[SOCALWUG] IEEE COSST Symposium

[James F. Lu - Publicity Chair]

======================================================= Coast Open Source Software Technology (COSST) Symposium                          by     IEEE Computer Society - Orange County Chapter ======================================================= WHAT: Applying Open Source Web Technologies COSST Symposium WHEN: Saturday Oct. 18.  9am-6pm WHERE: Jazz Semiconductor auditorium, Conexant Systems Overview -------- Our technical focus will be on using LAMP and Java open-source technologies. The LAMP acronym is used to describe a typical open-source platform "stack" for web applications: * Linux operating system * Apache web server * MySQL/PostgreSQL databases * Perl/PHP/Python languages The symposium will open with foundation talks providing an overview of open-source software and Linux as an open-source web application platform. A series of application-tier talks will provide insight from the point of view of widely used web application development languages: Perl, PHP, Python, and Java. The final session will be an experience panel, which will provide an opportunity for experience reports from actual development projects to illustrate real-life problems and opportunities of OSS. Target Audience --------------- The target audience for the symposium is professional software engineers and technical management. The audience is expected to have a diverse background involving many operating systems and languages, with experience in software system development for a variety of industrial, military and commercial purposes. Attendees will include experienced professionals who have had little or no exposure with open-source software and are looking for a good introduction. Symposium Goals --------------- The goal of the symposium is to provide participants with a high-level, technically sophisticated overview of major open source software (OSS) technologies for web application development. The symposium will provide information about technology, resources, and supporting tools and processes of the OSS community. The attendee will take away from the symposium a basic understanding of the available technologies, information about how to acquire and learn more about the various packages, and insight that will enable them to make informed decisions about using and deploying specific OSS technology in web applications. The technical sessions will address: * overview - what is it, what does it do, what problems does it solve * key features - description of key features with short examples * application examples - a few simple examples of doing something useful or where/how to apply the technology * applicability - when should you use it? [or when not!] * resources - where to get it, who maintains it, where   to find help, documentation, assistance, mailing lists Sessions -------- 9:00 Symposium Welcome 9:10 Introduction to open-source software Walt Scacchi Sr Research Scientist. UCI Institute of Software Research 10:00 Linux and OSS in Enterprise Development Bill Hilf Sr Architect and Linux Technical Leader.  IBM 11:00 Web Application Development with Perl Eric Hammond Director of Technology. Rent.com 12:00 Lunch (Included for paid registrants) 1:OO Introduction to PHP and PEAR Jesus Castagnetto Co-author of "Professional PHP Programming" (Wrox Press) 2:00 Python-Powered Web Application Development Chuck Esterbrook Software Consultant and Creator of Webware for Python 3:00 Mid-afternoon break 3:15 Java OSS Web Technologies Dave Ford Java Consultant and Trainer. SmartSoft. 4:15 Experiences in OSS Web Application Development Panel Facilitated by Prakash Malani Principal Software Engineer. eBuilt.com 5:15 Closing Closing remarks and symposium wrapup. Cost and Registration --------------------- Your registration fees will be discounted according to your IEEE and/or Computer Society membership, as shown below: Standard $75 IEEE Member $60 IEEE Student Member $30 Student $45 You may register online at https://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=9769 If you are one of the first 75 paid registrants, you will get a chance to win one of two Oreilly's "Linux Server CD Bookshelf" (retail value: $119.95), or one of many other LAMP related Oreilly reference books. COSST Volunteers will get in free. There may also be T-Shirts. To volunteer, contact Sebastian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call 1-949-509-9628 Direction --------------------- Conexant Systems-Jazz Semiconductor 4321 Jamboree Road Newport Beach, CA 92660 A map of the area may be found at http://www.jazzsemi.com/docs/jazz-directions.pdf For more information, please visit us at http://cosst.ieee-occs.org  or call Toll Free 1-888-548-1969