LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Kicks off This Week.
WHAT: LinuxWorld Conference & Expo (www.linuxworldexpo.com)
WHERE: The Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA (2nd and 3rd Floors)
WHEN: Conferences: February 14-17, 2005
Expo: February 15-17, 2005 (10:00 am - 5:00 pm daily) --Feb. 14
is conferences only. Tuesday, Feb. 15 is the big day for media--
Opening Keynote: Tuesday, February 15 at 9:15 a.m. - Jack
Messman, Novell CEO. Ballroom A, 3rd Floor.
First Press Conference: Tuesday, February 15 at 10:00 a.m. by
Novell, followed by IBM at 11:00 a.m. (there will not be press
conferences during the keynote addresses). The press conf. room
is room 308 - next door to the Media Center on the 3rd Floor.
WHO: Owned and produced by IDG World Expo (www.idgworldexpo.com)
HOW: Media Registration will be held on the 3rd floor, outside of the
Media Center, located in Room 309 at the Hynes Convention Center.
Pre-registered media can pick their badges up at Media
Registration. Media who have not preregistered for LinuxWorld can
register on-site at the Media Registration counter. Media
Registration hours are 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. beginning on Monday,
Feb. 14.
Media have access to all conference sessions except for the Labs.
You must pick up conference passes in the media center. Click
on this URL for the conference schedule:
http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/images/12/misc/LWBOSConBro.pdf.
Attendee registration is on the 2nd floor of the Hynes. The
Exhibit Hall is on the 2nd Floor. The cost for an Exhibits
Only pass is $35; conference passes start at $295. Exhibit
Hall passes include access to all keynotes, the exhibit hall
floor for all three days, and 10 hours of free Linux
educational training on the Exhibit Hall main stage.
SELECTED EVENT HIGHLIGHTS:
LinuxWorld Press Conference Schedule:
Tuesday, February 15
10:00 - 10:45 am Novell
11:00 - 11:45 am IBM
12:30 - 1:15 pm Oracle
1:30 - 2:15 pm Red Hat
3:30 - 4:15 pm Innovation Data Processing
Wednesday, February 16
8:00 - 8:45 am Akibia --Media Breakfast as well--
9:00 - 9:45 am Gupta
10:00 - 10:45 am Xandros
12:00 - 12:45 pm Prentice Hall PTR (Bruce Perens)
1:00 - 1:45 pm Kirix
Thursday, February 17
9:00 - 9:45 am Coraid
11:00 - 11:45 am OpenGear
LinuxWorld Keynote Schedule: (3rd Floor, Ballroom A)
Tuesday, February 15
9:15 a.m. Jack Messman, chairman and CEO, Novell: "Identity and
Information"
11:45 a.m. Martin Fink, vice president Linux, HP: "Making Open Source
Work for You"
2:45 p.m. John Swainson, president and CEO-elect, Computer
Associates, Inc. "Open Source Meets the Enterprise"
Wednesday, February 16
11:00 a.m. John Patrick, industry luminary and president of Attitude
LLC: "The Future of the Internet and Open Technology"
2:30 p.m. Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL: "Fear & Loathing in Linux
World: Commoditization, Commercialization and the Customer."
-- Exhibitors: The exhibit hall floor will feature over 180 exhibitors showcasing new Linux and Open Source products. This is up from 150 exhibitors at last year's event in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . Exhibitors include: AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. , Apple, BakBone Software  This article about a company does not make it clear whether the subject meets the Wikipedia criteria for . , Computer Associates, HP, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) ,
Intel, Novell, Oracle, Pogo Linux, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , Sybase,
VERITAS, Yosemite Technologies and many more. LinuxWorld also provides a
forum for new companies entering this space.-- Attendance: We are expecting 6,000 to 7,000 attendees. -- Conference Program: More than 100 educational sessions. LinuxWorld provides a comprehensive educational experience for the entire spectrum of Open Source users and enthusiasts, including corporate and IT executives, directors, administrators and developers. Conf. Schedule: http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/images/12/misc/LWBOSConBro.pdf. -- LinuxWorld Boston Theme: This year's theme is the business value of Linux and Open Source. The event will illustrate how companies across the globe have achieved higher profits and increased their productivity by utilizing Linux-the fastest-growing operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. in the world. -- Inaugural Boston event: Boston is becoming a hub for the Open Source software being adopted by thousands of businesses. The Boston area is a natural fit for LinuxWorld because it is home to leading vendors like Novell, which recently moved its corporate headquarters to Waltham from Provo, Utah, and Red Hat, who has designated its Westford site as a development hub. Boston is also the intellectual capital of open-source software, in which the source code is freely available to the public for use and modification. It is the birthplace of the Free Software Foundation, which launched the movement two decades ago. Many university technologists favor open-source software, and area companies such as Black Duck software are up and comers in this industry. -- LinuxWorld Summit NY 2005: IDG IDG International Data Group IDG Integrated Drive Generator IDG Installation Design Guide IDG Internet Discussion Group IDG Inset Dielectric Guide IDG International Dangerous Goods (mail, shipping) World Expo recently announced a conference driven version of the company's popular LinuxWorld Conference & Expo (projecting 300 attendees). The two-day Summit will be held May 25-26, 2005 at the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Marriott Marquis and includes a highly-focused, contemporary, conference program. The event will also present a showcase component featuring an exclusive selection of the preeminent pre·em·i·nent or pre-em·i·nent adj. Superior to or notable above all others; outstanding. See Synonyms at dominant, noted. [Middle English, from Latin prae vendors in the Linux and open source arena. http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/media//news/CC971597 -- IDC Linux Report: IDC issued a report on December 14, 2004 estimating that the overall Linux ecosystem will grow 25.9 percent annually to reach $35.7 billion in 2008. Of that, IDC estimates $14 billion will be packaged software See software package. , $10 billion PCs and $11 billion servers. http://www.osdl.org/docs/linux_market_overview.pdf -- Technology Showcase: The inaugural Technology Showcase offers over 10 hours of complimentary Linux and Open Source educational sessions by industry experts over three days and will take place on the exhibit hall's main stage beginning at 10:15 a.m. each day. It will give Expo attendees a taste of the world-class training that takes place in the Conference portion of LinuxWorld. The Showcase will be highlighted by technology gurus from Slashdot and SourceForge.net on Wednesday, February 16. -- Free Linux Certification  This article or section is written like a personal reflection or and may require .Please [ improve this article] by rewriting this article or section in an . : The Linux Professional Institute (LPI (Lines Per Inch) The number of lines printed in a vertical inch. (language) LPI - A PL/I interpreter for IBM PCs and workstations. ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/mirrors/msdos/pli/runpli1a.arc. E-mail: <rcg@lpi.liant.com>. ), the premier Linux certification organization worldwide (http://www.lpi.org/), will offer free Linux certification testing. Each day of the conference at 1:00 p.m., LPI will be conducting the LPI 101 exam in Room 205. The proctored exams are free to all conference delegates, and a special discounted price of $25 is also offered to all exhibitors and exhibit hall attendees. All candidates must pre-register at the LPI Web site for an LPI ID number at https://www.lpi.org/en/register.html. Exam candidates should bring valid photo identification and their LPI ID number to the exam lab. -- The Golden Penguin Bowl: The infamous geek A technically oriented person. It has typically implied a "nerdy" or "weird" personality, someone with limited social skills who likes to tinker with scientific or high-tech projects. The origin of the term dates back to the late 1800s. trivia game returns with host Jeremy Allison Jeremy Allison is a computer programmer famous for his contributions to the free software community, notably to Samba, a re-implementation of SMB/CIFS networking protocol, released under the GNU General Public License. of HP. Contestants include Open Source industry personalities Dave Berlind, Don Marti, and Andy Oram representing the media, and Maria Winslow, Jonathan Eunice and Stephen O'Grady representing the industry analysts. -- .Org Pavilion: This section of the LinuxWorld exhibit floor features non-profit organizations A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. keeping the spirit of Open Source alive around the world. Participating organizations include X.org, Debian Project, Ether ether, in chemistry ether, any of a number of organic compounds whose molecules contain two hydrocarbon groups joined by single bonds to an oxygen atom. Boot Project, Linux Test Project The Linux Test Project (usually referred to as LTP) is a body of regression tests designed to confirm the behavior of a build of the Linux Kernel. According to the LTP web site the project was started by SGI and is now maintained by IBM. , Oregon St. Open Source Lab, GNOME Foundation The GNOME Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, coordinating the efforts in the GNOME project. The GNOME Foundation , LTSP LTSP Linux Terminal Server Project LTSP Lutheran Theological Seminary At Philadelphia LTSP Long Term Science Plan (NASA) , OSDL, ObjectWeb, OpenOffice.org and many more. -- LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards: These awards recognize product and service innovations by LinuxWorld's exhibitors. Winners will be announced in a ceremony on the exhibit floor on Tuesday, February 15 at 4:30 p.m. Finalists: http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/media//news/CC93466. |
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