[odf-discuss] [Fwd: Calling All Innovators to the 2007 O'Reilly OSCON]

[Jean Hollis Weber]

OSCON ay be of interest to someone on this list. The call for 
participation deadline is very close (5 February). I think this 
would be a great opportunity to showcase some of the Fellowship's 
development work and meet potential sponsors of more projects.

Please don't let lack of travel money deter you from submitting a 
proposal. I cannot promise anything right now, but I know of some 
possibilities for at least partial funding for speakers.

I am confident that we could get free space for an ODF booth at 
OSCON, because we were offered space last year but had to decline 
because of lack of anyone to run it. I would love to have a booth 
there, but much as I enjoy being a booth babe, at the moment I am 
not very motivated to travel to the USA this year. I am available 
to do some organising and coordinating from here, and I will make 
the initial contact about booth space.

--Jean

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Calling All Innovators to the 2007 O'Reilly OSCON
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 07:10:00 -0800
From: Sharon Cordesse <scordesse at oreilly.com>
To: jean at jeanweber.com

For Immediate Release

For more information, contact:
Sharon Cordesse at 707.827.7065
or scordesse at oreilly.com

Calling All Innovators to the 2007 O'Reilly Open Source Convention

Sebastopol, CA, January 12, 2007—The Call for Participation is 
now open for OSCON, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention. This 
year, the program will focus on the progress and innovation that 
open source movers and shakers are contributing to the computing 
industry. Program chairs will be looking for proposals that 
convey real-world scenarios using open source, and the new tools 
and ideas that will help participants be more productive or write 
better code. OSCON will return to the Oregon Convention Center in
Portland from July 23-27, 2007. The Call for Participation 
deadline is February 5, 2007.

"We want to hear about your winning techniques, favorite 
life-savers, and the system you've made that everyone will be 
using next year," notes program co-chair Nathan Torkington.

The program committee is planning to offer hundreds of sessions 
and tutorials on Linux, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, databases, 
desktop applications, web applications (client-side and 
server-side), Windows, administration, security, and emerging 
topics. Session and tutorial proposals should contain actionable 
information and advice, above and beyond what is currently 
available online or in books.

This year's hot topics include:

-Tools for the administration and deployment of large server farms
-Parallelization, grid, and multicore technologies
-Virtualization
-Ajax, Javascript, standards-based design, and other client-side 
web issues
-Seaside, Rails, Django, and other interesting server-side web 
technology
-Ubuntu as an emergent usable Linux distro and contender for Red 
Hat and Sun's client and server markets
-Java as open source
-AI, machine learning, and other ways of making software smarter 
than the people using it
-User experience and usability engineering lessons for web and 
desktop software
-The spread of open source into law, culture, data, and services, 
and the  accompanying issues and lessons

More information on speakers, sessions, tutorials, and events 
will be available when general registration opens in April 2007.

OSCON is one of the most popular places for the open source 
community to meet up, debate, make deals, and connect face to 
face. Over 2,500 programmers, hackers, IT managers, designers, 
academics, and alpha geeks are expected to attend this year. 
OSCON 2006 was the biggest event yet, drawing more than 2,700 
participants from every free and open source denomination along 
with 65 sponsors, exhibitors, and community projects on the show 
floor. Now in its ninth year, OSCON is the bazaar of open source
technologies, welcoming new voices and projects alongside the 
platforms, languages, and apps that started the open source movement.

Additional Resources:

For convention details and to submit a proposal, visit:
http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon

For news articles, blogs, announcements, and photos (available 
for use with attribution) from OSCON 2006, see:
http://www.oreillynet.com/conferences/blog/oscon

For OSCON 2006 plenary presentations, visit:
http://osc.gigavox.com/series/oscon.html

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O'Reilly conferences, contact sponsorships at oreilly.com

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