Announcements [LWN.net]

Non-Commercial announcements

Linux Foundation appoints Ted Tso as CTO

The Linux Foundation has announced the appointment of Ted Tso as Chief Technology Officer. "Tso is currently a Linux Foundation fellow, a position he has been in since December 2007. He is one of the most highly regarded members of the Linux and open source community and is known as the first North American kernel developer. Other current and past LF fellows include Steve Hemminger, Andrew Morton, Linus Torvalds and Andrew Tridgell. Tso will be replacing Markus Rex as CTO of the Linux Foundation."

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Commercial announcements

Red Hat Reports Third Quarter Results

Red Hat, Inc. has announced financial results for its fiscal year 2009 third quarter ended November 30, 2008. "Total revenue for the quarter was $165.3 million, an increase of 22% from the year ago quarter and 1% from the prior quarter. Subscription revenue for the quarter was $135.5 million, up 17% year-over-year and flat sequentially." News&Observer takes a look. (Thanks to Rahul Sundaram)

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Surveys

December 2008 Web Server Survey

Netcraft has published the December 2008 Web Server Survey, Apache usage is up again. "nginx shows the 3rd largest growth this month, climbing by more than 10% to reach 3.35 million sites. This server now has nearly 1.8% of the worldwide market share an impressive feat, given that it is the work of just one man, Igor Sysoev."

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Education and Certification

Take the Linux certification exam 102 with confidence (IBM developerWorks)

IBM developerWorks presents an LPI exam 102 prep. "Welcome to the next step in studying for the Linux certification exam 102. This tutorial series serves as a comprehensive self-study guide so you can take the exams with confidence. And even if you're not preparing for Linux certification at this time, this series helps you build fundamental skills on Linux systems administration."

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Calls for Presentations

CONFidence 2009 CFP

A call for papers has gone out for CONFIDENCE 2008. "Calling all practitioners in the field of IT security! The 5th edition of the best Polish IT security conference, CONFIDENCE 2008, is taking place in May 15/16, 2008. We invite all to send the proposed topic and abstracts of presentation till the end of January."

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Upcoming Events

MySQL Conference and Expo Speakers Announced and Registration Open

Registration is open for the 2009 MySQL Conference & Expo. "Sun Microsystems and O'Reilly Media have now opened registration and unveiled the program for the seventh annual MySQL Conference & Expo, April 20-23, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. The world's largest open source database event unites over 2,000 MySQL enthusiasts to harness the power of MySQL and celebrate the huge MySQL community."

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SCALE is shaping up nicely

A SCALE status report has gone out. "The 7th Annual So Cal Linux Expo is shaping up nicely. In spite of adding an additional track to the weekend conference, all four tracks have been filled. The Expo received 148 submittals, all of which were excellent, for 45 speaker slots. The speaker selections have been completed and the speakers are being notified. Keynote speaker selection is in progress. While the Call For Papers for the main conference is closed, the Calls for both WIOS and OSSIE are open until December 31st, and there are still a few speaker slots available for those specialty conferences."

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Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco registration opens

Registration is open for the Web 2.0 Expo. "O'Reilly Media, Inc. and TechWeb, producers of Web 2.0 Expo and Web 2.0 Summit, today announced the return of Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco, the annual event for developers, designers, marketers, and business professionals building the next generation Web. This year, Web 2.0 Expo centers on the idea of "the Power of Less," exploring how the principles of Web 2.0 can turn constraints into opportunities. Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco is March 31 - April 3, 2009 at Moscone West."

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Events: January 1, 2009 to March 2, 2009

The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.

Date(s)	Event	Location
January 8 January 11	Consumer Electronics Show	Las Vegas, NV, USA
January 9 January 11	Fedora User and Developer Conference	Boston, USA
January 15 January 16	Foundations of Open Media Software 2009	Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
January 17 January 23	Camp KDE 2009	Negril, Jamaica
January 19 January 24	linux.conf.au - penguins march south	Hobart, Australia
January 25 January 29	Ruby on Rails Bootcamp with Charles B. Quinn	Atlanta, GA, USA
January 25 January 28	GCC Research Opportunities	Paphos, Cyprus
January 31	Greater London Linux Users Group meeting	London, UK
January 31 February 3	Black Hat Briefings DC	Arlington, VA, USA
February 4 February 5	DC BSDCon 2009	Washington, D.C., USA
February 4 February 6	Money:Tech 2009	New York, NY, USA
February 5 February 9	German Perl Workshop	Frankfurt, Germany
February 7	Frozen Perl 2009	Minneapolis, MN., USA
February 7 February 8	FOSDEM 2009	Brussels, Belgium
February 9 February 11	O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing	New York, NY, USA
February 15	Free Software Awards 2009 Deadline	Soissons, France
February 16 February 18	Open Source Singapore Pacific-Asia Conference	Singapore, Singapore
February 16 February 19	Black Hat DC Briefings 2009	Washington, D.C., USA
February 20	Demonstrating Open-Source Health Care Solutions	Los Angeles, CA, USA
February 20 February 22	Southern California Linux Expo	Los Angeles, CA, USA
February 24 February 26	VMworld Europe 2009	Cannes, France
February 25 February 27	German Perl Workshop	Frankfurt Main, Germany
February 27	PHP UK Conference	London, UK
February 28	Belgian Perl Workshop	Leuven, Belgium
February 28	uCon Security Conference	Recife, Brazil
March 1 March 4	Global Ignite week	Online,

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