"Open and Connected" at the 2006 O'Reilly EuroOSCON

For Immediate Release
For more information, contact:
Suzanne Axtell (707) 827-7114 or suzanne@oreilly.com

"Open and Connected" at the
2006 O'Reilly European Open Source Convention

Sebastopol, CA--EuroOSCON, the O'Reilly European Open Source Convention,
has unveiled the preliminary schedule for its second annual event. With
free and open source software use on the rise all across the continent,
EuroOSCON creates a place for developers, sys admins, entrepreneurs, and
business people working in free and open source software to come together
and delve into critical issues across the spectrum of open source
technologies. Registration has just opened for EuroOSCON, which takes
place in Brussels September 18-21; early discount pricing is in effect
until August 7.

EuroOSCON 2006 includes all the coding and practical sessions of a
skills-oriented conference, but also takes "open" further, recognizing
that open source is just one facet of a larger revolution in commercial
and social life that can all be traced back to the inherently open nature
of the Internet.

"A major change is taking place in our lives, whether we like it or not,"
observe EuroOSCON co-chairs Nikolaj Nyholm and Nathan Torkington. "The
Internet makes it easy for people and applications to communicate, and new
political, legal, technological, and cultural systems are emerging that
harness this potential for open communication. Free/Libre Open Source
Software (FLOSS) shows us that these emerging systems will be hugely
disruptive to the status quo, will create opportunities for entrepreneurs,
and will be enormous fun for those doing the disrupting. We've broadened
EuroOSCON's scope to include revolutionary tools and thoughts that will
power the next decade."

This year's EuroOSCON examines the technology, business, politics, and
social dimensions of open source, open culture, open APIs, open innovation
and all that's built on top of them. Torkington and Nyholm have put
together four very full days, loosely coupled around these
thought-provoking topics:

-Open Source: The latest in user-created software, looking at governance,
 licenses, patents, and social aspects
-Media: How the next wave of media consumption play out as rules of
 broadcast are finally broken
-Mobile: Mobility finally pushes data beyond the paradigm of the
 desktop--mobile computing goes from data consumption to creation
-Browser/Web: Since the launch of gmail, web apps have become real
 alternatives to the desktop apps of yore, finally paving the way for the
 web platform
-Deployment: As we enter an age of continuous software updates,
 operations become a competency and central to any application
-Services: Best practices for delivering and integrating web APIs
-Open Culture: Fueling the commons that benefit business, individual, and
 community
-Open Business: What and who will drive future growth and innovation in
 Europe around open source and open models
-Open Society: Applying the continuous user-driven innovation to
 government, and ensuring laws support these new models
-Cybernetics: Logic and interfaces to get the most from the users of an
 application

EuroOSCON brings together a particularly thought-provoking set of
innovators, creators, and leaders from across Europe and around the world.
Some of the participants scheduled to speak about best practices,
strategic issues, and coming changes include:

-Charles Lamb, Oracle, " Developing Berkeley DB Java Edition"
-Author Tor Norretranders, "Dare, Care, and Share"
-Marten Mickos, MySQL AB
-Jeffrey Nolan, SAP
-Gary Lang, Autodesk
-Rasmus Lerdorf, Yahoo!/PHP, "Fast and Rich Web Applications with PHP 5"
-Louis Suarez-Potts, OpenOffice.org, "Making It Work: How to Build a
 Successful Open Source Project"
-Kathy Sierra, "Building Passionate Users"
-Greg Stein, Google
-Expert entrepreneur Marc Hedlund, "Start-ups 2.0"
-Florian Mueller, No Software Patents, "EU Software Patents Reloaded"
-Martin von Haller Groenbaek, Bender von Haller Dragsted, "Open Source
 Licensing as Strategic Asset"
-Colin Brumelle, Bryght, "Music 2.0: The Coming Revolution"
-Peter Saint-Andre and Ralph Meijer "Jabber Bootcamp"
-Damian Conway, Thoughtstream, "Seven Principles of Better API Design"
-Paula Le Dieu, Creative Commons International, "Open Archives, Open
 Culture"
-Ranga Rangachari, GroundWork Open Source, "Channeling Open Source in
 Europe"
-Walter Harms, "How OSS Changes a Government Department"

The second annual EuroOSCON is where technologists meet business people,
where hallway conversations connect community activists, politicians,
developers, and managers, where the people building the future meet the
people taking it to the mainstream.

Additional Resources:

For complete information about the 2006 O'Reilly European Open Source
Convention, visit:
http://conferences.oreilly.com/eurooscon/

Check out the EuroOSCON conference blog for the latest news:
http://www.oreillynet.com/conferences/blog/eurooscon/

See the great time that was had by all at last year's EuroOSCON:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/eurooscon/coverage/

For information on exhibition and sponsorship opportunities at O'Reilly
conferences, contact Andrew Calvo at (707) 827-7176, or
andrewc@oreilly.com

To become a media sponsor, contact Yvonne Romaine at (707) 827-7198, or
yromaine@oreilly.com

Upcoming O'Reilly conferences (http://conferences.oreilly.com):
-Where 2.0, June 13-14, 2006 in San Jose, California
-O'Reilly Open Source Convention, July 24-28, 2006 in Portland, Oregon
-O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference, February 27-March 1, 2007 in
 Burlingame, California
-O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, March 26-29, 2007 in San Diego,
 California
-MySQL Users Conference, April 23-26, 2007 in Santa Clara, California

About O'Reilly
O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books,
online services, magazines, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly has been
a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the
technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by
amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are creating the
future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has
a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism. For more
information: http://www.oreilly.com

# # #

O'Reilly is a registered trademark of O'Reilly Media, Inc. All other
trademarks are property of their respective owners.