On Wednesday, April 20, 2011, Adam Drew of Red Hat will host the Making Music with FOSS webcast as part of the Open Your World Forum Series sponsored by opensource.com.

Announced today on the Fedora announce mailing list, the Fedora 15 (Lovelock) beta is now available for download.

The Call for Presentations (CFP) for the Ohio Linux Fest (OLF) end on May 1, 2011 and organizers are encouraging individuals to submit their proposals as soon as possible.

Oracle announced its intentions to move OpenOffice.org to a community-based open source project and to no longer offer a commercial version of Open Office.

OpenStack today announced the availability of the Cactus releases of Compute and Object Storage.

The Linux Foundation announced the keynote speakers and details of the Gala event to take place at LinuxCon North America on August 17-19 in Vancouver, Canada.

Zorin announces its own commercial Linux computer called the Zorin PC and is marketing the new PC as a gateway for Windows users to move to a Linux-based system.

Red Hat announces IBM, Accenture, Alfresco, Cisco, HP and Intel representatives are scheduled to deliver keynotes at the seventh annual Red Hat Summit and JBoss World, May 3-6, 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts.

Texas Instruments (TI) announces the OpenLink project which focuses on providing a wide range of wireless connectivity solutions for Linux.

Novell announces updates to its Long Term Service Pack Support (LTSS) Program that extends support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server to 10 years.