“This is the conference that attracts the best minds in industry, academia and government and our attendees know they will gain insights into the future of high performance computing technologies and how they will affect everything from scientific discovery to product development to education,” said Scott Lathrop, SC11 General Chair.

The Android Builder Summit, to be announced by the Linux Foundation on Wednesday, February 16, will bring together OEMs, device makers, systems builders and kernel community to collaborate on the Android platform.

“There has not been a comprehensive, up-to-date freely available catalog like this for a long time,” said Victor Palau, Platform Services Manager at Canonical. “By making this open and easily searchable we want to speed the component selection for Ubuntu machines, and allow us and our partner manufacturers to focus on the value-added user experience.”

The North American Fedora User and Developer Conference (FUDCon) was held on Arizona State University campus in Tempe Arizona from January 29 -31, 2011 and proved to be the largest FUDCon to date with over 200 people pre-registered to attend and final attendance numbers estimated around 175 people.

Puppet Labs, provider of open source systems management solutions, announced the release of Puppet Enterprise, the first commercially supported version of Puppet.

Canonical, the corporate sponsors of Ubuntu, announced today its partnership with Dell to offer Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) on Dell PowerEdge C2100 and C6100 servers that will ship with tested reference architectures, guides, and support from experts at Dell and Canonical.

During CeBIT 2011 open source projects such as DaviCAL, shared calendar and address book storage servers, will have the opportunity to showcase what is currently in active development.

The open source company Likewise announces that Johns Hopkins University will use Likewise Enterprise for Education to integrate the university's Linux and Mac computers using Microsoft Active Directory.