“he Linux Foundation sees no reason to sit still. This October in New York City, right on my doorstep practically, they’re hosting the End User Collaboration Summit, a way to “give end users the opportunity to learn about upcoming developments in Linux and ensure they are maximizing their investment.” Count me in. The idea, according to the event homepage, involves bringing together “high performance end users with the highest level Linux community developers”. Over the course of two days, there’ll be roundtable discussions, panels, breakout sessions, and “End User Lightning Talks”, where just plain folks get to pepper the community and the vendors with their wants, needs and gripes. That last part alone could have been the whole substance of the event and I still would have wanted to drop in.”

“The Linux Foundation has announced it is holding its first End User Collaboration Summit in New York on October 13th and 14th. The foundation regularly holds Kernel Summits where the Linux kernel developers assemble to plan for future Linux development. The new event is aimed at bringing developers and what the foundation call “high performance” Linux users together to provide input for future Linux development.”

“This new conference, to be held in New York October 13 and 14, brings together high performance end users with the highest level Linux community developers for education and interaction between the two groups.”

“The target is businesses which are heavy users of Linux and open source in their enterprise computing systems. So no surprise its first keynote will be from Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian, with a Q&A moderated by Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin. Other features include a panel with key Linux maintainers, a panel of large users, and a presentation of the Linux Weather Forecast, designed to keep users up-to-date on coming changes to the kernel.”

“Held at the Desmond Tutu Centre in New York on October 13th and 14th, the summit is intended to be an opportunity for Linux users to learn from and interact with important figures in the Linux community. Some of the highest-level maintainers and developers will be in attendance, and the organisers hope that the communication process will work both ways, with users able to offer advice and knowledge.”

“The first Linux Foundation End User Collaboration Summit is planned for October 13 to 14 in New York City. Users can connect with the Linux kernel community, the foundation said. The intent is to bring together sophisticated end-users and senior Linux developers to hopefully accelerate innovation and adoption of Linux.”

“I want to be a thousand percent confident that this organization will be around for the next 30 to 50 years because Linux isn’t going away,” Zemlin said. “It’s everywhere, and there is no doubt that Linux will be an important platform in the future and we’re only at the beginning on the embedded and mobile side. It will be my screwup if we don’t have an organization that can help coordinate and grow the development of the Linux platform.”

“The last Linux Foundation’s installment in their Open Voices podcast series went live yesterday, featuring Mitchell Baker, chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation, interviewed by Jim Zemlin, the executive director of the Linux Foundation. Mitchell raises some interesting points about challenges and opportunities met by Mozilla on its path to success, below an excerpt of the original transcript.”

“Finally we have the latest Linux Foundation interview, with Mitchell Baker of Mozilla. Jim Zemlin asked her about turning points, and the key, she responded, was the release of code in Mozilla 1.0: “It wasn’t the product that set the world on fire, but it was extremely important to us.” One reason it was important was that it followed a long period of negotiation on the issue of code access, as the code base was transferred from Netscape, a proprietary company under AOL, into the Mozilla Foundation. The result of those negotiations was Mozilla 1.0, which made the software visible to the whole world. The rest, as they say, is history.”

“Canonical, the company that sponsors the Linux-based operating system Ubuntu, has joined the Linux Foundation. Ubuntu community members had already been participating in workgroups at the foundation, including the Linux Standard Base, Desktop Architects, and Driver Backporting groups. Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth has been a member of the Linux Foundation board since early 2007.”