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The Linux Foundation Delivers New Licensing Terms, Testing Tools for Accessibility Interfaces

By making IAccessible2 available under the BSD license, more applications will be available to persons with disabilities

SAN FRANCISCO, July 6, 2010 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that its Open Accessibility Workgroup is releasing IAccessible2 for Windows under the BSD license. It is also announcing the availability of AccProbe, a new desktop application testing tool that is available under the BSD license.

AccProbe uses IAccessible2 platform services to assist developers in discovering and correcting code problems in their Windows applications. It was developed in Eclipse by IBM and donated to The Linux Foundation’s Open Accessibility Workgroup.

At this year’s CSUN Conference on Disabilities, Adobe Systems Incorporated discussed plans to support IAccessible2 in the next major releases of Adobe® Acrobat® and Adobe Reader®. IAccessible2 is already supported in IBM Lotus Symphony, Firefox, and Eclipse. Assistive Technology (AT) vendors supporting the API include JAWS, NVDA, Window-Eyes and ZoomText.

“Adobe applauds The Linux Foundation’s release of IAccessible2 under a BSD license,” said Andrew Kirkpatrick, group product manager for Accessibility at Adobe. “IAccessible2 contains important technological improvements that we plan to incorporate into upcoming versions of Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash® Player, and Adobe AIR® in order to continue improving on existing accessibility support in these products.”

The license change to BSD makes it easier to integrate open source AT into proprietary Windows environments, making programs more accessible to computer users with disabilities. Because the BSD license is designed to allow software released under the license to be incorporated into proprietary products, Windows users with disabilities can gain access to more applications while all Windows users will experience more reliable, fully tested applications.

“The Open Accessibility workgroup is working hard to ensure all developers can incorporate the IAccessible2 API into their work for the benefit of all persons with disabilities,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation. “By transitioning to the BSD license and providing important testing tools for developers, the workgroup is demonstrating our commitment to computer access for all.”

IAccessible2 is accessibility API for Windows and facilitates access to applications like Firefox and IBM Lotus Symphony for persons with disabilities. It fills critical accessibility API gaps left by Microsoft’s Active Accessibility API (MSAA). Various governments worldwide are mandating accessibility in electronic and information services. For example, the U.S. government’s $40 billion annual budget for IT procurement complies with the law popularly known as “Section 508,” which is moving towards requiring API-based accessibility services.

ATs enable individuals who are blind or visually impaired to read online text and provide the means for individuals who do not have the use of their arms and hands to write and correspond. ATs also enable individuals who cannot speak or hear to participate on today’s teleconferences. For Windows developers, IAccessible2 implementation may be added to their existing MSAA-enabled applications in order to support richer functionality.

“The Linux Foundation’s IAccessible2 standard has contributed to the accessibility of essential industry technologies such as ODF, WAI-ARIA, and now Adobe’s PDF, ” said Rich Schwerdtfeger, CTO Accessibility, IBM Software. IBM’s donation of IAccessible2 continues to gain momentum, and the adoption of BSD licensing is just another example of how truly open communities like the Open Accessibility Working Group are responding to meet the needs of the broader industry.”

“AccProbe is the only game in town for developers and testers who wish to leverage IAccessible2 in their desktop applications or test rich Internet applications in IA2-enabled browsers,” said Michael Squillace, IBM Human Ability and Accessibility Center Software Engineer. “Extending our commitment to support AccProbe for The Linux Foundation IAccessible2 effort can help developers make applications more accessible for people with disabilities.”

Related Links

· The Linux Foundation’s Open Accessibility Workgroup homepage: http://a11y.org.

· More information on IAccessibility2: http://a11y.org/ia2

· Getting started with AccProbe: http://accessibility.linuxfoundation.org/a11yweb/util/accprobe/

· About the BSD license: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses

· About “Section 508”: http://www.access-board.gov/508.htm

About the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux and open source companies and developers from around the world. The Linux Foundation promotes, protects and standardizes Linux by hosting important workgroups, events such as LinuxCon, and online resources such as Linux.com (http://www.linux.com). For more information, please visit www.linuxfoundation.org (http://www.linuxfoundation.org) or follow the organization on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/linuxfoundation.
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Linux Foundation Announces Linux.com Store T-shirt Design Winner

Nearly 8,000 votes determine community’s favorite Linux-themed design, to be displayed on T-shirts at LinuxCon and in Linux.com Store

SAN FRANCISCO, June 23, 2010 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced the winning design in its Linux.com Store T-shirt Design Contest, “The People’s Product.” The design won by a large margin with 57 percent (4,501) of all votes cast, with the other five finalists sharing 43 percent of the vote among them.

The winning design was created by Mr. Said Hassan who says it “represents the collective work of the people. It’s a celebration of our efforts: Linux is our product.” Mr. Hassan rallied bloggers and local television stations around his design, garnering a number of articles and television interviews about his submission. He is a marketing consultant at SADAF Technology Development in Gaza in Palestine.

As the designer, Mr. Hassan is receiving travel expenses and a free pass to LinuxCon in Boston this August where “The People’s Product” design will be displayed on Linux.com Store merchandise and available for purchase. The design is expected to be available on T-shirts in the Linux.com Store this summer.

The contest was launched with the opening of the Linux.com Store, which is an online marketplace where people can purchase items from an exclusive line of original T-shirts, hats, mugs and other items that reflect “geek culture.” Six finalists were chosen from more than 100 design entries. Nearly 8,000 votes were cast during the month of May as designers competed for the grand prize and encouraged their personal networks to get out the vote.

“The People’s Product design is an important addition to the Linux.com Store merchandise selection and will help generate revenue for activities that advance the Linux operating system,” said Amanda McPherson at The Linux Foundation. “We also hope that the Linux.com Store T-shirt Design Contest will bring attention to Mr. Hassan and others like him who support and contribute to Linux in a variety of important ways.”

All revenue generated from the Linux.com Store goes directly towards Linux Foundation activities, events and strategic initiatives. The Linux Foundation uses funds from a variety of revenue streams to support the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and to sustain important services such as technical events; travel grants for open source community members; a vendor-neutral forum for projects such as MeeGo; and free training resources direct from the kernel community; among others.

Related Links
* See all six of the finalists’ designs

* More details on the contest

* Please visit the Linux.com Store

* Learn more about LinuxCon

About the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux and open source companies and developers from around the world. The Linux Foundation promotes, protects and standardizes Linux by hosting important workgroups, events and online resources such as Linux.com. For more information, please visit www.linuxfoundation.org or follow the organization on Twitter at www.twitter.com/linuxfoundationThe Winning Design.

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The Linux Foundation Announces LinuxCon 2010 Program and Schedule

Industry’s hottest topics – ranging from KVM to Linux’s success on the desktop to MySQL and MariaDB – are among more than 60 sessions focused on operations, development and business

SAN FRANCISCO, May 25, 2010 – The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced new keynote speakers and its full conference schedule for North America’s premier annual conference LinuxCon taking place in Boston August 10-12, 2010.

LinuxCon, which sold out when it premiered in Portland, Oregon in 2009, is the world’s leading conference addressing all matters Linux for the global business and technical communities. The LinuxCon schedule includes in-depth technical content for developers and operations personnel, as well as business and legal insight from the industry’s leaders. The networking, problem-solving and deal-making opportunities at LinuxCon are unmatched for those involved in enterprise, desktop or mobile Linux.

The final LinuxCon program includes sessions that will address the enterprise computing industry’s most controversial topics:

• Red Hat’s Matthew Garrett will share the lessons learned from the recent Android/Kernel community discussions.

• Original MySQL author Monty Widenius will talk about why he forked with MariaDB.

• Canonical executive Matt Asay will speculate on where the Linux desktop is succeeding.

• Microsoft’s Hank Janssen will discuss the physics behind the Hyper-V drivers for Linux.

New keynote additions include:

• Intel & Nokia will present a joint keynote titled, “Freedom to Innovate: Can MeeGo’s Openness Change the Mobile Industry?”

• Oracle’s Wim Coekaerts, Senior Vice President, Linux and Virtualization Engineering, will take a technical look at Linux at Oracle.

• Novell’s Senior Vice President and General Manager of Open Platform Solutions, Markus Rex, will speak on “Empowering the Imagination for Tomorrow’s Linux Workloads.”

• Qualcomm Incorporated’s Rob Chandhok, president of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. (QuIC), will talk about the challenges in open source and mobile today in his keynote titled, “Mobile Linux: Adapting Practices, Driving innovation, Collaboration, and Scalability”.

Additional highlights from the LinuxCon program, which includes 60 sessions dispersed across the operations, development and business tracks, include:

• How We Made Ubuntu Boot Faster
Scott James Remnant, Canonical

• KVM: The Latest from the Core Development Team
Chris Wright, Red Hat

• One Billion Files: Scalability Limits in Linux File Systems
Ric Wheeler, Red Hat

• Efficiency? Lower Cost? Innovation? What Does Linux Mean to the CIO in 2010?
Jean Staten-Healy, IBM

LinuxCon will also feature half-day, in-depth tutorials that include How to Work with the Linux Development Community, Building Linux Device Drivers and Using Git, among others.

For more detail on the program and speakers, please visit our event website. To register, please visit the registration website.

“Linux now powers everything from the data center to your mobile phone to your TV, and LinuxCon reflects that momentum and breadth,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation. “If you’re a developer, we have technical content. If you’re a business executive, you will learn from the best. If you’re interested in legal issues, it’s all covered at LinuxCon.”

LinuxCon this year is supported by platinum sponsors HP, IBM, Intel and Novell; and bronze sponsors Black Duck, Canonical, INetU, Linbit, NetApp and SoftLayer Technologies. To stay up to date on final accepted speaking submissions, last-minute keynote additions and program updates, please follow us on Twitter.

Linux Foundation events provide developers, IT operations experts, end users, industry executives and the media with a vendor-neutral, nonprofit forum in which collaboration and education advance knowledge and accelerate the advancement of Linux. The events provide a platform for new Linux and open source developments to be revealed and discussed. To get more information about all Linux Foundation events, please visit Linux Foundation Events.

About the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a non-profit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux and open source companies and developers from around the world. The Linux Foundation promotes, protects and standardizes Linux by hosting important workgroups, events and online resources such as Linux.com. For more information, please visit The Linux Foundation website.

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Automation Development Lab Joins Linux Foundation

The Open Source Automation Development Lab (OSADL) brings important expertise to the table to collaborate on using Linux

SAN FRANCISCO, May 18, 2010 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that the Open Source Automation Development Lab (OSADL) has become a member and will collaborate with other members on embedded and industrial Linux efforts.

Founded in 2005, OSADL coordinates the development of open source projects in the areas of embedded and industrial design, including projects focused on real-time and safety critical Linux, I/O framework, real-time Ethernet and special drivers for the Linux kernel required by the automation industry. OSADL regularly releases “Latest Stable” industrial real-time Linux kernel versions and announces them on the OSADL website at: http://www.osadl.org/Latest-Stable-RT.

“The Linux Foundation provides an important resource for people to collaborate on Linux, both online and at its events,” said Dr. Carsten Emde, general manager, OSADL. “We’re looking forward to the collaboration opportunities and taking Linux to the next level in the embedded and industrial environments.”

“Linux is the standard operating system for industrial embedded systems and automation, so OSADL is an important addition to The Linux Foundation membership,” said Amanda McPherson, vice president of marketing and developer programs, The Linux Foundation. “OSADL embodies unique expertise that complements our efforts to advance the Linux platform and achieve ultimate ubiquity.”

About the Open Source Automation Development Lab (OSADL)
OSADL is organized as a cooperative and provides services to facilitate the usage of open source software in the industry. Companies involved include machine companies, manufacturers of automation hardware and software, semiconductor companies, open source software service providers and user associations. Since 2008, OSADL has been organizing the annual Real Time Linux Workshop (RTLWS). The 12th annual RTLWS will take place in Africa for the first time and be held in Nairobi, Kenya. Details of the various OSADL activities are available at www.osadl.org.

About the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux and open source companies and developers from around the world. The Linux Foundation promotes, protects and standardizes Linux by hosting important workgroups, events and online resources such as Linux.com. For more information, please visit www.linuxfoundation.org.

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Linux Foundation Announces LinuxCon Brazil

Linus Torvalds to speak at first ever LinuxCon Brazil where the country’s developer, IT operations and business communities will come together to collaborate

SAO PAULO and SAN FRANCISCO, May 11, 2010 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced it is expanding its premier Linux conference, LinuxCon, to Brazil. LinuxCon Brazil will take place August 31 – September 1, 2010 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Early registration opens today, as does the Call for Participation (CFP). To register and/or submit a topic for consideration, please visit the LinuxCon Brazil Website.

Brazil has long been recognized as one of the fastest growing countries for Linux adoption. The Brazilian government was one of the first to subsidize Linux-based PCs for its citizens with PC Conectado, a tax-free computer initiative launched in 2003. Nearly a decade later, Linux is accelerating both in its enterprise adoption and its functionality around the globe. Brazil’s active and knowledgeable community of Linux users, developers and enterprise executives bring an important perspective to the development process and to the future of Linux.

“Brazil leads many other countries in its adoption of Linux and is a growing base of development. The time is right to take the industry’s premier Linux conference to Brazil,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation. “LinuxCon Brazil will provide a neutral forum in which key stakeholders from across the country can come together with the kernel community and global business communities to advance the platform.”

Confirmed speakers for LinuxCon Brazil include Linux creator Linus Torvalds and lead Linux maintainer Andrew Morton, who will together deliver a keynote discussion about the future of Linux moderated by The Linux Foundation’s Jim Zemlin.

Other confirmed speakers include:
• James Bottomley; Novell distinguished engineer and Linux Kernel maintainer of the SCSI subsystem, the Linux Voyager port and the 53c700 driver;
• Jon Corbet, Linux kernel developer and editor, Linux Weekly News (LWN);
• Thomas Gleixner, maintainer of the common Intel architecture branch (x86);
• Ian Pratt, chief architect of the Xen project, chairman of xen.org and vice president at Citrix; and
• Ted Ts’o, North America’s first kernel developer and fellow at Google.

Supported by platinum-level sponsors Globo.com and Intel, gold sponsors Caixa, Locaweb, and silver sponsors 4Linux and Citrix, LinuxCon Brazil will bring together a unique blend of core developers, administrators, users, community managers and industry experts. It is designed to encourage collaboration and support future interaction between Brazil and the rest of the global Linux community. The conference will include presentations, tutorials and birds of a feather sessions that follow developer, IT operations and business tracks.

Linux Foundation events provide developers, IT operations experts, end users, industry executives the media with a vendor-neutral, nonprofit forum in which collaboration and education advance knowledge and accelerate the advancement of Linux. The events provide a platform for new Linux and open source developments to be revealed and discussed. To get more information about all Linux Foundation events, please visit Linux Foundation Events.

About the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a non-profit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux and open source companies and developers from around the world. The Linux Foundation promotes, protects and standardizes Linux by hosting important workgroups, events and online resources such as Linux.com. For more information, please visit The Linux Foundation website.

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Linux Foundation Appoints Director of China Operations

Linux veteran Cliff Miller brings Asia-Pacific market expertise to bridge community and industry in China

SAN FRANCISCO, May 11, 2010 — The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced it has appointed Cliff Miller as its new Director of China Operations. Miller will work with companies and community members in the country to help advance strategic initiatives such as MeeGo and to facilitate collaboration with exclusive events, training workshops and technical workgroups.

“China represents an important part of the Linux community,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director, The Linux Foundation. “Chinese companies and Linux developers are helping build some of tomorrow’s most innovative technologies and are running Linux in enterprises across the country. Cliff will help bring together Linux stakeholders in China to accelerate Linux work.”

A recent study from Springboard Research and Spiceworks reported that Linux server adoption among small and midsize businesses (SMBs) is 25 percent higher in the Asia-Pacific region and growing faster than the worldwide average. Miller will help harness this momentum and bring stakeholders together to advance the platform in China.

“Before long, there will be over a billion people in China connecting with each other via mobile phones, PCs and other devices,” said Cliff Miller, Director of China Operations for The Linux Foundation. “And what better way to make their experience quick, reliable and fun than to use Linux? I’m eager to enable broader Linux use through promoting give-and-take among Chinese developers, consumers and companies.”

Miller co-founded TurboLinux in 1992, bringing commercial Linux to Japan and China in the 1990s. He also co-founded Mountain View Data in 2000, which provided Linux-based data storage software and server provisioning software to the enterprise. He has served as Director of Linux International and is the author of “The Linux Revolution” (Softbank Publishing 1999). Miller negotiated some of the industry’s first commercial Linux bundling deals with Dell, HP, IBM, NEC, Panasonic, Oracle and Sybase, among others. Today, Miller also works as Chief Strategy Officer at DeviceVM.

About the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux and open source companies and developers from around the world. The Linux Foundation promotes, protects and standardizes Linux by providing resources and services that include exclusive events and online collaboration, including LinuxCon and Linux.com. For more information, please visit the Foundation website.

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Linux Foundation Appoints Director of Taiwan Operations

Taiwan-based Alex Lu will bring together consumer device makers and Linux developers to advance the platform for next-generation computing

SAN FRANCISCO, May 11, 2010 — The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced it has appointed Alex Lu as its new Director of Taiwan Operations. Lu will use his experience working with consumer device makers in Taiwan to advance collaboration on strategic mobile initiative such as MeeGo.

“The global movement towards ubiquitous mobile computing would not be taking place if it weren’t for the people and companies in Taiwan,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director, The Linux Foundation. “New competitive pressures and widening market opportunities are leading Taiwanese companies to adopt Linux even more, and there is no one more naturally suited to facilitate collaboration on Linux in Taiwan than Alex Lu.”

With initiatives such as Android and MeeGo, analyst estimates indicate that Linux is the fastest-growing platform for mobile computing – on phones, laptops, MIDs, infotainment devices, and more. Taiwan, in particular, is a hotbed for mobile and embedded development, and there are a variety of companies in the country that today are increasing their participation in the Linux development community and initiatives such as MeeGo. Lu’s work will help focus efforts and advance Linux on PCs as well as on for mobile and embedded computing.

“Taiwan may be a small island but it packs a global punch when it comes to computer and electronics manufacturing,” said Alex Lu, Director of Taiwan Operations for The Linux Foundation. “There is a great opportunity to share technical expertise and marketing power between the Linux development community and Taiwan companies. I’m looking forward to helping bring together these important stakeholders to advance Linux.”

Lu’s career includes eight years at Applied Materials and a role as Vice President of Finance for the Monte Jade Science and Technology Association, a nonprofit organization dedicated to combining high tech expertise from the Bay area and Asia. Lu is also a co-founder at DeviceVM and, as the senior vice president of Business Development, continues to close worldwide contracts with leading OEMs (Acer, ASUS, Lenovo, LG and Sony, among others), leading Linux to tens of millions of netbooks, notebooks and desktops. Lu received his BS in Chemical Engineering from Tunghai University, Taiwan and MBA from Drexel University.

About the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux and open source companies and developers from around the world. The Linux Foundation promotes, protects and standardizes Linux by providing resources and services that include exclusive events and online collaboration, including LinuxCon and Linux.com. For more information, please visit the Foundation website.

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Linux Foundation Announces LinuxCon Keynotes, Mini-Summits

Virgin America CIO, open source legal pioneer Eben Moglen and Forrester Research analyst are among the keynotes confirmed for this year’s premier Linux conference; new mini-summits extend developer collaboration

SAN FRANCISCO, May 5, 2010 – The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced its keynote speakers and panels for North America’s premier annual conference LinuxCon taking place in Boston August 10-12, 2010.

Confirmed keynote presenters and panelists for this year’s LinuxCon include:

Ravi Simhambhatla, vice president and chief information officer at Virgin America, the San Francisco-based domestic airline. Simhambhatla will share with LinuxCon attendees how he sold the use of Linux and open source to internal colleagues and how he and his teams are maximizing it today.

The Linux Kernel Roundtable. LinuxCon is one of the only places attendees can hear directly from the Linux kernel developers. The Linux Kernel Roundtable will include a hand-selected group of top maintainers that include:

• James Bottomley, Novell distinguished engineer and Linux Kernel maintainer of the SCSI subsystem, the Linux Voyager port and the 53c700 driver;
• Jon Corbet, Linux kernel developer and editor, Linux Weekly News (LWN);
• Dave Jones, Fedora kernel maintainer;
• Chris Mason; director of Linux kernel engineering at Oracle and creator of the btrfs file system; and
• Ted Ts’o, North America’s first kernel developer and fellow at Google.

Eben Moglen, founding director of the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). Moglen will discuss legal defense strategies for Linux and open source software projects, including an update on GPLv2 and GPLv3 adoption.

Stormy Peters, executive director of the GNOME Foundation. Peters will explore how data is being stored and accessed in the cloud and what that means for Linux and open source.

Jeffrey S. Hammond, principal analyst, Forrester Research. Hammond will present recent data that shows increased developer adoption of open source platforms, frameworks and development processes as well as heightened awareness by IT management of the benefits of a mixed source development model.

“The LinuxCon keynotes and panels represent the Linux ecosystem and its major insiders – from the developer, business, operations and legal communities,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation. “LinuxCon covers all matters Linux and is a must-attend event for anyone in technology who is taking advantage of Linux – and that means everyone.”

The Linux Foundation today also announced a variety of focused mini-summits to be hosted on August 9, 2010. These mini-summits provide a forum for developer communities to come together face-to-face and make progress on their projects while gaining the advantage of being in the same location as LinuxCon where they can network with the larger Linux community.

Mini-summits currently include: KVM Forum; Linux Storage & Filesystems Workshop; Xen Directions; and the Linux Security, Bluetooth, Tracing and Power Management Summits. For more information on the LinuxCon mini-summits, please visit the LinuxCon event site.

LinuxCon brings together technical and business leadership for unmatched opportunities to collaborate and learn about all matters Linux. In its debut year (2009), the conference sold out and was host for sessions that addressed developer, business and operations topics while providing a tech showcase, morning yoga studio and a variety of evening parties.

LinuxCon this year is supported by platinum sponsors HP, IBM, Intel and Novell; and bronze sponsors Canonical, NetApp and SoftLayer Technologies. Early bird registration closes May 6, 2010. To take advantage of the early registration discount, please register here.

To stay up to date on final accepted speaking submissions, last-minute keynote additions and program updates, please follow us on Twitter.

Linux Foundation events provide developers, IT operations experts, end users, industry executives the media with a vendor-neutral, nonprofit forum in which collaboration and education advance knowledge and accelerate the advancement of Linux. The events provide a platform for new Linux and open source developments to be revealed and discussed. To get more information about all Linux Foundation events, please visit Linux Foundation Events.

About the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a non-profit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux and open source companies and developers from around the world. The Linux Foundation promotes, protects and standardizes Linux by hosting important workgroups, events and online resources such as Linux.com. For more information, please visit The Linux Foundation website.

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Managed Hosting Provider ServInt Joins Linux Foundation

Pioneer in web hosting joins Linux Foundation to advance virtualization technologies that deliver “greener” IT

SAN FRANCISCO, May 4, 2010 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that managed hosting provider ServInt is its newest member.

ServInt is joining The Linux Foundation to take advantage of exclusive networking events and online and face-to-face workgroup collaboration on Virtualization and Green Linux.

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, data centers accounted for 1.5 percent of American energy consumption in 2006; that number is expected to double by next year (2011). By implementing a virtualization strategy that revolves around Linux, IT hosting providers like ServInt are able to help minimize that consumption and reduce overall costs for customers.

“Linux helps us meet our commitments to innovation and energy savings for our customers, and our Linux Foundation membership will allow us to contribute back to the community,” said Reed Caldwell, founder and chief executive officer of ServInt. “We’re proud to take this important step in reaffirming our commitment to Linux and the open source community.”

“ServInt understands the value of Linux in shaping the future of IT management, and its contribution to the Linux Foundation will help advance the platform for that future,” said Amanda McPherson, vice president, marketing and developer programs, The Linux Foundation.

About ServInt
ServInt is a pioneering provider of high-reliability web hosting for businesses worldwide. ServInt’s commitment to Green IT services is demonstrated by its award-winning Virtual Private Server (VPS) solutions. ServInt was founded in Northern Virginia in 1995 as one of the first web-hosting companies to offer a Managed Dedicated Server solution. From multiple world-class data centers, ServInt now provides its scalable suite of VPS and Managed Enterprise Dedicated Server packages to thousands of customers in more than 60 countries. For more information, please visit www.servint.net.

About The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux and open source companies and developers from around the world. The Linux Foundation promotes, protects and standardizes Linux by hosting important workgroups, events and online resources such as Linux.com. For more information, please visit www.linuxfoundation.org.

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The Planet Joins Linux Foundation

Leader in IT hosting sees Linux Foundation membership as a natural step to inform its cloud computing strategy

SAN FRANCISCO, April 19, 2010 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced The Planet as its newest member. The Planet is a global leader in IT hosting and will participate in community initiatives and projects that support enterprise Linux.

The emergence of cloud computing and virtualized environments in the Web hosting industry has opened the door the Linux community to gain important competitive advantages. The Planet leverages Linux platforms to provide these services across its global customer base.

“Our new Server Cloud, which is in beta with more than 500 customers, has been developed on the KVM hypervisor included in the Linux kernel,” said Duke Skarda, vice president of IT and Software Development for The Planet. “KVM is the future of Linux-based server virtualization. As we continue to evolve and enhance the platform, our goal is to access the Linux development community to gain vision and insights on emerging technologies. More than 80 percent of our 20,000 customers and partners rely on Linux platforms to manage their hosting operations, so our membership directly supports their work.”

“The Planet is one of the world’s leading IT hosting companies, and their contributions to Linux are important to sustaining Linux’s business-class leadership,” said Amanda McPherson, vice president of marking and developer programs at The Linux Foundation. “We expect The Planet to be among the first companies to launch a large-scale public-cloud service on KVM and we applaud their foresight and vision.”

About The Planet
The Planet is the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 20,000 small- and medium-size businesses and 15.7 million Web sites worldwide. Customers have the power to choose from the broadest range of hosting solutions in the industry, from dedicated servers, Managed Dedicated Servers, Northstar Managed Hosting and data center colocation, all backed by 24×7x365 support. With the best choice of servers, software tools and world-class service, backed by state-of-the-art data centers and an enterprise-class network, The Planet turns IT into a powerful competitive advantage that enables customers to grow their businesses. For additional information, visit www.theplanet.com.

About the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux and open source companies and developers from around the world. The Linux Foundation promotes, protects and standardizes Linux by hosting important workgroups, events and online resources such as Linux.com. For more information, please visit www.linuxfoundation.org.

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