Originally scheduled for April 22-25, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference will now be held May 13-16, 2002. The venue remains unchanged: the Westin Santa Clara, in Santa Clara, CA.

Call For Participation Extended to December 31, 2001--Join with entrepreneurs, technologists, programmers, business developers, policy-makers, and Internet strategists in building the Internet Operating System by leading a tutorial or conference session.

Tracks will include business implementations and models, wireless networking technologies and applications, identity services, distributed networking, privacy and security, GPS/GIS services, biological models of computing, standards and infrastructure.

The submission deadline for all proposals has been extended to December 31, 2001. All presenters whose talks are accepted will receive free registration at the conference. Presenters will be notified of selection results by January 22, 2002.

Online Resources:

• More participation details and to submit proposals.

• More information on the conference itself.

• Exhibition and Sponsorship--If you are interested in exhibiting or sponsoring the conference, telephone Andrew Calvo at 707-827-7176, or email andrewc@oreilly.com.