The Linux Foundation has had several public meetings before, but they were really only for Linux developers and their best friends. Now, the Foundation is holding one for end-users: the Linux Foundation End User Collaboration Summit.

The meeting will be held on October 13 and 14th at the Desmond Tutu Center in New York City. The idea is to get end users and community developers together to try to co-ordinate what users want and what developers plan on delivering.

Before booking your tickets for NYC though, this meeting will be far from open to everyone. The event is limited to 150 individuals. And, by end-users, the Foundation isn’t talking about home users, it’s talking about CTOs, system architects and senior IT representatives from major companies, non-profits and the government.

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