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 The past 24 hours have flown by so quickly here at LinuxCon and CloudOpen in San Diego. We had some serious laughs as the Linux kernel developer panel took the stage Wednesday afternoon, sailed to Qualcomm Innovation Center's fun party at the Bali Hai Restaurant and saw more great speakers Thursday morning from Qualc

The action begins Thursday morning at 9:15 a.m. with a keynote from Rob Chandhok of Qualcomm. He'll talk about "Mobility, Proximity and Compute Meshes."

9:35 is Amir Michael from Facebook to talk about Open Compute.

And 9:55 is Chris Aniszczyk of Twitter to talk about the open source technology behind a tweet. 

Live coverage of LinuxCon and CloudOpen 2012 starts again this afternoon at 4 p.m. with a keynote from Linus Torvalds. 

See the full conference schedule for a list of keynote speakers. This afternoon we'll hear from Intel's Imad Sousou, Kyle MacDonald of Canonical and a panel discussion on the state of the Linux kernel with Linus Torvalds, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Ted T'so, Sarah Sharp and James Bottomley. 

Welcome to LinuxCon and CloudOpen 2012! We'll be live blogging the morning keynotes here. Join us at 9:15 a.m. for a keynote from Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin. 

Live Blogging LinuxCon 2012: Wednesday Morning Keynotes

To seasoned software standards expert Angel Diaz, today’s effort to create interoperability in the cloud is reminiscent of the mid-90s when HTTP emerged as a state-of-the-art technology. Every application server had to do that same function but there was no standard, he said. And so IBM helped create Apache web server software and the standard code for building web pages.

Today I'm headed to sunny San Diego for the LinuxCon and CloudOpen conferences. Woohoo!

Brian Beck took first place in this year’s “Inspired by Linux” t-shirt design contest. We followed up with him shortly after the contest results were announced to find out more about his involvement with Linux and the open source community and what inspired his design.

This week's top open source cloud headlines feature a new OpenStack disribution release from Piston Cloud, an open source virtualization management tool from Convirture, interviews with cloud heavyweights at Intel and Eucalyptus, and new interoperability standards recommendations from the Open Data Center Alliance. And, of course, I'd be remiss to leave out a plug for next week's CloudOpen conference in San Diego. See you there! 

Editor’s Note: This article is part of an ongoing weekly series on Leaders of the Open Cloud running in advance of CloudOpen, Aug. 28-31 in San Diego. SUSE’s Alan Clark will present at the conference on “Private Cloud Availability and Fault Tolerance, Setup or Failure?”