Mitchell Baker – coming to Open CeBIT

As some of you know, Jeff and I are working on “Open CeBIT”, the Open Source expo and conference part of CeBIT 2007. This is the first time CeBIT will have such a huge range of the Open Source industry participating. CeBIT previously had an Open Source area however it had little input from the industry, so this year they’ve brought us in to make sure it rocks for both the industry and decision makers in business.

I’m coordinating the business conference, and I’m extremely happy with the line up:

  • Mitchell Baker – Mozilla Foundation
  • Mary Ann Fisher – IBM
  • Simon Phipps – Sun
  • Mark Spencer – Digium/Asterisk
  • … and lots of other excellent speakers

This is exactly the sort of event to get IT decision makers along to. The more that senior management understands Open Source, the better it is for everyone, hence our agreement to run an Open Source conference focused on business.

We announced our participation in Open CeBIT at our launch last year, which Jeff will be blogging about soon 🙂

Speaking at FOSSACT

Since linux.conf.au Jeff and I have basically been catching up with work and kicking off some new projects. I’m down in Canberra with some clients today and speaking at FOSSACT this afternoon about how to grow the pie for FOSS businesses in Australia. FOSSACT is kind of like a localised OSIA for the ACT. I hope to see the day when FOSSACT partners or joins up with OSIA, as maintaining a clear message of industry cohesion and maturity is important to gaining more influence and credibility as an industry. I’m looking forward to it, as there are some great businesses doing good FOSS work in Canberra, which is particularly important when you consider government is the primary client base in Canberra.

Afterwards a bunch of CLUGers will be meeting at the All Bar Nun for drinks and catch up. Come along if you are in Canberra to meet and geek 🙂

Some favourite photos from lca2007

My goodness, the last week just flew and now here we are saying “wow, it’s all over!”. I’m still putting all my thoughts together but I wanted to reiterate thanks to everyone, including the Seven team, all the helpers, sponsors, speakers and attendees that all made lca2007 such a sterling success!

Some favourite photos:

Andy Tanenbaum
Val Henson
Bubby!
Sara!
City skyline

Thanks nekonoir, Jeff and Chris! Great photos!

Intel boosts Linux virtualization – Linuxworld story

Great story about the virtualisation miniconf, which is the most attended miniconf in all lca2007 and the first to beat Debian! 🙂

Speaking at this year’s Linux.conf.au Linux and open source conference in Sydney, Intel software engineer Jeff Dike spoke about three virtualization methods – User Mode Linux (UML), Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM), and hardware virtualization.

See the full story here.

LCA Opening Day – writeup by Builder AU

(In reference to the “distro chairs” at lca2007)

Gentoo gets a box and people then have to build the chair themselves! What more could a Gentoo user want? There is at least one satisfied Gentoo user on his chair. It might take a while to build but that chair is your chair and you know exactly what is in it! – Chris Duckett

I love that our media person from Builder Au is a Gentoo nut. Yay Chris! See the rest of the interview here.

Interview with Matthew Garrett

I’ve been to the previous two LCAs (2005 and 2006), presenting at 2006. LCA is an absolutely wonderful conference to visit, but the reception to my presentation amazed me – the audience is wonderful, with an excellent mixture of experience levels, and everyone made me feel very welcome. As a result, I’m hugely looking forward to being there again this year. – Matthew Garrett

We’re looking forward to seeing you too Mattie! 🙂 Interview available at Computerworld