 I was looking over the session this last night. We've got a lot of really great sessions. I think we cover a lot of different areas. And hopefully you'll be able to get something out of this conference this week that will help you in your job. And so I want to welcome you. I need to do a couple of little housekeeping chores before we get to our first speakers. I want to say a big thank you to our sponsors, in particular. I want to thank Intel as our diamond sponsor, and Qualcomm as a platinum sponsor. And then we have several gold sponsors, the Civil Infrastructure Platform, which is a new project by the Linux Foundation. And there's talks about that this week. Lenaro, Microsoft, and Suse. And so I'd really like to show appreciation for these. Without these sponsors, we wouldn't be able to have this event. And appreciate their support. One last housekeeping thing, which is if you have any time during the week, if you have any kind of issue, questions, need any kind of assistance, please feel free to contact the event staff. There'll be someone up at the registration booth, I think, during the whole week. So they can help you with any kind of miscellaneous thing that crops up. Now, let's go ahead and get started. Our first two guests are Linus Torvalds, who probably needs no introduction. But he's like the creator of Linux. And Dirk Hondo, I tried to say that a little bit Germanically, who is the chief open source officer at VMware. And I've actually known both of these guys for many years. I remember very distinctly the first conversation I had with Dirk. It was probably at least eight or nine years ago. Longer than that. No, because it was before. Anyway, I won't date myself. But we had a conversation at some event in Chicago. And he gave me some advice that was really useful. And I just thought that's so typical of open source, that people are so free and generous with their assistance. It's not just at the coding level. But this had to do with early in the days of the CE Linux forum, we were doing a spec, which was kind of dumb. And we needed to switch over to just code contributions. But I just remember that how helpful Dirk was. And then I want to share one little personal anecdote about interacting with Linus. This was also many years ago. I happened to be having lunch with Linus. And I brought up an issue that I was having with work. IT departments, they kind of don't understand open source. And you need to get through the proxies and the firewalls to get to the Git repositories and all that stuff. I was kind of grousing about some policy that Sony had at the time. And what I had done to kind of get around it. And Linus, bless his heart, said something is like, oh, well, that seems kind of petty. And I thought it's kind of hurt my feelings a little bit. But darn it, he was right. And that is the thing about Linus Torvalds. I've kind of watched Linus for many, many years. I've been doing Linux for 25 years. He's been doing it longer. But Linus is not right about everything. We don't want to let that go to his head or anything. But he's right more often than not. And I've often found myself, when I'm in disagreement with Linus, I have to go back and check my assumptions. And so it's really great to hear from people of this caliber. And so I'd like to go ahead and welcome Linus and Dirk to the stage. So please join me in welcoming him.