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The Linux Symposium is a Linux and Open Source conference held annually in Canada. The conference is commonly referred to as OLS, from Ottawa Linux Symposium, though it is no longer necessarily held in Ottawa every year anymore. The conference features 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.

The Linux Symposium is one of the three major international grass-roots Linux and Open Source conferences in the world. The other two are linux.conf.au and Linux Kongress.

History

The 2009 Symposium was held in Montréal, Quebec.

The 2011 Symposium was held in Ottawa.

Keynote speakers

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. There were two mini-summits in 2009: Linux Power Management and Tracing.

Desktop Developers' Conference

The Desktop Developers' Conference was a Linux conference where developers discussed and worked on X11, Linux desktops like GNOME and KDE, FreeDesktop.org projects, and desktop software such as web browsers, office suites, and groupware.[1] In 2004, 2005, and 2006, the conference took place in Ottawa, Canada each year just before the Ottawa Linux Symposium. Ever since 2006, there has not been another Desktop Developers' Conference.

See also

References

  1. ^ X.Org Events history
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