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LinuxCon/CloudOpen Party Details Revealed
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 a good time; we just try to provide the best venues possible for facilitating FUN as well as learning and networking.
This year the parties start Tuesday, the evening prior to opening day of LinuxCon and CloudOpen, and go through Thursday night. Today we’re able to share more details with you about what to expect, so make sure to add these to your custom schedule!
Because this is the first-ever CloudOpen, CloudStack is sponsoring the event launch party on the eve of the opening day. It will take place on the Andaz Rooftop overlooking San Diego’s famed Gaslamp District. These are the best views in the city (except maybe those from the cockpit of a fighter jet). Join us poolside and enjoy drinks and south-of-the-border inspired bites with your friends and colleagues as we anticipate the conference in the days ahead.
On Wednesday – opening day – Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) and Code Aurora Forum are sponsoring a welcome reception at Bali Hai Restaurant overlooking the San Diego cityscape.
If anybody knows San Diego, it’s definitely the folks from Qualcomm (headquartered in San Diego) so we can’t wait to check out this venue. Join us for good food, cold beer and plenty of fun as we are transported via water taxi to an evening in paradise. The festivities include a classic rock band, arcade games and photo booth. Bring a sweater, settle in next to the bonfire, and take in the spectacular views of the San Diego skyline.
Meet in the hotel lobby to be escorted to your water taxi, or pick up driving directions at our Information Desk – it’s just a short drive from the hotel.
Thursday night we’ll join event sponsor Intel at the historic Hotel del Coronado on the ocean. We’ll wind down the week and enjoy libations and dinner on the Windsor Lawn overlooking Coronado Beach (voted best beach in the U.S. in 2012). After dinner, we’ll move onto the beach to cook “smores” in the fire pits, take in the sunset and watch Polynesian dance entertainment.
The Hotel Del Coronado, built in 1888 and named a National Historic Landmark in 1977, is one of the most recognizable and beautiful beach resorts in North America.
Phew. That’s a lot of partying packed into three nights. Can’t decide which one sounds like the most fun? Then, we’ll see you at all of them!
For more information about the evening events and other LinuxCon/CloudOpen experiences, please visit: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon/events-and-experiences For more information and to register, please visit: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/
Fujitsu’s Yoshiya Eto Becomes Vice Chair of Linux Foundation Board
We are pleased to announce that Yoshiya Eto of Fujitsu is the new Vice Chair of The Linux Foundation board. He joins officers Doug Fischer (Intel), Chairman, Alan Clark (SUSE), Secretary of the Board, and Frank Fanzilli, Treasurer. All Linux Foundation Board of Directors can be seen here: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/board-members
Essential to Linux’s ongoing growth around the globe and in the industries it is transforming is collaboration across geographies. We’re seeing more participation in Linux development than ever before from companies in Japan, China, South Korea, South America and throughout Europe.
Eto has been an instrumental figure in bringing together Linux development teams from Japan, China and the rest of the world. He understands that there is important code contributions coming from every geography and has built one of the largest global Linux development teams in the world. Many Linux developers learned Linux development while working on his team.
He also plays a significant role in the advancement of enterprise Linux development through his work on Linux Foundation events. He has been a member of the LinuxCon Japan Steering Committee for the last two years and has taken a leadership role in creating a new local event called the Japan Enterprise User’s Meeting.
Eto’s contributions to Linux go even deeper than this, though. He is also the original author of the Kernel Patch Statistics website, which is the site used to analyze Linux kernel development and is maintained by Mr. Wang Chen who used to work in Eto’s team at Fujitsu.
Today he is a director at Fujitsu where the company’s Linux kernel work have been growing under his leadership. His team is one of the biggest contributors to the Linux kernel (latest ranking in Who Writes Linux paper: #11) and is continuously improving features and stability of Linux for enterprise usage. We look forward to his ongoing work with The Linux Foundation and Linux community as Vice Chair.
Fujitsu is a founding member of The Linux Foundation and today maintains a Platinum-level membership.