The Linux Foundation on Wednesday is planning an event geared especially for end users. Lucky participants will get to engage with high-level devs in the Linux community.

When is the event? According to Infoworld, it’s tentatively scheduled for October 13 and 14, the first Linux Foundation End User Collaboration Summit will be held in New York City. This will give users the chance to talk shop with senior Linux developers, with the foundation hoping that this will help boost Linux usage and adoption.

"The open source development model is unique. End users not only give feedback on the software; they’re a fundamental and critical part of the community, submitting patches and developing new features themselves," said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, in a statement.

Though the event is free, it is invitation-only. Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian will be making an address among other speakers which include Paul Cormier, executive vice president and president of products and technologies at Red Hat.

Also expect question-and-answer sessions as well as discussions with Linux maintainers such as Andrew Morton and James Bottomley. Big corporate names will also be present in the form of Linux users from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, New York Stock Exchange, AIG Credit Suisse, and Fidelity National Information Services.

Tech conferences like the End User Collaboration Summit are a regular thing with established proprietary technologies, but the whole selective end user to dev interaction might make this fairly interesting. The interaction here is key lest it end up being one of those ‘cram everything in as little time as possible’ firehosing sessions most tech conferences end up being.

If you’re a fairly advanced Linux user with burning questions for the devs, then apply for an invitation at the Linux Foundation’s Web site. The foundation will select participants based on their potential for ‘high-quality discussions with the kernel community’.

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Entry was posted on Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 at 1:50 pm under Linux.

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