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Keynote and Full Schedule Announced for Academy Software Foundation's Open Source Days 2023

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Friday, July 21, 2023

LOS ANGELES, July 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Academy Software Foundation – the motion picture industry's premier organization for advancing open source software development across image creation, visual effects, animation, and sound technologies – has announced the full schedule for its upcoming Open Source Days event, with the Main Program taking place on August 6, accompanied by a new Virtual Town Hall Series with presentations scheduled from July 25 through August 3, and a full day of Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions at SIGGRAPH on August 7.

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  • Held annually, Open Source Days is the leading event dedicated to furthering open source software development for the visual effects, animation, and digital content creation industries, bringing together leaders from creative studios, software and hardware makers, and more.
  • The Main Program for Open Source Days will be held on August 6 in Los Angeles at the JW Marriott LA Live, with a virtual attendance option as well.
  • This year's Open Source Days keynote will be delivered by Wenzel Jakob, Assistant Professor in the Realistic Graphics Lab at Switzerland's EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences, on " Strategies for Open Source Development in Academia ."
  • For more information on Open Source Day and to register to attend, please visit: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-days/
    Open Source Days 2023 will conclude with a full day of open source Birds of a Feather sessions on Monday, August 7 at the JW Marriott LA Live.

Florasis - The Only Chinese Brand Being Invited to Participate in the World's Top Fashion Forum

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Monday, June 5, 2023

Since its inception, the forum has only invited globally renowned beauty brands, industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators, without any Chinese brands being invited. However, this year, a Chinese beauty brand  -- Florasis made its debut at the forum. 

Key Points: 
  • Since its inception, the forum has only invited globally renowned beauty brands, industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators, without any Chinese brands being invited.
  • However, this year, a Chinese beauty brand -- Florasis made its debut at the forum.
  • In the fashion industry, it is referred to as the "industry bible," "the Economist of fashion," and "the most influential fashion website in the world".
  • It is worth mentioning that Florasis is the only Chinese beauty brand invited to the forum since its inception.

The Linux Foundation Announces Schedule for Embedded Open Source Summit

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Thursday, April 13, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO, April 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the full schedule for Embedded Open Source Summit. The event will take place June 27-30, 2023 in Prague, Czech Republic, as well as virtually. The full schedule can be viewed here.

Key Points: 
  • SAN FRANCISCO, April 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Linux Foundation , the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the full schedule for Embedded Open Source Summit .
  • As host to several embedded open source projects, The Linux Foundation is committed to creating environments that further enable and advance the technologies we increasingly rely upon.
  • Some of the most well known conferences for embedded technology will now host their community gatherings at the Embedded Open Source Summit (EOSS) , a new umbrella event created to provide a forum for discussion, collaboration and education among open source embedded projects and developer communities.
  • This year's event is composed of six micro conferences: Automotive Linux Summit Europe , Embedded IoT Summit , Embedded Linux Conference , LF Energy Embedded Summit , Safety-Critical Software Summit , and Zephyr® Project Developer Summit .

SIP Forum Opens Call for Presentations for SIPNOC 2023, September 12 - 14, 2023

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Tuesday, April 4, 2023

NORTH ANDOVER, Mass., April 4, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The SIP Forum announced today that it has opened the official Call for Presentations for the 12th annual SIP Network Operators Conference (SIPNOC 2023), being held at the Hilton Washington Dulles Hotel in Herndon, VA, September 12 -14, 2023.

Key Points: 
  • NORTH ANDOVER, Mass., April 4, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The SIP Forum announced today that it has opened the official Call for Presentations for the 12th annual SIP Network Operators Conference (SIPNOC 2023) , being held at the Hilton Washington Dulles Hotel in Herndon, VA, September 12 -14, 2023.
  • To view the official call for presentations, which includes instructions on submitting material and specific SIPNOC policies, please visit https://www.sipforum.org/news-events/sipnoc-2023-overview/sipnoc-2023-ca... .
  • For more information about SIPNOC 2023, please visit http://www.sipnoc.org or send an email to [email protected] .
  • For information about corporate sponsorship opportunities at SIPNOC 2023, please contact Marc Robins, SIP Forum President and Managing Director, at 203-829-6307 or [email protected] .

Sold Out ApacheCon North America 2022 Adds New Keynotes

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Thursday, September 22, 2022

WILMINGTON, Del., Sept. 22, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 open source projects and initiatives, announced the keynotes for the recently sold out ApacheCon North America 2022 taking place October 3-6, 2022 in New Orleans, LA.

Key Points: 
  • WILMINGTON, Del., Sept. 22, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 open source projects and initiatives, announced the keynotes for the recently sold out ApacheCon North America 2022 taking place October 3-6, 2022 in New Orleans, LA.
  • ApacheCon is where the open source community comes to discuss big data, analytics, developer tools, data governance, community development, cloud-native technologies, and more.
  • ApacheCon will be held at the Canal Street Sheraton in New Orleans, LA, from October 3-6, 2022.
  • "Apache" and "ApacheCon" are registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries.

CHELSIO T7 DPU PROMOTES BROAD ETHERNET STORAGE NETWORKING, ENABLING HIGHLY FLEXIBLE, OPEX-OPTIMIZED ENTERPRISE AND CLOUD IMPLEMENTATIONS

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Tuesday, September 13, 2022

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Chelsio Communications, Inc., a leading provider of high performance (1/2.5/10/25/40/50/100/200/400Gb) Ethernet Unified Wire Adapters and ASICs for storage networking, virtualized enterprise datacenters, cloud service installations, and cluster computing environments, today announced a set of storage demonstrations and performance benchmark results which showcase how T7 DPU enables optimal application performance and return-on-investment (ROI) for NVMe-TCP, NVMe-oF (RDMA) and iSCSI technologies at the annual Storage Developer Conference, which will be on September 12-15, 2022.  

Key Points: 
  • The T7 DPU Emulation Platform supports a 5U chassis that connects to a server host via a PCIe ribbon cable.
  • T7 Emulation Platform delivers an aggregate of 40 Gigabit Ethernet (40GbE) bandwidth via 4x10GbE or 2x40GbE connectivity options.
  • The T7 Emulation Platform for software development is available to Chelsio T7 Early Access customers.
  • T7 DPU provides such access using a variety of offloaded storage protocols including T7-powered NVMe/TCP, NVMe-oF and iSCSI to meet the needs of innovative applications."

The Linux Foundation Announces Conference Schedule for Open Source Summit North America 2022

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Thursday, April 21, 2022

SAN FRANCISCO, April 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the full schedule for Open Source Summit North America, the leading conference for open source developers and community leaders, taking place June 21-24 in Austin, Texas and virtually. The schedule can be viewed here and the previously announced keynote speakers can be viewed here.

Key Points: 
  • SAN FRANCISCO, April 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Linux Foundation , the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the full schedule for Open Source Summit North America , the leading conference for open source developers and community leaders, taking place June 21-24 in Austin, Texas and virtually.
  • Comprised of 14 events , including LinuxCon, Embedded Linux Conference, SupplyChainSecurityCon, CloudOpen, OSPOCon, Emerging OS Forum, ContainerCon and more, Open Source Summit North America 2022 will cover the most important and cutting edge topics and technologies touching open source today.
  • "The 14 events that make up Open Source Summit North America's conference umbrella cover the open source projects and technologies that are fundamental across software and other industries, while also highlighting those that are poised for growth and widespread use.
  • Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation is supported by more than 2,000 members and is the world's leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware.

GigaIO to Showcase FabreX Composable Computing Solutions at SC21 This Week

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Monday, November 15, 2021

A new member of the NVIDIA Inception program, GigaIO delivers reconfigurable, composable architecture solutions for today's AI and HPC data centers, optimizing the utilization of accelerators, CPUs, and memory.

Key Points: 
  • A new member of the NVIDIA Inception program, GigaIO delivers reconfigurable, composable architecture solutions for today's AI and HPC data centers, optimizing the utilization of accelerators, CPUs, and memory.
  • Attendees both virtual and in person will get a chance to debate whether the next generation of HPC computing will be built-to-order at run time.
  • GigaIO was selected by the Supercomputing Committee to conduct a Birds-Of-a-Feather (BoF) on composable computing in conjunction with the San Diego Supercomputer Center and Bright Computing.
  • GigaIO has invented the first truly composable cloud-class universal dynamic infrastructure fabric, empowering users to accelerate workloads on-demand, using industry-standard PCI Express/soon CXL technology.

Cleveland-Cliffs Partners with U.S. Department of Energy through Better Climate Challenge Initiative

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Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. (NYSE: CLF) announced today that it has entered into a partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as part of the Better Climate Challenge initiative, a new government-sponsored effort challenging organizations to set ambitious, portfolio-wide GHG emission reduction goals.

Key Points: 
  • Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. (NYSE: CLF) announced today that it has entered into a partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as part of the Better Climate Challenge initiative, a new government-sponsored effort challenging organizations to set ambitious, portfolio-wide GHG emission reduction goals.
  • The initiative provides additional opportunities for peer exchange and technical assistance to meet the urgent call to mitigate the impacts of climate change.
  • As part of the partnership, the DOE will provide technical assistance and opportunities to learn and share actionable best practices for carbon reduction.
  • Through the Better Climate Challenge, Cleveland-Cliffs remains committed to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 25% by 2030 from 2017 levels.

Cleveland-Cliffs Enters the Scrap Business and Announces Acquisition

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Monday, October 11, 2021

Based in Detroit, FPT is among the largest processors and distributors of prime ferrous scrap in the United States, representing approximately 15% of the domestic merchant prime scrap market.

Key Points: 
  • Based in Detroit, FPT is among the largest processors and distributors of prime ferrous scrap in the United States, representing approximately 15% of the domestic merchant prime scrap market.
  • FPT operates 22 scrap processing facilities, with approximately 90% of revenues originating from its Midwest locations, primarily in Michigan and Ohio.
  • FPT already enjoys an outsized position in automotive and industrial scrap, which is expected to grow as part of Cleveland-Cliffs.
  • Lourenco Goncalves, Cleveland-Cliffs Chairman, President and CEO said, Cleveland-Cliffs is entering the scrap business as a major player through the acquisition of a large scrap company.