The Linux Symposium was a
Linux
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and
open source
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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
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, 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
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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
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Biography Early years
De Icaza was born in Mexico City and studied Mathematics at the Nation ...
*2001 - Ted Ts'o
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*2002 - Stephen Tweedie
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After becoming involved with the development of the ext2 filesystem working on performance issues, he led ...
*2003 - Rusty Russell
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Software development
Russell wrote the packet filtering systems ipch ...
*2004 - Andrew Morton
*2005 - David Jones
*2006 - Greg Kroah-Hartman
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*2007 - James Bottomley
*2008 - Matthew Wilcox
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Christianity
* Matthew the Apostle, one of ...
, Werner Almesberger
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Contributions to Li ...
, Mark Shuttleworth
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*2009 - Keith Bergelt, Jonathan Corbet
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, Dirk Hohndel
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*2010 - Jon C. Masters
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Notable people
* Jon Aaraas (born 198 ...
, Tim Riker
*2011 - Jon "maddog" Hall
Jon "maddog" Hall (born 7 August 1950) is the board chair for the Linux Professional Institute.
Early life
Hall helped his father assemble toys at a toy store, and had three years of high school electronics shop.
Career
The nickname "madd ...
*2014 - Jeff Garzik
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Music
* DJ Jazzy Jeff, American DJ/turntablist record producer Jeffrey Allen Townes
* ...
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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Virtualization began in the 1960s wit ...
, Security-Enhanced Linux
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SELinux is a set of kernel modifications and user-space to ...
, 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
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General free-software events
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References
External links
*
Ottawa Linux Symposium 10, Day 1
at Linux.com
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Proceedings of the Ottawa Linux Symposium
at kernel.org
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