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Conference sessions are one hour presentations.
Applications & Middleware
Linux and open source applications are being used in increasingly innovative ways; stretching far beyond web and application servers. This track is focused on presenting attendees with the how-to behind the most innovative applications. The applications track will consider novel Linux and open source software applications not specifically covered by other tracks at the conference.
Virtualization
Virtualization is moving into the mainstream in the data center, bringing with it a new set of challenges in securely deploying and managing a virtual infrastructure. We'll address these challenges head-on with sessions covering when and how to deploy, interoperability, management strategies, security and more. These sessions will help you get the most out of today's virtualization solutions while preparing you for the next generation of technology.
System Troubleshooting
If systems always worked as they were supposed to, there'd be no need for system administrators. This track will cover the skills and tools you need to solve problems in real time, and scale production systems as demand increases. You'll learn how to monitor your systems to anticipate problems before they happen, how to jump into action when necessary, and how to avoid those late-night pages that keep you from getting a good night's sleep.
Quick and Dirty Development
Nothing is as permanent as a temporary hack that works. System adminstrators and IT managers have long been called on to make the quick fixes needed to implement a change or work around a bug in someone else's software. Today, though, the proliferation of
virtual hosts means that even your quick hacks need to be manageable, repeatable, and secure. In these sessions, you'll learn repeatable coding patterns to keep your scripts safe, and how to develop your searching and code-borrowing powers.
Legal/ Licensing Issues
This track will explore legal and licensing issues surrounding Linux and Open Source. Some potential topics include:
>>Assuring compliance with open source software licenses
>>Recent updates/changes to open source licenses
>>Recent legal activity surrounding the GPL
>>Impact of license choice on software usage and adoption
>>Recent initiatives on open source and patents
>>Impact of increased patent troll activity on open source
Desktop Linux
Does the Linux Desktop make sense for your business? Is your business ready to reap the benefits and handle the freedoms associated with an open source desktop? What is your Linux Desktop deployment criteria? In the Desktop Linux track, we will look at the state of the Linux desktop, whether it be for regular desktop clients, laptops/tablets, thin clients, or even mobile desktops. Exciting advancements have placed the Linux desktop as a viable alternative for almost any desktop use in both homogeneous and heterogeneous computing environments.
Security
We turned on our auto-patch/update systems, we installed a firewall, we told users not to use post-its on monitors to store their passwords, yet we still have systems being compromised. Open source and peer review only gets you so far, it's time to take the next step. This track will look at what we as implementers of technology need to keep on top of to really improve our state of security. From the OS to the applications, it's the whole view.
Mobile Linux Conference
During the last five years, Linux has made strong inroads into the mobile handset marketplace, as an embedded OS and as a platform for innovation. Today, on high-end "smart phones" and increasingly on mid-tier "feature phones", Linux helps handset OEMs bring new intelligent devices to market faster and more cost-effectively.
The Mobile Linux Conference at LinuxWorld will not merely tout this progress, but explore how Linux-based platforms really work. The conference will offer developers insight into the technical capabilities of mobile Linux, avenues for creating and customizing mobile system software, and building applications on Linux-based mobile phones and phone "stacks".
Mobile Linux Conference tracks will also detail technical and market challenges facing Linux deployment in mobile, at each stage of the mobile ecosystem, from chipmakers to OSVs to handset OEMs to operators and ISVs. Key themes will include the intersection of community, consortia and commercial concerns, and the creation and deployment of software for and by each.
Session proposals should fall into the two following areas:
>> Mobile Linux Platforms
>> Building Applications on Mobile Linux
Tutorials
Tutorials are three-hour in-depth technical training. Topics could include any of the above focus areas. A workbook handout is required.
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