O'Reilly Open Source Convention - August 1-5, 2005

Event
Tuesday Evening Extravaganza

Date: Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005
Time: 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Location: Portland Ballroom

7:30pm - Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards
7:45pm - State of the Onion, Larry Wall
8:15pm - Yahoo!-O'Reilly Buzz Market Report, David Pennock and Rael Dornfest
8:30pm - What Business Can Learn From Open Source, Paul Graham, Author of Hackers & Painters
9:00pm - White Camel Awards
9:15pm - Fun With Dead Languages, Damian Conway
Watch in mesmerized terror as Damian hacks code in five unrelated languages (none of them Perl). Along the way, you'll also learn about modern archaeological techniques, bidirectional cross-dressing, Ancient Greeks hackers, improbable romances, the real Club Med, why programmers shouldn't frequent casinos, the language of moisture vaporators, C++ mysticism, conversational Latin, state machines on steroids, feeding the dog the old-fashioned way, the shocking truth about anime, programming without variables or subroutines, the Four Voids of the Apocalypse, Microsoft's new advertising campaign, what the Romans used instead of braces, drunken stonemasons, the ancient probabilistic wisdom of bodkins, how to kill a language with a single byte, and the price of fish.
10:30pm - Lights Out, You Don't Have to Go Home But You Can't Sleep Here