Author Archives: Nivedita Singhvi

LPC videos are going up

We’ve started populating the Program page with available videos, including Linus’s git tutorial and some of the security, networking and x  sessions. We’d like to thank the Linux Foundation video site which is hosting these for us.  Not all of the sessions were taped, unfortunately – only the sessions in one of the tracks/rooms all [...]

Thank you all!

The 2009 Linux Plumbers Conference Organizing Committee would like to thank all of our generous sponsors, our fantastic speakers, our enthusiastic attendees, our superb program committee, the Linux Foundation’s indefatigible Angela Brown, the very supportive Linux Foundation Board, the efficient Marriott team,  Oregon State University and its wonderful Open Source Lab which hosts our computer infrastructure, [...]

LPC Registration opens 7:30AM PT Wednesday (come early!)

As we were unfortunately unable to open registration this evening for LPC as planned, we’re urging conference attendees to get an early start on Wednesday morning.
We will open registration around 7:30AM, PT. The conference begins at 9:00AM PT with our welcome and David S. Miller’s keynote address.
As we anticipate that we’ll need to process the [...]

Keynote update and reminders…

I’m delighted to be able to say that we will have David S. Miller, networking maintainer for Linux, key Sparc dude, and long time Linux kernel contributor joining Keith Packard in our keynote lineup at Linux Plumbers Conference. David will be talking on Wednesday and Keith, legendary X Window guru and Linux icon, will be [...]

It’s good and it’s bad – we’ve hit our registration capacity

We’ve reached our conference registration maximum, I’m afraid, and if you attempt to register now, you’ll get our message saying so. While we’re delighted that there has been so much interest in our conference, we’re also sorry to be turning people away. However, wait! All is not lost! If you’re interested in attending Linux Plumbers [...]

Schedule, BoFs, and time running out to register!

If you delay any longer, you’ll have lost out on the opportunity to participate in a terrific technical smorgasbord of events.  Our program schedule is up. One update to the program schedule we will highlight here is a keynote talk by Christopher Marklund of Laika, the animation studio, producer of classics like Coraline.
If you’d like [...]

Program content up – register soon!

We are happy to announce our Microconference and General Track program content. See our Program page for speaker selections and session descriptions. If you have any questions regarding the conference or our program, don’t hesitate to contact us at  contact@linuxplumbersconf.org. Register soon, spots going fast!

Keynote update

We regret to announce that Federal CIO Vivek Kundra will be unable to join us during the conference dates due to a change in his schedule. We are excited, however, about our program -  an early preview of which is available here. Stay tuned for our formal program announcement to come!

Early-bird registration extension – up to August 5

We’ve received requests to extend the early-bird deadline by a few days as people were having some issues with registration. The early-bird registration rate of $275 will now end at midnight on Aug 5, Pacific Time (UTC-0700).  Starting August 6, the regular registration rate of $325 will apply.
However, spots are going fast, we recommend you [...]

Early-bird deadline ends Friday, July 31!

Our early-bird registration discount period ends Friday, July 31st, PT.    Registration fees will go up starting 12:00AM PT, August 1st, from the low, low rate of $275 to the regular registration fee of $325. If you were thinking of attending Linux Plumbers Conference this year (and we know you were!), act now! Spots are going [...]