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Linux Foundation announces End User Collaboration Summit
1 week, 3 days ago
This new conference, to be held in New York October 13 and 14, brings together high performance end users with the highest level Linux community developers for education and interaction between the two groups. -
OSCON 2008 in photos
1 month, 1 week ago
I posted some of the shots I took at OSCON earlier in the week. One of the elements I wanted to capture was the spontaneous opportunities that occur at OSCON when you might find yourself chatting with any number of open source gurus. -
GUADEC breaking new ground, starting from Istanbul
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The ninth European GUADEC conference in Istanbul earlier this month not only set the direction for GNOME 3.0, the next major release of the Unix and Linux desktop, there was also plenty of action on the GNOME Mobile front. -
Penguicon 6.0 -- Penguins in Space!
4 months ago
"A couple weeks back, I headed down to Penguicon 6.0. It's a Linux convention, but also a Science Fiction convention. Really, it's like a geeky version of, "Hey your chocolate is in my peanut butter .... "" -
Picturing CES, continued
7 months, 3 weeks ago
"Linux wasn't everywhere at CES, but it was close, making it impossible to see Everything with Linux in it. But we tried .... " -
Macedonia picks Ubuntu for 20,000 PCs
9 months, 3 weeks ago
7,000 down, 13,000 to go: Macedonia receives first shipments of Ubuntu Linux PCs for use in schools. -
Fabricators descend on Maker Faire Austin
10 months, 3 weeks ago
"AUSTIN, Texas--If you've never seen a machine that makes 3D models out of sugar, you should. But unless you're part of a relatively small group of people who went to the Maker Faire in California in May, or are one of a few other people who know the machine's creator, you probably have never even heard of the device. " -
Fifth LinuxChix Brazil conference
1 year ago
"This year it is the turn of Brazilia, the capital of Brazil, to host the 5th Linuxchix Brazilian Conference. The conference runs from the 7th to the 8th of September, and once again open source professionals and enthusiasts will convene for two days of talks, tutorials and debates .... " -
Looking ahead to Linux Kernel Summit 2007
1 year ago
"For the past several years, the annual, invitation-only kernel developers' summit has been held immediately prior to the Ottawa Linux Symposium. This year is different, though; the summit is instead happening just after LinuxConf Europe in Cambridge, England.... " -
Undercover NBC Dateline reporter bolts from DEFCON 2007
1 year, 1 month ago
Undercover reporter Michelle Madigan (Associate Producer of NBC Dateline) got a little more than she bargained for when she tried to sneak in to DEFCON 2007 with hidden cameras to get someone to confess to a felony. -
Report from MTLC's second annual Open Source Summit in Boston
1 year, 2 months ago
"Dan Bricklin has all of the panel discussions and talks from last week's Second Annual Open Source Summit in Boston online now. So if you didn't get to attend in person, you can listen for yourselves. A Groklaw member, Jim Olsen, who attended the summit has written up a report for us. He describes what each panel or talk was about, so you will know which you want to listen to ..."
Linux.com : Events
South American FOSS show is a big deal
Last week's 8th Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre (Free Software Regional Sessions) at the University of Belgrano in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was an opportunity for around 1,300 FOSS enthusiasts to share experiences, learn more, and have fun together.
Installfest at LinuxWorld could seed national program
IDG World Expo has teamed up with open source security gateway provider Untangle and electronics recycler Alameda County Computer Resource Center (ACCRC) to host an Installfest for Schools at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco next week. Volunteers will refurbish older discarded computers with free and open source software (FOSS) before they are donated to schools in need.
OLS 2008 wrap-up
Day 3 of this year's Ottawa Linux Symposium featured a number of sessions, most notably a keynote address by Ubuntu founder and space tourist Mark Shuttleworth, who called for the greater Linux community to start thinking about discussing syncronicity, his term for having major software releases synchronised. The conference wrapped up on Saturday with some final interesting sessions and statistics.
2008 SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards (video)
This was a "you had to be there" event. We captured all the award presentations and some of the byplay, but most of the fun took place off-camera, and maybe a "What happens at the Community Choice Awards stays at the CCA" attitude is better than trying to show you all the game-playing, drinking, eating, drinking, tattooing, drinking, socializing, and drinking that went on. In addition to Linux.com's video coverage, you can see more CCA videos on YouTube, read InformationWeek blogger Serdar Yegulalp's take, and check out the complete list of winners on SourceForge.net itself.
OLS: Kernel documentation, and submitting kernel patches
The second of four days at the 10th annual Ottawa Linux Symposium got off to an unusual start as a small bird "assisted" Rob Landley in giving the first talk I attended, called "Where Linux kernel documentation hides." The tweeting bird was polite, only flying over the audience a couple of times and mostly paying attention.
OpenID gets the third degree at OSCON
Is OpenID a panacea, a placebo, or something in between? Opposing viewpoints took turns on center stage Wednesday afternoon at OSCON 2008. The session entitled "A Critical View of OpenID" started off as anything but critical, but once the audience got its turn to raise questions, things got more interesting.
Ottawa Linux Symposium 10, Day 1
The tenth annual Ottawa Linux Symposium kicked off Wednesday in Canada's capital, just a few blocks from the country's parliament building, in a conference centre in the midst of being torn down. The symposium started with the traditional State of the Kernel address, this year by Matthew Wilcox. Among the dozens of talks and plenaries held the first day was kernel wireless maintainer John Linville's Tux on the Air: the State of Linux Wireless Networking.
Panel discusses openness at OSCON
The first two days of O'Reilly's Open Source Convention (OSCON) are dominated by technical tutorials, but there are sessions that buck the trend. Monday's most interesting event was Participate 08, a panel discussion sponsored by Microsoft. Panelists debated the meaning of the buzzword "openness" as it applies to source code, services, data, and business models.
Vote now for SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards
The stage is set for the biggest annual free and open source software community awards -- and you can help determine the winners.
Vancouver Joomla!Day provides case study in community-building techniques
As free software projects balloon in size, many struggle to create and maintain a sense of community. One of the projects that has been most successful in its community-building efforts is the content management system Joomla! In the last couple of years, its Joomla!Days have been held around the world. A particular case in point is this past weekend's Vancouver Joomla!Day, whose organization and use of social networking to expand the scope of the event make it a case study in modern community-building.
Advice for anyone who wants to put on a regional Linux show (video)
The first Florida Linux Show, held in Jacksonville earlier this year, drew more than 300 people and made enough of a splash that its organizers plan to repeat the experience in 2009. Those organizers, Rod Sharp and Don Corbet, sat down with Linux.com to tell us about their experiences -- good and bad -- putting their show together, and offered advice for others who want to put on regional Linux conferences.
Ubuntu Live 2008 cancelled
If you were planning to attend Ubuntu Live 2008 in July, we have some bad news for you: the event has been canceled. Speakers were quietly notified earlier this week and the event's Web site was updated late this morning.
Open Web Vancouver shows how to run a big little conference
Building on the success of last year's Vancouver PHP Conference, the Vancouver PHP Users Association on April 14-15 drew more than 350 to the Vancouver Trade and Convention Center to learn about the trends in free and open source software on the Web. With speakers from major corporations such as Creative Commons, Facebook, Google, the Mozilla Foundation, and Sun Microsystems, and a healthy dose of the self-organization popularized by Bar Camp, the conference was in many ways a template for how a local conference can manage to offer informative and current information despite a relatively small size.
What the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit is for
The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, currently in progress in Austin, Texas, is a small event, with only about 300 invited attendees. Because it is small, you can find yourself face-to-face or in conversation with some of the biggest names in and around the Linux kernel, business, and open source scenes, including Ted Ts'o, Jon "maddog" Hall, Bruce Perens, Dan Frye, and Larry Augustin. The venue for the event -- the J.J. Pickle Research Center Campus at the University of Texas -- is the same place where IBM held its first "secret" Linux summit in 1999 to announce and refine its Linux strategy internally.
A hint of what's happening at Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit (video)
AUSTIN, TEXAS -- Guest commentator Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols of Ziff Davis Enterprise tells what, in his opinion, is important about the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit going on right now in Austin, Texas.
Weekly Wire meets Mark Shuttleworth at OSBC (video)
Last week Weekly Wire sent Roblimo to San Francisco for the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC). While there, he had a chance to talk briefly with Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth even though Mark was getting full "rock star" treatment from an adoring crowd and was totally mobbed by press and fans whenever he showed his face.
Document Freedom Day is more than a single day
Today marks the first Document Freedom Day. Inspired by Software Freedom Day, which is now is now in its fifth year, DFD is intended as an annual series of grass root events worldwide "to educate the public about the importance of Free Document Formats and Open Standards in general," according to the About page on the DFD Web site. The day is planned not as an end in itself so much as the highlight of year-round efforts, many of which predate DFD itself.
IT managers can turn to peers at CMG for solutions
Making changes to your existing infrastructure is fraught with decisions. What's the best way to consolidate servers? How can we better manage the resources we have? How will the changes we're planning impact service and performance? Sandbox environments only provide theoretical information. Vendor solutions can number into the dozens, so it's easy to get overwhelmed. The Computer Measurement Group (CMG) understands that, so for more than 30 years it has been amassing a huge database of knowledge so you can learn from the successes -- and failures -- of others.
Rare Jon 'maddog' Hall video interview - and an even rarer maddog video speech excerpt
He's a popular guy, that maddog. And with good reason. It's a little surprising that there is nary a video of him speaking to be seen anywhere on the Web. So here you go, video-lovers and maddog fans. These videos are for you.
SCALE 6x trip report
The sixth annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) kicked off in Los Angeles on Friday with four specialized conference tracks. General talks and the expo floor both began Saturday, but attendees who braved the chilly 70-degree California weather a day early were rewarded with lessons in open source far removed from the typical desktop Linux fare.
