by Suzanne Axtell, Communications Gal on  

OMX, the first-ever O'Reilly Open Mobile Exchange, is for everyone involved in building out the open source mobile space, including platforms, standards, applications, hardware, integration, browsers, location, and services. This full day of insightful conversations, demos, technical presentations, and panel discussions brings together innovators from a broad swath of perspectives and backgrounds to share ideas and foster new thinking across technologies.

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by Avila Reese - PR Contributor on  

Yardena Arar highlights the coolest startups, innovators and exhibitors on the Expo show floor:

The Web 2.0 Expo at San Francisco's Moscone Center West, which wraps up today, doesn't take up a huge amount of space: Startups predominate, and most don't have money for big flashy booths. But there's more cool new technology per square foot here than at many big trade shows.

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by Suzanne Axtell, Communications Gal on  

OSCON program co-chair Allison Randal has put out the call for nominations for the Open Source Awards, presented by O'Reilly and Google at OSCON.

The awards recognize individual contributors who have demonstrated exceptional leadership, creativity, and collaboration in the development of Open Source Software. Past recipients for 2005-2007 include Doc Searls, Jeff Waugh, Gerv Markham, Julian Seward, David Heinemeier Hansson, Karl Fogel, David Recordon, and Paul Vixie.

Deadline is May 15. Send your nominations to osawards AT oreilly DOT com.

Another deadline to keep in mind is the early registration discount--you'll save up to $250 if you register by June 2.

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by Allison Randal on  For the 4th year running, Google and O'Reilly will present a set of Open Source Awards at OSCON 2008. The awards recognize individual contributors who have demonstrated exceptional leadership, creativity, and collaboration in the development of Open Source Software. Past recipients for 2005-2007 include Doc Searls, Jeff Waugh, Gerv Markham, Julian Seward, David Heinemeier Hansson, Karl Fogel, David Recordon, and... read more

by Allison Randal on  For the 4th year running, Google and O'Reilly will present a set of Open Source Awards at OSCON 2008. The awards recognize individual contributors who have demonstrated exceptional leadership, creativity, and collaboration in the development of Open Source Software. Past recipients for 2005-2007 include Doc Searls, Jeff Waugh, Gerv Markham, Julian Seward, David Heinemeier Hansson, Karl Fogel, David Recordon, and... read more

by Suzanne Axtell, Communications Gal on  

With co-producers TechWeb, we've put out a news release:

Industry Leaders Publicly Unveil Products and Services--TechWeb (formerly CMP) and O'Reilly Media, Inc., today preview big product and market announcements to be made at the upcoming Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco, April 22-25, 2008 at Moscone West. Web 2.0 Expos are the leading global gatherings of developers, designers, marketers, and business professionals building the next generation Web.

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by Nat Torkington on  Via Michal Migurski's delicious feed, I found Disks Have Become Tapes, a fascinating set of observations about why MapReduce is so successful. In short (as observed by Doug Cutting at OSCON last year), MapReduce hits the sweet spot by operating... read more

by Nat Torkington on  Yahoo! launch world's largest production Hadoop installation (Yahoo!). Hadoop is the open source implementation of Google's map-reduce system of parallel programming. For background on Hadoop, see Doug Cutting and Eric Baldeschwieler's the OSCON 2007 talks. Author of this article... read more

by Nat Torkington on  We've been watching synthetic biology closely since Drew Endy keynoted on open source biology at OSCON back in 2005 (audio here). You might have caught Quinn Norton's series of posts on Drew and his work (parts 1, 2, 3, 4,... read more

by Nat Torkington on  We've been watching synthetic biology closely since Drew Endy keynoted on open source biology at OSCON back in 2005 (audio here). You might have caught Quinn Norton's series of posts on Drew and his work (parts 1, 2, 3, 4,... read more

by Nat Torkington on  We've been watching synthetic biology closely since Drew Endy keynoted on open source biology at OSCON back in 2005 (audio here). You might have caught Quinn Norton's series of posts on Drew and his work (parts 1, 2, 3, 4,... read more

by Allison Randal on  The call for participation for the 2008 O'Reilly Open Source Convention is out. This year marks the 10th anniversary of OSCON, of the Open Source Initiative, of Mozilla, and of the term "Open Source", so a huge celebration is in... read more

by Allison Randal on  The call for participation for the 2008 O'Reilly Open Source Convention is out. This year marks the 10th anniversary of OSCON, of the Open Source Initiative, of Mozilla, and of the term "Open Source", so a huge celebration is in... read more

by Allison Randal on  At OSCON this summer, I was interviewed by Sam Ramji from Microsoft on the subject of open source and Microsoft's participation in the community. The video is live now on their open source labs site, Port 25.... read more

by Allison Randal on  At OSCON this summer, I was interviewed by Sam Ramji from Microsoft on the subject of open source and Microsoft's participation in the community. The video is live now on their open source labs site, Port 25.... read more

by Dawn Applegate on  

This is an interesting blog entry about events at OSCON and the notion of bringing Open Systems and Microsoft together....

When I describe my job as “helping Microsoft and open source to grow together,” I get a broad range of reactions from people outside and inside of Microsoft. These reactions have included sentiments along the lines of “that must be tough,” or “you must be a glutton for punishment” on occasion.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

We knew from his speaking gig at OSCON he was funny, but this is well worth reading. Be forewarned, don't read this with anything liquid in your hand (ie coffee...)

Whoops. It turns out Nat had me scheduled LAST. There were like four or five keynote speakers before me. Imagine that! Tim O'Reilly managed to get three thousand programmers to wake up at 7am. There must have been some sort of measurable blip on our GNP over the next week.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

It's amazing how quickly these videos make it around the web. Here Robert Ottaway blogs about Steve Yegge:

So anyway Steve gave a talk at OSCON that is good food for thought.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

This is a nice post about the highlights of OSCON:

Three weeks ago, I went to OSCON up in Portland. It was terrific, one of the best I've attended.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

This is a nice round up of the whole OSCON/Portland experience:

Last week, we headed to Portland for the Open Source Convention, lovingly known as OSCON, where thousands of open source software developers, system administrators and technology lovers from around the globe came to bask in the glory of unadulterated geek-speak.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

This is short, but I particularly love this part:

Portland / Ubuntu Live / OSCON. Really good times.
LinuxWorld -- Weird times.

For the whole post visit:

What Andy's been up to

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by Dawn Applegate on  

Here is the final "wrap-up" release of all the news fit to print at OSCON 2007:

OSCON Press Release

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by Dawn Applegate on  

Conference sponsor Intel hosted a big party Monday night during OSCON, this is a very good article that sums up what was discussed at the event:

Last week, Intel officially released the source code of Threading Building Blocks (TBB) 2.0, a C++ template library that facilitates a task-oriented approach to parallelism.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

A blog entry about attending both events, Ubuntu Live and OSCON:

Ubuntu Live and OSCON were awesome. Eric and I got a bunch of good hacking done during the sessions.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

Mozilla, OSCON sponsor posted this about their activities while at the conference:

Mozilla has participated in the conference for several years now and had targeted it as a major open source community and developer relations event.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

Another OSCON attendee reviews his experiences at the conference:

For the last three OSCON's I've been attending a meeting for people deeply involved in the operation of open source foundations. Allison Randal of the Perl Foundation and O'Reilly has done a great job of getting the foundations to talk to each other about common issues.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

These are kind of fun, they give you a "slice of life" at OSCON. I think this sums it all up:

"The trip was worth every penny, every bit of effort, the lost sleep, and the crazy schedule. I learned more than I ever thought I would. I met more people than I thought I would, and I got to learn about new companies, new products, and new ideas. I really hope to be able to return next year, but that's a year off. We'll see how it goes at that time."

OSCON -- Day 1

OSCON -- Day 2

OSCON -- Day 3

OSCON -- Day 4

OSCON -- Day 5

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by Dawn Applegate on  

More pick up on the news from Prentice Hall at OSCON:

Addison-Wesley Professional (AW), Prentice Hall Professional (PH) and SAMS Publishing today announced the release of new cutting-edge books for the open source community

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by Dawn Applegate on  

From the Haskell blog, news of Simon Peyton Jones' success while at OSCON:

At OSCON last week, Simon Peyton Jones delivered some superlative sessions.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

Anytime an O'Reilly conference is "diggable" it's good news, here's some feedback about an OSCON panel:

Apparently this was a standing room only session and was quite well received. People were talking about this session through the remainder of OSCON.

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by Tim O'Reilly on  One of the most important announcements at Oscon last week was Yahoo!'s commitment to support Hadoop. We've been writing about Hadoop on radar for a while, so it's probably not news to you that we think Hadoop is important.... read more

by Dawn Applegate on  

More OSCON coverage about Microsoft's strategy:

Microsoft has begun to talk about open source again. Sure, atheists sometimes do talk about God.

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by Tim O'Reilly on  One of the most important announcements at Oscon last week was Yahoo!'s commitment to support Hadoop. We've been writing about Hadoop on radar for a while, so it's probably not news to you that we think Hadoop is important.... read more

by Brady Forrest on  Steve Souders, the Chief Performance Yahoo, has opensourced a tool for finding performance flaws in websites. YSlow implements Steve's 13 performance rules as a Firebug plugin. He'll be talking about it more at his talk at OSCON today. As... read more

by Dawn Applegate on  

Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier comments on his take away from OSCON:

In many ways, OSCON is summer camp for geeks.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

More coverage of the various announcements made at OSCON:

Last week at OSCON in Portland, Ore. three companies made three announcements regarding free and open source licensing. These are their stories.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

Analyst Joe Niski had this to say about what he learned at OSCON:

One could describe OSCON as a really good developers' conference, with plenty of technical breadth and depth. But it definitely had a sense of espirit de corps that I haven't encountered elsewhere.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

Blogger and OSCON attendee Brian Fitzpatrick's amusing take on the conference:

Portland was, as always, a fantastic city, and I really enjoyed catching up with what I call my "second family" of conference friends that I see several times a year.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

Jimmy Wales of Wikia gets some nice coverage on this blog:

"If we can get good quality search results, I think it will really change the balance of power from the search companies back to the publishers," said Wales at the developer conference OSCON in Portland, Oregon.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

Here are some details on the SourceForge awards at OSCON:

SourceForge announced the winners of its second annual SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards during the OSCON conference.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

Sean Campbell and team did many interviews from OSCON, here's video from one of them with Intel:

James Reinders Interview

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by Dawn Applegate on  

To read the results of the Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards from OSCON follow this link and scroll down:

Last night, July 24, at the Open Source Conference in Portland the winners of the coveted Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award were announced.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

It's always a pleasure having John Dorsey at an O'Reilly event, these are the stories he filed from OSCON:

Java at OSCON

Apatar Data Mashup Contest

Open Source and the Enterprise

Wikia Acquires Grub Search Tool

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by Dawn Applegate on  

SnapLogic was a key player as an sponsor/exhibitor at OSCON, this post is fun:

The energy level was high throughout the conference. Anyone who thinks the free software movement is losing steam or is in tumult is wrong.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

Jay Lymon covers OSCON:

This year's O'Reilly OSCON event in Portland, Oregon had the usual open source conference hallmarks - long, gray Unix beards, Linux-based long hairs, packs of PHP, Perl, Ruby and other programmers, laid-back geek attire consisting of shorts and sandles, open source executives in jackets (ties are not welcome), and free as in 'free beer' beer on the exhibit floor.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

More OSCON coverage:

OSCON 2007 was a huge success for the PostgreSQL community.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

Another article from reporter Elise Ackerman from OSCON:

Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, the world's biggest community-written online encyclopedia, announced Friday that he had taken a small step toward his next big goal: a community-programmed search engine that competes with Google.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

Got to love this headline:

Symas Corporation proclaims O'Reilly's OSCon 2007 A Success!

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by Dawn Applegate on  

Great "slice of life" take on OSCON:

OSCON is my favorite conference these days. I love it because it brings so many diverse people under a single umbrella for a week.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

This is a fun take on the hectic schedule of life at a conference:

I'm back from OSCON, but still feeling the impact of what was another great event. It's not just the great parties that leave you drained, it's also the massive amount of learning, discussion and information.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

More award coverage from OSCON:

SourceForge, Inc. the leader in community-driven media and e-commerce, announced the winners of its second annual SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards in Portland, OR, at an evening celebration held during the OSCON conference.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

Here is one of the exhibitor's take on OSCON:

Just finished up my 2007 'OSCON Experience' I attended the conference on Tuesday and Wednesday and we had our PDXPHP both in the exhibit hall as last year, but in addition I helped to organize the OSCamp room.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

This is a good article on happenings at OSCON:

The echoes from the last OSCON parties haven't even stopped reverberating though the halls as the next convention moves in.

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by Brady Forrest on  Steve Souders, the Chief Performance Yahoo, has opensourced a tool for finding performance flaws in websites. YSlow implements Steve's 13 performance rules as a Firebug plugin. He'll be talking about it more at his talk at OSCON today. As... read more

by Robert Kaye on  

My last session of OSCON yesterday was Danese Cooper's "The Art of Community" panel talk with Karl Fogel, Jimmy Wales, Dawn Foster, Sulamita Garcia, Whurley, and Brian Behlendorf. This year Danese asked community oriented questions and let the various panel members jump in to answer the questions. Blogging panel presentations can be tricky since the exchanges between the panel members and even the audience fly back and for quite fast. I tried to capture the best questions and the best responses, but I'm not even going to claim that my coverage is anywhere near complete.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

It's always nice to have the local media attend one of our conferences, here's an article that resulted
from Mike Rogoway's visit to OSCON:

With Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales in Portland to speak at OSCON on Friday

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by Dawn Applegate on  

More coverage for Microsoft's news:

In Bill Hilf's keynote at Oscon today, he announced that Microsoft will submit it's shared source licenses to the OSI for approval.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

More Ubuntu Live coverage:

The first ever Ubuntu Live conference, running concurrently with the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland

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by Dawn Applegate on  

Always happy to Darryl Taft at an O'Reilly conference, here's what he had to say about Microsft at OSCON:

Microsoft has recommitted to working with the open-source community, even submitting its Shared Source License to the Open Source Initiative for approval as an approved license for sharing code.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

Another fine article on OSCON news from Matt Asay:

Tim notes that Microsoft will be submitting its shared-source licenses to the OSI for approval. He calls this "huge, long-awaited,...and earthshaking." It's actually none of the above, but it is welcome.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

News from sponsor/exhibitor Kysoh:

O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Portland, OR, JULY 25, 2007 - OSCON seems to be impossible to circumvent for the young company Kysoh. After having revealed Tux Droid, the smart companion for Geeks at OSCON 2006, Kysoh is proud to return this year to present Tux Droid Gadget Manager. Commercialized in March 2007, Tux Droid quickly became very popular in Europe. He made the cover of magazines in France, Germany and Italy. Tux is now really alive!

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by Dawn Applegate on  

Microsoft comments on open source with at OSCON:

I have some thoughts regarding the future of open source and how an organization matures along with the movement it helped to create.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

Microsoft had some news while at OSCON:

Today, Microsoft took another step in its relationship with the open source software community. We did this by bringing up a new web property that clearly outlines Microsoft's position on OSS by providing specific information about Microsoft, the OSS community and the interaction between the two.

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by Robert Kaye on  

After today's excellent OSCON keynote speeches I attended Adam Keys "People Hacks" presentation. Adam started with the disclaimer that the goal of this talk was not to manipulate people, but rather how you can change your behavior to foster improved communication when working with groups of people. Adam suggests using People Hacks for advocacy and for gel'ling teams to work more effectively.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

A podcast from an interview from OSCON with Ross Turk:

O'Reilly's Source Convention (OSCON) 2007 is happing this week in Portland, Oregon. The conference is in it's first day of sessions, but has really been going on for about five days because of tutorials and the Ubuntu Live conference.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

Week has begin to file stories on OSCON 2007. Here is the first of many:

Intel is open-sourcing its Threading Building Blocks 2.0 software, a C++ template library that simplifies the development of software applications running in parallel.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

Multi conference sponsors ActiveState had the following news from OSCON today:

Portland's Second Story develops online database for the National Postal Museum using ActiveState's Komodo IDE

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by Dawn Applegate on  

Big news from industry giant Intel had news here at OSCON:

Intel® Threading Building Blocks (TBB), a popular software C++ template library that simplifies the development of software applications

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by Tim O'Reilly on  In his keynote at OSCON, Microsoft General Manager of Platform Strategy Bill Hilf announced that Microsoft is submitting its shared source licenses to the Open Source Initiative. This is a huge, long-awaited move. It will be earthshaking for both Microsoft... read more

by Robert Kaye on  

Yesterday at OSCON I attended Mitchell Baker's "Mozilla Firefox and the Internet as an Open Platform" presentation in which she talked about Mozilla's mission to ensure that the Internet stays open and healthy. She outlined the two ends of the spectrum of what the Internet could turn into in the next few years. On one end you have the Nirvana vision:

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by Dawn Applegate on  

This is a very insightful article covering the Executive Briefing:

This is the second year that Oscon has included a one day conference-within-a-conference called O'Reilly Radar, intended as an executive level briefing session on new open source or related technologies. The agenda includes a wide range of topics reflecting the broad interests of Tim O'Reilly and his gang of folks who blog at O'Reilly Radar.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

Michael Calore offers his take on Mozilla:

The morning's executive briefing sessions are underway here at OSCON. Tim O'Reilly just led a discussion on stage about Firefox add-ons -- what they've achieved, how the open source model has shaped their development and what they contribute to the web.

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by Robert Kaye on  

Today, the main sessions of OSCON kicked off and after the keynotes I attended Josh Berkus' talk entitled "Performance Whack-a-mole". Since MusicBrainz relies on Postgres for its database back-end and I've had to deal with database performance issues, I'm keenly interested to learn the tricks of the trade. And since Josh is one of the key guys behind Postgres, this talk was getting the tips straight from the horse's mouth.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

Building and deploying enterprise-level web-based applications now a reality for SMEs.

Portland, OR July 23, 2007 - Software developer, once:technologies, has released the world's first browser-based Web 2.0 application development environment to the open source community. The company's CEO, Mr Rob Napier, unveiled once:radix at OSCON 2007 Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

More news from OSCON, this time from sponsor Jive Software:

Jive Launches Community with Nationwide Open Source Plugin Contest
PORTLAND, Ore., July 25, 2007 - Today at OSCON, Jive Software announced the launch of its new developer community, Jivespace, an online community where developers can share knowledge and develop extensions for Jive's collaboration solutions, including Clearspace, Clearspace X and Jive Forums. Jivespace is available online at dev.jivesoftware.com.

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by Brady Forrest on  For the past two years the Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards have recognized individuals for dedication, innovation, leadership and outstanding contribution to open source. Past winners are Doc Searls (co-author of "The Cluetrain Manifesto" and Senior Editor for Linux Journal),... read more

by Artur Bergman on  At OSCON today, Intel announced the the availability of an open source library designed to help developers tackle the future of multi-core development. A C++ library released under the GPL, the Intel Threading Building Blocks SDK attempts to present a... read more

by Dawn Applegate on  

Elise has been making the rounds at OSCON and this is the first of her stories regarding show news:

Intel launched its first open-source software project today, a tool that makes it much easier to program multi-core chips working together.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

Interesting article on Red Hat:

OSCON Sometimes being the open source software leader means distancing yourself from open source claims.

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by Brady Forrest on  Today at OSCON the three co-creators of Django Master Class. Simon Willison, Jeremy Dunck, and Jacob Kaplan-Moss each took on three major aspects of Django to teach. They were: 1. Unit testing (Simon). First because it’s important, dammit! 2.... read more

by Artur Bergman on  Where do you start building a large scaleable service? Chances are you will start with work done by Brad Fitzpatrick, Doug Cutting and Simon Peyton-Jones. Brad is the author of several core tools of Web 2.0, memcached, mogilefs and perlbal.... read more

by Robert Kaye on  

Today I'm covering the O'Reilly Radar Executive Briefing at OSCON where Eben Moglen and Tim O'Reilly just finished their "Licensing in the Web 2.0 Era" interview. Unfortunately the interview veered off topic quickly when Eben started berating Tim O'Reilly for wasting 10 years with "Open Source". Eben believes that everyone should be thinking in terms of "Free Software" and not "Open Source", but we already knew that.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

It's always nice to have O'Reilly news at an O'Reilly conference. Here's the latest news:

O'Reilly Media announced today the launch of a new website devoted to the provocative topics in its bestselling new book, Beautiful Code -Leading Programmers Explain How They Think ($44.99 US).

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by Dawn Applegate on  

More news from Prentice Hall:

NEW SOURCEFORGE COMMUNITY PRESS TO OFFER DEFINITIVE INFORMATION ON POPULAR OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS

PORTLAND, OR - OSCON - (July 23, 2007) - Prentice Hall Professional Publishers and SourceForge, Inc. today launched SourceForge® Community Press, an alliance between the publishing house and the world's largest repository of open source projects. The partnership creates an official source for information on open source projects hosted on SourceForge.net®, giving developers comprehensive instructional books authored by the creators of the projects themselves.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

OSCON Exhibitor Prentice Hall breaks news about their agreement with SourceForge:

Addison-Wesley/Prentice Hall/SAMS Launch
New Ubuntu, AJAX and Ruby Books at OSCON

Prentice Hall Announces Publishing Alliance with SourceForge, Inc.

Portland, OR -- July 23, 2007 - Addison-Wesley Professional (AW), Prentice Hall Professional (PH) and SAMS Publishing today announced the release of new cutting-edge books for the open source community, including The Official Ubuntu Book, second edition, and new titles for AJAX and Ruby programmers, including Enterprise AJAX: Strategies for Building High Performance Web Applications, RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails™ and The Professional Ruby Collection. The announcement was made at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON), in Portland, Oregon.

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by Robert Kaye on  

I'm excited to be back in Portland for O'Reilly's Ubuntu Live and OSCON conferences! Today I'm covering the Ubuntu Live conference that focuses on the Ubuntu Linux distribution. Ubuntu has clearly taken the Linux world by storm and having a conference dedicated to Ubuntu sounds like a great idea. O'Reilly enjoys a long history of bringing together developers from all corners of globe and this new conference promises do that for Ubuntu.

I first attended James Reinders "Exploiting Parallelism with Multicore" talk where James covered the background and pitfalls of moving from a single core to a multi-core world. James set the stage nicely when he talked about Moore's Law and why we're moving to a multi-core world and not keeping our age old focus on making faster and faster processors. As Moore originally stated, the density of transistors on silicon keeps doubling every 18 months, even today. But three unvoidable pitfalls exist that prevent Intel from cranking out faster and faster processors:

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by Dawn Applegate on  

OSCON is super place to make announcements, the first out of the starting gate is conference Sponsor/Exhibitor Snaplogic:

PORTLAND, OR (OSCON) - July 23, 2007 - SnapLogic, an Open Source data integration platform, has released a new, enhanced version of its flagship data services product.

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by Dawn Applegate on  

This is a nice overview that compares the top two linux shows, makes for interesting reading:

What is on your OSCON agenda?

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by Nat Torkington on  We have 14 tracks in parallel at OSCON. There's no way we can record everything--we'll be taping keynotes, but can't get cameras into the rooms and tutorials. But we want to record as much as we can and get it... read more

by Allison Randal on  At OSCON next Tuesday evening, Michael Tiemann will lead a training session on Design Thinking. In a nutshell, Design Thinking is an approach to planning and problem solving that extends a familiar metaphor of "design" (as in graphic design, or... read more

by Nat Torkington on  We have 14 tracks in parallel at OSCON. There's no way we can record everything--we'll be taping keynotes, but can't get cameras into the rooms and tutorials. But we want to record as much as we can and get it... read more

by Allison Randal on  At OSCON next Tuesday evening, Michael Tiemann will lead a training session on Design Thinking. In a nutshell, Design Thinking is an approach to planning and problem solving that extends a familiar metaphor of "design" (as in graphic design, or... read more

by Dawn Applegate on  

More buzz about OSCON...

O'Reilly's OSCON, the original and perhaps best open source conference takes place in Portland

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by Dawn Applegate on  

One of the OSCON speakers is garnering some advance publicity:

Chief technology officer will be speaking at open source convention OSCON 2007

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by Dawn Applegate on  

One of the many meetings of the minds at OSCON:

The Open Solutions Alliance is hosting the first in its series of Interoperability Hack-a-Thons

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by Nat Torkington on  I love reading Robin Hanson's blog Overcoming Bias. Today, a post on conspicuous consumption and public causes caught my eye. It reminded me of Tor Norretranders's keynote at EuroOSCON last year, and not just because Robin is keynoting this year.... read more

by Nat Torkington on  I love reading Robin Hanson's blog Overcoming Bias. Today, a post on conspicuous consumption and public causes caught my eye. It reminded me of Tor Norretranders's keynote at EuroOSCON last year, and not just because Robin is keynoting this year.... read more

by Dawn Applegate on  

This is a nice story about SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards Finalists:

Winners will be announced on July 26, 2007 during the OSCON conference in Portland, OR

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by Dawn Applegate on  

This is what we want to hear, attendees excited about the OSCON conference!

Coming Up Quickly! The 2007 O'Reilly OSCON Is Happening July 23-27 in
Portland, Oregon. Here's Why You Don't Want To Miss It...

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by Dawn Applegate on  

We love this type of enthusiasm, let's hope he and his co-presenter are swamped with attendees:

I'm really looking forward to having some fun with this.

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