Jon 'maddog' Hall introduces himself and rolls out the first installment in his new monthly community-focused column.

PHPWomen.org recently held an article-writing contest on their Best Practices Forum. Authors of the two winning submissions each received copies of Zend Studio for Eclipse, a 1-year subscription to Linux Pro Magazine (which is called Linux Magazine outside North America), and the opportunity to feature their articles on the magazine websites. Congratulations goes to Gerard Sychay for his winning submission!

On August 7, Brian Proffitt, former Managing Editor of Linux Today and the new LDN Community Manager, announced the beta release of the Linux Foundation's Linux Developer Network.

Our roving camera makes another stop at the LinuxWorld .org pavillion for a talk with the team from Infiscale, where we learned about some open source clustering solutions.

Joe Casad talks to Fedora Community Manager Karsten Wade.

Linux Pro Magazine's Editor in Chief, Joe Casad, sat down with Ubuntu's Community Manager, Jono Bacon, at this week's LinuxWorld in San Francisco.

Linux Pro Magazine's Editor in Chief, Joe Casad meets Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier at LinuxWorld in San Francisco

Daniel Phillips has relaunched his Tux filesystem. After Tux2 failed due to patenting issues eight years ago, Phillips has now invited developers to collaborate on Tux3.