[NCSA-discuss] Program Unveiled and Registration Opens for the 2007 O'Reilly Open Source Convention (fwd)

[Dan Singer]

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From: Sharon Cordesse <scordesse at oreilly.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:42:31 -0700
Subject: Program Unveiled and Registration Opens for the 2007 O'Reilly Open Source Convention

For more information, contact:
Sharon Cordesse, 707.827.7065
or scordesse at oreilly.com

For Immediate Release

Program Unveiled and Registration Opens for the 2007 O'Reilly Open Source
Convention

Sebastopol, CA, April 24, 2007 -- Registration is now open for OSCON, the
O'Reilly Open Source Convention. This year's program will examine how open
technologies are making breakthroughs in the mainstream IT community, and
delve into the advances on the open source horizon. Now in its ninth year,
OSCON is the annual gathering of developers, hackers, visionaries, and
alpha geeks who are driving the open source movement. OSCON returns to the
Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon July 23-27, 2007.

OSCON will feature more than 400 sessions and tutorials in fifteen tracks
that will cover Administration, Business Databases, Java, Linux, People,
Perl, PHP, Programming, Python, Ruby, Security, and Web Applications. Also
happening concurrently will be the O'Reilly Radar Executive Briefing, a
full-day discussion and debate that will give attendees the opportunity to
take part in the conversation between Tim O'Reilly and the innovators,
entrepreneurs, and leaders who are fostering the evolution of computing
via open source technologies.

For more information and to register for OSCON and the O'Reilly Radar
Executive Briefing, visit:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/58/register

Speakers, tutorials, and sessions at OSCON this year include:

-Kirill Grouchnikov, Amdocs, "Advanced Effects in Desktop Java
 Applications"
-Rasmus Lerdorf, Yahoo!, "PHP - Bigger and Faster"
-Lamont Peterson, NeverBlock,  "High Availability Xen"
-Simon Willison, "OpenID Bootcamp"
-Rachael Madsen, "Exploiting Multi-Core Capabilies From Python"
-Guido van Rossum, Creator of Python, "Python 3000"
-Theo Schlossnagle, "OmniTI Advanced Production Troubleshooting"
-Chris DiBona, Google, "A Year of Open Source at Google"
-Simon Peyton Jones, "Microsoft A Taste of Haskell"
-Michael Koziarski, "Generating Gorgeous Word Documents, PDFs and Excel
 Spreadsheets"
-Jesse Vincent, Best Practical, "Building Domain Specific Languages
 in Perl"
-Ben Krug, Adapt Technologies, "DBA Tales from the Front: from Oracle
 to MySQL"
-Dawn Foster and Danese Cooper, Intel, "Art of Community"

OSCON 2007 will feature an expo hall where companies offering open source
products and services will display their latest innovations to the more
than 2,500 attendees that are expected at the convention. Sponsors and
exhibitors so far include: Autodesk, Novell, Google, Intel, The New York
Times, Sun, Microsoft, Optaros, IBM, and Ingres. Networking opportunities
at OSCON will be plentiful for the entire open source community,
particularly during evening events such as the Open Source Alliance SSO
Hack-a-Thon, "Meet-n-Geek," and the Google O'Reilly Open Source Awards.

Additional Resources:

For more information about OSCON, visit:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2007/

To find out more about the O'Reilly Radar Executive Briefing, visit:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/58/radar.html

To apply for media credentials, visit:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/58/press.html

Sign up for the OSCON newsletter for updates on speakers, sessions and
events (login required): http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/nl/home#conferences

For news articles, blogs, announcements, and photos (available for use
with attribution) from OSCON 2006, see:
http://www.oreillynet.com/conferences/blog/oscon

For information on exhibition and sponsorship opportunities at O'Reilly
conferences, contact Derek Chase at chase at oreilly.com

To become a media partner, email mediapartners at oreilly.com

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 September 17-19, 2007 in Berlin, Germany
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 October 17-19 in San Francisco, CA
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 San Diego,CA
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