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Bring your toughest open source problems to Ask the Experts!
Our our top notch team of LinuxWorld.com contributors, open source developers, and IT security and administration professionals will be available to help you with advice on software selection, configuration, hardware and bandwidth requirements, and the unpredictable human elements that make an IT project succeed or fail.
Explain your problem in detail, and get working answers and pointers to open source projects, documentation and online forums that can help you.

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The experts that are ready to help you include:

| » | Brian Aker, MySQL: Brian Aker spends his time looking for opportunies to harness and shape the MySQL database for Web, OEM, and Telephony applications. In his copious amounts of free time he works on Apache and Perl modules and hacks on the Asterisk Telephony System. Bring your toughest database questions. |

| » | Jeremy Allison, Samba: Is the SMB protocol, the standard on Microsoft Windows, really a better NFS than NFS - or just the source of endless administration hassles? Come learn how the latest releases of Samba can help you simplify your most baffling file, print and directory puzzles. |

| » | Mike Anderson, The PTR Group: Bring your toughest SELinux integration questions to Mike Anderson of the PTR Group, a company that takes on a wide range of mission-critical Linux projects including hardened Linux routers, Linux handhelds and the TacSat-2 Micro Satellite. |

| » | Rich Bodo, Abaca: Open-source messaging and telephony, nice, but when it's time to integrate VoIP and mail infrastructure with your business applications, there are bound to be questions. Talk to Rich about everything from spam fighting to putting a whole company on an open source communications infrastructure. |

| » | Jerry Carter, Samba/Centeris: Jerry Carter has been a member of the Samba Development Team since 1998. He has been developing, writing about and teaching on Open Source since the late 90's. Currently employed by Centeris as a Samba and Open Source developer, he has written books for SAMS Publishing and for O'Reilly Publishing. |

| » | Matt Domsch, Dell: Get a Dell laptop with Ubuntu Linux, and want to know about driver compatibility? Or want to keep an "enterprise" distribution up to date with new hardware? Bring your questions to Matt Domsch, Linux Software Architect and master of "fixing yesterday's software for today's hardware." |

| » | Jeremy Garcia, LinuxQuestions.org: No question is too weird for the world's biggest dedicated Linux Q&A site. Ask the man who's seen it all - and who might just have some tips on dealing with user-contributed content. |

| » | Matt Olander, PC-BSD Project: BSD? Why not give it a try? With a new live CD with such features as an auto-configurator for X, PC-BSD is the easiest to try BSD release yet. Matt will take questions on all aspects of BSD technology, including your experiences with the new live CD.
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