Red Hat announces first annual summit
By Our Corporate Bureau | 22 Sep 2004
Mumbai: Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT), a leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, today announced the first annual Red Hat Summit to be held in New Orleans between 1 June to 3 June 2005. The summit will bring together the diverse people that make up the open source community, including community contributors, developers, customers and partners. It will blend different views and content into a program useful for attendees building and enabling open source architectures.
General sessions will be held each morning of the three-day summit followed by in-depth sessions grouped into three main tracks for attendees to choose from:
- Practical track: 'How-to' sessions led by industry experts will range from building a failover cluster or storage configuration to SELinux policy management
- Technical track: interactive sessions will feature topics such as performance optimisation, Fedora Project, open source technology trends and high performance computing clusters
- Business and current issues track: in-depth discussions on issues shaping the open source computing industry, such as its role in government, international expansion, intellectual property and volunteerism.
According to Michael Tiemann, open source advocate, Red Hat, "The summit is truly a user-driven event. It is an opportunity for open source users to thoroughly examine relevant choices for their infrastructures."
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