The purpose of the Vendor Advisory Council (VAC) is to provide a neutral forum in which member companies can discuss shared issues, collaborate on projects of common interest and cooperatively direct funds to open source development community activities and members.
The VAC includes some of the most knowledgeable and influential of our members. It is with their guidance that The Linux Foundation is able to ensure that our workgroups and events achieve the collaborative and progressive results that help improve the Linux platform. View the current list of VAC members.
The current VAC Chair is Alan Clark of SUSE.
Upcoming Meeting: Thursday, January 26th at 9:00am (Pacific)
Topic: UEFI Secure Boot Loader
There are a number of questions and concerns that have been raised regarding the Secure Boot Feature defined within the EUFI 2.3.1 specification; in particular the implications for Linux. As James Bottomley has been chasing this issue, we have invited him to provide an overview of the issues and to present the latest findings. It is a timely topic which potentially impacts all of us.
Speaker: James Bottomley, Technical Advisory Board Chair
February Meeting: Thursday, February 23rd at 9:00am (Pacific)
Topic: Open Compliance Program
In Aug 2010, the Linux Foundation announced the availability of the Open Compliance Program - a comprehensive, vendor-neutral program providing resources to the industry to enable better compliance with FOSS licenses. Over 45 companies supported the program at launch with quotes and statements, and the program received massive press coverage. It's been a year since program launch. This presentation will provide a program review, discuss the deliverables of the program in the past 12 months and discuss what's on the roadmap.
Speaker: Ibrahim Haddad (Ph.D), The Linux Foundation
Ibrahim Haddad, Ph.D., is the Director of Technology and Alliances at The Linux Foundation and Contributing Editor for the Linux Journal.
March Meeting: Thursday, March 29th at 9:00am (Pacific)
Topic: OpenMAMA
OpenMAMA is an open source project hosted under the auspices of The Linux Foundation. OpenMAMA provides a high performance Middleware Agnostic Messaging API that provides a single API to a variety of commercial and open source message oriented middleware platforms and allows them to coexist within a single application. Additionally, OpenMAMA provides a rich set of components that facilitate the development of applications that produce and consume market data. To learn more about OpenMAMA, please visit: http://www.openmama.org.
Speakers: Jamie Hill, NYSET and Feargal O'Sullivan, NYSET
Purpose of VAC Meetings:
- Educate VAC members on latest Linux innovations and technologies
- Discuss the technical challenges for these technologies
- Determine how best to market/promote these innovations and the Linux platform to the public
Representatives from the End User Council (EUC) and the Technical Advisory Board(TAB) will participate quarterly to provide summaries on any topics that they feel require VAC input or support. We strongly encourage our member companies to participate.
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