OSCON 2011 Opens Call for Participation

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OSCON 2011 Opens Call for Participation
Chairs Seek Proposals for Open Source Convention

Sebastopol, CA, December 17, 2010 - The O'Reilly Open Source Convention,
http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zuhasei830kh5pp9vkukkn38cok..., will help to define,
maintain, and extend the identity of open source July 25-29, 2011, at the Oregon Convention Center
in Portland, OR. Program chairs Edd Dumbill and Sarah Novotny have opened the call for
participation, requesting proposals for sessions and tutorials.

As the pace of technological innovation accelerates, OSCON provides a central place to gain
exposure to and evaluate the new projects, tools, services, platforms, languages, software, and
standards sweeping through the open source community and the broader technology industry. OSCON
assembles the best, brightest, and most interesting people to explore what's new and to champion
open source adoption. Participants from this vast and diverse community come together to learn,
collaborate, and inspire each other at OSCON, the event acknowledged as the crossroads of all
things open source.

Possible proposal topics include, but are not limited to:

    Doing more with less
    Open source in smart phones and mobile networked devices
    Cloud computing, openness in distributed services
    Geek lifestyle - hacking, quantified self, inbox zero, maker culture
    Best practices for building a business around open source
    Open web, open standards, open data, open, open, open!
    Open source in democracy, politics, government, and education
    AI, machine learning, and other ways of making software smarter than the people using it

Proposals will be accepted through February 7, 2011 at:
http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zdvec1i1dud06j330sgtik1pprq...

Early registration will open in April 2011.

Media coverage, keynote videos, speaker presentation files, and photos from previous OSCON at:
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