The Linux Foundation announces 2016 Collaboration Summit

The Linux Foundation has made an announcement regarding its 2016 events. These events provide a common ground for creators, maintainers and practitioners of the world to meet. They allow attendees to view technological trends in the nascent phases and to assist in the evolution of the world’s biggest shared technology resources. The events gather the industry’s best talent and most influential developers, maintainers and sysadmins to keep a close eye on trends in open source, like Big Data, cloud native applications, containers, IoT, Linux, networking, security, and much more.

According to Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation, “Linux Foundation events are where the world’s best technologists meet, collaborate and advance the greatest shared technologies of our time. They are also the place to identify technology trends early, as open source developers and IT managers start projects or advance their ideas during these in-person opportunities.”

The Foundation’s Collaboration Summit commenced in 2007 and is back this year with better focus on cross-collaboration between open source projects. Apart from tracks focusing on certain project areas, which include open networking, IoT, Big Data and containers, there are also tracks dedicated to topics which