LinuxCon North America Keynote Speakers Named
By Doug Caverly
Staff Writer
Article Date: 2011-04-14
LinuxCon North America continues to take shape in admirable fashion. This morning, the Linux Foundation identified six people who will take to the stage as keynote speakers in August, and they're by and large the sort of individuals that Linux fans will definitely want to hear talk.
Going purely in alphabetical order, the first speaker is supposed to be Mark Charlebois, Director of Open Source Strategy at Qualcomm Innovation Center, and he's meant to discuss Linux as it relates to mobile development and innovation.
Next, there will be Phil McKinney, Vice President and CTO at HP, and he'll speak about HP's WebOS platform strategy.
Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems and the former CEO of MySQL, will then tackle the subject of Linux and cloud computing in the enterprise, while Ubuntu Technical Architect Allison Randal is expected to discuss the work of the Ubuntu community and development team.
Finally, author and professor Clay Shirky will give a talk on collaboration and modern culture, and Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst will speak about Linux-related challenges and (since Linux has been around for about 20 years) what the next 20 years may hold.
This year's LinuxCon North America will take place in Vancouver, British Columbia, by the way, between August 17th and August 19th. Tickets will cost $500 through July 8th, $600 after that, and just so would-be attendees know, LinuxCon has in fact sold out every year.
Have fun, hand out plenty of business cards, and learn a lot if you decide to attend the conference.
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