Hello, I want to follow up on an email forward sent to you by Jos Poortvliet. We would like to invite OpenSUSE to participate in POSSCON 2012, scheduled for March 28 and 29 in Columbia, SC. Participation can be in the form of attending, proposing a speaker, or being a sponsor at some level. This will be the fifth annual POSSCON event, and the 2011 conference was a tremendous success with more than 500 people attending from 24 states. In addition, some of the biggest names in Open Source participated/spoke and some of the biggest companies in the US sponsored and participated, including IBM, Red Hat, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Verizon Wireless, HP, Digium, Talend, GitHub, Time Warner Cable, OpenLogic, and many more. One more thing… we’ve just confirmed a very big name in software that will be keynoting the 2012 event (we’ll be announcing it very soon). Because of this, we anticipate attendance and media attention will increase significantly. Let me know what you think and if you have questions. I have attached the POSSCON Prospectus for you to review. We hope to see you in Columbia next year! Thank you for any consideration, Erin Tyler Coordinator, POSSCON 2012