If you are in the Philadelphia area, the Philly LUG has a talk on UEFI by Rich Mingin:

This month, PLUG North will feature a talk on UEFI by Rich Mingin. UEFI is a firmware interface that is displacing the traditional BIOS firmware on PCs. Find out more about how it interacts with Linux and other FOSS operating systems in this presentation.

http://lists.netisland.net/archives/plug/plug-2016-02/msg00019.html

http://www.phillylinux.org/meetings.html