In this month's Linux Foundation newsletter: * LinuxCon Program Confirmed and the Five Reasons You Can't Miss This Year's Event <== * Community Chooses Favorite Design in Linux.com Store T-shirt Design Contest * Linux Foundation's End User Summit Dates Announced, Registration Open * New Compliance White Paper Published * Linux Foundation Executive Director Talks About the Competition in BusinessWeek.com Editorial * The Linux Foundation in the News * Upcoming Training Courses from The Linux Foundation ==> LinuxCon Program Confirmed and the Five Reasons You Can't Miss This Year's Event <== The LinuxCon program has been finalized and includes more than 60 sessions focused on developer, operations and business tracks. Program highlights for the event taking place in Boston August 10-12, 2010, include: * Red Hat’s Matthew Garrett will share the lessons learned from the recent Android/Kernel community discussions. * Original MySQL author Monty Widenius will talk about why he forked with MariaDB. * Canonical executive Matt Asay will speculate on where the Linux desktop is succeeding. * Microsoft’s Hank Janssen will discuss the physics behind the Hyper-V drivers for Linux. New keynote additions include: * Intel's Mark Sharpness will present, “Freedom to Innovate: Can MeeGo’s Openness Change the Mobile Industry?” * Oracle’s Wim Coekaerts, Senior Vice President, Linux and Virtualization Engineering, will take a technical look at Linux at Oracle. * Novell’s Senior Vice President and General Manager of Open Platform Solutions, Markus Rex, will speak on “Empowering the Imagination for Tomorrow’s Linux Workloads.” * Qualcomm Incorporated’s Rob Chandhok, president of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. (QuIC), will talk about the challenges in open source and mobile today in his keynote titled, “Mobile Linux: Adapting Practices, Driving innovation, Collaboration, and Scalability.” >From the speakers, to the content, to the experience, LinuxCon is a must-attend event for developers, operations management and executives. Learn about what you can't miss with this quick "top five" list: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/lp/linuxcon-announce-web-email Register by July 15, 2010 to receive the discounted rate of $400. After July 15, the conference fee will go up to $500. To register now for LinuxCon, please visit: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon/register ==> Community Chooses Favorite Design in Linux.com Store T-shirt Design Contest <== The Linux Foundation this week announced the winning design in its Linux.com Store (http://store.linux.com/) T-shirt Design Contest. “The People’s Product," designed by Said Hassan, won with 57 percent of the 8,000 votes cast. Mr. Hassan wins travel expenses and a free pass to LinuxCon in Boston where “The People’s Product” design will be displayed on Linux.com Store merchandise and available for purchase. The design is expected to be available on T-shirts in the Linux.com Store this summer. To see the winning design and finalists, please visit: http://www.linux.com/tshirt-design-contest ==> Linux Foundation's End User Summit Dates Announced, Registration Open <== The Linux Foundation's End User Summit is taking place October 12-13, 2010 in Jersey City, New Jersey. The End User Summit is an exclusive, invitation-only event that brings together end users with the highest level Linux community developers. CTOs, architects, senior IT representatives and kernel developers are able to connect directly to advance the features most critical to using Linux in the enterprise. The two-day conference is a unique opportunity for education and interaction. The Linux Foundation is currently looking for large, advanced Linux users who can present cases on their use and needs for Linux. If you are interested in participating, please contact events@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For more information about the event and to request an invitation, please visit: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/end-user-summit ==> New Compliance White Paper Published <== The Linux Foundation is launching a new white paper series focused on the various aspects of ensuring free and open source software compliance in the enterprise. The first paper is “Free and Open Source Compliance: The Basics You Must Know,” by Ibrahim Haddad. This paper addresses the following topics: * The changing business environment moving to a multi-source development model * The objectives of compliance and the benefits resulting from having a successful compliance program * The consequences of non-compliance with the licenses of free and open source software * The compliance failures that can occur, how to avoid them and prevent them from happening in the future * The lessons learned from the various non-compliance cases with emphasis on the positive learnings To download the white paper, please visit: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/lp/page/sign-up-for-foss-compliance-whitepaper ==> Linux Foundation Executive Director Talks About the Competition in BusinessWeek.com Editorial <== Jim Zemlin addresses the competition for Linux head on in a BusinessWeek.com editorial published this month. He asserts that Linux must be - and can be - both free and fabulous and raises the priority for the user experience. You can read the column here: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2010/tc2010069_622120.htm ==> The Linux Foundation in the News <== Vendor Commitment to Open Source Remains Strong NetworkWorld http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/61864 MeeGo, the New Netbook Linux, Arrives PC World http://www.pcworld.com/article/197414/meego_the_new_netbook_linux_arrives.html LinuxCon 2010 Program and Schedule Announced Ostatic http://ostatic.com/blog/linuxcon-2010-program-and-schedule-announced Linux-Powered iPad-Like Tablets Can't Come Quickly Enough ComputerWorld http://blogs.computerworld.com/16301/linux_powered_ipad_like_tablets_cant_come_quickly_enough 15 Facts You Should Know About MeeGo Linux.com/The Linux Foundation http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/167-amanda-mcpherson/321041-15-facts-you-should-know-about-meego ==> Upcoming Training Courses from The Linux Foundation <== Linux Performance Tuning August 8-9, 2010 Boston, Mass. http://training.linuxfoundation.org/component/registrationpro/?func=details&did=53 Embedded Linux Development August 16-20, 2010 Santa Clara, Calif. http://training.linuxfoundation.org/component/registrationpro/?func=details&did=49 Developing Linux Device Drivers September 13-17, 2010 Santa Clara, Calif. http://training.linuxfoundation.org/component/registrationpro/?func=details&did=55 ------------------------------ Lf-announce mailing list: Lf-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lf-announce ------------------------------ - To unsubscribe: https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/options/lf-announce _______________________________________________ Lf-announce mailing list Lf-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lf-announce
