Linux Foundation Announces 2010 “We’re Linux” Video Contest: The Linux Super Bowl Ad

“We’re Linux” returns for the second year in a row, aims to surface creative user-generated ads for the popular operating system

SAN FRANCISCO, February 5, 2010 – The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced the 2010 “We’re Linux” video contest. The contest seeks to find the best user-generated videos that demonstrate what Linux means to those who use it and inspire others to try it.

The contest is calling all community members and amateur filmmakers to share with the public what a 30-60 second Linux-focused spot for the Super Bowl might look like. This theme is not a requirement for entry; however, videos that can demonstrate the benefits of Linux to the general public are likely to receive more community votes. The submissions should aim to inspire people to use Linux, create conversations among the public, and convey the power and ideals of Linux.

The contest officially begins today and will be open for submissions through midnight on April 4, 2010. The winner will be revealed at the Linux Foundation’s Collaboration Summit on April 14, 2010 in San Francisco and will be awarded with a laptop loaded with Linux and a trip to LinuxCon (http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon) in Boston, Mass.

“We have been inspired by the creativity and level of participation we have seen for the ‘We’re Linux’ video contest and want to provide a forum again this year for people to share,” said Amanda McPherson, vice president, marketing and developer programs, The Linux Foundation. “The contest attracts an extended community of folks to Linux and allows us all to weigh in on the best Linux videos.”

The winner will be determined by a combination of online community ranking and a panel of judges that includes:

• Andrew Morton, lead Linux kernel maintainer;
• Stephen O’Grady, co-founder, Red Monk;
• Stormy Peters, executive director, GNOME Foundation;
• Brandon Phillips, Linux kernel developer, Novell;
• Bob Sutor, VP, Open Source and Linux, IBM Software Group; and
• Steven Vaughan-Nichols, journalist, ComputerWorld.

Last year, the “We’re Linux” contest called on participants to consider the popular “I’m a Mac; I’m a PC” commercials and create their own videos to promote Linux. The concept was based on the idea that while Apple and Microsoft have billions of dollars in advertising budgets, Linux had the power of crowds. The winning video, by Amitay Tweeto and titled “What Does it Mean to Be Free” (http://video.linuxfoundation.org/contest/winners), was an inspirational piece that communicated the ideals of the open source operating system.

To submit a video and for more information on the contest rules and guidelines, please visit: http://video.linuxfoundation.org/contest/we-are-linux-superbowl-ad-contest.

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 Call for Participation, Registration for North America’s Premiere Linux Conference, LinuxCon

SAN FRANCISCO, February 3, 2010 – The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced its Call for Participation (CFP) for LinuxCon, which takes place August 10-12, 2010 in Boston, Mass. Registration for the event also opens today: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon/register/.

LinuxCon (http://events.linuxfoundation.org/lp/linuxcon) has emerged as the premiere annual conference for Linux developers and executives in North America. The event brings together technical and business leadership for unmatched opportunities to collaborate and learn about all matters Linux.

There are three different categories for CFP submissions: Developer (kernel, core development, software engineering); Operations (systems architecture, Linux migration and deployment); and Business (open source governance, best practices). The founder of the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), Matt Asay, will join the conference committee this year to help design the Business track.

The following topics will be given priority for the 2010 LinuxCon program:
• Making Linux Smarter
• Opportunities for Linux in the New Global Economy
• Linux in Mobile Devices
• Linux in the Cloud
• Optimization in the Data Center
• Linux Appliances
• Techniques for Successful Adoption of Linux in Business and/or Government
• Keeping Linux “Open”

LinuxCon CFP submissions are due March 31, 2010 at midnight PT. To submit a proposal, please visit: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon/cfp.

“LinuxCon has quickly become the destination for collaborating in person on all matters Linux,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation. “This year’s conference will include important sessions for developers and operations and executive management. LinuxCon is where you go to collaborate and get things done.”

The program committee includes recognized community members, including:

• Matt Asay, founder of OSBC and popular CNET blogger;
• Hisashi Hashimoto, Open Source Software Technology Center, Hitachi, Ltd.;
• Rikki Kite, associate publisher, Linux Pro Magazine;
• Jon Masters, author and Linux kernel engineer at Red Hat;
• Amanda McPherson, vice president of marketing and developer programs, The Linux Foundation;
• Craig Ross, community relations manager, The Linux Foundation; and
• Elena Zannoni, manager, Linux Engineering Tools, Oracle.

LinuxCon this year is sponsored by HP, IBM and Intel and will be preceded with a number of community mini-summits on August 8 and 9, 2010. Mini-summits include the KVM Forum, Linux Storage & Filesystems Workshop, Linux Security Summit, Wireless Summit, and the Power Management Summit.

Linux Foundation events provide kernel developers, IT professionals, end users, senior executives, industry experts, students 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: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/.

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: http://linuxfoundation.org.

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Trademarks: The Linux Foundation and Linux Standard Base are trademarks of The Linux Foundation. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.

Linux Foundation Launches Free Training Webinar Series to Meet Growing Demand for Linux Professionals

Also expands its Linux training program to offer new classes in new geographies for developers and sys admins

SAN FRANCISCO, January 26, 2010 – The Linux Foundation®, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced a free Linux Training Webinar Series that will enable attendees to learn the fundamentals of Linux directly from the source of Linux, the developers themselves. The webinar series will feature Linux Foundation technical advisory board (TAB) members and other community developers. The first Webinar in the series is “How To Contribute to the Linux Community,” led by Jon Corbet, and available March 1. To register, please visit: http://training.linuxfoundation.org.

This webinar series complements the expanded Linux Foundation training program that now spans the globe with classes in Boston, London, Ottawa, San Francisco, Sydney, Tokyo and Washington, D.C. The Linux Foundation is also today publishing its Winter/Spring 2010 course catalog, which comprises a variety of ways to train, including classes co-located with the organization’s 2010 events (such as the Collaboration Summit and LinuxCon, among others). New course offerings available from the community’s leading technical talent include embedded Linux; Linux device drivers; Linux kernel internals and debugging; application development for Linux; performance and tuning; and Git essentials.

The free Linux training webinar series features notable technical leaders from the Linux community. Confirmed webinars include:

• “An Introduction to Git,” by kernel maintainer and TAB chair James Bottomley;
• “Linux System Troubleshooting and Tuning” and “Linux Administration 101,” by Linux author and community manager Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier;
• “How to Work with the Linux community,” by LWN.net editor and kernel developer Jon Corbet;
• “A Linux Filesystem Overview,” by kernel developer Christoph Hellwig;
• “Btrfs: An Intro and Update” to the new file system for Linux, by project lead and TAB member Chris Mason; and
• “Linux Performance Tuning,” by North America’s first kernel developer Ted Ts’o.

To sign up for notifications regarding future webinars, please visit: http://training.linuxfoundation.org.

“The Linux Foundation’s Training Program connects developers and users with the rock-stars of Linux in a vendor-neutral forum to expand the talent pool for Linux,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at the Linux Foundation. “All industry research points to the fact that demand for Linux talent is outpacing the supply. Our training program helps this by providing highly-technical training that provides job seekers with the skills they need to both grow their careers and advance the increasingly competitive Linux platform.”

The maturity of Linux combined with a new economic reality in IT has led to a another cycle of accelerated growth for the Linux operating system, especially in the area of mobile and embedded Linux. According to forecasts published by research firm Gartner in October 2009, Linux is the fastest growing operating system on smart phones while Windows in decline. This growth has resulted in high demand for professionals with Linux-related skills; IT analyst firm Foote Brothers has reported a 50 percent increase in this demand in just the last year. The Linux Foundation’s webinar series and expanded training program aims to offer technical classes in all the skill areas most valuable to the growing Linux job market.

Built in collaboration with the Linux Foundation’s TAB (which comprises leading maintainers from the Linux community), the Linux Foundation’s Training Program provides a vendor-neutral, technically advanced learning opportunity. Linux Foundation training classes give students the broad, foundational knowledge and networking needed to thrive in today’s job market.

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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Trademarks: The Linux Foundation and Linux Standard Base are trademarks of The Linux Foundation. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.

Linux Foundation Announces 2010 Event Schedule, Posts Call for Participation for Annual Collaboration Summit

SAN FRANCISCO, January 19, 2010 – The Linux Foundation® (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that it has finalized its event schedule for 2010, which includes its Collaboration Summit, End User Summit, LinuxCon, Japan Linux Symposium and Linux Kernel Summit.

The Linux Foundation today is also opening its Collaboration Summit Call for Participation (CFP) to all members of the Linux and open source software communities. Tracks will include mobile/embedded Linux, High Performance Computing, and filesystems, among others. Summit CFP submissions are due February 19, 2010 by midnight PST and can be submitted online at: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit/cfp. To request an invitation to the Summit, please visit: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/collab-summit-invite.

“Linux Foundation’s events provide the only vendor-neutral forums for Linux community members to significantly advance the Linux platform,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation. “There is no substitute for the face-to-face collaboration that the Linux Foundation can facilitate for the technical innovators and business executives who are bringing Linux into the new decade.”

The Linux Foundation’s 2010 event schedule includes:

Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit
Held in conjunction with the CELF Embedded Linux Conference and hosted by platinum sponsors IBM and Intel. Additional sponsors include Google, Intel and Nokia.
April 14 – 16, 2010
San Francisco, Calif.
This event is an exclusive, invitation-only summit where key Linux stakeholders meet face-to-face to advance and create initiatives that address the most pressing opportunities for Linux today.
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit/

Linux Foundation End User Summit
October 25, 2010
Jersey City, NJ
Another invitation-only event, the Linux Foundation’s End User Summit brings together senior kernel leadership with the C-level executives who are managing Linux in the largest most dynamic companies in the world today. In its third year, this event helps to close a “communications loop” to advance Linux development to meet everyone’s goals. To request an invitation, please visit: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/end-user-summit

LinuxCon
August 10-12, 2010
Boston, Mass.
LinuxCon is North America’s premiere conference for all matters Linux. The event will bring together community and business leadership as well as up and coming developers to attend sessions produced by the community for the community. LinuxCon will be preceded this year with a variety of “mini-summits” on August 8 and 9, 2010, including the Linux Storage & Filesystems Workshop, the Wireless Mini-Summit and the Bluetooth Summit.
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon

Japan Linux Symposium
September 27 – 29, 2010
Tokyo, Japan
The Japan Linux Symposium is the leading Linux conference in Asia Pacific and brings together developers, administrators, users, community managers and industry experts from across the globe.
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/japan-linux-symposium

Linux Kernel Summit
November 1 – 2, 2010
Co-located with the Linux Plumbers Conference November 3 - 5, 2010
Cambridge, Mass.
The Linux Foundation will again host the annual gathering of the world’s leading kernel developers to discuss the state of the kernel and to plan the next development cycle.
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linux-kernel-summit

To get more information about Linux Foundation events, and to register, please visit: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/.

Linux Foundation events provide kernel developers, IT professionals, end users, senior executives, industry experts, students 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.

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: http://linuxfoundation.org.

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Trademarks: The Linux Foundation and Linux Standard Base are trademarks of The Linux Foundation. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.

Linux.com Launches New Jobs Board

Employers and job seekers gain a targeted resource for fastest growing area of IT industry

SAN FRANCISCO, January 14, 2010 – The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced its new Linux Jobs Board is now available on the popular online community destination for all matters Linux, Linux.com: http://jobs.linux.com/.

The JobThread Network, an online recruitment platform, reports that the demand for Linux-related jobs has grown 80 percent since 2005, demonstrating that Linux professionals represent the fastest growing job category in the IT industry. The new Linux.com Jobs Board will provide employers and job seekers with an important online forum in which anyone can find the best and brightest Linux talent or the ideal job opportunity.

“Linux’ increasing use across industries is building high demand for Linux jobs despite national unemployment stats,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at the Linux Foundation. “Linux.com reaches millions of Linux professionals from all over the world. By providing a Jobs Board feature on the popular community site, we can bring together employers, recruiters and job seekers to lay the intellectual foundation for tomorrow’s IT industry.”

Employers interested in posting a job opening have two options; they can post their openings on Linux.com and reach millions of Linux-focused professionals or they can use the JobThread Network on Linux.com to reach an extended audience that includes 50 niche publishing sites with a combined 9.8 million visitors every month. For more information and to submit a job posting, please visit: http://jobs.linux.com/post.

Linux.com is already a showcase for Linux experts who participate in the online community and gain guru rankings for answering questions, posting tutorials or writing content. Job seekers can include their LinkedIn details on their Linux.com profile, including their resume. They can also subscribe to the Linux.com Jobs Board RSS feed, receive alerts by email and follow opportunities about Linux-related jobs on Twitter at www.twitter.com/linuxdotcom.

Linux community members and business users at all levels use Linux.com to find tutorials; news and analysis; Linux distribution information; industry blogs; forums, and more. Linux.com hosts a unique collaboration forum for Linux experts – users and developers – and provides the tools needed to connect with each other and with Linux. Information on how Linux is being used, such as in mobile, can also be found on the site.

Linux.com members can submit articles and information for review and discussion by peers on the website. To join the Linux.com community, of which there are more than 11,000 registered members, please visit: http://www.linux.com/community/register. For existing members, content can be submitted at: http://www.linux.com/submit-an-article.

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.linux-foundation.org.

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Trademarks: The Linux Foundation and Linux Standard Base are trademarks of The Linux Foundation. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.