The Linux Foundation is giving out linux.com email addresses in return for donations. As an incentive.
So the question I have to ask: Should we give Friends of GNOME, maybe monthly subscribers, gnome.org email addresses? Stormy ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Linux Foundation <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 1:17 PM Subject: [Lf-announce] Linux Foundation Newsletter, June 2009 To: [email protected] In this month's Linux Foundation newsletter: * Linux Foundation Expands Individual Membership Program * Provider of Interactive Teaching Solutions Joins Linux Foundation * Open Voices Interview Series Continues with IBM's Bob Sutor * Online Training Courses Launched This Month * Linux Foundation in the News * From the Director ==> Linux Foundation Expands Individual Membership Program <== The Linux Foundation announced it is expanding its individual membership program, adding a host of new features and benefits including a Linux.com email address (ex: [email protected]). The email address allows members to publicly represent their support for Linux and to demonstrate their community participation. Other benefits of the membership program include a weekly “Linux Briefing Book” in the form of an exclusive email with highlighted news and analysis to keep users well informed. Members also will received 30% off of the Linux Foundation LinuxCon 2009 standard registration fees, a 20% discount on registration fees for Linux Foundation Training, and a free Linux Foundation T-shirt. With these discounts and other benefits, the membership fee of $99/year will easily pay for itself. These features help connect developers, IT administrators, and business executives with unique information, tools, and events that help to advance their careers and stay current with the Linux platform. By becoming a member of the Linux Foundation users are helping the organization that employs Linus Torvalds and supporting programs that promote and protect Linux. The new membership program also comes with opportunities to influence the direction of the Linux Foundation, such as running for a Foundation board seat and voting in the board election. http://www.linux.com http://linux.com/news/featured-blogs/167-amanda-mcpherson/15303-how-you-can-protect-linux-and-get-yournamelinuxcom http://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/join/individual/join ==> Provider of Interactive Teaching Solutions Joins Linux Foundation <== The Linux Foundation welcomes mimio as the newest member of the Linux Foundation. mimio, a leading provider of interactive teaching solutions, recognizes the increasing importance of Linux within educational communities worldwide, as well as the benefits of deploying Linux as a means of lowering per-student IT costs. As one of the first interactive teaching technologies to support the Linux operating system, mimio supports both Linux device driver and cross-platform capabilities, making it the only interactive teaching solution available in Linux. As the newest member of the Linux Foundation, mimio will use popular tools such as the “App Checker” to ease code development as it makes Linux applications more portable than ever before. http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2009/06/provider-interactive-teaching-solutions-joins-linux-foundation ==> Open Voices Interview Series Continues with IBM's Bob Sutor <== In the latest episode of Open Voices, Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin talks with newly appointed VP of Linux and Open Source at IBM Bob Sutor. They cover IBM’s current support of Linux, the origin of that support, and the hotspots Sutor sees in the Linux and open source market today. Highlights include conversation about cloud computing, Linux on the desktop, ODF, and the growth of the Linux community. Sutor will cover these topics in more detail during his keynote at the upcoming LinuxCon conference in September in Portland, OR. http://linux.com/news/featured-blogs/158-jim-zemlin/18087-open-voices-interview-bob-sutor ==> Online Training Courses Launched This Month <== June marks the first online courses provided by the Linux Foundation. The two courses, Essential Linux Device Driver Development Skills and Linux Kernel Debugging and Performance, will be offered online on June 15-16 and June 17-18, respectively. The two-day Essential Linux Device Driver Development Skills course (LF002) provides practice with the key steps in developing Linux device drivers. LF002 shows attendees how device drivers work with the Linux kernel, how to compile and load drivers, and how to debug drivers. Attendees will spend approximately 50 percent of the class time actually gaining hands-on experience with these topics. Linux Kernel Debugging and Performance (LF003) walks participants through kernel documentation, kernel configuration, kernel debugging, kernel measurement, and other tools. For more information on the courses, and links to register, visit http://www.linuxfoundation.org/training/courses/lf002_driver_development http://www.linuxfoundation.org/training/courses/lf003_kernel_debugging ==> Linux Foundation in the News <== The New York Times: Two Years On, Netbooks on Verge of Big Shake-Up Most talked about is Google's Android operating system that is in use on some smart phones. Several prototype devices running Android are on show at Computex although the current iteration of the OS hasn't been adapted for the technically richer environment... A second operating system, Moblin, is also attracting interest. Moblin was originally developed by Intel but the company recently turned over stewardship of the OS to the Linux Foundation in the hopes of building wider industry support for it. ( http://www.nytimes.com/external/idg/2009/06/08/08idg-two-years-on-netbooks-on-verge-of-big-shake-up-86679.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1244556470-tg2XvorusJzwVQ8CtVOy1g ) The H: Status Report: The Linux Driver Project However, while working with some companies on their drivers, the group noticed that there is still a lot of work to be done to educate companies: both in terms of the Linux kernel development process, as well as in the basics of writing drivers for Linux. Kroah-Hartman hopes that, through new training from the Linux Foundation, the increased demand can be met. ( http://www.h-online.com/open/Status-Report-The-Linux-Driver-Project--/news/113468 ) ZDNet: Invisible Linux To Jim Zemlin you need no longer care about your operating system. You don’t buy an operating system. You buy a gadget that runs a program. The gadget and its software are one unit. I call this Invisible Linux. (http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=4327) iTWire: Yourname at Linux.Com What’s more, every member will also receive their own @linux.com forwarding e-mail address. Why be nurk2518 @gmail.com when you could be jedi @linux.com? Imagine the ultimate geek street cred in that? Membership includes other things; you will receive a T-shirt, you can run for and vote in Linux Foundation elections, you receive discounts at Thinkgeek and O’Reilly press and other benefits. (http://www.itwire.com/content/view/25471/1141/) ==> From the Director <== We don’t need to declare the year of the Linux desktop anymore. This week alone was pretty darn good. Having spent the week at Computex, the place where you see all the things that people are going to find in Bestbuy and Amazon 6 months from now, it is clear that Linux has a critical role in client computing. Here is a shortlist of this weeks developments. Moblin Breaks Out Acer announced it will support Moblin across all its product lines. Asus showed some new prototypes at the Moblin executive summit. Canonical, Linpus, Novell, Red Flag, and Xandros all announced they will deliver Moblin versions of their distributions. We even saw several Android applications installed on a netbook running Moblin 2.0 in a speech from Intel on Thursday making it clear that it isn’t necessarily and either or game between the two platforms. Smartbook or Netbook; Common Denominator is Linux Qualcom has dubbed the term “Smartbook” which is defined as combining features of a smartphone and a netbook. It is unclear if this category will stick but there is one thing that both netbooks and smartbooks have in common; Linux. Moblin, Android, and desktop Linux were in all of the preview devices on display behind the scenes and on the show floor at Computex. “Instant on” runs on Linux As I predicted last year, Linux is shipping with a huge number of the PC’s at Computex thanks to a flurry of activity in the “fast boot” segment. On display this year were Fastboot from bios giant Phoenix, Splashtop from DeviceVM, and Presto from Xandros. Clearly consumers are sick of waiting for Windows to boot and with sub five second boot times from each of these vendors using Linux you can access your e-mail or web browser in seconds. Read more at "The Week of the Linux Desktop" http://linux.com/news/featured-blogs/158-jim-zemlin/17129-the-week-of-the-linux-desktop _______________________________________________ Lf-announce mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lf-announce
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