++Keynote Speaker Announcement for LinuxCon – The Linux Foundation’s new annual technical conference covering ‘All Matters Linux’++ The Linux Foundation is pleased to announce the confirmed keynotes for this year’s highly anticipated LinuxCon. LinuxCon is a new annual technical conference combining the developer and end user communities for more than 75 conference sessions that address “All Matters Linux”, as well as mini-summits, BOFs, roundtable panels, keynote sessions, lightning talks, training and tutorials, and much more. The conference takes place September 21 – 23, 2009 in Portland, Oregon at the Marriott Downtown Waterfront, and is co-located with the Linux Plumbers Conference. The LinuxCon keynotes represent both community and industry in keeping with the audience. Current confirmed keynotes are: *Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier, openSUSE community manager, Novell *Bdale Garbee, open source & Linux chief technologist at Hewlett Packard, and well-known kernel developer *Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu distribution and Canonical *Bob Sutor, vice president of Standards and Open Source at IBM LinuxCon welcomes everyone who has a stake in Linux. Linux users and developers will meet and learn from their peers as well as teach others, such as up-and-coming developers and new Linux users. LinuxCon eliminates the traditional tradeshow environment to provide a forum where attendees can educate themselves on the latest technical advances of the Linux platform. Three tracks – developer, business and operations – will provide the foundation for sessions that include tutorials, keynotes, a technology showcase and targeted mini-summits on topics such as mobile, desktop and embedded, and much more. For more information: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon Register Now at the Early Bird Rate of US$299! Early Bird Registration Ends June 1st. Discounted Group Rates are also available - receive 15% off of each registration if 3 or more people from your company attend! Email us to receive a group discount code. To register to attend: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/component/registrationpro/?func=details&did=1 Questions? Contact us at events (at) linuxfoundation.org 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