For the 12th year, LinuxFest Northwest 2011 is happening April 30th and May 1st.

Red Hat announced today that nominations are open for its annual Red Hat Certified Professional of the Year awards and for the first time, the awards are open to include any individual holding a current Red Hat certification.

The speakers' program at CeBIT Open Source in hall2 in Hannover, Germany, from March 1 through 5, 2011 is finalized, with a gaggle of Linux and open source celebrities. The talks will be available as live online video stream.

Launched today, The Ada Initiative is a new non-profit organization dedicated to increasing participation of women in open technology and culture.

The North American Fedora User and Developer Conference (FUDCon) was held on Arizona State University campus in Tempe Arizona from January 29 -31, 2011 and proved to be the largest FUDCon to date with over 200 people pre-registered to attend and final attendance numbers estimated around 175 people.

Canonical, the corporate sponsors of Ubuntu, announced today its partnership with Dell to offer Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) on Dell PowerEdge C2100 and C6100 servers that will ship with tested reference architectures, guides, and support from experts at Dell and Canonical.

The CeBIT Open Source project lounge which is part of CeBIT Open Source called for projects to apply for free exhibit space. A jury has now selected and announced the fifteen free, non-commercial projects that will receive exhibit space at CeBIT for free.

During CeBIT 2011 open source projects such as Crypto Stick, USB stick developed to allow easy and high-secure encryption of emails and more, will have the opportunity to showcase what is currently in active development.