O'Reilly Open Source Convention Reveals Program and Opens Registration

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O'Reilly Open Source Convention Reveals Program and Opens Registration
OSCON 2009 Open for Business

Sebastopol, CA, April 3, 2009 - Open source offers business a lifeline to
economic survival, even as the economy crashes and companies flounder. The
O'Reilly Open Source Convention shows the power of open source to help
businesses rise above the competition in this daunting economic climate.
Open source continues to thrive and grow because the open source community
continues to find better ways, particularly to increase ease of use and
lower the cost of deployment, to save technology costs in your
organization. OSCON is the premier place to learn the latest advances and
connect with leaders in this community. Registration has opened for the
11th OSCON, scheduled for July 20-24, 2009 in the new location of the San
Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California. The early
registration period, lasting until June 2, offers advance savings.

Program Chairs Allison Randal and Edd Dumbill reviewed almost 800
proposals in order to plan the conference around tracks for Linux, PHP,
Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, Mobile, Databases, Desktop Applications, Web
Applications, Administration, Security, People, Business, and Emerging
Topics.

Some of the more than 200 confirmed sessions and featured speakers
include:

   * "Building a Business on Open Source Distributed Computing" by
Bradford Stephens of Visible Technologies
   * "Building a Corporate Blog Portal Using WordPress MU" by Dan York of
Voxeo Corporation
   * "Linux Filesystem Performance for Databases" by Selena Deckelmann of
PostgreSQL Project
   * "Email Hates the Living!" by Ricardo Signes of code simply
   * "Grokkin' Design" by Jon Tan of OmniTI
   * "Bureaucrats, Technocrats and Policy Cats: How the Government Is
Turning to Open Source, and Why" by Deborah Bryant and Greg Lund-Chaix of
Oregon State University Open Source Lab, Bjorn Freeman-Benson of
DemocracyLab, E. John Sebes of Open Source Digital Voting Foundation, and
Greg Elin of Sunlight Foundation
   * "Hacking the Open Government" by John Mark Walker of CollabNet,
Kevin Marks of Google, Silone Bonewald of League of Technical Voters, and
Ilan Rabinovitch of GeekPAC
   * "Transparent Sharing of Complex Data with YAML" by Ingy döt Net of
Socialtext
   * "The Future of Filesystems and Storage" by Theodore Ts'o of Linux
Foundation
   * "The Bee: UNICEF's Portable Infrastructure for Emergency
Communications" by Seth Herr of UNICEF
   * "What Has Worked: OpenOffice.org around the World" by Louis
Suarez-Potts of Sun Microsystems/OpenOffice.org
   * "Hacking Rakudo Perl" by Patrick Michaud of pmichaud.com
   * "PHP: The Good Parts" by Chris Shiflett of OmniTI
   * "Building Compilers with the Parrot Compiler Toolkit" by Patrick Michaud of pmichaud.com
   * "Implementing Privacy: OAuth and Token Madness" by Evan "Rabble"
Henshaw-Plath of entp.com
   * "Security without Disruption: Ksplice Kernel Updates" by Jeff Arnold
of Ksplice, Inc.
   * "How Green Is Our City? The Urban Forest Mapping Project" by Kelaine
Vargas of Urban Forest Map
   * "Building a Highly Scalable, Open Source, Twitter Clone" by Dan
Diephouse of MuleSource

OSCON welcomes everyone passionate and curious about open source,
including developers and programmers, designers, sys admins, hackers and
geeks, enterprise developers and managers, IT managers and CxOs,
entrepreneurs, activists, trainers, and educators.

Past OSCON sponsors and exhibitors included Intel, Microsoft, Sun, Google,
BT, IBM, Yahoo, Zimbra, Atlassian Software, Disney, EnterpriseDB, Etelos,
Ingres, Jaspersoft, Kablink, Linagora, Mindtouch, Mozilla, Novell, Open
Invention Network, OpSource, RightScale, Silicon Mechanics, Tenth Planet,
Ticketmaster, VoiceRoute, White Oak Technologies, and Xaware.

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   * MySQL Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, CA, April 20-23, 2009,
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   * RailsConf in Las Vegas, May 4-7, 2009, co-presented with Ruby
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TechWeb
   * Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA, October 20-22, 2009
   * Web 2.0 Expo New York in New York City, Nov. 16-19, 2009


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