Linux Symposium
Encyclopedia
The Linux Symposium is a Linux
and Open Source
conference held annually in Canada
. It features 100+ paper presentations, tutorials, birds of a feather sessions and mini summits on a wide range of topics. There were 650 attendees from 20+ countries in 2008.
The 2009 Symposium was held in Montréal, Quebec.
The Linux Symposium is one of the three major international grass-roots Linux
and Open Source
conferences in the world. The other two are linux.conf.au
and Linux Kongress
.
The Call for Participation runs from February 1 through March 15.
, Kernel Container Developers', Linux Power Management and Linux Wireless LAN. There were two mini summits in 2009: Linux Power Management
and Tracing
.
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
and Open Source
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
conference held annually in Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. It features 100+ paper presentations, tutorials, birds of a feather sessions and mini summits on a wide range of topics. There were 650 attendees from 20+ countries in 2008.
The 2009 Symposium was held in Montréal, Quebec.
The Linux Symposium is one of the three major international grass-roots Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
and Open Source
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
conferences in the world. The other two are linux.conf.au
Linux.conf.au
linux.conf.au is Australasia's regional Linux and Open Source conference. It is a roaming conference, held in a different city every year, coordinated by Linux Australia and organised by local volunteers....
and Linux Kongress
Linux Kongress
The Linux Kongress is an annual two-day conference of Linux developers from around the world. It has taken place since 1994, when Linux was in the early stages of development, and has except 2001 and 2007 always occurred in Germany. Linux-Kongress is one of the three major international...
.
2011
The 2011 Linux Symposium will be held in Ottawa on June 13-15, with the Opening Presentation to be given by long-time Linux proponent Jon "Maddog" Hall.The Call for Participation runs from February 1 through March 15.
Keynote Speakers
- 1999 - Alan CoxAlan CoxAlan Cox is a British computer programmer who formerly maintained the 2.2 branch of the Linux kernel and continues to be heavily involved in the development of the Linux kernel, an association that dates back to 1991...
- 2000 - David S. MillerDavid S. MillerDavid Stephen Miller is an American software developer working on the Linux kernel, where he is the primary maintainer of networking and the SPARC implementation, and is also involved in other development work...
, Miguel de IcazaMiguel de IcazaMiguel de Icaza is a Mexican free software programmer, best known for starting the GNOME and Mono projects.-Early years:Miguel de Icaza was born in Mexico City and studied at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México but never received a degree. He came from a family of scientists in which his... - 2001 - Ted Ts'o
- 2002 - Stephen TweedieStephen TweedieDr. Stephen C. Tweedie is a software developer who is known for his work on the Linux kernel, in particular his work on filesystems.After becoming involved with the development of the ext2 filesystem working on performance issues, he led the development of the ext3 filesystem which involved adding...
- 2003 - Rusty RussellRusty RussellPaul "Rusty" Russell is an Australian free software programmer and advocate.- Software development :Russell wrote the packet filtering systems ipchains and netfilter/iptables in the Linux operating system kernel...
- 2004 - Andrew MortonAndrew Morton (computer programmer)Andrew Keith Paul Morton is an Australian software engineer, best known as one of the lead developers of the Linux kernel...
- 2005 - David Jones
- 2006 - Greg Kroah-HartmanGreg Kroah-HartmanGreg Kroah-Hartman is a Linux kernel developer. He is the current Linux kernel maintainer for the -stable branch with Chris Wright, the staging subsystem, USB, driver core, debugfs, kref, kobject, and the sysfs kernel subsystems, Userspace I/O and TTY layer. He is also the maintainer of the...
- 2007 - James BottomleyJames BottomleyJames Bottomley may refer to:* James Bottomley , British diplomat* Jim Bottomley, baseball player...
- 2008 - Matthew Wilcox, Werner Almesberger, Mark ShuttleworthMark ShuttleworthMark Richard Shuttleworth is a South African entrepreneur who was the second self-funded space tourist. Shuttleworth founded Canonical Ltd. and as of 2010, provides leadership for the Ubuntu operating system...
- 2009 - Keith Bergelt, Jonathan Corbet, Dirk Hohndel
- 2010 - Jon C. Masters, Tim Riker
- 2011 - Jon "Maddog" Hall
Mini Summits
The Symposium hosts mini summits on the day before the conference. They are open to all conference attendees and have their own programme. Five mini summits were hosted in 2008, including: Virtualization, Security-Enhanced LinuxSecurity-Enhanced Linux
Security-Enhanced Linux is a Linux feature that provides a mechanism for supporting access control security policies, including United States Department of Defense-style mandatory access controls, through the use of Linux Security Modules in the Linux kernel...
, Kernel Container Developers', Linux Power Management and Linux Wireless LAN. There were two mini summits in 2009: Linux Power Management
Power management
Power management is a feature of some electrical appliances, especially copiers, computers and computer peripherals such as monitors and printers, that turns off the power or switches the system to a low-power state when inactive. In computing this is known as PC power management and is built...
and Tracing
Tracing (software)
In software engineering, tracing is a specialized use of logging to record information about a program's execution. This information is typically used by programmers for debugging purposes, and additionally, depending on the type and detail of information contained in a trace log, by experienced...
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