Conference Presenter Instructions

Thank you very much for joining us as a presenter at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention. We appreciate you for taking on the role of technical leader and instructor to the community.

The instructions that follow provide detailed information to help make your tutorial or conference presentation successful.

What To Do Next

1. Register for the conference
   You must register to be confirmed as a speaker. You will receive a special speaker registration link by email that will allow you to complete a free speaker registration. When you register, we will ask you to:

• Tell us your audio/video needs.
• Tell us your dates of arrival and departure.
• Agree to the speaker contract.
• Select tutorials given by others that you would like to attend.

2. Arrange travel and make hotel reservations
   You are responsible for all hotel- and travel-related expenses. Contact the conference hotel to receive the discounted O'Reilly conference room rate. Our travel agent can assist with your arrangements, if you like:

   Vivian V. Russell Travel Services
   182 Farmers Lane, Suite 102
   Santa Rosa, CA 95405
   Phone: (707) 525-0550
   Fax: (707) 525-0560
   Email:

Important Dates

We have set the following deadlines to make sure that the planning of the conference goes smoothly for presenters and participants. Please use this as a checklist so that you will have a handy reference guide to help you prepare for the event.

Please submit materials on or before the due dates!

May 15, 2005: Book your travel to the conference now. Early reservations mean that you get better flights and rates.

June 1, 2005: Registration must be complete, which includes speaker contract and audio-visual information.

July 8, 2005: Presentation materials in electronic format are due (see below under Presentation File Guidelines). Send your file by email to Vee McMillen -- . If your file is too large to email, you can FTP it to ftp://ftp.oreilly.com. Place the file in the folder called incoming and send an email to Vee McMillen to let her know the file is in, and what it is named.

August 1-5, 2005: O'Reilly Open Source Convention. Please check in at the Speaker Room when you arrive on site. This will give you an opportunity to meet with the Speaker Manager, Vee McMillen; pick up your materials and any schedule changes; and meet with the audio-visual experts to make sure that your presentation will load and present correctly. You will be able to sign up on site for a scheduled time to meet with A/V. You will also receive:

• One speaker badge.
• Conference materials.
• Conference schedule of events.
• Your personal schedule of events, including any changes.

Presentation File Guidelines

Presentation files: We can project files from your laptop (if you are able to arrive in time to have your machine synchronized with our equipment by our A/V techs) or from show computers available in the room. Our standard show computers are dual-boot Linux/Windows and support the following presentation file types:

• Adobe PDF
• HTML
• Keynote
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• OpenOffice

The show computers are connected to the Internet, and wireless connectivity is available in the main public areas.

Please send your zipped files by email to

Questions?

If you have any questions about speaker registration or guidelines, please contact Vee McMillen by email ( ) or phone: (707) 827-7202.

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