SkySQL Ab, the company behind the SkySQL™ Enterprise subscription, is the first choice in affordable database solutions for the MySQL® database for the enterprise and cloud. Founded by former executives, personnel, and investors of MySQL AB, SkySQL Ab is an open source software company committed to furthering the future development of MySQL-based database technologies, while delivering cost-effective database solutions and exceptional customer service. SkySQL Ab’s customers include ATOS Worldline, Canal+, Deutsche Telekom, ClubMed, Lotte.com, La Poste, Constant Contact and Virgin Mobile. SkySQL’s worldwide headquarters is located in Helsinki, Finland. The company has operations in Asia, Europe and North America. For more information, please call +1(877) 303-5799, or visit www.skysql.com, and follow conversations at www.twitter.com/skysql.

CloudStack is open source software written in Java that is designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, scalable cloud computing platform. CloudStack current supports the most popular open source hypervisors VMware, Oracle VM, KVM, XenServer and Xen Cloud Platform. 

For more information please visit www.cloudstack.org.

Esri is an exciting company doing important work. Our technology enables organizations to create responsible and sustainable solutions to problems at local and global scales.

At Esri, we believe that geography is at the heart of a more resilient and sustainable future. Governments, industry leaders, academics and NGOs trust us to connect them with the analytical knowledge they need to make these critical decisions that shape the planet.

We invite you to discover ways that you can leverage our technology and expertise in your own organization.

Esri develops geographic information systems (GIS) that function as an integral component in nearly every type of organization.

Carefully managed growth and zero debt give Esri stability that is uncommon in today's highly volatile business world. Private ownership means no stockholders forcing short-term decisions at the expense of long-term objectives.

Oracle is a strong supporter of Linux and FOSS projects like MySQL.

Oracle Technology Network (OTN) , has been proud to support LinuxFest Northwest for several years,

You can find us on the web at http://otn.oracle.com/linux

You can find Oracle's Linux Engineering resources at :

http:/oss.oracle.com/   for linux and FOSS projects

http://oss.oracle.com/git to get access to our public git repository

http://public-yum.oracle.com/beta to try out our newest high perfomance linux kernel, this is the one they used in the new world record x86 TPC benchmark.

Oracle Linux and Oracle VM can be downloaded for free from

http://edelivery.oracle.com/linux

Linux Fund is a 501©3 non-profit dedicated to helping the Open Source community with funding and organizational issues. Linux Fund has been a long time supporter of LinuxFest Northwest and the concept of inexpensive community sponsored Open Source events like LinuxFest Northwest. Other Linux Fund programs include:

1. BSDFund – A special fund that provides provides financial and advisory support to BSD-related projects.
2. LinuxFund/FOSSFA – A partnership with an African NGO to help spread Open Source software in Africa.
3. gEDA/PCB – An Open Hardware project.
4. Special funds to help a number of Open Source projects including gnash, inkscape, and vector section.
5. Open.org – An effort to purchase and develop this domain for the benefit of the Open Source community.

Please visit our web site at LinuxFund.org and consider making a donation or applying for the Linux Fund credit card.

Brown Paper Tickets is a Not-Just-For-Profit ticketing company focused on making the world better, one ticket at a time. Give more. Take less. We keep prices as low as possible while providing the very best services, support package and features. We're not looking to make the most money possible, we're looking to change the live events industry for the better. And why stop there? Play nice. Have fun. Be a good citizen and share what you have. It works.

Logos Bible Software is a growing company located in beautiful Bellingham, Washington (with a second software development office near Phoenix, Arizona). We offer a comprehensive benefits package including healthcare, dental care, and 401(k). We also offer free soda pop, espresso machines, a bike shop, reduced cost gym memberships, and continuous learning programs. Please visit our blog to learn about our corporate culture.

Logos Bible Software is hiring. Check out our jobs page. Here are some of our more technical openings:

10gen develops MongoDB, and offers production support, training, and consulting for the open source database.

MongoDB focuses on four main things: flexibility, power, speed, and ease of use.

Flexibility

MongoDB stores data in JSON documents (which we serialize to BSON). JSON provides us a rich data model that seamlessly maps to native programming language types, and since its schema-less, makes it much easier to evolve your data model than with a system with enforced schemas such as a RDBMS.

Power

MongoDB provides a lot of the features of a traditional RDBMS such as secondary indexes, dynamic queries, sorting, rich updates, upserts (update if document exists, insert if it doesn't), and easy aggregation. This gives you the breadth of functionality that you are used to from an RDBMS, with the flexibility and scaling capability that the non-relational model allows.

Speed/Scaling

The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2000, it sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading companies and developers from around the world. The Linux Foundation promotes, protects and standardizes Linux by providing unified resources and services needed for open source to successfully compete with closed platforms.

The Linux Foundation's mission is to promote, protect and standardize the Linux platform to fuel its growth around the world. The Linux Foundation marshals the resources of the Linux ecosystem to provide much needed services that are not easily offered by a single community member, entity or company. It uses a shared resources strategy – much as open source developers do – to collaborate on platform development while enhancing the Linux market for everyone: end users, the community, developers and industry..

Available in both print and digital editions, /Linux Pro Magazine/ (/Linux Magazine/ outside North America) brings practical, hands-on solutions for real users who depend on Linux in their daily lives. Our readers are a new generation of Linux experts who are pushing the limits of Linux as a server, desktop, and development platform. They read /Linux Pro Magazine/ to learn more about technologies and products for Linux. Our unique combination of advanced coverage with a practical emphasis makes Linux Pro Magazine a great fit for the kinds of reader who tend to make decisions and pass on recommendations.

The League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA) is a nonprofit corporation with members throughout the world. Our mission is to advance the practice of system administration; to support, recognize, educate, and encourage its practitioners; and to serve the public through education and outreach on system administration issues.

LOPSA membership benefits fall into two classes. The first involves support of you as a member and a sysadmin. LOPSA is working to provide educational and networking opportunities, a forum for support and ideas, and an active community engaged in discussion of sysadmin issues.

Check us out at LinuxFest Northwest 2012

Almost 1000 shows contributed by the community - HPR is you!

Promote your Project, share your Passion, learn about Linux!

Hacker Public Radio (HPR) is an Internet Radio show (podcast) that releases shows every weekday Monday through Friday. HPR has a long lineage going back to Radio FreeK America, Binary Revolution Radio & Infonomicon, and it is a direct continuation of Twatech radio.

http://hackerpublicradio.org

The Next Generation I.T. Club is the official student run I.T. Club of Cascadia Community College in Bothell, Wa.

We give student hands on training in using infomation technology to build  web servers,web applications, mobile applications, robots, and games.

We are the first official beta chapter node of WapTug.Org. (Web Application Programming Technology User Groups)

The Greater Seattle Linux User Group (GSLUG) is the main Seattle area LUG. We promote Linux use among all levels and hold monthly talks in the Seattle area.

McKenna Interpreting Services schedules and coordinates volunteer sign language interpreters.

See http://Linux-Now.us . TAPCUG Linux SIG will demonstrate and hand out free CD's for the best Linux distributions including Bodhi Linux 1.4.0 and Kubuntu Linux 12.04. We plan to demonstrate Bodhi Linux on a Genesi i.MX51 ARM processor netbook and Bodhi/Kubuntu on an Asus eee 1000HA Intel processor netbook.

O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, research, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and galvanizing their adoption by amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.

Lullabot is the world's top Drupal consulting and education company. Most people know Lullabot for the company's well-regarded Drupal Podcasts, comprehensive Drupal training videos and DVDs, award-winning community leadership, and the company's public and private Drupal training events. Lullabot has also provided technical architecture, guided development, and helped launch several of Drupal's top sites including those by The Grammys, Sony Music, IBM, O'Reilly Media, Lifetime Television, Fast Company, MTV UK, Harvard University, Walmart, the BBC, Verizon, and the Washington Post.

TAG informs, represents, and connects Whatcom area technology businesses and professionals.

We do this through work that focuses on the following areas:

• Connected Community – Building communities of best practices, events, networking opportunities & professional development activities
• Friendly Policy – Advocating for policies and laws locally that strengthen and support high tech companies & their ability to do business (taxes, facilities, parking, traffic)
• Workforce and Educational Development – Ensuring we have a well-trained and skilled talent base for companies to draw on for employees
• Technology Infrastructure – Supporting improved broadband infrastructure, facilitate access to business support services, and promote University R&D and industry partnerships

No Starch Press publishes the finest in geek entertainment — distinctive books on computing, such as bestsellers Steal This Computer Book, Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, Practical Packet Analysis, and The Manga Guides. We focus on open source/Linux, security, hacking, programming, alternative operating systems, and science and math. Our titles have personality and attitude, our authors are passionate about their subjects, and we read and edit every book that bears our name. Our goal is to make computing accessible to technophile and novice alike, and our readers appreciate our straightforward presentation and fearless approach to the complex world of technology.

30 YEARS of Craftsmanship


When Brenthaven began making wilderness packs over 30 years ago, our products were aimed at explorers and adventurers – people who needed to survive extreme conditions in the outdoors.

Today, Brenthaven designs the most protective cases for your mobile technology, and then crafts the product so it will survive the rigors of your active digital lifestyle. Our range of award-winning laptop bags and other mobile technology cases are designed with the same exquisite craftsmanship and integrity that has made Brenthaven a trusted name since 1980.

What drives Woods?

PaulPaulito.com, a Linux Professional Institute Approved Training Partner (LPI-ATP), is a revolutionary online learning video platform that offers IT training courses for professionals in Open Source software technologies like Linux based operating systems.

PaulPaulito.com training courses are unique high-quality Linux training videos and Linux Practice Exams produced in the English, German and Spanish languages.

This Linux courseware can be used for just learning all kinds of Linux topics (Linux Fundamentals) or to prepare yourself for a vendor neutral certification like CompTIA Linux+ and LPIC-1.

PaulPaulito.com especially developed their Linux training videos to fit to mobile devices (m-Learning). For more information please visit www.paulpaulito.com