Press Release
July 20, 1998
O'REILLY HOSTS OPEN SOURCE TOWN MEETING "Open Source is Open for Business" is Theme of Public Forum
SEBASTOPOL, CA--The burgeoning open source (TM) software community will
gather at the first Open Source Town Meeting on Friday, August 21 from
5:00-6:30 pm at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA. O'Reilly &
Associates is sponsoring the Town Meeting, which caps off their Open
Source Developer Day. More information and registration is at
http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html. Admission is $10.
O'Reilly will donate all proceeds from the Open Source Town Meeting
to the Free Software Foundation.
The Open Source Town Meeting is for software developers, corporate IS
managers, entrepreneurs, and others who want to take advantage of the
open source development and business models. A panel discussion on the
topic "Open Source is Open for Business" will kick off the Town
Meeting. Moderator Tim O'Reilly, CEO of O'Reilly & Associates, will be
joined by key open source leaders including:
- Larry Wall, creator of Perl and Senior Developer,
O'Reilly & Associates
- James Barry, HTTP and WebSphere product manager, IBM
- Jim Hamerly, Vice President, Client Products Division, Netscape
Communications Corp.
- David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo
- Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU project
- Bob Young, President, Red Hat Software
- Brian Behlendorf, a founder of the Apache group and vice
president of Web Applications at C2Net Software, Inc.
- John Ousterhout, CEO, Scriptics Corp. and creator of the
popular Tcl scripting language
- Jordan Hubbard, a founder of the FreeBSD project
- Pamela Samuelson, Professor at the University of California at
Berkeley with a joint appointment in the School of Information Management
and Systems and the School of Law; co-director of the Berkeley Center for
Law and Technology
- Eric Raymond, independent developer; open source evangelist;
author of the influential paper, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar."
The Open Source Town Meeting will include ample time for audience
comment and questions. O'Reilly's partners in the event will have
informational displays on their open source-related efforts.
Partners include:
Apache Group,
C2Net Software, Inc.,
Crynwr,
Linux
International,
Linux Journal,
Penguin
Computing,
Red Hat Software,
Inc.,
Samba,
Scriptics
Corporation,
Sendmail, Inc.,
SIlicon Valley Linux Users
Group,
Songline Studios,
USENIX,
Whistle
Communications.
The Open Source Town Meeting is a followup to the private Open Source
Summit that O'Reilly hosted for a small group of key open source
developers in April 1998. Another outgrowth of that meeting is Open Source Developer Day, a daylong
workshop for those who want to learn how to develop and market open
source software, which takes place from 9:00am-4:30pm the day of the
Town Meeting.
# # #
"Open Source" is a Certification Mark of Software in the Public
Interest.
About O'Reilly
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