| OSCON show announces sessions and keynotes |
Apr. 07, 2010
 The O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) has posted sessions and keynotes for its annual conference. Scheduled for July 19-23, at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, OSCON features keynotes including Google's Chris DiBona, Facebook's David Recordon, Canonical's Simon Wardley, and the GNOME Foundation's Stormy Peters (pictured).
Sponsored by O'Reilly Publishing, OSCON offers a lively mix of desktop, enterprise, and embedded open source topics, with a heavy focus on programming and Linux. This July's conference returns to Portland, Oregon after a 2009 excursion to San Jose.
Over 2,500 open source developers, hackers, experts, and users are expected to attend Oscon's hundreds of sessions, says O'Reilly. The sessions will include tutorials covering technical skills, new features and applications, and best practices.
Other features are said to include an Expo Hall promoting tools, projects, services, and products, as well as a "hallway track" that will encourage debate on important open source issues. An OSCamp "unconference" will offer a spontaneous user-driven program, and other events include Birds of a Feather sessions, late night parties, and the O'Reilly Open Source Awards, say the organizers.
This year's keynotes include Google's Rob Pike on why object-oriented programming "went very wrong" and Google's Chris DiBona (pictured above, right) giving a quick tour of the last three years of open source trends. Facebook's David Recordon (pictured at left) will discuss the LAMP stack, and Perl Training Australia's Paul Fenwick will reveal "The World's Worst Inventions." Meanwhile, Canonical's Simon Wardley will explore the tech industry's transition from a product to a service based economy.
Other as-yet-undefined keynotes will be given by O'Reilly CEO Tim O'Reilly, the GNOME Foundation's Stormy Peters (pictured at right), and the SETI Institute's Jill Tarter, who is rumored to speak on why aliens chose a weak copyleft license to open source the planet Earth.
A sampling of some of the sessions at OSCON, in chronological order, include:- Introduction to Google App Engine -- Wesley Chun, Google
- Anatomy of an Open Source Cloud Ecosystem -- James Urquhart, Cassatt Corporation
- Making Open Source Sexy: Don't Forget the End User -- Matt Asay, Canonical
- Experiences Encouraging Adoption of Thin Clients in K12 Schools -- Jay Pfaffman, University of Tennessee
- Can Open Source Save The World...? -- Bryant Patten. National Center for Open Source and Education
- Build Your Own Contributors (One Part at a Time) -- Denise Paolucci and Mark Smith, Dreamwidth.org
- So, You Think You Want to Start an Open Source Business? -- Tarus Balog, The OpenNMS Group
- Mature Open Source - Making Your Software Last a Decade -- Dave Beckett, Yahoo!
- MeeGo -- The Mobile Linux Platform (on a new MeeGo version of OpenSUSE) -- Michael Meeks, Novell
Typically some big news tends to pops out at OSCON. In 2008 in Portland, Intel and Moblin.org used the OSCON meeting to reveal major changes for Moblin. Last year in San Jose, where the conference featured over 200 sessions, Microsoft used the occasion to announce its surprise release of 20,000 lines of code under GPLv2 for three Linux device drivers.
Availability
Registration is now open for OSCON 2010, which is scheduled for July 19-23, at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon. Pricing packages include a Monday or Tuesday one-day, tutorials-only package for $595 ($695 after June 2) to two-day tutorials-only passes for $945 ($1,145 after June 2), sessions-only for $1,145 (or $1,345), and sessions plus two tutorial days for $1,740 (or $1,990).
More information on sessions and registration may be found here.
-- Eric Brown
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