LinuxCon Europe 2011 | Schedule
Please note that the schedule is still fluid and will change as speakers and sessions are finalized.
Tuesday, October 25th
GPG Key Signing at Kernel Summit (Open to All)
4:30pm - Tycho Room
Details available here: http://ksummit2011.kernel.org/gpg-key-verification
If you would like to participate, please send an e-mail to
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with the subject line "KERNEL SUMMIT PGP KEY SIGNING" with your GPG key id, and please make sure your GPG key has been uploaded to the GPG key servers. It's best if this is done before Friday, October 21, 2011, but I will be accepting submissions up until Monday morning, October 24, 2011.
Wednesday, October 26th
All Keynote Presentations Are In Meridien Ballroom
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Aquarius |
Zenit |
Leo |
Virgo |
Stella |
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8:00 |
Registration & Continental Breakfast |
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9:00 |
Imagine a World Without Linux
Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of The Linux Foundation |
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9:30 |
Kernel Developer Panel
Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, Thomas Gleixner and Paul McKenney
Moderated by Lennart Poettering |
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10:30 |
Break |
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10:45 |
The Role of Forge and Language Choice in Open Source Project Success
Phil Marshall, Black Duck Software |
The Water in Which We Swim: Policy Issues That Affect Free Software
Karsten Gerloff, FSFE |
Building Linux Workloads For the Public Cloud Using SUSE Studio
Gerald Pfeifer, SUSE & Michal Svec, SUSE |
Quo vadis Linux File Systems: An Operations Point of View on Ext4 and BtrFS
Udo Seidel, Amadeus Data Processing GmbH |
Intro to Tizen and the Future of the Community
Dawn Foster, Intel |
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11:45 |
Why the Free Desktop Still Matters
Vincent Untz, SUSE |
File and Storage Systems: Making Complex Systems Easy to Use
Ric Wheeler, Red Hat |
KNOPPIX: Live GNU/Linux System
Klaus Knopper, KNOPPER.NET |
Containers in a File
Maxim Patlasov, Parallels |
Demystifying HTML5
Sulamita Garcia, Intel & Gustavo Barbieri, Intel |
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12:30 |
Lunch |
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14:00 |
Mission Impossible: Can I Replace My Business Critical IT With Open Source
Dr. Michael Meskes, credativ GmbH |
The New ExFAT File System: Differentiating With Fat32
Keshava Munegowda, Texas Instruments & Venkatraman Sathiyamoorthy, Texas Instruments |
LTTng 2.0: Application, Library & Kernel Tracing Within Your Linux Distribution
Mathieu Desnoyers, EfficiOS, Inc. |
Bump In Host - A Host-Based IPv4 to IPv6 Translation
Zhang Feng, China Mobile |
UMMS a Unified Multi Media Service for MeeGo TV and other Linux
Geoffroy VanCutsema, Intel |
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15:00 |
Freedom in the Office
Italo Vignoli, The Document Foundation |
FSFE Legal and the Legal Network: What We Do and How We Can Help You
Matija Šuklje, FSFE |
Freedom, Out of the Box!
Bdale Garbee, Hewlett-Packard |
Creating a Carrier Grade Platform with Linux
Ulrich Kleber, Huawei |
Evaluating Effects of Memory Compressed Usage on MeeGo
Anderson Briglia, Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia |
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15:45 |
Break |
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16:15 |
FOSSology: A GPL Compliance Tool
Bruno Cornec, Hewlett-Packard |
Using Dynamic Analysis To Hunt Down Problems in Kernel Modules
Eugene Shatokhin, ISPRAS |
systemd Administration in the Enterprise
Lennart Poettering, Red Hat & Kay Sievers |
Optimal Usage of SSDs Under Linux: Optimize Your I/O Subsystem
Werner Fischer, Thomas-Krenn.AG |
MeeGo Device Adaptation: Lessons Learned & Available Resources
Martin Brook, Visiongrade Services |
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17:15 |
Linux in Growth Markets: The Kazakhstan Experience
Yekaterina Menovchshikova, IBM |
12 Years of FLOSS License Compliance: A Historical Perspective
Bradley M. Kuhn, Software Freedom Conservancy |
Kernel Interfaces: Compile-Time, Boot-Time & Run-Time
Cong Wang, Red Hat |
HDD H/O Caching With SSDs
Hannes Reinecke, SUSE |
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18:30 |
Attendee Reception
U-Fleků Brewery |
Thursday, October 27th
All Keynote Presentations Are In Meridien Ballroom
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Aquarius |
Zenit |
Leo |
Virgo |
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8:00 |
Registration & Continental Breakfast |
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9:00 |
Re-Defining the Cloud Phone
Antti Aumo, President of Global Solutions at Ixonos |
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9:30 |
20 Years of Linux - A Somewhat Different Retrospective
Dirk Hohndel, Chief Linux and Open Source Technologist at Intel |
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10:00 |
Break |
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10:15am |
Free Open Source Software Deployment in Russia: Path to Success
Dmitry Komissarov, Mandriva |
Staying Ahead of the Multi-Core Revolution With GDB/CDT
Dominique Toupin, Ericsson |
Distributed Redundancy: Exploring the possibilities
Roopesh Keeppattu, Huawei |
Staying Alive - Establish a Nearly Unbreakable IT Infrastructure by Fair Means
Thomas Groß,teegee |
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11:15am |
Video4Linux: Current Status and Future Work
Hans Verkuil, Cisco |
Experiences booting 100s of thousands to millions of Linux VMs
Andrew John Sweeney, Sandia National Labs |
Linux Tracing: Latest Status and Future Agenda
Elena Zannoni, Oracle |
The Ongoing Evolution of Ext4: New Features and Performance Enhancements
Lukas Czerner, Red Hat |
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12:00pm |
Lunch |
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13:30 |
Providing High Performance
Nils Brauckman, President and General Manager of SUSE; Andreas Poeschl, BMW; Dr. Udo Seidel, Amadeus Data Processing GmbH and Ludek Safar, Ministry of the Interior, Czech Republic |
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14:00 |
It Takes a Community to Raise a Distribution
Tim Burke, Vice President of Linux Engineering Development at Red Hat |
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14:30 |
Break |
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15:00 |
Survey on HA Solutions on Linux
Nirmala S & Shashidahra T D, Huawei |
Linux: How It Runs the World of Finance
Christoph Lameter, Graphe Inc |
Automated Regression Test Environment For Multiple Kernels
Yoshitake Kobayashi, Toshiba |
Considerations for Cloud Technology Acquisition
Matt Chilek, SoftLayer Technologies, Inc. |
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16:00 |
Where is the Money in Open Source? Business Models and the Marketing of Open Source Technologies
Nithya Ruff, Wind River Systems |
Getting Started With IPv6 on Linux
Jake Edge, LWN.net |
The Brand New Software Development Kit for Linux on POWER
Richard Moore, IBM |
Using Cache Coloring for LLC Partitioning for More Predictable Performance on x86 Platforms
Alexander Komarov |
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17:00 |
Software Freedom Conservancy: Non-Profit Infrastructure For FLOSS
Bradley M. Kuhn, Software Freedom Conservancy |
Linux Driver Verification Project
Alexey Khoroshilov, ISPRAS |
Rear: Disaster Recovery System Migration Tool
Dag Wieers |
Managing KVM With Open Source Projects and Closed Source Products
Tony Gargya, IBM |
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18:30 |
VIP Dinner Reception
A reception at Duplex for our speakers and sponsors. |
Friday, October 28th
All Keynote Presentations Are In Meridien Ballroom
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Aquarius |
Zenit |
Leo |
Virgo |
Stella |
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8:00 |
Registration & Continental Breakfast |
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9:00 |
The Kernel Report: 20th Anniversary Edition
Jon Corbet, Editor at LWN.net |
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9:30 |
Engineered Systems With Linux
Wim Coekaerts, Senior Vice President, Linux and Virtualization Engineering at Oracle |
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10:00 |
Break |
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10:15 |
IRL: How Geeks Undermine Their Presentations & Conversations With Body Language
Sarah Novotny, Blue Gecko, Inc. |
Ext4 Improvements For Cloud Servers
Ted Ts'o, Google |
Multithreading: An Extensive Study on Linux, OpenSolaris, and Windows
Dalmo Cirne |
OpenSAF Architecture & Roadmap Update
Jonas Arndt, Hewlett-Packard |
Automated testing with ktest.pl
Steven Rostedt, Red Hat |
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11:15 |
What to Expect From Linux Storage
James Bottomley, Parallels |
Challenges of Open Source Compliance in the Supply Chain: Managing Vendors and Satisfying Customers
Steve Grandchamp, OpenLogic |
What Goes into an Executable? Identifying a Binary's Sources by Tracing Build Processes
Armijn Hemel, gpl-violations.org & tjaldur Software Governance Solutions |
Ganeti: Your In-House Virtual Machine Cluster Hosting
Guido Trotter, Google |
Automated testing with ktest.pl
Steven Rostedt, Red Hat |
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12:00 |
Lunch |
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13:30 |
It's the Latency, Stupid! Why Bufferbloat Matters
John Linville, Red Hat |
Reservation-Based Scheduler for Network Equipments
Insop Song, Ericsson |
The Btrfs Filesystem: Status and New Features
Chris Mason, Oracle |
Fencing and maintaining sanity while using High Availability Clusters
Florian Haas, hastexo & Madison Kelly |
A High Available Infiniband-Based Virtualization Cluster with iSCSI Storage in Detail
Thomas Groß, teegee |
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14:30 |
The MySQL Diaspora
Colin Charles, Monty Program Ab |
Writing (and Testing) Device Drivers Without Hardware
Peter Waskiewicz, Intel |
fsadm: A Single Tool to Manage your Storage
Lukas Czerner, Red Hat |
Introduction to Configuration Management with Puppet
Garrett Honeycutt, PuppetLabs |
A High Available Infiniband-Based Virtualization Cluster with iSCSI Storage in Detail
Thomas Groß, teegee |
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15:15 |
Break |
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15:45 |
OpenVZ and Linux kernel Testing
Andrey Vagin, Parallels |
Plugging Linux Kernel Memory Leaks with Kmemleak
Catalin Marinas, ARM |
Linux Testing - Complexity in a Nutshell
Steffen Schwigon, AMD |
Virtual Networking Performance Challenge
Stephen Hemminger, Vyatta |
Easy Computer Management for Medium and Large Organizations with Pulse2
Eugene Sokolov, Mandriva |
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16:45 |
CTDB + Samba: Clustered CIFS Services Growing Up
Michael Adam, Samba Team, SerNet |
What's new in MySQL 5.6
Santo Leto, Oracle |
Overview on Building Open Source Cloud Computing Environmments
Mark Hinkle, Cloud.com |
Open Source Solutions for High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Swayam Prakasha |
HTML5 in a Plasma-Active World
Danny Bennett, basysKom GmbH |
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