What does it take to put open source to work in a car? Find out at the 2nd Annual Automotive Linux Summit organized by The Linux Foundation, Sept. 19-20 at the Heritage Motor Centre near Birmingham, UK. This event will bring together the most innovative minds from automotive expertise and open source excellence, including automotive systems engineers, Linux experts, R&D managers, business executives, open source licensing and compliance specialists and community developers.

The company that introduced the Textspresso machine to the world has now released its desktop cloud texting application for Linux.

Open source cloud headlines this week feature the announcement of board elections for the OpenStack Foundation; Red Hat's new branding as an open cloud company; eBay's new open source cloud application testing platform; Intel's prescription for developing open standards in the cloud; and a high-profile departure from VMware's open source Cloud Foundry.

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.