| LinuxWorld SF looms |
Jun. 08, 2006
IDG World Expo announced the exhibitor and keynote speaker line-ups for this summer's LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, themed "Fifteen Years of Breaking the Rules" and scheduled for Aug. 14-17, 2006 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
Desktop Linux and open-source stalwarts Portland Group, Novell/SUSE, Red Hat's Fedora Project, Debian, Ubuntu, GNOME Foundation, Pogo Linux., Gentoo Foundation, Xandros, XOrg, FreeBSD, and others have committed to attending. No word, yet, from such stellar groups as Mozilla Corp., Mandriva, KDE, Linspire, and others, however. (To see a listing of the organizations that have signed up as exhibitors, go here.)
A number of sessions on Desktop Linux will be offered, alongside such topics such as virtualization, mobile Linux, grid computing, and IT reform.
Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Stanford University and founder and chairman of Creative Commons, will open the conference with "Free Culture: What We Need From You," at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 15. Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works.
Lessig will describe the Free Culture movement and the support it needs from Free Software, the struggles and the threats that are largely parallel, and insight into potential solutions.
Peter Levine, CEO of XenSource, a new software vendor in the desktop virtualization market, will speak Aug. 17 about the emerging trend of Linux and virtualization. Levine will describe where the market is now, where he sees it going, and how XenSource is taking an open source approach in attempting to meet market demand.
Motorola vice president Greg Besio will speak about "Creating 'Must-Have' Mobile Experiences With Linux," on Aug. 15. Richard Wirt, general manager of the software and solutions group at Intel, will discuss "Grid Computing In The Enterprise" on Wednesday, Aug. 16.
To register for the event, go here.
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