Press Release
August 18, 1998
PERL CONFERENCE 2.0 STARTS TODAY IN SAN JOSE Four Days of Tutorials & Conference Sessions Capped by the First Open Source Developer Day and Town Meeting
San Jose, CA--O'Reilly & Associates' Perl Conference 2.0 starts today
and continues through August 20 at San Jose's Fairmont Hotel. The
second annual conference brings together many of the most respected
members of the Perl programming community, along with programmers and
developers seeking to expand their skills. More than 1000 are expected
to attend.
Keynotes this year feature Larry Wall, creator of the popular system
administration and Web language, in his "Second State of the Onion
Speech." Tom Paquin, "benevolent dictator" of mozilla.org, speaks on
"Free Software Goes Mainstream: Netscape's mozilla.org."
New this year, there will be two Town Meetings, one for Apache and one
for Perl, in addition to the Open Source Town Meeting, a separate event
which takes place on Friday, August 21. All Town Meetings are designed
to maximize audience interaction with panelists and each other, to help
them envision and create future directions for their languages and
communities.
Also new this year at the Perl Conference, O'Reilly has added an Apache
track, for those interested in the world's most popular Web server, to
be followed by "The Internet Quiz Show," a fun event hosted by Perl
Journal editor Jon Orwant.
In line with the Perl community's tradition of mutual support, "The
Guru Is In" sessions will offer a rare opportunity for programmers to
bring their technical challenges to people who can untangle knotty Perl
problems.
On August 20, in coordination with the Perl Conference, O'Reilly will
start shipping the Perl Resource Kit-Win32, a compilation of books,
commercial software, Perl modules and the latest release of Perl,
version 5.005.
Perl Conference 2.0 will be followed on Friday, August 21 by the first
Open Source Developer Day. This seminar presents practical information
on business models, and legal, licensing and project management issues
unique to open source businesses.
That evening will be capped by the first Open Source Town Meeting,
which brings together such Open Source/free software luminaries as Tim
O'Reilly, Founder and President of O'Reilly & Associates; Richard
Stallman, founder of the GNU Project and President of the Free Software
Foundation; Jim Hamerly, instrumental in the creation of mozilla.org
and Vice President, Netscape; and David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo!,
where depending on Open Source software is a way of life.
WEB SITES
Perl Conference 2.0
http://conference.perl.com/
Open Source
Developer Day
http://opensource.oreilly.com/news/osdd_0698.html
Open Source Town Meeting
http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html
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