OSCON 2008 will happen July 21-25, 2008 in Portland, Oregon.
Join over 2,500 open source developers, gurus, experts, and users July 23-27, 2007 in Portland, Oregon for OSCON 2007. This year's convention will include 40 tutorials that go deep into the technology behind open source innovations and over 400 sessions focusing on Administration, Business, Databases, Emerging Topics, Java, Linux, People, Perl, PHP, Programming, Python, Ruby, Security, Web Applications, and much more. OSCON 2007 will also feature the latest edition of the O'Reilly Radar: The Executive Briefing, hosted by Tim O'Reilly, an opportunity to meet with the most influential minds guiding the business of open source.
OSCON tutorials coincide with Ubuntu Live--the first official event for the global Ubuntu community--for those looking to delve further into all that Ubuntu has to offer.
Conference Speakers
Matt Asay
Alfresco Software Matt Asay is VP of Business Development for Alfresco. Prior to Alfresco Asay co-founded Novell's Linux Business Office, founded the Open Source Business Conference, and ran embedded Linux vendor Lineo's Network & Communications ...more
Google, Inc. Chris DiBona is the Open Source Programs Manager at Google, Inc. He is responsible for a number of programs including the Summer of Code, open source license compliance and releasing open source software on ...more
Jeff Waugh
Gnome/Waugh Partners By day, Jeff Waugh is a consultant with Waugh Partners. By night, he rides shotgun on the GNOME release juggernaut and plots the Open Source blogging explosion with Planet. Waugh is an active member ...more
Karl Fogel
QuestionCopyright.org Karl Fogel is an open source developer and author. After working on CVS and writing "Open Source Development With CVS" (Coriolis, 1999), he went to CollabNet, Inc as a founding developer in the ...more
Mårten Mickos
MySQL AB Mårten Mickos, CEO of MySQL, brings a strong track record of leadership in global high-tech companies to MySQL AB. Prior to joining MySQL in 2001, Mickos was CEO at MatchON Sports, which he grew ...more
Greg Kroah-Hartman
SuSE Labs / Novell Greg Kroah-Hartman is the current Linux kernel maintainer for more driver subsystems than he wants to admit, along with the driver core, sysfs, kobject, kref, and debugfs code as well as being one half ...more
Robert "r0ml" Lefkowitz
Asurion r0ml is an software architect and systems designer with over thirty years of experience. For two decades, r0ml worked on Wall Street, developing market data, trading, risk management, and quantitative analysis systems. More recently, ...more
Matt Asay, Alfresco Software
Larry Wall, Writer, Author and Creator of Perl
Chris DiBona, Google, Inc.
Jeff Waugh, Gnome/Waugh Partners
Karl Fogel, QuestionCopyright.org
Mårten Mickos, MySQL AB
Greg Kroah-Hartman, SuSE Labs / Novell
Robert "r0ml" Lefkowitz, Asurion
Also Speaking:
OSCON Features:
More than 400 sessions designed to build inspiration as much as know-how, focusing on Linux, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, Databases, Desktop Applications, Web Applications, and much more
40 tutorials go deep into the technology behind open source innovations
O'Reilly Radar: The Executive Briefing, an opportunity to meet with the most influential minds guiding the business of open source
Over 2500 open source developers, gurus, experts, and users under one roof
An Expo Hall featuring the newest products and projects to help you work smarter and connect to your community
Fun evening (and late-into-the-night) events, Birds of a Feather sessions, and networking opportunities
