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Accepted Speakers Announcement and Early Bird Registration Reminder
Linux Plumbers Conference
17-19 September 2008
Portland, Oregon USA
http://linuxplumbersconf.org/

Speakers Announcement and Early Bird Registration Reminder

The list of accepted talks for Linux Plumbers Conf is now available:

http://linuxplumbersconf.org/program/speakers/

Speakers and topics include “The Btrfs Filesystem: Design, Status and
Goals” by Chris Mason, “From Naught to Sixty in 5 Seconds (Making Boot
Fast)” by Arjan van de Ven and Auke Kok, and “Graphics Drivers in the
Kernel: 20 years late” by Dave Airlie and Jesse Barnes. Talks will be
followed by round-table discussion about the direction of future
development in the project. This is an excellent opportunity for
vendors, distributions, hardware manufacturers, and Linux developers
to influence the technical direction of these subsystems. See the
LPC speakers page for a complete list of topics.

New Microconference on Early Boot and Init

Dave Jones, the Fedora ...

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Let’s take a trip down Memory Lane, shall we?

Back when we were still the Free Standards Group and OSDL, the FSG side of the house was hard at work on a developer portal that would help new Linux developers learn what they needed to write applications for Linux.  We eventually did a release, but it didn’t have many of the features we wanted, and integration with the tools we provide in the LSB was spotty and hard to use.  One thing led to another; the merger happened, and for a while, we were busy with lots of other important things, and the LDN fell by the wayside.

I’m glad to report that’s changed.

We’ve hired a new guy to run the LDN, Brian Proffitt.  He’s been hard at work since the moment he started, asking lots of questions and building a new infrastructure ...

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Linux World has come to an end and it was a busy time last week for us over here at The Linux Foundation.  In addition to attending conference sessions, manning our booth in the dot org pavilion and our internal board of directors meeting, we had the opportunity to take a break Wednesday night and hang out with some of our members, Linux World speakers and other various movers and shakers in Linux including Dan Frye and John Beauvais of IBM, Doug Fisher of Intel,  Alan Clark and Jeff Jaffe at Novell, Larry Augustin, Chris DiBona and Leslie Hawthorne from Google, Bdale Garbee at HP, Dan Kegel, Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Don Marti, the folks from Untangle, whurley from BMC and kernel developers Val Henson, Ted Ts’o and James Bottomley.

The VIP reception was held in SOMA at the Harlot Lounge, aptly named for the famous Barbary Coast ladies and paying ...

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Featured Speakers, Early Bird Registration Deadline, and Conference Wiki
Linux Plumbers Conference
17-19 September 2008
Portland, Oregon USA
http://linuxplumbersconf.org/

Featured Speakers at Linux Plumbers Conference

The Linux Plumbers Conference is pleased to announce two featured speakers for the upcoming conference. Greg Kroah-Hartman will give the conference keynote, speaking about the Linux ecosystem and why it matters. Jonathan Corbet will give a featured talk entitled “The Kernel Report,” which will include results from the Kernel Summit, held just prior to LPC.

Greg Kroah-Hartman is a Novell Fellow in the SuSE Labs division and maintains many crucial subsystems in the Linux kernel. Greg founded and runs the Linux Driver Project, which writes and maintains drivers for hardware vendors at no cost. Greg is an experienced speaker whose hard-hitting talks often drive the technical and political direction of Linux. Greg’s speaking credits include the keynote speech for Ottawa Linux Symposium ...

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Linux Plumbers Conference
17-19 September 2008
Portland, Oregon USA
http://linuxplumbersconf.org/

The deadline for Linux Plumbers Conference speaker proposals has been extended to July 31st. We are looking for proposals from knowledgeable speakers on timely technical topics related to core Linux software - kernel, utilities, graphics, libraries, etc. The ideal proposal will address a specific technical problem or opportunity and suggest solutions.

Proposals targeting issues which cross sub-system boundaries - such as power management and suspend/resume - are especially encouraged. Talks will be 25 minutes or less and serve as a starting point for round-table discussion.

LPC is an opportunity to work on technical problems face-to-face with other developers, especially between developers who seldom attend the same conference or summit. The conference is organized into small working groups - microconferences - focusing on specific topics, such
as storage, power management, and graphics. One conference track is reserved for talks not part of microconferences ...

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The Linux Foundation End User Collaboration Summit gathers the leaders of the Linux development and vendor communities to collaborate with CTOs, architects and senior IT representatives from the largest and most dynamic end users in the world to accelerate problem solving and advance the Linux platform.Linux is a cornerstone operating system that has been growing in prominence and importance for the last two decades. This is the first event of its kind to bring together high performance end users with the highest level Linux community developers. The two day conference will be a unique opportunity for education and interaction between these two groups.

While attendance to this event is limited, all are welcome to apply to attend.

Click Here to Apply to Attend

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Anthony Williams, the co-author of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything will be the opening keynote on October 13th at the Linux Foundation End User Summit in New York City.

Anthony is Vice President and Executive Editor at New Paradigm. An avid researcher and writer, Anthony has pursued his interests in the wide-ranging impacts of new technologies on social and economic life for over a decade. His work has been featured in publications such as Business 2.0 and Optimize Magazine, and has been widely circulated in proprietary syndicated research programs. Anthony was previously Research Director with Digital 4Sight and has consulted to Fortune 500 firms and international institutions, including the World Bank. He holds a Masters in Research from the London School of Economics and is a Ph.D. candidate there in the Department of Government.

The Linux Foundation End User Collaboration Summit gathers the leaders of the Linux ...

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The first ever Linux Foundation End User Summit will take place at the recently opened Desmond Tutu Center in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City on October 13 & 14, 2008.

The Desmond Tutu Center is a unique new address for business in New York City. This innovative Center combines charming 19th-century Gothic architecture with sophisticated 21st-century comforts. The conference center features more than 8,000 square feet of multifunctional meeting space, including the spectacular Refectory Conference Room, plus high-tech capabilities and a support staff dedicated to your success. The result is an unsurpassed meeting place in Manhattan.

Beautifully restored historic guest accommodations and a park-like setting create a refreshing retreat in the heart of the city’s vibrant Chelsea neighborhood. The Desmond Tutu Center is a ” Green” Center with Geo Thermal Heating and Air conditioning throughout the facility. The need for roof-level cooling towers and window air conditioners ...

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Over the weekend, I converted my laptop to use the ext4 filesystem.  So far so good!  So far I’ve found one bug as a result of my using ext4 in production (if delayed allocation is enabled, i_blocks doesn’t get updated until the block allocation takes place, so files can appear to have 0k blocksize right after they are created, which is confusing/unfortunate), but nothing super serious yet.  I will be doing backups a bit more frequently until I’m absolutely sure things are rock solid, though!

I am using the latest ext4 patches and the tip of the e2fsprogs git repository.  Hopefully when we get the bulk of the patches merged into the mainline kernel after the 2.6.26 ships and the 2.6.27 merge window opens, and after I ship out e2fsprogs 1.41 (I have one work-in-progress pre-release, with another coming soon), it ...

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This morning, I just wasted two hours of my life trying to deal with a bill with AT&T. I am a work-at-home employee, and my company has a contract with AT&T so that when I deal 1-700-xxx-xxxx, I can reach the internal corporate phone network. In addition, long distance calls on my home office line are billed to the company at the pre-negotiated corporate rates. I also had a (long-dormant) AT&T long distance account, dating from before I started working at this company. Starting at the beginning of the year, that account grew a $18 monthly fee. When I tried to make it go away, the AT&T consumer side of the house said that according to Verizon, that was because I had my long distance service through AT&T. Which was true, in a sense — AT&T was providing my service, but through a corporate account ...

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The Linux Foundation will host its first Legal Collaboration Summit on Wednesday, April 23, 2008, at Motorola’s Customer Briefing Center in Schaumburg, IL just outside of Chicago. The conference, to be conducted by In-House Member Counsel, for In-House Counsel, will focus on the issues that in-house counsel are now routinely asked to address about the use of open source software within the enterprise2 or within a commercial offering.

“The goal of the day is for the in-house attorneys to share their experience developing commercially reasonable ways to manage the use of open source software and their confidence that the adoption of open source software is fully aligned with commercial objectives and business control requirements.” - Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, The Linux Foundation

The day will include panels, question and answer periods, and breaks for networking. Discussion topics will include: how open source projects work; how licenses for open source projects ...

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The LSB Project has released a refresh of LSB 3.2 to address several issues not caught until after the release. Among these:

• The application checker would not accept -M arguments.
• Some of the X11 tests would crash on some platforms.
• A packaging bug caused some other X11 tests to fail.
• Some constants were missing from the SDK.

A complete list of bugs fixed in this refresh can be found on our bug tracker.

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We are pleased to announce the speaker line up for the upcoming Linux
Foundation Collaboration Summit at the Austin Supercomputing Center.
The speakers, like the attendees of the summit, represent leaders from
the developer, industry and end user communities surrounding Linux.
Don’t miss the opportunity to collaborate with these individuals on
April 8-10, 2008 at the UT Austin Supercomputing Center.

Apply for registration here:
https://www.linux-foundation.org/events/collaboration

This unique, invitation-only event bring together the brightest minds
in the Linux ecosystem from the kernel, end user, desktop, legal and
vendor communities to collaborate on the advancement of the Linux
platform. Attendees can expect purposive discussion, examination and
debate through engaging plenary session content and workgroup
meetings. Breakout sessions contain all the domain expertise and key
players necessary to make immediate contributions to the platform.

You can see more detailed agenda information here:
https://www.linux-foundation.org/events ...

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The LSB Project has released the Linux Standard Base 3.2.

New in this version:

• “Trial Use” standards, replacing the old “Optional” standards. Reporting requirements for these standards are stricter, which will help the workgroup evaluate them better.
• The first non-native-code languages–Perl and Python–have been added.
• Support for printing, based on the work of the OpenPrinting workgroup.
• Multimedia support, starting with the ALSA API (as a trial-use module).
• Several desktop standards from freedesktop.org, as well as the Portland Project’s xdg-utils (as trial use).
• Elevation of Qt 4 to a required standards, and deprecation of Qt 3.
• Many enhancements and changes to existing standards.

For more information, see the LSB 3.2 Release Notes.

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Linux Foundation Partners with Chinese OSS Promotion Union to Host Linux Developer Symposium in Beijing

February 2008 Symposium Will Bring Key Linux Leaders Together with 300 Chinese Developers

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 17, 2007 – The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced an agreement with the Chinese OSS Promotion Union (COPU), to jointly host the Linux Developer Symposium in Beijing, China, February 19 – 20, 2008.

The Symposium will address desktop, server and embedded Linux opportunities and will include well-known speakers such as:

• Jonathan Corbet, LWN.net executive editor, kernel developer and author for the Linux Weather Forecast
• Coly Li, Novell file system maintainer
• Matt Mackall, noted embedded expert and kernel developer
• Andrew Morton, Linux kernel maintainer
• Dave Neary, Linux Desktop developer
• Jim Zemlin, executive director, The Linux Foundation

Attendees will include local developers and engineers from such companies as Google, IBM, Intel, Motorola ...

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Registration for the Spring 2008 Collaboration Summit, taking place from April 8 to 10 in Austin, TX, in now open! Please check back soon for updated speaker, attendee and topic information.

This unique, invitation-only event will bring together the brightest minds in the Linux ecosystem to discuss where Linux is, where it needs to go and how we can all help get it there. We’re combining LF workgroup meetings, LSB face-to-face meetings, and the advisory councils (user, vendor, developer) to create one uber-conference. Breakout sessions should contain all the domain expertise to make a difference in the advancement of the Linux platform.

If you want to make an impact on the platform and meet with senior Linux technical and business representatives in one place, this is your event.

The LF Collaboration Summit will be open to LF members and to key senior participants in the Linux ecosystem. We hope ...

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