Open Source Events

Web 2.0 Expo was launched to connect the builders of the web with the brightest minds, hottest ideas, and most valuable tools - and with each other. New York has long been where the world’s biggest industries go online, and as Web 2.0 grows up and gets serious, the time is right to convene the East Coast web communities under the umbrella of the next generation web. It’s time to come together to learn, share and network. And it’s time to celebrate the size, power, and innovation of the East Coast web industry.

Schedule Snapshot

• Tuesday, September 16: Workshops
• Wednesday, September 17: Keynotes, Sessions, and Expo Hall
• Thursday, September 18: Keynotes, Sessions, and Expo Hall
• Friday, September 19: Keynotes and Sessions

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OSCON is the crossroads of all things open source, bringing together the best, brightest, and most interesting people to explore what’s new, and to champion the cause of open principles and open source adoption across the computing industry. We are going to OSCON 2008. See us there!

OSCON 2008 is happening July 21-25 in Portland, Oregon. Join over 2,500 open source developers, hackers, experts, IT managers, and users at OSCON 2008. This year’s convention will include 40 tutorials that go deep into open source technology and over 400 sessions focusing on Administration, Business, Databases, Emerging Topics, Java, Linux, Mobile, People, Perl, PHP, Programming, Python, Ruby, Security, Web Applications, and much more.

New to this year’s OSCON is the Open Mobile Exchange, a one-day event devoted to exploring the nexus of where mobile meets business, technology, the Web, and open source.

Now celebrating its tenth year, OSCON is a vibrant meeting ground for the open source community to inspire, debate, make deals, motivate, and connect face to face. OSCON 2008 will feature the key players and issues influencing open source today, and explore the greatest potential for open source tomorrow.
(source: http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/content/home)

MySQL, now a part of Sun Microsystems, is pleased to announce that David Axmark, Co-founder of MySQL and Brian Aker, Director of Technology for MySQL, and other MySQL representatives are meeting with customers and partner candidates across key cities in India. Exclusive seminars and networking events where you can explore the benefits of MySQL Enterprise are now available. Admission fee is free if pre-registered. Its being scheduled in the three cities of

Topics covered:

• Introduction to MySQL product line
  
• MySQL Enterprise Demo
  
• Storage Engines for MySQL
  
• Introduction to Understanding Replication Development Process
  
• MySQL Performance Tuning
  
• MySQL Case Studies
  
• Deep Technical Q&A
  
• Networking

Location: Pune
Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Time: 14:00-18:00 (Registration begins at 13:30)
Admission fee: Free, if pre-registered.
Venue: Le Meridien Hotel
Pre-Registration is available at: http://www.reg-express.com/register/registration_mysql.jsp?eml=mysqlpune@sercononline.com&eventid=mysqlpune

Contact - Chintan Khona
Tel - 022 - 66179180
Mobile - +91 9870247788
Fax - 022 - 66179011
Email - mysqlpune@sercononline.com

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Location: Hyderabad
Date: Thursday, May 29, 2008
Time: 14:00-18:00 (Registration begins at 13:30)
Admission fee: Free, if pre-registered.
Venue: Fortune Katriya Hotel
Pre-Registration is available at: http://www.reg-express.com/register/registration_mysql.jsp?eml=mysqlhyderabad@sercononline.com&eventid=mysqlhyderabad

Contact - Sandeep Reddy
Tel - 040 - 65153371 / 72
Mobile - +91 9849058074
Fax - 040 - 23326249
Email - mysqlhyderabad@sercononline.com

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Location: Chennai
Date: Friday, May 30, 2008
Time: 14:00-18:00 (Registration begins at 13:30)
Admission fee: Free, if pre-registered.
Venue: The Accord Metropolitan Hotel

Pre-Registration is available at: http://www.reg-express.com/register/registration_mysql.jsp?eml=mysqlchennai@sercononline.com&eventid=mysqlchennai

Contact - Sivashankar
Tel - 040 - 64505591 / 92
Mobile - +91 9790886858
Fax - 040 - 43532086
Email - mysqlchennai@sercononline.com

Don’t miss this opportunity to meet with David Axmark, Co-founder of MySQL, Brian Aker, Director of Technology for MySQL and other MySQL representatives.

Seats are limited. Register now!!

We look forward to meeting you!

http://us.pycon.org/2008/about/ 

The Python Software Foundation is proud to present PyCon 2008, the 6th annual Python community conference, this year in Chicago.

Come to PyCon 2008 in Chicago to:

• meet interesting people in the Python community
• learn about cool things others have done recently
• show off the cool things you’ve done recently
• learn about projects, tools & techniques
• advance open source projects

PyCon has many aspects:

• Tutorial Day: Thursday March 13

  A chance for in-depth learning from the experts.

• Conference Days: Friday March 14 to Sunday March 16.

  • Keynote talks from luminaries.
  • Scheduled talks on a myriad of subjects.
  • Lightning talks: 5-minute impromptu talks, scheduled at the conference (come prepared to talk!).
  • Open Space: plenty of rooms available for follow-up discussions after scheduled talks, group discussions of projects, unscheduled talks, demos, brainstorming…
  • And the hallway track is always popular!

• Development Sprints: Monday March 17 to Thursday March 20.

  Up to four days of intensive learning about and development of open-source projects. We provide the space and the infrastructure (network, power, tables & chairs), you provide the enthusiasm and the brainpower. All experience levels welcome. The sprints are free!

• Expo Hall: Friday March 14 & Saturday March 15.

  Many sponsors and vendors will have booths in an expanded exhibitor area this year. Get a T-shirt, find a job, talk to the companies who participate in the Python community!

But most importantly,

• The Community: PyCon is a community conference!

PHP Quebec is pleased to announce the sixth edition of the PHP Quebec Conference. The Conference will take place in Montreal, Canada between March 12th and 14th, 2008. We are looking for speakers willing to share their expertise with Canadian and United States PHP professionals.

The Conference features the PHPLab, where speakers and visitors will find solutions to actual business problems. The two days of technical talks will be dedicated to advanced software development techniques with PHP5 and PHP6, XML, web services, databases, etc.

Organizers will prioritize new and original topics in English or French. For more information, visit the website: http://conf.phpquebec.com

http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale6x/

About the Linux Expo of Southern California Inc

The Linux Expo of Southern California Inc is a non-profit organization currently comprised, but not limited to, members of the USCLUG, UCLALUG, and SCLUG. Our mission statement is as follows:

The mission of SCALE is outreach - our goal is to evangelize the advantages of Open Source software. Open Source software is any software that meets the litmus test of the OSI (Open Source Initiative)¹. Examples of OSS are Linux and the various BSD operating systems, and applications such as OpenOffice.org and Mozilla.

Our target audiences are both current and potential users of OSS². Those users can be individual computer users, educational institutions, or businesses.

Those outreach efforts consist mainly of, but are not limited to, the Southern California Linux Expo. The Expo’s educational focus is composed of (but not limited to) technical seminars and booths where, among other things, both commercial software and hardware vendors, and local non-profit groups (for example, Linux Users Groups), participate in product display, and software demonstrations and tutorials, respectively.

SCALE may host, or participate in, other activities that align with its mission statement.

We are a non-profit volunteer organization, and are vendor- and distribution neutral in our outreach efforts.

LinuxAsia has transformed, it is now known as Open Source Week.  Therefore, LinuxAsia 2008 will be a multi-city event, with The TechTrack (conference) planned for Bangalore and New Delhi, to be held from 11 February to 15 February 2008. Along with that, there will be a CTOSummit in Bangalore, one CXOSummit each in Mumbai and New Delhi, and ManageIT Expo each in Bangalore and New Delhi.

Commercial Event. More Details at www.linuxasia.net

First FOSS Conference is being organized by NRCFOSS in Chennai. The venue is :

MIT Campus, Anna University
Chromepet, Chennai 600 044

Dates : 01 to 03 February 08

It is a free event with lot of technology orientation. You can register at http://registration.fossconf.in/web/.