OSCON Celebrates Tenth Year

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OSCON Celebrates Tenth Year
Annual O'Reilly Open Source Convention Opens Registration and Announces
Program  

Sebastopol, CA-Registration has opened for the tenth O'Reilly OSCON Open
Source Convention, scheduled for July 21 through 25, 2008, at the Oregon
Convention Center in Portland, Oregon. Program chairs Allison Randal and
Edd Dumbill have announced the program for OSCON 2008, happening
concurrently with Ubuntu Live at the same venue. In addition to
celebrating the event's tenth anniversary, OSCON 2008 explores the future,
searching for the ideas and innovations that will shape the next era of
software freedom.

OSCON 2008 brings together more than 2500 experts, visionaries, and
hackers to explore everything that open source offers. Open source has
enabled developer communities and businesses to work together for the
greater good, shaping a decade of innovation, collaboration, and commerce.


This year's convention promises to explore interesting developments in
Linux, Java, Web, and open source infrastructure. OSCON 2008 will address
current developments in topics such as mobile devices, tools and
techniques for multicore development, caching and performance,
virtualization, Linux on the desktop, cloud computing, the next generation
of VoIP, open source as a global phenomenon, community antipatterns, and
open source in education, government, and politics.

In addition to two full days of tutorials led by experts, OSCON offers
more than 400 sessions organized into tracks for Administration, Business,
Databases, Emerging Topics, Fundamentals, Java, Linux, People, Perl, PHP,
Programming, Python, and Ruby,  

Some of the sessions include:

-"Caching and Performance: Lessons from Facebook" by Lucas Nealan of
Facebook  
-"Even Faster Web Sites" by Steve Souders of Google  
-"Linux on the Corporate Desktop: We Did It, and You Can, Too" by John
Goerzen of Hustler Turf Equipment  
-"Going Open Source: The 20 Most Important Things To Do" by Martin Aschoff
of AGINITAS AG
-"MondoRescue: The GPL Disaster Recovery Solution" by Bruno Cornec of
Hewlett-Packard  
-"Shipping Rates Estimation: A Tale from IKEA" by Chunlou Yung of IKEA
Direct  
-"Maria, the New Transactional Storage Engine for MySQL" by Michael
Widenius of MySQL  
-"Creating and Supporting Free Software in Africa: The African Virtual
Open Initiatives and Resources of AVOIR Experience" by Derek Keats of
University of  the Western Cape  
-"Groovy vs. JRuby" by Rod Cope of OpenLogic, Inc.  
-"The Effects of Stress on Programmers' and Groups' Performances" by Alan
Carter   
-"Barely Legal XXX Perl" by Jos Boumans of RIPE NCC  
-"Code Reviews for Fun and Profit" by Alex Martelli of Google  
-"Ruby 1.9: What To Expect" by Sam Ruby of IBM  
-"Hidden Treasures of the Zope 3 Community" by Michael Bernstein of Rogue
Mountain  

This year, OSCON introduces the Open Mobile Exchange, a one-day event
devoted to exploring the nexus where mobile meets business, technology,
the Web, and open source.

Among the many events taking place during OSCON are the Tuesday Night
Extravaganza, the Google O'Reilly Open Source Awards, Birds of a Feather
sessions, the Expo Hall Reception, OSCamp, the Free Geek tour, the Best of
Portland Walking Tour, and more.

On Monday, July 21, Participate 08, sponsored by Microsoft, will explore
the issues and opportunities presented by community development. The
afternoon panel session runs from 1:30-4:30 p.m. and is open to all OSCON
attendees. The moblin camp, sponsored by Intel on Tuesday, July 22, from
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., presents the latest on what's happening in this
rapidly growing open source area. 

In Infoworld, Jon Udell described OSCON as "ground zero for the open
source alpha geek tribe," while Matt Asay called the conference, "An
amazing geek-a-thon...No better place on this earth to find out how to use
all the cool new open source projects, and to see what's coming next." 
Sponsoring companies include Intel, Microsoft, Google, Sun Microsystems,
Atlassian, Disney.com, Enterprise DB, Novell, OpSource, and Silicon
Mechanics. 

Past OSCONs have brought together representatives from companies and
organizations like ACS Inc., Adobe Systems, ADP, Alfresco, Amazon, Boeing,
Christian Science Monitor, Cingular Wireless, City of Portland,
craigslist, CSCI, Dell, Duke University, Federal Reserve Board, General
Electric, Jobster, Kansas State University, Knova Software, Lawrence
Berkeley National Lab, Lexis Nexis, Liberty Mutual Insurance, Los Alamos
National Lab, Lund University Libraries, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley,
Motosport, Mozilla, MySQL AB, Napster, Novell, Omni Hotels, Otsuka USA,
Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission, PalmSource, Pentaho, Plaxo,
Red Bean Software, Ruby Central Samsung, EW Scripps Company, U.S.
Probation Office and Pretrial Services, University of  Alaska, Verizon,
WhitePages.com Inc., Xerox, and Zimbra.

For complete conference information, visit: 
http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon

Early registration ends June 2. To register now and take advantage of the
early-registration discount, visit:
https://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/register

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