LinuxCon | Schedule
Please note that this schedule is still tentative and may change at any time.
Tuesday, August 10th
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Atlantic 1 |
Atlantic 2 |
Atlantic 3 |
Caspian |
Mediterranean |
Spectacle / 4th Floor |
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8:00am Continental Breakfast (Pacific A) & Registration |
9:00am A New Approach to Open Source Compliance
Jim Zemlin, Executive Director at The Linux Foundation
(Pacific E) |
9:15am A Technical Look at Linux at Oracle
Wim Coekaerts, Senior Vice President, Linux and Virtualization Engineering, Oracle Corporation
(Pacific E) |
9:45am Mobile Linux: Adapting Practices, Driving Innovation, Collaboration, and Scalability
Rob Chandhok, President of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. (QuIC)
(Pacific E) |
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10:15am Break (Pacific A) |
10:45am Practical Guide to Implementing Open Source Compliance Program (Legal)
Philip Koltun, The Linux Foundation |
10:45am Runtime Power Management Framework For I/O Devices in the Linux Kernel (Kernel)
Rafael J. Wysocki, University of Warsaw |
10:45am Using KVM as a Transparent Hardware Abstraction Layer (Virtualization)
David Ahern, Cisco |
10:45am Oracle Database Performance on Intel Linux Servers (Enterprise)
Steve Shaw, Intel Corporation UK Ltd. |
10:45am State of the kernel.org Address (Systems Administration)
John Hawley, The Linux Foundation |
10:45am Tutorial: Linux System Performance Monitoring (Systems Administration)
Darren Hoch, StrongMail Systems |
11:45am Patents, Probes and Strength in Unity: Participate in Keeping Open Source Open (Legal)
Keith Bergelt, Open Innovation Network |
11:45am File Content Based Access Control (Security)
Casey Schaufler, The Smack Project |
11:45am Android/Linux Kernel: Lessons Learned (Embedded)
Matthew Garrett, Red Hat |
11:45am Building Scalable and Cost-Effective Clusters with Linux (HPC)
Nguyen Tam Chinh, National University of Singapore |
11:45am Curing the Azure Mood: Building .Net Appliances on Linux (Cloud Computing)
James Bottomley, Novell |
Tutorial: Linux System Performance Monitoring Part II (Systems Administration)
Darren Hoch, StrongMail Systems |
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12:35pm Lunch |
2:30pm Negotiation in Progress (Legal)
John Ellis, Motorola and Esteban Rockett, Motorola |
2:30pm One Billion Files: Scalability Limits in Linux File Systems (Kernel)
Ric Wheeler, Red Hat |
2:30pm Linux Kernel Security: Adapting 1960's Technology to Meet 21st Century Threats (Security)
James Morris, Red Hat |
2:30pm Oracle VM: Xen-Based Virtualization in Linux Environments (Virtualization)
Chris Barclay, Oracle |
2:30pm Linux Distribution Showdown (Distributions)
Jeff Osier-Mixon, MontaVista Software |
2:30pm Tutorial: Creating Appliances with Kiwi (Systems Administration)
Robert Schweikert, Novell |
3:30pm SPDX: Collaboration Beyond the Specification (Legal)
Kate Stewart, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. |
3:30pm PGM: A Reliable General Multicast Implementation for the Linux Kernel (Networking)
Christoph Lameter, Graphe Inc. |
3:30pm When the Kernel Runs out of Memory (Kernel)
David Rientjes, Google |
3:30pm User-Space Accelerators on Wirespeed Power Processors (HPC)
Chris J. Arges, IBM |
3:30pm Hype vs. Reality: Today's Linux Story from the Media's Perspective (Community)
Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier, Linux.com & Ostatic; Jason Brooks, eWeek; Sean Michael Kerner, InternetNews; Ryan Paul, ArsTechnica; Steven Vaughan-Nichols, ComputerWorld; Moderated by Jennifer Cloer, The Linux Foundation |
Tutorial: Creating Appliances with Kiwi Part II (Systems Administration)
Robert Schweikert, Novell |
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4:20pm Break (Pacific A) |
4:30pm Linux Kernel Panel
James Bottomley, Distinguished Engineer at Novell and Linux Kernel maintainer of the SCSI subsystem, the Linux Voyager port and the 53c700 driver; Jon Corbet, Linux kernel developer and editor, Linux Weekly News (LWN); Dave Jones, Fedora Kernel Maintainer, Red Hat; Chris Mason, Director of Linux Kernel Engineering at Oracle and btrfs File System Creator; Ted Ts'o, North America’s First Kernel Developer and an Engineer at Google working on filesystems and storage
(Pacific E) |
6:30pm Welcome Reception and Bowling for Penguins at Jillian's/Lucky Strike Lanes
Join us for a night of bowling in support of Linux's beloved mascot! (Buses depart from the Renaissance from 6:00pm to 7:00pm)
(Lucky Strike Lanes) |
Wednesday, August 11th
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Atlantic 1 |
Atlantic 2 |
Atlantic 3 |
Caspian |
Mediterranean |
Brewster |
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8:00am Continental Breakfast (Pacific A) |
9:00am Empowering the Imagination For Tomorrow's Linux Workloads
Markus Rex, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Open Platform Solutions, Novell
(Pacific E) |
9:30am Open Source Software Adoption Patterns in Enterprise IT
Jeffrey Hammond, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
(Pacific E) |
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10:00am Break (Pacific A) |
10:30am Efficiency? Lower Cost? Innovation?: What Does Linux Mean to the CIO in 2010? (Economy)
Jean Staten Healy, IBM |
10:30am MeeGo: Where Are We Now (Embedded)
Dawn Foster, Intel Corporation |
10:30am Deltacloud - Many Clouds, One API (Cloud Computing)
David Lutterkort, Red Hat |
10:30am Network Device Naming (Kernel)
Matt Domsch, Dell |
10:30am Stress-Testing Linux Hardware: Secrets of the Hardware Industry
(Enterprise) Cathy Malmrose, ZaReason, Inc. |
10:30am Tutorial: Recent Advances in Network Booting (Networking)
Marty Connor, Etherboot Project |
11:30am Open Development of Medical Devices (Legal)
Karen Copenhaver, The Linux Foundation; Timothy Prestero, DtM; Karen Sandler, SFLC |
11:30am Service Measurement in the Kernel (Kernel)
Cole Crawford |
11:30am How We Made Ubuntu Boot Faster (Embedded)
Scott James Remnant, Canonical |
11:30am Storage Provisioning with iSCSI for Virtualized Environments (Virtualization)
Shyam Iyer, Dell |
11:30am Alternative Database Technologies for the Cloud
Bret Piatt, Rackspace |
11:30am Tutorial: Recent Advances in Network Booting Part II (Networking)
Marty Connor, Etherboot Project |
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12:20pm Lunch |
2:00pm Where is the Linux Desktop Succeeding?
Chris Kenyon, Canonical; Mark Lee, DeviceVM; Scott Turvey, Qualcomm; Guy Lunardi, Novell; Moderated by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, ComputerWorld |
2:00pm Object-Based SSD: Practice and Experience (HPC)
Jaesoo Lee, Samsung |
2:00pm Btrfs File System: Status and Future (Kernel)
Chris Mason, Oracle |
2:00pm Subversion Scaling at Google, gvn and Our Hook Development Infrastructure (Systems Administration)
Marc Merlin, Google |
2:00pm MariaDB: MySQL Corrected (Systems Administration)
Monty Widenius, Author of MySQL |
2:00pm Tutorial: How to Work with the Kernel Development Community (Kernel)
Jon Corbet, Linux Weekly News |
3:00pm Distributed Multi-Source Development with Open Source (Enterprise)
Bill McQuaide, Black Duck Software |
3:00pm Efficient Trace Format for System-Wide Tracing (Kernel)
Mathieu Desnoyers, EfficiOS Inc. |
3:00pm Saving Energy with the intel_idle cpuidle Driver (Green Linux)
Len Brown, Intel Corporation |
3:00pm Network Bandwidth Control in Virtualized Environments (Virtualization)
Simon Horman, VA Linux Systems Japan K.K. |
3:00pm Linux Server Adoption: Where Are We Now? (Enterprise)
Al Gillen, IDC |
2:00pm Tutorial: How to Work with the Kernel Development Community Part II (Kernel)
Jon Corbet, Linux Weekly News |
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3:50pm Break (Pacific A) |
4:00pm Doing What it Takes: Current Legal Issues in Defending FOSS
Eben Moglen, Director-Counsel and Chairman at the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC)
(Pacific E) |
4:30pm Freedom to Innovate: Can MeeGo's Openness Change the Mobile Industry?
Derek Speed, Senior Technologist at Intel Corporation
Thomas Miller, Head of MeeGo Ecosystem Development, Nokia
Moderated by Jim Zemlin, Executive Director at The Linux Foundation
(Pacific E) |
5:00pm BoFs: MongoDB: A New Genie in a LAMP (Systems Administration)
Kristina Chodorow, 10gen Inc. |
5:00pm BoFs: Embedded Linux (Embedded)
Jeff Osier-Mixon, MontaVista Software |
5:00pm BoFs: Enterprise Content Management Meets Open Source (Enterprise)
Cheryl McKinnon, Nuxeo |
5:00pm BoFs: Project Harmony (Community)
Amanda Brock, Canonical |
5:00pm BoFs: SPDX (Legal)
L. Philip Odence, Black Duck Software / Kate Stewart, Freescale Semiconductor |
5:00pm Technology Showcase
Check out the latest Linux technology and services from our exhibitors.
(Pacific A) |
6:30pm Boston Harbor Cruise sponsored by Intel
Pick up your boarding card at the LinuxCon Information Desk - limited space is available.
(Boarding begins at 6:30pm. Meet at the Renaissance Entry Court between 6:15pm and 6:45pm to be escorted to the pier.) |
Thursday, August 12th
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Atlantic 1 |
Atlantic 2 |
Atlantic 3 |
Caspian |
Mediterranean |
Brewster |
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8:00am Continental Breakfast (Pacific A) |
9:00am Your Desktop is Free But Where's Your Data?
Stormy Peters, Executive Director at The GNOME Foundation
(Pacific E) |
9:30am Selling the Value of Open Source When Cost is Not the Driver
Ravi Simhambhatla, Chief Information Officer at Virgin America
(Pacific E) |
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10:00am Break (Pacific A) |
10:30am Your First Guide to Secure Linux (Enterprise)
Toshiharu Harada, NTT DATA CORPORATION |
10:30am KVM: The Latest from the Core Development Team (Virtualization)
Chris Wright, Red Hat |
10:30am Linux and Advanced Storage Technologies (Enterprise)
Martin K. Petersen, Oracle |
10:30am GNUMailman 3: Mailing List of the Future (Systems Administration)
Terri Oda, Carleton University |
10:30am Flying Rockets with Free Hardware and Free Software
(Embedded)
Bdale Garbee, Hewlett-Packard |
10:30am Tutorial: Introduction to Vim (Systems Administration)
Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier |
11:30am Contribution Policies for Open Source Projects (Legal)
Richard Fontana, Red Hat |
11:30am The State of Kernel Debugging Technology (Kernel)
Jason Wessel, Wind River |
11:30am Open Source Tool Chains for Managing the Cloud (Systems Administration)
Mark Hinkle, Zenoss; John Willis, Opscode |
11:30am The Physics Behind the Microsoft Hyper-V Drivers For Linux (Virtualization)
Hank Janssen, Microsoft |
11:30am The Missing VMware Manual for Linux
Krishna Raj Raja, VMWare |
11:30am Tutorial:Introduction to Vim Part II (Systems Administration)
Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier |
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12:20pm Lunch |
2:00pm What's Next For Linux?
James Bottomley, Novell; Matt Domsch, Dell; David Recordon, Facebook; Ravi Simhambhatla, Virgin America; Moderated by Matt Asay, Canonical |
2:00pm Networking and Multicore/NUMA - The Last Mile (Networking)
Herbert Xu, Red Hat |
2:00pm The Kernel Report (Kernel)
Jon Corbet, Linux Weekly News |
2:00pm Pacemaker, DRBD, and KVM: Private Clouds for Everyone! (HPC)
Florian Haas, LINBIT & Adam Gandelman, LINBIT |
2:00pm Creating Packages for Users Running Various Distributions (Application Development)
Federico Lucifredi, Novell |
2:00pm Tutorial: Git Wrangling Advanced Tips and Tricks (Kernel)
Scott Chacon, GitHub |
3:00pm The Business of Linux - How Individuals Can Get Into the Game (Economy)
Karlie Robinson, Webpath Technologies |
3:00pm Data Synchronization in Netbooks, Desktops and Mobile Devices (Embedded)
Patrick Ohly, Intel Corporation |
3:00pm Commanding Your Data (Economy)
Juergen Geck, Open-Xchange |
3:00pm Creating a Low-Cost Clustered Virtualization Environment Using Ganeti and KVM (Virtualization)
Lance Albertson, OSU Open Source Lab |
3:00pm Improving Android Boot-Up Time (Embedded)
Tim Bird, Sony Corporation |
3:00pm Tutorial: Git Wrangling Advanced Tips and Tricks Part II (Kernel)
Scott Chacon, GitHub |
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3:50pm Break (Pacific A) |
4:00pm Golden Penguin Bowl
Join us for the venerable Geek vs. Nerd Quiz Show. Who will be the winner? Hosted by Jon Masters of Red Hat
(Pacific E) |
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