SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- 03/11/08 --
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit
organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced
the speakers for its 2nd Annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit.
The Summit, heralded as the only place where Linux kernel developers,
distribution and system vendors, ISVs, and end users meet face-to-face and
collaborate, takes place April 8 - 10, 2008 at the UT Super Computing
Center in Austin, TX.
The Collaboration Summit is designed to accelerate collaboration and
problem solving in the Linux community by bringing key stakeholders
together in a neutral setting. While there are a variety of industry and
developer conferences, the LF Collaboration Summit is the only one to
combine participation from developers, users, vendors, ISVs, attorneys and
C-level executives to tackle the most pressing issues facing Linux.
To apply for registration, please visit:
https://www.linux-foundation.org/events/collaboration.
Last year's over-subscribed Summit took place June 13 - 15, 2007 at the
Google Mountain View Campus and included more than 230 leaders from the
Linux community.
Agenda highlights for the 2nd Annual LF Collaboration Summit include:
-- Fresh from his $1 billion acquisition by Sun, MySQL's CEO Marten
Mickos will describe his plans for the future, including MySQL's commitment
to the "L in the LAMP" stack.
-- Where is Linux growing? Al Gillen, research vice president at analyst
firm IDC, will unveil important new data on Linux deployments worldwide.
-- Kernel Developer Panel. The Summit will be kicked off by a panel of
key Kernel developers and maintainers including James Bottomley, Jonathan
Corbet, Dave Jones, Christoph Lameter, Ted Ts'o, Chris Wright, and others.
This is a unique opportunity to hear directly from these developers.
-- Mobile Landscape. The last twelve months have seen an explosion in
Linux on mobile devices. Executive representatives from LiMO, Moblin.org,
the new Open Handset Alliance and OpenMoko will address fragmentation and
how they are working together to build the future's mobile computing
platform.
-- In the last year, there has also been tremendous growth of Linux pre-
installed on desktop and ultra-mobile devices. This market is continuing
to explode with dozens of design wins. Find out now what is behind this
growing trend from senior representatives from Dell, Everex, gOS (maker of
the CloudBook), HP, Lenovo, and VIA Technologies.
-- The titans of the Linux industry are growing products and service
offerings on top of Linux. The 451 Group's Raven Zachary will moderate a
panel of these influential industry leaders including: Wim Coekaerts, vice
president of Linux engineering at Oracle; Dan Frye, vice president of open
systems development at IBM; Christine Martino, HP's vice president of open
source and Linux; and Christy Wyatt, vice president, ecosystem and market
development for Motorola's Mobile Devices business. They will share what
Linux means to their companies and where it's headed.
-- Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens will give a keynote address on the future of
Linux from Red Hat's perspective.
"This year's LF Collaboration Summit has attracted a veritable who's who of
Linux leaders," said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux
Foundation. "We are looking forward to a packed house and a lively group.
These people will be defining the agenda for the next stage of mass
collaboration, and in order to fuel that collaboration we need to make
participation in the Linux ecosystem as easy and efficient as possible."
This unique, invitation-only event brings together the brightest minds
in the Linux ecosystem to collaborate on the advancement of the Linux
platform. In addition to plenary sessions, workgroup and breakout sessions
include: Desktop Architects, the Virtualization Mini-Summit, Mobile and
Embedded Linux, Power Management on Linux and Carrier Grade Linux. All of
the key players necessary to make real and immediate contributions to the
platform will be in attendance.
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 providing unified resources
and services needed for open source to successfully compete with closed
platforms. For more information, please visit www.linux-foundation.org.
Trademarks: The Linux Foundation and Linux Standard Base are trademarks of
The Linux Foundation. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. Third party
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