The Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), a nonprofit, vendor-neutral consortium dedicated to driving interoperability and adoption of comprehensive open solutions, today announced it is hosting the first in its series of Interoperability Hack-a-Thons at O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, Ore., July 23 – 27, 2007.

CIOs gain a “one-stop” neutral forum for sharing and learning more about interoperability needs for open solutions.

The board members of the Florida Linux Show 2008 have elected Jacksonville, Florida as the city to hold the 2008 Conference and Exhibition.

"I'm attending the Linux Foundations' first annual Linux Collaboration Summit from the Google campus in Mountainview California today and tomorrow, and will add periodically to this post as the day goes along."

Sirius Corporation, Europe's leading Open Source services group, has been announced as a sponsor for the forthcoming DebConf7 conference taking place from Sunday 17 to Saturday 23 June 2007, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Registration has now began for the 5th annual Ohio Linux Fest, set to take place September 29th, 2007.

When the pale blue "Linux car," also known as car #77 from Chastain Motorsports, was the first car to crash in the 91st Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, we can imagine hordes of geeks wishing it had been a "Vista car" instead. Imagine the "blue screen of death" jokes that could have resulted!

LinuxTag takes place next week from Wed 30 – Sat 2 in Berlin, Germany on the fairground “Messegelände unter dem Funkturm”. We can provide approx. 50 visitor vouchers which enables you to get free access to the event.