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)

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!

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.