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Gold Sponsors
CodePlex, a new online collaborative development portal, fosters global collaborative development and houses several hundred community-oriented Microsoft Shared Source and open source projects.
Google is a global technology leader focused on improving the way people connect with information. Google's innovations in web search and advertising have made its website a top Internet destination and its brand one of the most recognized in the world. Google maintains the world's largest online index of websites and other content, and Google makes this information freely available to anyone with an Internet connection. Google's automated search technology helps people obtain nearly instant access to relevant information from it vast online index.
Port 25 is open - a new community website designed to facilitate a deeper dialogue around the interoperability issues surrounding Windows, Linux, UNIX and Open Source Software. Interact with the people, insights, and analysis from the Microsoft Open Source Software Lab at http://port25.technet.com.
Silver Sponsors
ActiveState is the leading provider of tools and services for dynamic languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl. Over two million developers rely on ActiveState's cross-platform professional development tools, high-quality language distributions, and enterprise language support services.
Autodesk, Inc. is wholly focused on ensuring that great ideas are turned into reality. With seven million users, Autodesk is the world's leading software and services company for the manufacturing, infrastructure, building, media and entertainment, and wireless data services fields. Autodesk's Infrastructure Solutions Division (ISD) provides solutions that enable the integration of computer-aided design (CAD) and geospatial information system (GIS) data allowing customers to create, manage and share valuable spatial information for better decision-making and improved operational efficiency. By enabling unprecedented access to spatial data throughout a customer's organization, Autodesk helps municipalities, engineering and construction, public works, transportation and utility customers be more productive and provide better services. As a result, customers turn ideas into competitive advantage, become more productive, streamline project efficiency and maximize profits. Founded in 1982, Autodesk is headquartered in San Rafael, California.
BOOKING.COM, is one of Europe’s leading online hotel reservation companies with offices in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Paris, Pisa, Loulé, Rome, Vienna and Norwalk (USA). We offer more than 25,000 hotels in over 6,000 destinations world wide. Customers can book a hotel, whether seeking a small family hotel or five star luxury. The site is available in 12 languages and is customer friendly.
Originally founded as an online Photo album site for consumers, Fotango soon began using its immense software development expertise to raise the standards in image delivery within the market. Fotango is now a highly innovative software and systems development business, building cutting edge technology solutions for clients by drawing upon first hand experience and utilising our own technology solutions. We provide creative technology solutions to complex business and technology problems. These solutions vary from small local marketing systems to pan-European e-commerce engines, for both B2B to B2C. But unlike a traditional software consultancy or software development group, Fotango actually runs the systems that it builds within its own organization. We build for others what we use for ourselves. We build from our own experience because we believe in providing high quality products and solutions that meet business critical needs.
For over a decade, IONA® Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA) has been a world leader in delivering high-performance integration solutions for Global 2000 IT environments. IONA's leadership in various Open Source SOA infrastructure projects demonstrates a natural extension of the company's history of solving integration problems by leveraging open standards and distributed architectures. IONA is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts and offices worldwide.
Established in 2000, LINAGORA has been one of the original promoters of the Open Source approach in the French speaking community, and is still very actively involved in this field. LINAGORA interacts proactively with his clients in their industrial projects, grounded on Open Source Solutions technology. LINAGORA's line of activity is leveraged by unique tools and methods and his innovative service offering, based on 8 Competence Centres: LDAP Directory, CMS, Supervision, Groupware, Security and PKI, Open Office productivity, Database, J2EE development. Finally, LINAGORA's offer includes training courses, allowing customers to take best advantage of Open Source opportunities.
Scalix is the leading provider of enterprise email, calendaring and collaboration software based on Linux and open source. Scalix allows companies of all sizes to reduce the cost and complexity of their email environment with a richly-featured, reliable and scalable messaging solution that blends seamlessly with both open source and proprietary software. Scalix offers customers flexibility and freedom of choice at all levels of the IT stack from the desktop to email related infrastructure components, helping them achieve independence from vendor, technology and licensing lock-in.
Media Partners
ActionScript.it is an O'Reilly and Adobe User Group involved with the development of web aplications, mobile applications and accessibility. The ActionScript.it website features a forum section, a guide section, a blog written in english, some tutorials and it offers free support to the Italian developer community.
Adaptive Path is a user-experience consulting, research, development, and training firm that provides custom services to a range of clients, including Fortune 100 corporations, pure-Web startups, and established non-profit organizations. The company is headquartered in San Francisco. To learn more about Adaptive Path, visit the company website at www.adaptivepath.com.
Conference Guru - We track hundreds of technology conferences around the world to help our Members find the right conferences…to get in front of the right people…at the right price.
DevtownStation.com, maintains one of the best Developer Conference and Educational Event Calendars. DevtownStation provides marketing assistance to companies looking to communicate with qualified IT communities for educational events. If you are running an IT educational event check out the site and post your upcoming conferences, webinars, road shows, or training courses, free of charge.
Dr. Dobb's Journal Now in its 30th year, the award-winning magazine, Dr. Dobb’s Journal, has been the only magazine to cover cross-platform, language-independent software development and architecture in serious depth. Dr. Dobb’s Journal is written exclusively for professional software development leaders and architects, and provides tools and techniques using relevant, real-world solutions.
Enterprise Open Source Journal (EOSJ) is a new FREE magazine dedicated to informing CIOs, IT executives and IT staff in the use of Open Source Software to solve pressing business challenges in a cooperative manner within today’s mostly proprietary IT ecosystems. Articles focused on open standards, open systems, licensing, security, integration, and more will be covered. Subscribe today!
VNU, an information and media company, is active globally in market-leading positions and using established brands in these sectors: marketing information (AC Nielsen); media measurement and information (Nielsen Media Research); and business information (Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, Computing, Intermediair). In Germany, VNU publishes the magazines PC Professionell, Internet Professionell, Linux Professionell and Computer im Mittelstand and runs the IT portal vnunet.de with homepages at www.testticker.de, www.pcpro.de, www.pcdirekt.de, www.internet-pro.de, www.it-im-unternehmen.de, www.gizmodo.de and www.theinquirer.de.
IPTV Industry is the leading online trade publication dedicated to the internet television B2B marketplace. Providing news, white papers, development resources and online buyer's guide for the IPTV Industry. With a worldwide readership of manufacturers, content providers, distributors, resellers and integrators, IPTV Industry is the number one online source for industry sales leads, branding and promotion of IPTV products and services.
JavaBlackBelt.com is a self-study portal with over 8000 exam questions authored and filtered by -and for- Java (and related technologies) developers. It’s a unique concept, even outside the IT sector. Driven by dynamic collaboration and community recognition, thousands of developers contribute questions or succeed exams to get “contribution points”. The points are used toward exams to earn more “java belts” or for bidding in the auctions.
Master Xen, get RAID working, write your own 3D game and tune your box's security – all in just one issue of Linux Format, the UK's best-selling Linux magazine. Of course, we also pack in the latest news and reviews, top distros to install from our free DVD, plus interviews with such personalities as Larry Wall, Andrew Morton, Mark Shuttleworth and Eben Moglen. Visit our website and talk to other Linux users on our forum or check out our latest subscription deals at www.linuxformat.co.uk.
Established in 1994, Linux Journal is the original monthly publication of the global Linux community, covering topics critical to intelligent implementation of the Linux operating system. Linux Journal is published by SSC Publishing, the leading Linux and Open Source authority, which has published reference materials in these fields since 1983.
In Linux Magazine,, you'll find the tools, tutorials, reviews, and concrete technical discussions you'll need to unlock the secrets of Linux - and not just from the server side. Linux Magazine delivers solutions for real users with Linux on real desktops. Linux Magazine is also published in German, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish.
VNU, an information and media company, is active globally in market-leading positions and using established brands in these sectors: marketing information (AC Nielsen); media measurement and information (Nielsen Media Research); and business information (Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, Computing, Intermediair). In Germany, VNU publishes the magazines PC Professionell, Internet Professionell, Linux Professionell and Computer im Mittelstand and runs the IT portal vnunet.de with homepages at www.testticker.de, www.pcpro.de, www.pcdirekt.de, www.internet-pro.de, www.it-im-unternehmen.de, www.gizmodo.de and www.theinquirer.de.
LinuxQuestions.org is a free, friendly and active Linux Community with over 180,000 members and over 1,7000,000 posts. Founded in 2000 LQ offers forums, reviews, a Linux hardware compatibility list, a Linux knowledge base in wiki format, Linux tutorials, a free Linux download site, a Linux podcast, a Linux radio show and more. LQ has forums for everything from Linux Newbies to Linux in the Enterprise and has over 20 officially recognized Linux distribution forums.
MacMinute.com delivers timely, concise news covering all aspects of the Apple Macintosh market. Presented in a format that is easy to read and quick to navigate, content is updated 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for the latest Mac news from around the globe.
Methods & Tools is a free e-newsletter providing practical knowledge for software development professionals. It gives software development ideas more than one page to express themselves and covers all aspects of software engineering: project management and planning, analysis, design, testing, architecture, configuration management, process improvement, peopleware, methodologies,...
The basic accents are technologies, software and phylosophy, based on open source principles. OpenSourceMag is a natural extension of the initiative for makeing popular these ideas and our efforts in preparing the conference of internet technologies WebTech. Main Topics Are- Open Companies,Open Culture,Open Interview,Open LifeStyle,Open Software,Open Phylosophy
Ping Wales, the first B2B publication to focus exclusively on the flourishing Welsh IT sector. In addition to daily news covering the latest IT developments across Wales and the world, Ping Wales features in-depth articles on business strategy and development, interviews with the decision makers shaping the Welsh IT industry and more.
Red Herring Magazine is a sophisticated insider's guide to the business of technology, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy, from the Internet to wireless communications and digital entertainment. Red Herring's journalists report on how the world of innovation and entrepreneurship are transforming business and how the business of technology is transforming the world, providing readers with a deep understanding of venture capital and capital markets. Recognized as an essential resource in today's fast-changing business world, Red Herring's editors get the right answers before anyone else even thinks to ask the questions.
SDForum has been instrumental in setting the high-tech industry agenda for more than 22 years. A high-tech non-profit dedicated to educating and creating relationships within the technology community. SDForum provides the latest insights on emerging technology trends and best business practices through events, specialized services and resources.
The Register started life as a daily news operation on the web in May 1998. On the first day, 300 readers visited; in 2007 more than 4.7 million unique readers visit the site every month. The Registers’ blend of breaking news, strong personalities – and its accessible online execution – has made it one of the most popular, authorities on the IT industry. With an international team of journalists and columnists, The Register reports on the IT industry from the inside out – covering everything from enterprise software, to chip developments.
The Wi-Fi Technology Forum (Wi-Fi-TF) network is a non-profit worldwide organization based in the UK. Manned mostly by volunteers, aims to report and inform its audiences on all aspects of Wi-Fi and wireless technology. With its round the clock Wi-Fi Newswire© service, discussion forums, reviews and other resources, the Wi-Fi-TF operates on impartiality and non-profitability. The Wi-Fi-TF network owns and operates a string of Wireless and Wi-Fi Technology sites.
The Women's Technology Cluster is the pre-eminent business accelerator dedicated to women leaders building technology-driven businesses. Our mission is to increase the number of successful companies and leverage their influence. Through our dedicated community of proven CEOs, investors, and industry experts, we provide extensive advisory services, coaching, and access to business and capital networks.
Vacature.com is the site-to-be for every talented M/F in Belgium. Besides the largest amount of qualitative jobs, it also offers useful career advice, interesting tools and tests. Vacature.com not only helps you to find the perfect job, it also aids in evolving your career to the fullest.
VoIP-News.com provides VoIP and Internet Telephony buyers with the information they need to make informed decisions about next generation voice communications. The site offers news, analysis, whitepapers, and interactive tools that make the world of telephony easier to understand. With this rich content, VoIP-News serves the needs of 115,000 Internet Telephony professionals worldwide.
WebDevMagazine is a magazine for internet technologies, culture, communications and business.It has been published since 2003 year in PDF format, in bulgarian language. Through these 2 years of existence we have published a lot of materials on subjects connected with internet technologies, and also we have made a lot of intreviews with known personalities.
WiMAX Industry is the leading online trade publication dedicated to the WiMAX 802.16 standard and broadband wireless access (BWA) marketplace. Providing news, white papers, development resources and online buyer's guide for the WiMAX Industry. With a worldwide readership of manufacturers, providers and enterprise end-users, WiMAX Industry is the number one online marketplace for WiMAX, 802.16 broadband wireless access solutions
WITI is the premiere global organization supporting tech-savvy women to attain their professional goals. They have a global network of smart, talented women & a market reach exceeding 2 million. WITI's mission is to empower women worldwide to achieve unimagined possibilities and transformations through technology, leadership and economic prosperity.
In-Kind Partners
Griffin Technology has earned a longstanding reputation as the creative leader in ingenious peripherals and accessories for Mac, PC and iPod. Find out more about Griffin's entire range of products for audio, video, USB, FireWire, etc., at Griffin's website www.griffintechnology.com.
Named one of the top new board games of 2005 by the San Francisco Chronicle, Roundabout Five came into being because a mother protested that her adult sons had an unfair advantage when they teamed together. In R5, the teams change randomly on every turn while participants encounter trivia, riddles, jokes, charades and debate whether Daffy or Donald would win the cartoon version of Survivor. Visit RoundaboutFive.com for more information or to download the updated rules.
Timbuk2 Designs Inc., is the leading independent manufacturer of authentic bicycle messenger bags. The company’s signature three-panel, multi-color design and distinctive swirl logo are recognizable worldwide. Founded in 1989 by a bicycle messenger, Timbuk2 still manufactures its custom messenger bags in its own factory in San Francisco. Through its dedication to product quality and customer service, Timbuk2 has established a strong following among bicycle messengers, cycling enthusiasts, and urban dwellers worldwide. www.timbuk2.com.
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