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LinuxWorld is Dead. Long Live Open Source World! From the "what there is more to open source than just Linux?" files:
As I had predicted earlier this year LinuxWorld is no more. Well not quite. LinuxWorld the big Linux show that occurs ever year in San Francisco is morphing into a new show called OpenSource World. The re-naming follows a move by O'Reilly to bring the OSCON conference to San Francisco earlier this year. "In the past ten years the open source market has evolved tremendously. In 1999, it made perfect sense to create the LinuxWorld event, an exclusively Linux show. But, over the years, the event expanded beyond just Linux," said Melinda Kendall, vice president and general manager, OpenSource World in a statement. "While Linux is the most prominent of hundreds of increasingly successful open source projects, the time is right for us to provide the industry with an event that encompasses not just Linux, but everything under the open source umbrella."Frankly I think this is a bit odd in many ways. OSCON moves to the Bay so LinuxWorld - in the same year changes it's name? Luckily there will still be a named Linux conference - the Linux Foundation's LinuxCon which will be in Portland. So a few moving chairs here. OSCON moves from Portland to the Bay. LinuxWorld becomes OpenSource World and a new conf in Portland. Lots of activity in Linux, open source space for sure, hopefully that's a sign that thought there is an economic slowdown - slow times are not ahead for open source. 0 TrackBacksListed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: LinuxWorld is Dead. Long Live Open Source World!. TrackBack URL for this entry: https://swarm.jupitermedia.com/mt-tb.cgi/5453 5 CommentsLeave a comment |
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SO how many readers of this blog currently expect to have budget to travel 1, 2 or all 3 of these events in the next 12 months?
Is the economy crushing travel plans? Will it?
The Linux ecosystem is vast when you take in all the different free software projects that make it up.
Linux visibility in the mainstream tech media is pathetic, hiding Linux under the rug will do nothing to promote it more. As much as we may find them annoying, there are a lot of press release readers out there.
The problem is the open source moniker is this years Web 2.0, a buzzword everyone wants to attach themselves to. I mean Micrsoft has not one but two open source licenses.
The "Linux will benefit by Osmosis" is bunk.
Linux is such a diverse universe of desktop options and distros that are constantly evolving that it needs to concentrate on its message first.
Linux is easy. Anyone who doesnt believe that can ask my parents in their 70s or all the people I know who have an Acer One w/ Linux. Yet if your last go at Linux was ubuntu 5.04 not even two years ago, you'd think I was retarded. Two years ago, I didnt think Linux was ready for my folks. Mandriva/PcLinuxOS finally convinced me it was.
Things change so quickly in free software.
As a long time developer of free software and working for a Fortune 500 company which is heavily into Linux, I dont think that what is good for Mr.Oreilly is what matters to me nor to the company I work for.
To promote Linux the most effectively, you have to well.... promote it.
Is having limited visibility at the Oreillyfest better than having a whole event named after the operating system?
Yes, for Bill Oreilly Presents.
This whole shuffle sounds like the shell game MLB played when it allowed the carpetbaggers Loria and Samson to sell the Expos to MLB itself so in return they could buy and run the Marlins into the ground because their owners wanted to cut in line to buy the Red Sox.
Thanks for cutting through all the crap. Bottom line is Linux will be in Portland and open source sauce will be in SF.
Good, now I can get in line now at the US/Can border in BC so I can make it in time to Portland!
If mainstream tech media in NoCal wont cover it when its in their backyard, it wont make a difference it is in Portland.
LHS
I wish I could afford to even buy all the mag's for linux let alone go to linux world or any other linux conference
davinci: The Ohio LinuxFest this weekend is free!
I'm interested in Free Software.
I have no interest whatever in Open Source and would never consider going to an Open Source event.