the Open Technology Educational Corportation organized by a coalition of many Arizona Free Software groups. ABLEconf aims to show the Arizona business, non-profit, education and government communities that Free Software makes economic and business security sense.

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