Yesterday, we announced more confirmed speakers for the freenode #live conference taking place at the At-Bristol Science Centre in Bristol, UK on 28-29th October this year.

Today we are happy to announce more speakers:

Chris Lamb - Currently the Debian Project Leader, Chris is a freelance computer programmer, author of dozens of free projects, and contributor to hundreds of others. Chris has spoken at numerous conferences, including LinuxCon China, HKOSCon, linux.conf.au, DjangoCon Europe, OSCAL, multiple DebConfs, Software Freedom Kosovo, foss-north & FOSS'ASIA.

Philipp Krenn - part of the infrastructure team and a Developer Advocate at Elastic, spreading the love and knowledge of full-text search, analytics, and real-time data. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and meetups about all things search & analytics, databases, cloud computing, and devops.

Oliver Gorwits - Oliver has a background in computer networks and is a senior IT manager at a major weather forecasting centre in the UK. For over 20 years he's worked with software as a hobby and contributed to open source, mainly in Perl, and now leads the Netdisco project.

With still more speakers to be announced soon, keep your eyes out for more announcements coming soon - and get your ticket now to secure your place!

Want to watch these talented speakers? Get your tickets now to ensure you have the chance to experience these and the other speakers and workshops to be announced soon!

If you represent a FOSS project and would like to exhibit, please contact us - FOSS projects exhibit for free, and it's a great way to meet your current users and attract others!

Corporate sponsors are very much welcomed also, with a variety of sponsorship packages available providing different exposure levels to a FOSS-centered, technical audience - get a warm fuzzy feeling by supporting the community which most likely contributed in no small way to the success of your business!

For any questions, please feel free to email us - 2017-team@freenode.live - or join us in #live on freenode!

We look forward to seeing you there.