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.
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':
In the latest of our LinuxCon and CloudOpen keynote Q&A series we talk to SUSE's Vice President of Global Alliances Michael Miller. Miller will be talking in his keynote at the events about how service-oriented clouds are bridging the divide between IT and lines of businesses. He also hinted twice during our conversatoin about a big announcement coming.
This week's LinuxCon/CloudOpen keynote Q&A is with Qualcomm Innovation Center President Rob Chandhok. He will be talking about "Mobility, Proximal Data and Compute Meshes" at the event just next month in San Diego. Here he gives us a peek at what that means as well as shares some interesting perspectives on Qualcomm and the mobile opportunities for Linux.
The roster of keynote speakers for this year's LinuxCon North America and CloudOpen events is mind blowing. I've got my favorites marked on my schedule and am excited to share a recent conversation I had with one of them. Twitter's Open Source Manager Chris Aniszczyk gives us a teaser for his keynote, details the open source projects Twitter is using, including Linux, and shares his favorite tweets of all time.
Today we are launching the 2012 Linux Training Scholarship Program. This is the second year we’ll award scholarships to attend Linux Foundation Linux training courses in what is now becoming an annual program.