FYI <div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Linux Foundation <<a href="mailto:events@linux-foundation.org">events@linux-foundation.org</a>> Date: Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:40 PM Subject: [Lf-announce] Preliminary Agenda for the 2009 Collaboration Summit To: <a href="mailto:lf-announce@linux-foundation.org">lf-announce@linux-foundation.org</a> ++Preliminary Agenda Announcement for 2009 Collaboration Summit++ The Linux Foundation is pleased to announce the preliminary agenda for the 3rd Annual Collaboration Summit which will take place April 8-10, 2009 in San Francisco and is hosted by Intel. Confirmed Keynotes and Roundtable Panels Include: *Edward Screven, Oracle *The Future of Mobile Linux and Moblin 2.0 Demo presented by Imad Sousou, Intel *Why Can't We All Just Get Along: Linux, Microsoft and Sun: A roundtable panel with Jim Zemlin of The Linux Foundation, Sam Ramji of Microsoft and Ian Murdock of Sun Microsystems * Linux Participation Panel - Measuring Community Contributions: A panel with Jono Bacon - Community Manager at Ubuntu, James Bottomley - kernel developer, Joe Brockmeier - Community Manager, OpenSuse and Dan Frye – VP of Open Systems Development at IBM *The Linux Kernel: What's Next: A roundtable panel with Jon Corbet, Greg Kroah-Hartmann, Andrew Morton, Keith Packard and Ted Ts'o In addition, confirmed sessions, mini-summits and workgroup meetings include: *Two Day Moblin Conference Track *OpenPrinting, CGL, FOSS Bazaar, Driver Backport and Gnome Mobile meetings *Linux ISV Summit *Linux Standard Base Face to Face Meeting *Linux Driver Project Updates *Sessions on Power Management, Tracing/Systems Management, Linux Weather Forecast, High Performance Computing, Legal for Non Lawyers, Joint Collaboration, Filesystems, the Rebuilt Linux Graphics Driver and Kernel Quality Interested in attending?  Request an invitation to attend this powerful and thought-provoking event: <a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/component/registrationpro/?func=details&did=2" target="_blank">http://events.linuxfoundation.org/component/registrationpro/?func=details&did=2</a> The Collaboration Summit is an exclusive, invitation-only gathering of the brightest minds in Linux, including core kernel developers, distribution maintainers, ISVs, end users, system vendors and other community organizations. It is the only conference designed to accelerate collaboration and encourage solutions by bringing together a true cross-section of leaders to meet face-to-face to tackle and solve the most pressing issues facing Linux today. The 3rd Annual Collaboration Summit will be co-located with the CELF Embedded Linux Conference and the Linux Storage and Filesystem Workshop. The winner of the "I'm Linux" video contest will also be revealed at the Summit, where the winning video and honorable mentions will be screened for the event's attendees. For more information on the Linux Foundation  Collaboration Summit, please visit: <a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit" target="_blank">http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit</a>. We are still accepting proposals for the Collaboration Summit from the open source software communities. CFP submissions are due February 19, 2009.  To submit a proposal, please visit: <a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit" target="_blank">http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit</a>. _______________________________________________ Lf-announce mailing list <a href="mailto:Lf-announce@lists.linux-foundation.org">Lf-announce@lists.linux-foundation.org</a> <a href="https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lf-announce" target="_blank">https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lf-announce</a> </div>