OSCON Alert: O'Reilly Radar Executive Briefing

Hi Friends,

It's almost time to head to Portland for the 2007 Open Source Conference
(OSCON: July 22-27 in Portland, OR). The schedule for the conference looks
great and the weather man says there will be sunshine! Will wonders never
cease? ;)

If you haven't already booked your spot, here's one more reason you'll
want to be there: You're invited to the O'Reilly Radar Executive Briefing.
 Here is an overview of the event:

     Tuesday, July 24: Join Tim O'Reilly focus on the overall
     the future of open source. Intimate by design, the Executive 
     Briefing is more about conversation than formal presentation. 
     The full day briefing will explore trends, companies, and 
     projects that matter today and point to what you'll need to 
     know in the near future. 

Some topics and speakers being covered at the briefing will be:

  The Facebook Platform
  Dave Morin, Senior Platform Manager, Facebook

  The Firefox Toolbar Ecosystem
  Mike Shaver, Director of Ecosystem Development, Mozilla
  Corporation and Matthew Gertner, CTO, AllPeers

  Licensing in the Web 2.0 Era
  Eben Moglen, Director, Software Freedom Law Center

  The Architect of Scalability
  Brad Fitzpatrick, President, CTO, LiveJournal.com
  
  Parallel Programming
  Doug Cutting, Yahoo!

  Always Better?
  Matt Asay, VP, Business Development, Alfresco Software
  Michael Olson

  The Path to IPO
  MÃ¥rten Mickos, CEO, MySQL AB

  Managing Linus Torvalds and Other Small Challenges
  Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, Linux Foundation

  Why Free Software Values Work for Business
  Mark Shuttleworth, Founder, Ubuntu/Canonical Ltd.

  Why Congress Needs a Revision Control System
  Karl Fogel, QuestionCopyright.org

For O'Reilly Radar Executive Briefing details visit:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/58/radar.html

If you'd like to participate in the conversation, your registration to the
conference includes attendance at the Executive Briefing. Visit this site
to register:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/58/press.html

Questions? Please don't hesitate to contact me. We hope you will be able
to join us for the Executive Briefing.

Best regards,

Dawn Applegate
Conferences Publicist
O'Reilly Media
707-827-7111