

The annual LinuxCon event is taking place this week in Vancouver. The Linux Foundation is taking the opportunity to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Linux kernel. The week will include festivities, serious keynotes from open source industry leaders, and some technical panels with prominent Linux developers.

Some of the highlights include an introductory keynote by Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin, a talk by Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst about the next 20 years of Linux, and an open chat between well-known kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman and Linux creator Linus Torvalds.

I'm also going to be speaking at the event this year. I'm beaming down from the Strategic Penguin Command Center of the Ars Orbiting HQ and will be in Vancouver all week. The Linux Foundation has invited me back to participate again in the Media Roundtable panel, where I'll be talking about the past, present, and future of Linux reporting with five other journalists.

We held the Media Roundtable panel for the first time at LinuxCon last year, and it was so well-attended that we've decided to do it again with an expanded group of panelists. The excellent roster this year includes Ryan Paul (me), Joe Brockmeier, Sean Michael Kerner, Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Scott Merrill, and Dee-Ann LeBlanc. The panel will be moderated by Jennifer Cloer, the Linux Foundation's communications manager.

If you are at LinuxCon, you can catch the Media Roundtable panel on Thursday, August 18 at 3:00PM in Plaza B. If you aren't at the event, you are going to miss out on my panel, but you can still see the keynotes via the Linux Foundation's live video stream.