The Linux Symposium was a
Linux
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and
Open Source conference held annually in
Canada
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from 1999 to 2014. The conference was initially named Ottawa Linux Symposium and was held only in
Ottawa, but was renamed after being held in other cities in Canada. Even after the name change, however, it was still referred to as OLS. The conference featured 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.
History
The 2009 Symposium was held in
Montréal, Quebec
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.
The 2011 and 2012 Symposium were both held in Ottawa.
In 2014, OLS organizers put together an unsuccessful campaign on
Indiegogo to raise funds in order to pay off debts from previous events.
Ottawa Linux Symposium: May get by with a little help from its friends
Paw Prints: Writings of the maddog, ''Linux Magazine'', July 29, 2014
Keynote speakers
*1999 - Alan Cox
*2000 - David S. Miller, Miguel de Icaza
Miguel de Icaza (born November 23, 1972) is a Mexican programmer, best known for starting the GNOME, Mono, and Xamarin projects.
Biography Early years
De Icaza was born in Mexico City and studied Mathematics at the National Autonomous University ...
*2001 - Ted Ts'o
*2002 - Stephen Tweedie
Stephen C. Tweedie is a Scottish software developer who is known for his work on the Linux kernel, in particular his work on filesystems.
After becoming involved with the development of the ext2 filesystem working on performance issues, he led ...
*2003 - Rusty Russell
Rusty Russell is an Australian free software programmer and advocate, known for his work on the Linux kernel's networking subsystem and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.
Software development
Russell wrote the packet filtering systems ipc ...
*2004 - Andrew Morton
*2005 - David Jones
*2006 - Greg Kroah-Hartman
Greg Kroah-Hartman (GKH) is a major Linux kernel developer. he is the Linux kernel maintainer for the branch, the staging subsystem, USB, driver core, debugfs, kref, kobject, and the sysfs kernel subsystems, Userspace I/O (with Hans J. Koc ...
*2007 - James Bottomley
*2008 - Matthew Wilcox, Werner Almesberger
Werner Almesberger (born 13 August 1967) is an Austrian free software computer programmer and an open-source hardware designer/maker. He is mainly known as a hacker of the Linux kernel.
Contributions to Linux (free software projects) include the ...
, Mark Shuttleworth
Mark Richard Shuttleworth (born 18 September 1973) is a South African and British entrepreneur who is the founder and CEO of Canonical, the company behind the development of the Linux-based Ubuntu operating system. In 2002, Shuttleworth became ...
*2009 - Keith Bergelt, Jonathan Corbet
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, Dirk Hohndel
*2010 - Jon C. Masters, Tim Riker
*2011 - Jon "maddog" Hall
Jon "maddog" Hall (born 7 August 1950) is the board chair for the Linux Professional Institute.
Career
The nickname "maddog" was given to him by his students at Hartford State Technical College, where he was the Department Head of Computer Sc ...
*2014 - Jeff Garzik
Mini-summits
The Symposium hosted "mini-summits" on the day before the conference. They were open to all conference attendees and had their own programme. Five mini-summits were hosted in 2008, including: Virtualization
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, Security-Enhanced Linux
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SELinux is a set of kernel modifications and user-space ...
, Kernel Container Developers', Linux Power Management and Linux Wireless LAN. There were two mini-summits in 2009: Linux Power Management
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and Tracing.
See also
*List of free-software events
The following is a list of computer conferences and other events focused on the development and usage of free and open-source software (FOSS).
General free-software events
Some events with "Linux" in their name are in fact general-purpose free ...
References
External links
*
Ottawa Linux Symposium 10, Day 1
at Linux.com
Proceedings of the Ottawa Linux Symposium
at kernel.org
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Website
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