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Hamvention Wrap-Up:

• Attendance, on FB and Dayton area newspapers, they listed the attendance of 25-30k people for 2026. Official number for 2025 was 36,814. So, our guess on lower numbers was likely correct (it will be a few weeks before Hamvention releases the official numbers)
• Only a handful of people asked what Linux was (this number seems down… way down, actually)
• Many folks said they are/have moved to Linux after the Windows debacle
• Probably a normal amount of, “What can Linux do for me?” Type questions

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