Also expands its Linux training program to offer new classes in
new geographies for developers and sys admins
SAN FRANCISCO, January 26, 2010 – The Linux
Foundation®, the nonprofit organization dedicated to
accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced a free Linux
Training Webinar Series that will enable attendees to learn the
fundamentals of Linux directly from the source of Linux, the
developers themselves. The webinar series will feature Linux
Foundation technical advisory board (TAB) members and other
community developers. The first Webinar in the series is “How
To Contribute to the Linux Community,” led by Jon Corbet, and
available March 1. To register, please visit:
http://training.linuxfoundation.org/
This webinar series complements the expanded Linux Foundation
training program that now spans the globe with classes in Boston,
London, Ottawa, San Francisco, Sydney, Tokyo and Washington, D.C.
The Linux Foundation is also today publishing its Winter/Spring
2010 course catalog, which comprises a variety of ways to train,
including classes co-located with the organization’s 2010
events (such as the Collaboration Summit and LinuxCon, among
others). New course offerings available from the community’s
leading technical talent include embedded Linux; Linux device
drivers; Linux kernel internals and debugging; application
development for Linux; performance and tuning; and Git
essentials.
The free Linux training webinar series features notable
technical leaders from the Linux community. Confirmed webinars
include:
· “An Introduction to Git,” by kernel
maintainer and TAB chair James Bottomley;
· “Linux System Troubleshooting and Tuning”
and “Linux Administration 101,” by Linux author and
community manager Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier;
· “How to Work with the Linux community,” by
LWN.net editor and kernel developer Jon Corbet;
· “A Linux Filesystem Overview” and
“Linux Virtualized Storage,” by TAB member and kernel
developer Christoph Hellwig;
· “Btrfs: An Intro and Update” to the new
file system for Linux, by project lead and TAB member Chris Mason;
and
· “Linux Performance Tuning,” by North
America’s first kernel developer Ted Ts’o.
To sign up for notifications as these, and others webinars, are
added to the schedule, please visit:
http://training.linuxfoundation.org/.
“The Linux Foundation’s Training Program connects
developers and users with the rock-stars of Linux in a
vendor-neutral forum to expand the talent pool for Linux,”
said Jim Zemlin, executive director at the Linux Foundation.
“All industry research points to the fact that demand for
Linux talent is outpacing the supply. Our training program helps
this by providing highly-technical training that provides job
seekers with the skills they need to both grow their careers and
advance the increasingly competitive Linux platform.”
The maturity of Linux combined with a new economic reality in IT
has led to a another cycle of accelerated growth for the Linux
operating system, especially in the area of mobile and embedded
Linux. According to forecasts published by research firm Gartner in
October 2009, Linux is the fastest growing operating system on
smart phones while Windows in decline. This growth has resulted in
high demand for professionals with Linux-related skills; IT analyst
firm Foote Brothers has reported a 50 percent increase in this
demand in just the last year. The Linux Foundation’s webinar
series and expanded training program aims to offer technical
classes in all the skill areas most valuable to the growing Linux
job market.
Built in collaboration with the Linux Foundation’s TAB
(which comprises leading maintainers from the Linux community), the
Linux Foundation’s Training Program provides a
vendor-neutral, technically advanced learning opportunity. Linux
Foundation training classes give students the broad, foundational
knowledge and networking needed to thrive in today’s job
market.
About the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to
fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the Linux
Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is
supported by leading Linux and open source companies and developers
from around the world. The Linux Foundation promotes, protects and
standardizes Linux by hosting important workgroups, events and
online resources such as Linux.com. For more information, please
visit www.linuxfoundation.org.
