Conference: LinuxCon North America Information: LinuxCon is the only event covering all matters Linux - offering collaboration and education for everyone in the ecosystem from developers and maintainers to sys admins and architects to business executives and community members. Date: August 20-22, 2014 Location: Chicago, Illinois Website: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-north-america Call for Papers Deadline: May 2, 2014 Call for Papers URL: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-north-america/program/cfp Conference: CloudOpen North America Information: CloudOpen is the only conference offering collaboration and education for all matters of open source cloud, from CloudStack to KVM to Xen, Hadoop, Gluster, OpenStack and more. Date: August 20-22, 2014 Location: Chicago, Illinois Website: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudopen-north-america Call for Papers Deadline: May 2, 2014 Call for Papers URL: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudopen-north-america/program/cfp -- Brian Proffitt - oVirt Community Manager Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com Phone: +1 574 383 9BKP IRC: bkp @ OFTC