Shane Coughlan will attend the Japan Linux Symposium between the 21st and 23rd of October.  The Symposium will be based at the Akihabara Convention Hall and is hosted by the Linux Foundation.  Speakers will include Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, and Yukihiro Matsumoto, the creator of Ruby.  A talk that promises to be especially interesting is ‘How to Contribute to the Linux Kernel and Why It Makes Economic Sense‘ by James Bottomley of Novell.