Linux Foundation Announces Keynotes for Exclusive Collaboration Summit

Community leadership tackles opportunities for Linux while MeeGo takes center stage with full-day session and keynote

SAN FRANCISCO, March 11, 2010 – The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced newly confirmed keynotes and panelists for its Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit. The Summit, now in its fourth year, takes place April 14-16, 2010 at the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco.

The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit is the only event where a true cross-section of leaders from the Linux developer, industry and end user communities meet face-to-face to tackle today’s most pressing issues facing Linux, including technical development, legal topics, ISV porting and end user requirements. The Summit is designed to accelerate collaboration and problem solving by bringing key stakeholders together in a neutral setting.

This year’s Collaboration Summit prominently features content on three trends driving the Linux market currently: mobile computing, cloud computing and legal topics associated with the platform.

Highlights from this year’s program include:

• Full-day session on MeeGo, the new computing platform backed by Intel and Nokia and hosted by The Linux Foundation. Nokia Vice President Ari Jaaksi will deliver a keynote that provides a complete overview of the project.

• The Linux Kernel Roundtable Panel featuring James Bottomley, Jon Corbet, Christoph Hellwig, Greg Kroah-Hartman and Andrew Morton.

• Does Open Source Mean Open Cloud? Moderated by John Mark Walker, founder and chief community architect at Community Root, LLC. Panelists include Matt Asay, chief operating officer at Canonical; David Lutterkort, principal software engineer at Red Hat; Sam Ramji, vice president at Sonoa Systems; and Doug Tidwell, senior software engineer at IBM.

• A tongue-in-cheek keynote about community dynamics from Josh Berkus, chief operating officer, PostgreSQL Experts, How to Prevent Community: Making Sure Your Pond Stays Small.

• Keynote from Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin, The State of the Linux Union.

• Why Your Life Might Depend on Your Code. A keynote by Alexander Schanz who uses Linux in his post as Head of Data Center at DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH, German air traffic control.

• 10 Years of Linux at IBM, a keynote from Dr. Daniel Frye, vice president, Open Systems Development, IBM, and board member at the Linux Foundation.

Day two includes the half-day session dedicated to “The Year of Cloud Computing,” which will be moderated by cloud computing expert Bernard Golden. Executives from IBM and Bull will host a full-day session on High Performance Computing. And, the Linux Foundation’s legal counsel Karen Copenhaver will lead the full-day session on “Legal for Non-Lawyers.” Day three includes a variety of workgroup meetings, including Linux Standard Base (LSB), FOSSBazaar, Driver Backport, Filesystems, Desktop, OpenPrinting, Toolchain and Green Linux.

To review the complete schedule, please visit http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit/agenda

Sponsored by IBM and Intel with additional support from Google, HP and Nokia, the Collaboration Summit is an invitation-only, exclusive event that is bringing together the brightest minds in Linux, including core kernel developers, distribution maintainers, ISVs, end users, system vendors and other community organizations.

For more information on the Linux Foundation’s Annual Collaboration Summit, please visit: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit

About the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux and open source companies and developers from around the world. The Linux Foundation promotes, protects and standardizes Linux by hosting important workgroups, events and online resources such as Linux.com. For more information, please visit www.linuxfoundation.org.

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Linux Foundation Announces Call for Participation for LinuxCon Japan

SAN FRANCISCO, March 11, 2010 – The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced its Call for Participation (CFP) for LinuxCon Japan, which takes place September 27-29, 2010 in Tokyo.

Formerly known as the Japan Linux Symposium, LinuxCon Japan will continue the tradition of educating attendees with technical and informative presentations and will foster collaboration between developers from Japan and Asian countries and their International colleagues.

LinuxCon CFP submissions are due May 14, 2010. To submit a proposal, please visit: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/cfp. To register for the event, please visit: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/component/registrationpro/?func=details&did=33.

The following topics will be given priority for the 2010 LinuxCon Japan program:
• Linux in the desktop
• Linux for embedded systems
• Making Linux smarter
• Opportunities for Linux in the new global economy
• Linux in mobile devices (smart phones, netbooks, etc.)
• Linux in the cloud
• Linux appliances
• Optimization in the data center
• Techniques for successful adoption of Linux in business, government and academics
• Keeping Linux “open”

“Japanese Linux developers, vendors and users represent a vibrant community with important contributions to the development of Linux,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation. “LinuxCon Japan provides a neutral forum for this community to come together with members from around the globe to work on specific projects that advance the operating system.”

LinuxCon Japan is the premiere Linux conference in Asia that brings together a unique blend of core developers, administrators, users, community managers and industry experts. It is designed not only to encourage collaboration but also to support future interaction between Japan and other Asia Pacific countries and the rest of the global Linux community. The conference includes presentations, tutorials, birds of a feather sessions, keynotes, sponsored mini-summits.

The program committee includes recognized community members, including:

• James Bottomley, Novell
• Jon Corbet, LWN.net
• Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao, NTT
• Yoshiya Etoh, Fujitsu
• Satoshi Oshima, Hitachi Ltd.
• C. Craig Ross, The Linux Foundation
• Tsugikazu Shibata, NEC
• David Woodhouse, Intel Corporation
• Hideaki Yoshifuji, Keio University

Linux Foundation events provide kernel developers, IT professionals, end users, senior executives, industry experts, students and the media with a vendor-neutral, nonprofit forum in which collaboration and education advance knowledge and accelerate the advancement of Linux. The events provide a platform for new Linux and open source developments to be revealed and discussed. To get more information about all Linux Foundation events, please visit: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/.

About the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a non-profit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux and open source companies and developers from around the world. The Linux Foundation promotes, protects and standardizes Linux by hosting important workgroups, events and online resources such as Linux.com. For more information, please visit: http://linuxfoundation.org.

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Linux Foundation Opens Linux.com Store, Launches Community Design Contest

New online store features exclusive merchandise that represents unique Linux culture and will include items designed by community

SAN FRANCISCO, March 10, 2010 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today launched a new merchandise store on Linux.com where people can purchase a new line of exclusive and original T-shirts, hats, mugs and other items that reflect “geek culture.”

The merchandise available in the Linux.com Store is designed to reflect the unique and varied culture associated with Linux; for example, visitors to the Linux.com Store won’t find corporate-looking “logo T’s.” The images on the T-shirts, mugs, hats, stickers and other items are designed to invoke feelings of geek pride, freedom, fun, eccentricity, and originality.

The Linux Store is open today at http://store.linux.com/.

The Linux Foundation today is also launching its Linux.com T-shirt Design Contest. The designs available in the Linux.com Store are currently limited to the creativity of a select few. With the new Store, the Linux Foundation will provide a forum in which community designs can be shared, rated and ultimately made available on Linux.com Store merchandise. This gives anyone the opportunity to help generate important funds for Linux Foundation activities.

Design submissions are due by April 11, 2010. The top five designs will be available for community vote at Linux.com through June 6, 2010. The winning design will be included on T-shirts available for purchase in the Linux.com Store and the designer will be awarded with travel to Boston, Mass., to attend LinuxCon (http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon) in August.

To submit your design, please visit: http://www.linux.com/tshirt-design-contest.

“Selling Linux-specific merchandise is another way to support community development. The Linux.com Store aims to serve a community of people who want to display their affinity for Linux specifically while supporting important activities that advance the platform,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation. “And, the Linux.com T-shirt Design Contest will bring to light the best merchandise we can offer in the Store and will showcase community talent in an entirely new and fun way.”

All revenue generated from the Linux.com Store will go directly towards Linux Foundation activities, events and strategic initiatives. The Linux Foundation uses funds from a variety of revenue streams to support the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and to sustain important services such as technical events; travel grants for open source community members; a vendor-neutral forum for projects such as MeeGo; and free training resources direct from the kernel community; among others.

About the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux and open source companies and developers from around the world. The Linux Foundation promotes, protects and standardizes Linux by hosting important workgroups, events and online resources such as Linux.com. For more information, please visit www.linuxfoundation.org.

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Linux Foundation to Host MeeGo Project

New open source software platform backed by Intel and Nokia will power the next generation of computing devices

SAN FRANCISCO, February 15, 2010 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced it will host the MeeGo project, the open source software platform for the next generation of computing devices. MeeGo combines Intel’s Moblin™ and Nokia’s Maemo projects into one Linux-based platform.

MeeGo, announced today in a joint release by Intel and Nokia, will be deployed across many computing device types - including pocketable mobile computers, netbooks, tablets, mediaphones, connected TVs and in-vehicle infotainment systems, and brings together the leaders in computing and mobile communications as the project’s backers. MeeGo is designed for cross-device, cross-architecture computing and is built from the ground up for a new class of powerful computing devices.

MeeGo will be hosted by the Linux Foundation as a fully open source project, encouraging community contributions in line with the best practices of the open source development model. The Linux Foundation expects MeeGo to be adopted widely by device manufacturers, network operators, software vendors and developers across multiple device types and for many organizations and developers to participate in the project.

“With MeeGo, you have the world’s leader in computing – Intel – uniting with the world’s leader in communications – Nokia – in a true open source project hosted at the Linux Foundation,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at the Linux Foundation. “MeeGo has been built from the ground up for rich, mobile devices and will deliver choice to consumers without lock-in. For developers, they will have the power of the Qt platform across a multitude of devices and architectures giving them an incredible opportunity to innovate and reach users.”

The Linux Foundation’s MeeGo project welcomes contributors and encourages developers and others to get involved at the site or find out more about joining the Linux Foundation at http://www.linuxfoundation.org/meego. Moblin and Maemo contributors are encouraged to participate at MeeGo.com.

MeeGo is working with existing upstream projects such as the Linux kernel, ofono, connman, X.org, D-BUS, tracker, GStreamer, Pulseaudio and others. The companies and projects associated with MeeGo will continue to support those upstream projects. As an open source software platform, MeeGo will help to reduce market fragmentation and complexity, while helping to accelerate industry innovation and time-to-market for a wealth of new Internet-based applications, services and user experiences. Along with MeeGo, the Linux Foundation is working with companies and projects across the mobile/embedded industry to unite and optimize best practices for Linux-based development that will speed time to market and lower costs for companies using Linux-based mobile operating systems. More information can be found at www.linuxfoundation.org/embedded.

MeeGo and other Linux embedded issues will be discussed at the upcoming Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in San Francisco. More information on the meeting can be found at http://events.linuxfoundation.org.

About the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux and open source companies and developers from around the world. The Linux Foundation promotes, protects and standardizes Linux by hosting important workgroups, events and online resources such as Linux.com. For more information, please visit www.linuxfoundation.org

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Linux Foundation Announces 2010 “We’re Linux” Video Contest: The Linux Super Bowl Ad

“We’re Linux” returns for the second year in a row, aims to surface creative user-generated ads for the popular operating system

SAN FRANCISCO, February 5, 2010 – The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced the 2010 “We’re Linux” video contest. The contest seeks to find the best user-generated videos that demonstrate what Linux means to those who use it and inspire others to try it.

The contest is calling all community members and amateur filmmakers to share with the public what a 30-60 second Linux-focused spot for the Super Bowl might look like. This theme is not a requirement for entry; however, videos that can demonstrate the benefits of Linux to the general public are likely to receive more community votes. The submissions should aim to inspire people to use Linux, create conversations among the public, and convey the power and ideals of Linux.

The contest officially begins today and will be open for submissions through midnight on April 4, 2010. The winner will be revealed at the Linux Foundation’s Collaboration Summit on April 14, 2010 in San Francisco and will be awarded with a laptop loaded with Linux and a trip to LinuxCon (http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon) in Boston, Mass.

“We have been inspired by the creativity and level of participation we have seen for the ‘We’re Linux’ video contest and want to provide a forum again this year for people to share,” said Amanda McPherson, vice president, marketing and developer programs, The Linux Foundation. “The contest attracts an extended community of folks to Linux and allows us all to weigh in on the best Linux videos.”

The winner will be determined by a combination of online community ranking and a panel of judges that includes:

• Andrew Morton, lead Linux kernel maintainer;
• Stephen O’Grady, co-founder, Red Monk;
• Stormy Peters, executive director, GNOME Foundation;
• Brandon Phillips, Linux kernel developer, Novell;
• Bob Sutor, VP, Open Source and Linux, IBM Software Group; and
• Steven Vaughan-Nichols, journalist, ComputerWorld.

Last year, the “We’re Linux” contest called on participants to consider the popular “I’m a Mac; I’m a PC” commercials and create their own videos to promote Linux. The concept was based on the idea that while Apple and Microsoft have billions of dollars in advertising budgets, Linux had the power of crowds. The winning video, by Amitay Tweeto and titled “What Does it Mean to Be Free” (http://video.linuxfoundation.org/contest/winners), was an inspirational piece that communicated the ideals of the open source operating system.

To submit a video and for more information on the contest rules and guidelines, please visit: http://video.linuxfoundation.org/contest/we-are-linux-superbowl-ad-contest.

About the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux and open source companies and developers from around the world. The Linux Foundation promotes, protects and standardizes Linux by hosting important workgroups, events and online resources such as Linux.com. For more information, please visit www.linuxfoundation.org.

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Trademarks: The Linux Foundation and Linux Standard Base are trademarks of The Linux Foundation. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.