O'Reilly Open Source Convention Calls for Innovation
OSCON Proposals Invited
Sebastopol, CA—Dec 15 2008—Now that big business has grasped the principles of open source, the open source community can get down to business. New times demand new ideas, and OSCON, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, has opened its call for innovation. O'Reilly Media and program chairs Allison Randal and Edd Dumbill invite proposals for tutorials, sessions, and panels for OSCON, happening July 20 - 24, 2009, in San Jose, CA.
"Accomplishing great things with limited resources is the open source way of life," says Allison. "We hope you'll join us and share your solutions. We live in a time of enormous challenges: economic, environmental, political, and social. Open source software and the open source community have much to offer as we work to solve the world's problems, to keep moving toward a better future."
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. As open source becomes fully integrated into the corporate environment, OSCON helps to define, maintain, and extend the identity of what it means to be open source. OSCON focuses on the substance of technology, filtering the information that matters most now.
OSCON seeks proposals from developers, designers, sys admins, community leaders, inventors, CTOs and CIOs, evangelists, activists, researchers, strategists, entrepreneurs, and anyone passionate about open source.
The OSCON 2009 program's themes include:
Building on the success of its first ten years, OSCON 2009 offers attendees:
As the crossroads of all things open source, OSCON offers you the place to be inspired and challenged, renew bonds to community, make new connections, and find ways to give back to the open source movement.
Past OSCON sponsors 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.
Proposals will be accepted through February 3, 2009, and early registration for attendees and media will open in March. Proposals may be submitted to:
http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009/user/proposal/propose/cfp/57
For more information on OSCON, visit:
http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon
If you have ideas about areas you'd like to see included at the conference, send a note to: oscon-idea@oreilly.com.
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For articles, blogs, photos, and other coverage of last year's event, go to:
http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/content/news-coverage
View selected presentations from OSCON 2008 at:
http://oscon.blip.tv/
Download speaker presentation slides from last year's OSCON at:
http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/proceedings
To read Tim O'Reilly's take on the future, go to the O'Reilly Radar at:
http://radar.oreilly.com/
For information about sponsorship and exhibit opportunities at OSCON, contact Sharon Cordesse at 707.827.7065 or scordesse@oreilly.com.
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