Monthly Newsletter

This month the focus is on the LinuxDays exhibition, the reference event for Open Source Software in Swiss Romande, organised by Linalis.

Visitors to LinuxDays will be able to spend 2 days among large and small companies, organisations, projects and associations who will accommodate you on their stands. You will also be able to attend conferences based on 9 themes, in 5 conference rooms, seating between 40 and 200 people ; it is also possible to take examinations for LPI certification at reduced cost and to have our experts help you install Linux on your own computer at our Install Party.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Kindest regards,

Michaël Dupont

The Fourth edition approaches ! Takes place on Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 May 2008 at the Centre International de Conférences de Varembé (CCV) in Geneva.

Free Entrance, but subscribtion needed!

Summary of this years themes (visit the table of conferences for more details) :

Wednesday 21 May :

• Open Source in the world of education
• Collaboration, Groupware, ECM, CMS
• Open Source in the Enterprise : Feedback from experiences
• Telephony and communication tools
• Training and Certification

Thursday 22 May :

• Enterprise Applications: ERP, CRM, SIG, BI
• The Position of the major IT players
• Virtualisation, High Availability and Security
• Open Source Projects

Visiting the stands you will be able to meet :

• Acceleris
• Bull
• Camptocamp
• /ch/open
• Citovox
• Debian
• EGEE
• Flückiger Électricité S.A.
• GULL
• HBE consulting
• Hortis
• HP
• INRIA
• Linagora
• Linalis
• Microsoft
• OpenBSD
• SliTaz
• Sun Microsystems
• SwissLinux
• Swissmedia
• Swiss OpenERP Alliance
• Thales

Plan actuel de l'exposition

• l'État de Genève, (The State of Geneva) our special guests, will be organising conferences on their impending migration to Open Source, starting with The State Department for Education (Département de l'Instruction Publique (DIP)) which is migrating all 9,000 school desktops in time for the new term.
• The City of Munich, will share their first years experience, having migrated their administration departments to Linux and Open Source Software.
• CERN will speak about Grid computing and the project Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE)
• GULL and REALISE are participating at the Install Party
• LPI Central Europe will be taking LPI examinations over the 2 days
• l'AFUL et OpenedHand Ltd. will each be holding a conference

For more information, visit the official web site of LinuxDays.