Next week, many of us will be headed to Chicago for LinuxCon+CloudOpen. If you haven't registered yet, it's not too late. Register now with discount code LC14RH20 to save 20% off registration.

In addition to finding a few of us Red Hatters at the Ceph booth in the expo area, we've got a range of talks worked into the schedule:

Wednesday, August 20

11:15am:

• Why Standardization Is Critical for ARM in servers - Jon Masters
• You Know, for Kids! 7 Ideas for Improving Tech Education in Schools - Rikki Endsley

12:15pm:

• Solving the Package Problem - Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier

3:30pm:

• Managing, Storing, and Safeguarding Unstructured Data in a Cloudy, Regulated World Panel - Frank Karlitschek, ownCloud; Ric Wheeler, Red Hat; Moderated by Alex Williams The Cloud in 10,000 Words (or 10 Pictures) - Gordon Haff, Red Hat

Thursday, August 21

10:45am:

• Ceph, A Decade in the Making and Still Going Strong - Sage Weil, Red Hat
• How Docker Enablement Makes Linux Container Easy to Deploy on Enterprise Linux - Linda Wang, Red Hat

11:45am:

• Are We Running too Fast to the Public Cloud, Can Hybrid Help Us Run Faster? - Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier, Red Hat; Steven Vaughn-Nichols, ZDNet; Markus Rex, ownCloud; Moderated By Gordon Haff, Red Hat
• Empowering Your Corporate OSS Developers - Jono Bacon, XPRIZE; Karl Fogel; Leslie Hawthorn, Elasticsearch; Karsten Wade, Red Hat; Moderated by Guy Martin, Samsung
• Raspberry Pi Hacks and Projects - Ruth Suehle, Red Hat
• How Linux Distros Became Boring (and Fedora's Plan to Put Boring Where It Belongs) - Matthew Miller, Red Hat

3:30pm:

• Getting Recognition for Your Open Source Project/Product - Joseph Eckert, ownCloud; Rikki Endsley, Red Hat; Frank Karlitschek, ownCloud; Mike Maney, ManeyDigital; Moderated By Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier, Red Hat

• OpenDaylight Performance - Daniel Farrell, Red Hat

4:30pm:

• Atomic in Depth: A Look at Project Atomic for Managing Docker Containers - Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier, Red Hat
• Integrating oVirt and Foreman to Empower Your Data-Center - Yaniv Bronheim, Red Hat

Friday, August 22

10:45am:

• Storage Tiering and Erasure Coding in Ceph - Sam Just, Red Hat

11:45am:

• Virgil3D: Journey to a Virtio GPU - Dave Airlie, Red Hat

1:45pm:

• kpatch: Have Your Security and Eat It Too! - Josh Poimboeuf, Red Hat

2:45pm:

• Tux On Top: Open Source at the Top of the Rack - John W. Linville, Red Hat

3:45pm:

• Linux and 3D Printing - Tom Callaway, Red Hat

Extend the Experience

In addition to the technical program and the expo, the LinuxCon schedule includes a bunch of fun onsite activities. Don't forget to pack your costume for Comic Book Hero Day (Thursday, August 21), and your running shoes for the 5k Fun Run (Friday, August 22). See you in Chicago!