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LinuxCon and CloudOpen Europe will kick off next Monday morning in Edinburgh Scotland. How do you plan to follow the action?
The Linux Foundation will offer live coverage of the event on Oct. 21-23 with streaming video, Twitter and a live blog right here on Linux.com. We’ll also be posting photos in our Linux.com galleries and on Flickr.
We hope to see you there. But if you can’t make it, join us online! Here are the details.
Live blog
Catch the highlights and most quotable moments of the daily keynote sessions in our live blog on Linux.com, via CoverItLive. I will be live blogging sessions from 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. GMT each day.
Monday, Oct. 21, 2013:
“State of the Linux Union,” Jim Zemlin, The Linux Foundation
“We Won, What’s Next?” Mark Hinkle, Citrix.
“The Twitter Stack,” Chris Aniszczyk, Twitter.
Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013:
“Gain the Competitive Edge With Next Generation Cloud Platforms,” Mac Devine, IBM Cloud Services.
“Panel: Next Generation Cloud Platforms,” moderated by Duncan Johnston-Watt, CloudSoft.
“Fueling Samsung R&D Innovation with Collaborative Open Source Development,” Yannick Pellet, Samsung Research America.
Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013:
“Linux, where are we going?” Dirk Hohndel, Intel and Linus Torvalds, The Linux Foundation.
“Living in a Surveillance State” Mikko Hypponen.
See the full program schedule.
Live video feed
Watch the keynotes live on our streaming video feed (registration required.) Keynotes will be held each day from 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. GMT.
Live tweeting
Get live updates and photos from @LinuxFoundation on Twitter by following the #LinuxCon and #CloudOpen hashtags.
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