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LinuxWorld Boston is fast approaching and this year there will be an "official" blog that follows some of the events, posted right here as a Slashdot Journal. There are several interesting talks lined up and even a Slashdot lounge where you can take a break from the busy convention floor and give us a chance to meet our readers -- Read on for the LWCE blog outline of the event.
This year's Boston expo will showcase some new wrinkles that we've added for our attendees' viewing pleasure.
The LinuxWorld and OpenSolutions World Conference educational sessions, tutorials and hands-on-labs have all been beefed up and offer the latest information on new Linux/Open Source applications, tools, and trends. Workshops will show you how to integrate Linux into legacy environments and give you particulars on how to smooth out the little bumps. The old favorites are there too, like the Golden Penguin Bowl (squaring the Oracle nerds against the MySQL geeks). A jam-packed roster of Linux and Open Source vendors will show discriminating Linux fans, tomorrow's premier Penguin powered technology.
The Keynotes are all about interoperability, enterprise applications, virtualization, innovation, cost savings, and productivity gains in real world companies. Come see our industry-leading roster of keynote speakers. Headliners include:
* Nicholas Negroponte, Chairman, One Laptop per Child (OLPC), will deliver a presentation titled, "The $100 Laptop." Dr. Negroponte, Chairman of The Media Laboratory at MIT, wants to revolutionize how the world's children are educated. The $100 laptop will be the first large-scale weapon in the fight against the digital divide and uses a free Linux core to make it all possible.
* Bob Gatewood, CTO, athenahealth, will present, "Mission-critical Open Source in a High Growth Enterprise". Gatewood will give details about the infrastructure and integration of open and proprietary systems. Lessons learned over the past eight years will also be covered. athenahealth has built a $60M company on a mix of Open Source and proprietary solutions.
* Kevin Kettler, PhD, CTO of Dell Inc. will give a talk titled, " Virtualization and Linux: Anything but Traditional". He will discuss how virtualization is challenging traditional models of computing and explore client virtualization opportunities that allow users to run multiple OS instances to improve productivity, provide secure Web browsing, and enhance digital entertainment.
* Larry Augustin, Chairman, VA Software will moderate a CEO panel titled, "The Death of the Enterprise Software Business Model: How Startups are Leveraging Open Source to Change the Model". Panelists include CEO's from SugarCRM, MySQL, JBoss and Zend. The panel will discuss how industry leading open source software startups are changing the rules of traditional enterprise software with a more efficient model that saves their customers money and delivers better software.
* Bill Hilf, Director of Platform Technology Strategy at Microsoft Corporation will present "Interoperability: Dealing with the Diversity and Heterogeneity of Today's IT Marketplace". Addressing one of the biggest pains for customers today, using research and analysis from the Microsoft Linux and Open Source labs, Hilf will outline how commercial and open source vendors are working together to solve interoperability hurdles.
Government Day is a special forum designed to help public sector IT professionals get reliable information directly from their peers who have already made great strides in the open source arena. The event is sponsored by Novell, Microsoft and Trusted Computer Solutions and will focus on the dominant issues facing public sector decision makers in building and maintaining systems and staff in a world of rapidly evolving open source technology. This conference program is open to all credentialed members of the public sector.
NEW - For Linux Newbies - Be sure to stop by and see "The ABCs of Desktop Linux" theater presentations, hosted by Tux Magazine. Sessions include "An Introduction to Desktop Linux: It's Not Just for Geeks Anymore!", "Breaking Free: Exploring OpenOffice.org, the Versatile (and Free) Office Suite for Linux", and "Can I do that with Linux? An Overview of Linux-based Applications".
You might want to hang out with the pioneers that brought hardcore geek news together with Open Source Web server crushing technology? Say hello to CmdrTaco when you stop by the new Slashdot Lounge, sponsored by SourceForge.net.
Intel, the Enterprise Grid Alliance (EGA), and Global Grid Forum (GGF) are sponsoring the first-ever Enterprise Grid Solution Showcase. The new showcase will offer LinuxWorld attendees a first-hand look at how Grid, virtualization, resource sharing, automation and service-orientation, can help solve real-world challenges quickly and cost-effectively.
Special areas of interest in the showcase are the Enterprise Utility Computing (EUC) proof of concept, the Power of the Data Fabric section, the Grid Standards and Industry Consortia, and a live presentation theater promoting GRIDToday's new book titled, "The Emergence of Grid & Service-Oriented IT: An Industry Vision for Business Success."
The newly enlarged .org Pavilion sponsored by SourceForge.net in collaboration with IBM, offers a unique opportunity for attendees to meet developers of some of the Open Source community's stellar projects. Projects like Eclipse, the Fedora Project, LTSP.org, OpenOffice.org, OpenSUSE.org, Ubuntu, and X.org, among others will be there. Don't miss your chance to meet the people that create Open Source software.
Are You Certified? Do you think you're ready for your LPI test? Linux Professional Institute is offering free testing to all paid conference attendees (a $100 value), in the LPI Certification Room.
A panel of independent judges and industry experts will recognize the best and most innovative products, services, and solutions in open computing at the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards. The awards are sponsored by LinuxWorld Magazine and take place opening day, at 12:30 pm. Look for it on the show floor.
What happens if you feel compelled to talk about your conference experience or just give a little feedback? Included in each attendee's package is access to the LinuxWorld Wiki collaboration space, sponsored by SocialText. Read all about conference session descriptions, speakers, and other important conference topics. Post those comments and get involved at http://www.socialtext.net/linuxworld
The Software Freedom Law Center will kick off the Birds of a Feather sessions on Tuesday afternoon. Community members from OSSI, Samba, One Laptop per Child, OSDL, Amanda, LSB, Fedora, openSUSE, and many others will be there to discuss the latest trends. Attendees can sign-up to roll your own BoF session, if you feel the need.
Conventioneers will also want to swing by the Novell booth and speak to company representatives about their latest edition of SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. Updates will include the Beagle search tool, the Zenworks Linux Management toolkit, an enhanced version of OpenOffice.org, XGL graphics, and better support of networking and printing protocols. The new version will be available this summer.
Make sure to visit the Red Hat booth and find out about how they are making it easier for customers to run their infrastructures with a virtualized Linux environment. As IT managers seek better utilization of hardware resources and streamlined maintenance, virtualization is gaining widespread acceptance. A beta preview of the integrated virtualization technologies will be available in the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 release. The production version is due out later in the year.
This year's LinuxWorld Conference is sure to be an exciting event, with useful and entertaining activities for the developers, IT managers, business leaders, and everyday enthusiastic Linux user. Make your plans, learn something new, meet your friends, and have a great time.
The LinuxWorld and OpenSolutions World Conference educational sessions, tutorials and hands-on-labs have all been beefed up and offer the latest information on new Linux/Open Source applications, tools, and trends. Workshops will show you how to integrate Linux into legacy environments and give you particulars on how to smooth out the little bumps. The old favorites are there too, like the Golden Penguin Bowl (squaring the Oracle nerds against the MySQL geeks). A jam-packed roster of Linux and Open Source vendors will show discriminating Linux fans, tomorrow's premier Penguin powered technology.
The Keynotes are all about interoperability, enterprise applications, virtualization, innovation, cost savings, and productivity gains in real world companies. Come see our industry-leading roster of keynote speakers. Headliners include:
* Nicholas Negroponte, Chairman, One Laptop per Child (OLPC), will deliver a presentation titled, "The $100 Laptop." Dr. Negroponte, Chairman of The Media Laboratory at MIT, wants to revolutionize how the world's children are educated. The $100 laptop will be the first large-scale weapon in the fight against the digital divide and uses a free Linux core to make it all possible.
* Bob Gatewood, CTO, athenahealth, will present, "Mission-critical Open Source in a High Growth Enterprise". Gatewood will give details about the infrastructure and integration of open and proprietary systems. Lessons learned over the past eight years will also be covered. athenahealth has built a $60M company on a mix of Open Source and proprietary solutions.
* Kevin Kettler, PhD, CTO of Dell Inc. will give a talk titled, " Virtualization and Linux: Anything but Traditional". He will discuss how virtualization is challenging traditional models of computing and explore client virtualization opportunities that allow users to run multiple OS instances to improve productivity, provide secure Web browsing, and enhance digital entertainment.
* Larry Augustin, Chairman, VA Software will moderate a CEO panel titled, "The Death of the Enterprise Software Business Model: How Startups are Leveraging Open Source to Change the Model". Panelists include CEO's from SugarCRM, MySQL, JBoss and Zend. The panel will discuss how industry leading open source software startups are changing the rules of traditional enterprise software with a more efficient model that saves their customers money and delivers better software.
* Bill Hilf, Director of Platform Technology Strategy at Microsoft Corporation will present "Interoperability: Dealing with the Diversity and Heterogeneity of Today's IT Marketplace". Addressing one of the biggest pains for customers today, using research and analysis from the Microsoft Linux and Open Source labs, Hilf will outline how commercial and open source vendors are working together to solve interoperability hurdles.
Government Day is a special forum designed to help public sector IT professionals get reliable information directly from their peers who have already made great strides in the open source arena. The event is sponsored by Novell, Microsoft and Trusted Computer Solutions and will focus on the dominant issues facing public sector decision makers in building and maintaining systems and staff in a world of rapidly evolving open source technology. This conference program is open to all credentialed members of the public sector.
NEW - For Linux Newbies - Be sure to stop by and see "The ABCs of Desktop Linux" theater presentations, hosted by Tux Magazine. Sessions include "An Introduction to Desktop Linux: It's Not Just for Geeks Anymore!", "Breaking Free: Exploring OpenOffice.org, the Versatile (and Free) Office Suite for Linux", and "Can I do that with Linux? An Overview of Linux-based Applications".
You might want to hang out with the pioneers that brought hardcore geek news together with Open Source Web server crushing technology? Say hello to CmdrTaco when you stop by the new Slashdot Lounge, sponsored by SourceForge.net.
Intel, the Enterprise Grid Alliance (EGA), and Global Grid Forum (GGF) are sponsoring the first-ever Enterprise Grid Solution Showcase. The new showcase will offer LinuxWorld attendees a first-hand look at how Grid, virtualization, resource sharing, automation and service-orientation, can help solve real-world challenges quickly and cost-effectively.
Special areas of interest in the showcase are the Enterprise Utility Computing (EUC) proof of concept, the Power of the Data Fabric section, the Grid Standards and Industry Consortia, and a live presentation theater promoting GRIDToday's new book titled, "The Emergence of Grid & Service-Oriented IT: An Industry Vision for Business Success."
The newly enlarged .org Pavilion sponsored by SourceForge.net in collaboration with IBM, offers a unique opportunity for attendees to meet developers of some of the Open Source community's stellar projects. Projects like Eclipse, the Fedora Project, LTSP.org, OpenOffice.org, OpenSUSE.org, Ubuntu, and X.org, among others will be there. Don't miss your chance to meet the people that create Open Source software.
Are You Certified? Do you think you're ready for your LPI test? Linux Professional Institute is offering free testing to all paid conference attendees (a $100 value), in the LPI Certification Room.
A panel of independent judges and industry experts will recognize the best and most innovative products, services, and solutions in open computing at the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards. The awards are sponsored by LinuxWorld Magazine and take place opening day, at 12:30 pm. Look for it on the show floor.
What happens if you feel compelled to talk about your conference experience or just give a little feedback? Included in each attendee's package is access to the LinuxWorld Wiki collaboration space, sponsored by SocialText. Read all about conference session descriptions, speakers, and other important conference topics. Post those comments and get involved at http://www.socialtext.net/linuxworld
The Software Freedom Law Center will kick off the Birds of a Feather sessions on Tuesday afternoon. Community members from OSSI, Samba, One Laptop per Child, OSDL, Amanda, LSB, Fedora, openSUSE, and many others will be there to discuss the latest trends. Attendees can sign-up to roll your own BoF session, if you feel the need.
Conventioneers will also want to swing by the Novell booth and speak to company representatives about their latest edition of SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. Updates will include the Beagle search tool, the Zenworks Linux Management toolkit, an enhanced version of OpenOffice.org, XGL graphics, and better support of networking and printing protocols. The new version will be available this summer.
Make sure to visit the Red Hat booth and find out about how they are making it easier for customers to run their infrastructures with a virtualized Linux environment. As IT managers seek better utilization of hardware resources and streamlined maintenance, virtualization is gaining widespread acceptance. A beta preview of the integrated virtualization technologies will be available in the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 release. The production version is due out later in the year.
This year's LinuxWorld Conference is sure to be an exciting event, with useful and entertaining activities for the developers, IT managers, business leaders, and everyday enthusiastic Linux user. Make your plans, learn something new, meet your friends, and have a great time.
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Unisys Smoking Hot Demo at Linux World Boston 178 comments
This year's LinuxWorld Boston started off with a bang...and a fair amount of smoke. Unisys apparently had a few problems launching their first demo, as our own Robin "Roblimo" Miller reports over at Newsforge (also owned by VA Software). From the article: "Less than an hour after the show floor opened at the 2006 edition of the Boston LinuxWorld Expo today, fire alarms went off and a plume of smoke arose from the server cabinet in the Unisys display. "I knew we had a magician scheduled," said one rattled Unisys employee,"but this isn't what I expected." Indeed, this was an unexpected event. It was a real fire -- or at least a considerable smolder, complete with firemen, evacuation orders (soon rescinded), and other hoopla. Photos and a video clip included."
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Let me be first to say... (Score:1)
(http://alexadex.com/ad/index.fcgi?ref=22522 | Last Journal: Wednesday June 28 2006, @07:40AM)
Re:Let me be first to say... (Score:4, Funny)
(http://reverend.healeys.net/)
I three ubuntu too.
rPath and Conary (Score:1, Interesting)
It's April 3-6 2006 (Score:3, Informative)
(http://slashdot.org/~yog/journal | Last Journal: Sunday March 26 2006, @01:57AM)
I've been to this show several times and it's always a blast. A nice way to collect more new Penguin T-shirts, Linux pens and other artifacts of our era for archeologists to puzzle over a thousand years hence!
When and where? (Score:2)
(http://joshi.tk/)
So (Score:1, Troll)
(http://hivearchive.com/ | Last Journal: Thursday March 07 2002, @10:39PM)
Scholarship (Score:1)
Hope they park cars better in Boston! (Score:1)
Drive through the Lincoln tunnel and stop off at the first rest stop in Jersey. Turn around and look at my truck, and the rack's hanging off the passenger side of the truck.
Was just shy of filling a lawsuit to get the money to fix the $2000 damage to the truck.
Funny thing was, when I picked up the truck I walked around it looking for dents, scrapes, etc. Never thought to check out the roof....
True story, still have the pictures...
I'll be there. (Score:3, Interesting)
(http://russnelson.com/)
Exciting? Try boring. (Score:2)
It used to be that I went out of my way to try and get my employer to send me to things like ALS and LinuxExpo. Now I'm trying to figure out how to get out of being sent to LinuxWorld so I can stay behind and get some code written.
Exec Dir of FSF had a good reply last year (Score:2)
(http://ciaran.compsoc.com/ | Last Journal: Wednesday August 09 2006, @03:53PM)
Peter Brown, Exec Dir of FSF, wrote a blog entry on this last year [fsf.org]:
Well it's always nice to have people come visit, and it's no different when IDG's LinuxWorld comes to town. We had big smiles on our faces at the FSF office recently, when journalists called to ask for our reaction to the LinuxWorld announcement, that they were coming to Boston in part because it was the birthplace and headquarters of the Free Software Foundation---which launched the Open Source Movement?
Why? Why do we get this constant repackaging of what we stand for? And always from organizations who by now should know better. Heaven knows we've explained it often enough, haven't we? When was the last time you heard the advocates of Open Source being asked to make a reference to the fundamental ethical and political issues of Freedom in Software. Never, because Open Source plays to the media interests that require a sanitized version of what the real drivers were behind the birth of a GNU/Linux world.
It seems that some words are hard to say, and some would have us give in to their limiting Orwellian speak. Well tough, it's the Free Software Movement; listen up, because you're in Freedom's home town.
Boston famously has a red brick trail mapped out across its streets, called the Freedom Trail, linking many of the American Revolution's most historic sites. No doubt many visitors to Boston's LinuxWorld will walk this Freedom Trail at some point this week, and we invite them to pop in and say hello, thereby creating an unofficial stop on Freedom's Trail. This could also be a visitor's last chance to see what has been FSF's home for the past 10 years. We receive many visitors each month, cameras in hand, who want to see the reality behind the opening lines of the GPL:
Any exciting news from LWCE Boston? (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Wednesday February 08 2006, @08:56AM)
Darnit, next time *I'm* going to the conference and leaving them all behind!
Re:Gotta ask... (Score:3, Interesting)
(http://www.portcommodore.com/)
My observations at LinuxWorld SF 2005 was:
All the Windows vendors trying to put a Linux spin on ther services (while covering the windows logo) and all the video projectors adjusted to hide the Start menus on the presenter's desktops.
Everybody at the .org pavilion, Twiki, and LTSP were really great. MySQL's presentation on clustering was informative. Some nice goodies at the Vendors (and loads of GNU/Linux books to check out!).
Lots of diverse Linux users, enthusiasts and interested parties to talk to (without the blank stare of absolutely no clue.)
Beware the presentations that offer "discussions" but only present sales pitches.