Linux Symposium
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The Linux Symposium (commonly referred to as OLS) is a Linux and Open Source conference held annually in Canada. It features paper presentations, tutorials, birds of a feather sessions and mini summits on a wide range of topics related to Free and Open Source technology.
The 2009 Linux Symposium will be held in Montréal, Quebec.
The Linux Symposium is one of three International grass-roots Linux and Open Source conferences in the world. The other two are linux.conf.au and Linux Kongress.
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
2008 - Matthew Wilcox | Werner Almesberger | Mark Shuttleworth
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.