The Linux Foundation executive director, Jim Zemlin responds to Nokia’s announcement of its partnership with Microsoft.

Launched last week, Beyond FUDCon highlights the Fedora community and project. This week we look at the Fedora Ambassador Program through the eyes and experience of Fedora Ambassador, Larry Cafiero.

Matt Zimmerman, Canonical CTO, with help from Mary Gardiner, Valerie Aurora and Benjamin Mako Hill, leads the effort for Ubuntu to adopt a diversity statement.

Join Opensource.com and General Hugh Shelton, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and now Chairman of the Board of Directors of Red Hat, for the Open Your World Forum webcast on February 16, 2011.

For the 12th year, LinuxFest Northwest 2011 is happening April 30th and May 1st.

The speakers' program at CeBIT Open Source in hall2 in Hannover, Germany, from March 1 through 5, 2011 is finalized, with a gaggle of Linux and open source celebrities. The talks will be available as live online video stream.

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.

The CeBIT Open Source project lounge which is part of CeBIT Open Source called for projects to apply for free exhibit space. A jury has now selected and announced the fifteen free, non-commercial projects that will receive exhibit space at CeBIT for free.