I’ve had this sitting on my laptop for a week or two now and now it has been released, I present the LugRadio Live USA 2008 video trailer.

Can’t see the vid? Click here.

It really is worth downloading one of the video files and watching it full-screen if you can, it brought a lump to my throat. Serious thanks to Tony Whitmore for his hard work producing it.

Go to LugRadio Live USA 2008, 12-13 April, San Francisco! Watch this, then spread the word!

The speakers schedule for LRL USA 2008 is really starting to shape up now and so we turn our attention to the exhibition area. We’re looking for people, companies, projects, distributions and organisations who are doing cool things with Linux, Free Software, Open Source, hardware and digital freedom issues that are willing to rock up to the Metreon Theater, San Francisco on the 12th and13th April 2008.

We’d like to hear from you if you have cool stuff to show off, shiny gadgets, interactive demos, hardware, games and so on are always winners but a stand with some literature and people who are willing to take the time to get chatting are also important if that suits your project better. We’re interested in cool people, diversity and fun stuff. It’s about the people not the megabucks, so you don’t need a marketing budget to be a valuable exhibitor at LugRadio Live. If you’re project is interesting, that’s all that is required, though if you need to blow a marketing budget, you could always become an event sponsor and help us provide extra facilities or gifts for our attendees, which means they will like you more 🙂

We’re also interested in hearing from people willing to host a BOF session, talks or suggest cool ideas for stuff we can at LRL USA 2008, which is out of the ordinary, as LRL is an extraordinary event.

Send in your suggestions for BOFs and talks or put yourself or your organisation forward as an exhibitor by emailing show at lugradio dot org and we’ll see you at the Metreon for the coolest geek out of the year.

Below is a list of speakers confirmed for LugRadio Live USA 2008, stolen shamelessly from Jono:

• Miguel de Icaza (Mono / Novell)
• Aaron Bockover (Banshee / Novell)
• Allison Randal (Perl / Parrot)
• Danese Cooper (Intel / OSI)
• Belinda Lopez (Ubuntu)
• Ian McKellar (Songbird)
• Eddy Mulyono (Packaging RPM/Debs)

This is in addition to our already announced speakers:

• Jeremy Allison (Samba / Google)
• Ian Murdock (OpenSolaris / Sun)
• Robert Love (Kernel / GNOME / Google)
• Dan Kegel (Wine)
• Val Henson (Kernel / Intel)
• John Buckman (Magnatune)
• Ben Collins (Ubuntu / Former Debian Project Leader)
• Aza Raskin (Mozilla / Humanized)

There will be many more, and you could be one of them! The Call For Papers Is Open!

LugRadio Live USA 2008 takes place on the 12th and 13th April at The Metreon in San Francisco and it’s not too late for you to submit your talk for addition to the list. While big names are important to headline any event, we’re also interested in hearing from anyone doing anything cool with Linux, Open Source or Free Software, digital rights, hardware hacking and so on. If it’s fun or interesting then you could be speaking at LugRadio Live USA 2008 about it. So email show at lugradio dot org to submit your talk.

Just in case you didn’t already know, you might be interested in finding out what LugRadio Live is all about. I was amused by “…it’s about nipples”.