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Free Live Streaming: CeBIT Open Source Forum March 1-5, 2011

Don't miss free live streaming from the CeBIT Open Source Forum!

Book Review: Designing Interfaces 2nd Edition

A user interface can be loosely defined as the point where a person interacts with a machine. Currently, that interaction point can be a laptop or a smart phone, quite different types of physical presentation space. A solution might look fantastic on a laptop, but not work on smart phone's browser, causing the user to have to scroll around on the page. What we need is a comprehensive collection of interface patterns to use as a guide. Designing Interfaces is that guide.

What's New in the Newest Linux in a Nutshell? Interview with Stephen Figgins

I'm amazed at all the technical people living here in Lawrence, Kansas, so I've decided to do a series of interviews to highlight what our small college town has to offer the international tech community. Recently I sat down with local author Stephen Figgins at a coffee shop to talk about what's new in the latest release of the popular Linux in a Nutshell book.

Don't Miss LIVE Streaming from LinuxCon Linus Torvalds, Jim Zemlin, Mark Shuttleworth, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Chris Wright, Jonathan Corbet, and more via LIVE STREAM

If you can't make it to LinuxCon this year, you can participate remotely through our live video stream, which includes all presentation slides. Keynotes are FREE and three days of conference sessions are only $99!

OpenSourceWorld Report Jono Bacon reports on the co-located OpenSourceWorld, NGDC, and CloudWorld conferences.

Last week I took the 20-minute BART ride from the East Bay over to Moscone West in San Francisco to visit what was once known as LinuxWorld and is now OpenSourceWorld, Next Generation Data Center, and CloudWorld all rolled into one event. Like many others, having been to previous LinuxWorlds, I was curious to see how this re-branding and grouping of events would pan out. LinuxWorld had been getting quite the panning (no pun intended) over the last five years or so, so could the new event cut the mustard and reel back in its once committed group of sightseers?

Red Hat's POSSE introduces academics to FOSS Professor's Open Source Summer Experience

Recently, five college professors spent an intense five days with Red Hat employees and other members of the free and open source software (FOSS) community. Red Hat called the experience POSSE (Professors' Open Source Summer Experience). The goal of the week was to show how FOSS could be used in post-secondary education, and to create a community to further the goal.

Event report: Velocity 2009 State of the Web

O'Reilly's Velocity Conference, held June 22-24 in San Jose, California, was one of the most relevant conferences on the state of the Web.

Meeting the President of Brazil at FISL 10 FISL 10.0 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, included a visit from a special guest.

FISL 10.0 in Porto Alegre, Brazil was the best yet, for many reasons. For a long time I have been impressed with how the FISL organizers (most, if not all of which are volunteers) have brought together government, industry and the community to put on an ever-larger and more complex event.

Patents, Protests, Plebiscites, and Protecting your freedom Lunch with Richard Stallman

When he attended a rally in Munich this month, Richard Stallman took time out of his busy schedule to talk with our News Editor, Britta Wülfing. The conversation covered everything from Software as a Service, to patents, protests, international politics, and protecting your freedom.

SXSW Interactive Report Action in Austin

The South by Southwest Interactive conference purports to showcase the best minds and brightest personalities in emerging technology. The Interactive portion of this year's event took place from March 12-16 in Austin, Texas. The entire SXSW festival is composed of Interactive, Film, and Music conferences and turns the city of Austin into one large media fest.