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Penguicon 6.0 -- Penguins in Space!
1 week, 5 days ago
"A couple weeks back, I headed down to Penguicon 6.0. It's a Linux convention, but also a Science Fiction convention. Really, it's like a geeky version of, "Hey your chocolate is in my peanut butter .... "" -
Picturing CES, continued
4 months ago
"Linux wasn't everywhere at CES, but it was close, making it impossible to see Everything with Linux in it. But we tried .... " -
Macedonia picks Ubuntu for 20,000 PCs
6 months ago
7,000 down, 13,000 to go: Macedonia receives first shipments of Ubuntu Linux PCs for use in schools. -
Fabricators descend on Maker Faire Austin
6 months, 4 weeks ago
"AUSTIN, Texas--If you've never seen a machine that makes 3D models out of sugar, you should. But unless you're part of a relatively small group of people who went to the Maker Faire in California in May, or are one of a few other people who know the machine's creator, you probably have never even heard of the device. " -
Fifth LinuxChix Brazil conference
8 months, 2 weeks ago
"This year it is the turn of Brazilia, the capital of Brazil, to host the 5th Linuxchix Brazilian Conference. The conference runs from the 7th to the 8th of September, and once again open source professionals and enthusiasts will convene for two days of talks, tutorials and debates .... " -
Looking ahead to Linux Kernel Summit 2007
8 months, 2 weeks ago
"For the past several years, the annual, invitation-only kernel developers' summit has been held immediately prior to the Ottawa Linux Symposium. This year is different, though; the summit is instead happening just after LinuxConf Europe in Cambridge, England.... " -
Undercover NBC Dateline reporter bolts from DEFCON 2007
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Undercover reporter Michelle Madigan (Associate Producer of NBC Dateline) got a little more than she bargained for when she tried to sneak in to DEFCON 2007 with hidden cameras to get someone to confess to a felony. -
Report from MTLC's second annual Open Source Summit in Boston
10 months, 3 weeks ago
"Dan Bricklin has all of the panel discussions and talks from last week's Second Annual Open Source Summit in Boston online now. So if you didn't get to attend in person, you can listen for yourselves. A Groklaw member, Jim Olsen, who attended the summit has written up a report for us. He describes what each panel or talk was about, so you will know which you want to listen to ..."
Linux.com : Events
Open Web Vancouver shows how to run a big little conference
Building on the success of last year's Vancouver PHP Conference, the Vancouver PHP Users Association on April 14-15 drew more than 350 to the Vancouver Trade and Convention Center to learn about the trends in free and open source software on the Web. With speakers from major corporations such as Creative Commons, Facebook, Google, the Mozilla Foundation, and Sun Microsystems, and a healthy dose of the self-organization popularized by Bar Camp, the conference was in many ways a template for how a local conference can manage to offer informative and current information despite a relatively small size.
What the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit is for
The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, currently in progress in Austin, Texas, is a small event, with only about 300 invited attendees. Because it is small, you can find yourself face-to-face or in conversation with some of the biggest names in and around the Linux kernel, business, and open source scenes, including Ted Ts'o, Jon "maddog" Hall, Bruce Perens, Dan Frye, and Larry Augustin. The venue for the event -- the J.J. Pickle Research Center Campus at the University of Texas -- is the same place where IBM held its first "secret" Linux summit in 1999 to announce and refine its Linux strategy internally.
A hint of what's happening at Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit (video)
AUSTIN, TEXAS -- Guest commentator Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols of Ziff Davis Enterprise tells what, in his opinion, is important about the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit going on right now in Austin, Texas.
Weekly Wire meets Mark Shuttleworth at OSBC (video)
Last week Weekly Wire sent Roblimo to San Francisco for the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC). While there, he had a chance to talk briefly with Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth even though Mark was getting full "rock star" treatment from an adoring crowd and was totally mobbed by press and fans whenever he showed his face.
Document Freedom Day is more than a single day
Today marks the first Document Freedom Day. Inspired by Software Freedom Day, which is now is now in its fifth year, DFD is intended as an annual series of grass root events worldwide "to educate the public about the importance of Free Document Formats and Open Standards in general," according to the About page on the DFD Web site. The day is planned not as an end in itself so much as the highlight of year-round efforts, many of which predate DFD itself.
IT managers can turn to peers at CMG for solutions
Making changes to your existing infrastructure is fraught with decisions. What's the best way to consolidate servers? How can we better manage the resources we have? How will the changes we're planning impact service and performance? Sandbox environments only provide theoretical information. Vendor solutions can number into the dozens, so it's easy to get overwhelmed. The Computer Measurement Group (CMG) understands that, so for more than 30 years it has been amassing a huge database of knowledge so you can learn from the successes -- and failures -- of others.
Rare Jon 'maddog' Hall video interview - and an even rarer maddog video speech excerpt
He's a popular guy, that maddog. And with good reason. It's a little surprising that there is nary a video of him speaking to be seen anywhere on the Web. So here you go, video-lovers and maddog fans. These videos are for you.
SCALE 6x trip report
The sixth annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) kicked off in Los Angeles on Friday with four specialized conference tracks. General talks and the expo floor both began Saturday, but attendees who braved the chilly 70-degree California weather a day early were rewarded with lessons in open source far removed from the typical desktop Linux fare.
Open Source Meets Business Congress founder boosts OSS in Europe
This week Richard Seibt, the final CEO of an independent SUSE, held his third Open Source Meets Business Congress in Nurnberg, Germany -- birthplace of SUSE. Seibt says the event plays host to 720 people, 60% of whom identify themselves as "c-level decision makers" and 20% of whom say they are "IT professionals."
Giving thanks for a long weekend
Today is the Thanksgiving holiday in the US, and we're enjoying the day off with our families. In fact, we're enjoying it so much that we're taking tomorrow too. That means a reduced posting schedule on our sites. We'll be back to our regular schedule on Monday.
An interview with ToorCon founder David "h1kari" Hulton (video)
When I attended my first ToorCon this month, I spoke with David "h1kari" Hulton, founder and chairman of the event, to learn more about its history and intent.
San Diego's ToorCon keeps hackers current
ToorCon 9, a hacker's convention, kicked off with registration and a reception Friday evening in the San Diego Convention Center. Keynotes and the talks were held Saturday and Sunday. This was my first time at ToorCon, and I learned why it is so highly regarded among the hacker community. It's good.
Ontario LinuxFest makes an auspicious debut
The first-ever Ontario LinuxFest, unapologetically modeled on Ohio's conference of the same name, took place on Saturday at the Toronto Congress Centre near the end of runway 24R at Toronto's international airport. With only a few sessions and a lot of quality speakers, the organisers kept the signal-to-noise ratio at this conference as good as it gets.
Notes from a FOSS conference in New Delhi (with videos)
Every year, Linux enthusiasts in India's capital, New Delhi, hold a conference to help spread word of free and open source software (FOSS). This year they called their conference Freed.in, and had more talks and attendees than they've had in the past. While the event was a wonderful opportunity for the FOSS community to interact in person, discuss issues, and brainstorm solutions, attendees were overwhelmed by the number of talks jammed into a two-day schedule.
Happy Labor Day
Today is Labor Day, a legal holiday in the U.S. that also serves as our unofficial "last gasp of summer" three-day weekend. We'll be back in the saddle tomorrow, September 4. See you then!
Hands-on Linux training at SHARE
San Diego -- Mainframe programmers and sysadmins get more than just sales pitches and informational talks at SHARE this week -- they also get real-world training. I sat in on a number of educational sessions and hands-on labs at the conference, taught by engineers from IBM, Novell, and independent software vendors.
Mainframe Linux at SHARE
San Diego -- IBM's customer training and support group SHARE is holding a week-long seminar and conference at the Manchester Grand Hyatt here this week. SHARE dates back to 1955, and the folks gathered in San Diego include programmers, sysadmins, and IT directors who have spent decades running mainframe systems for the world's largest companies and governments. Most of the classes and labs focus on "big iron" products like the mainframe operating system MVS and the CICS transaction server, but Linux is getting strong promotion as well. IBM champions Linux for its zSeries mainframes as the industrial-strength virtualization platform, and judging by the turnout at the Linux and VM program sessions, interest is high.
Looking for a job at LinuxWorld (short video)
San Francisco -- The show floor at LinuxWorld, like at most commercial trade shows, is primarily devoted to selling goods and services. But it's also a good place to make contacts if you're looking for a job.
FOSS and the philosophers
I used to think of myself as something of a rare bird -- a philosopher and software developer with a keen interest in the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movements. But as I discovered at last month's North American Computers and Philosophy (NA-CAP) conference in Chicago, there are many with similar interests.
The Golden Penguin Bowl at LinuxWorld (underground video)
San Francisco (Humor) -- The Golden Penguin Bowl is a perennial LinuxWorld event frequented by inner-circle types and shunned by the humorless. The format is simple: two teams, the Geeks and the Nerds, answer a series of not-serious technical and movie/TV trivia questions and possibly engage in other feats of derring-do, such as a robot face-off. One team wins, the other team loses. The fans rarely riot, but you never know.
