| One Laptop per Child's Negroponte to keynote LinuxWorld |
Mar. 14, 2006
 LinuxWorld Conference & Expo announced Tuesday that Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) and former head of MIT's Media Lab, will headline its lineup of keynote speakers. LinuxWorld is set for April 3-6, 2006 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.
Negroponte left MIT in February and will focus on One Laptop Per Child, the nonprofit organization that he helped launch while at Media Lab. One Laptop, sponsored in large part by Red Hat and Intel, is engaged in a project that hopes to provide $100 Linux computers (pictured above) to children in developing countries.
Other keynote speakers on the agenda include Dell CTO Kevin Kettler, VA Software Chairman Larry Augustin, Microsoft Director of Platform Technology Strategy Bill Hilf, and Athenahealth CTO Bob Gatewood.
Last week, the conference announced that it has added a track that focuses on mobile and embedded Linux.
Exhibiting companies and sponsors for this year's event include approximately 300 of the most influential and innovative companies in the Linux and open source marketplace, including Coverity, IBM, Intel, Novell, Oracle, PalmSource, Red Hat and Unisys, conference organizer IDG said.
For more information or to register for the event, go here.
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