OLS 2012 - Ottawa Linux Symposium

Since 1999 the Linux Symposium has always tried to provide a comfortable collaboration environment for technical people working on all aspects of the Linux Project. We have done our best to provide a vendor neutral academic-style conference where developers, administrators, and users all feel at ease and are able to work together towards a common goal regardless of their corporate affiliation or lack thereof, and without consideration of their cultural background social or economic status. We have frequently introduced new faces to the community; seemingly out of nowhere who have gone on to be major players and have a significant influence on the development process and we believe that our approach helps to foster growth and diversity within our development community.
The goal of the Linux Symposium is to bring together Linux developers, enthusiasts, and systems administrators to improving communication, strengthen the personal connections within the Linux Community and to promote the open and free dissemination of new ideas. We see our community as the most diverse group ever to collaborate on a single project and we are very proud to have played our part for the last 14 years.
Annually our attendees represent over 30 countries and the Symposium strives to be one of best internationally represented Linux events with content coming from all corners of the vast and incredibly diverse Linux and Open Source Software community.
Our past keynote speakers have included many core members of the Linux development community including; Alan Cox, David S. Miller, Miguel de Icaza, Ted Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie, Paul "Rusty" Russell, Andrew Morton, David Jones, Greg Kroah- Hartman, James Bottomley, Werner Almesberger, Mark Shuttleworth, Keith Bergelt, Dirk Hohndel, Tim Riker, and this year we welcome Jon "Maddog" Hall to join this exclusive group.
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Our content submission process is and always will be open to all allowing anyone working on something of interest to submit and we do not require presenters to be members of any consortium, organization, or work for any specific company to have their proposals considered on a fair and level basis.
Our review committee accept proposals purely on the basis of technological merit and the level of community interest in the topic. It has always been our mission to ensure that those with good ideas are given a platform to be heard regardless of their culture, education, or corporate affiliation and we believe any this has led to many new and interesting ideas that might otherwise not have been heard.