LinuxCon is known for its deep technical content and unmatched networking opportunities. This year LinuxCon and CloudOpen will provide 140 sessions, 15 keynotes, nine co-located events, and three onsite Linux training opportunities.

But it's also known for some amazing parties (ahem, "evening events.")!  The Linux community knows how to have fun and we're honored to be able to provide the forum for having a great time.

In case you didn't already know, the location for this year's LinuxCon - San Diego - is known for its skaters. That's right, the skateboarding variety. What happens when you combine the Linux community with a skateboard mecca? You get Skater Tux.

OpenStack's Stefano Maffulli is on the opening keynote panel at CloudOpen Wednesday morning August 29. He will be joined by Mark Hinkle from Citrix, Greg DeKoenigsberg from Eucalyptus and John Mark Walker from Red Hat on a panel titled "What is the Open Cloud: Stacks, Platforms and Open Source." Mafulli was generous to take time out of his busy schedule as Community Manager at OpenStack to share his ideas on what is an open cloud and what's new with his project.

Make no mistake: the Linux draft is on.

While the NFL season prepares to get underway there is an ongoing, intensive draft for Linux talent taking place right now.