Linux Symposium

The Linux Symposium (commonly referred to as OLS, from Ottawa Linux Symposium, though it is not necessarily held in Ottawa) is a Linux and Open Source conference held annually in Canada. It features 100+ paper presentations, tutorials, birds of a feather sessions and mini summits on a wide range of topics. There were 650 attendees from 20+ countries in 2008.

The 2009 Symposium was held in Montréal, Quebec.

The Linux Symposium is one of the three major international grass-roots Linux and Open Source conferences in the world. The other two are linux.conf.au and Linux Kongress.

2011

The 2011 Linux Symposium will be held in Ottawa on June 13-15, with the Opening Presentation to be given by long-time Linux proponent Jon "Maddog" Hall.

The Call for Participation runs from February 1 through March 15.

Keynote Speakers

• 1999 - Alan Cox
• 2000 - David S. Miller, Miguel de Icaza
• 2001 - Ted Ts'o
• 2002 - Stephen Tweedie
• 2003 - Rusty Russell
• 2004 - Andrew Morton
• 2005 - David Jones
• 2006 - Greg Kroah-Hartman
• 2007 - James Bottomley^{[disambiguation needed ]}
• 2008 - Matthew Wilcox, Werner Almesberger, Mark Shuttleworth
• 2009 - Keith Bergelt, Jonathan Corbet, Dirk Hohndel
• 2010 - Jon C. Masters, Tim Riker
• 2011 - Jon "Maddog" Hall

Mini Summits

The Symposium hosts mini summits on the day before the conference. They are open to all conference attendees and have their own programme. Five mini summits were hosted in 2008, including: Virtualization, Security-Enhanced Linux, Kernel Container Developers', Linux Power Management and Linux Wireless LAN. There were two mini summits in 2009: Linux Power Management and Tracing.

See also

• Open Source Developers' Conference

External links

• Linux Symposium
• Linux.com feature on 2008 Linux Symposium