Folks, Just forwarding an official conference announcement: Peter Prymmer ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 13:51:17 -0700 (PDT) From: O'Reilly Conferences <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Open Source Convention Update July 12, 2001 Fueling the Open Source Alternative The 3rd annual O'Reilly Open Source Convention, July 23-27, 2001, at the waterfront Sheraton Hotel and Marina in San Diego, California. O'REILLY OPEN SOURCE CONVENTION UPDATE ONLY ONE WEEK LEFT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THESE IMPORTANT MEETINGS ON OPEN SOURCE--REGISTER TODAY! http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/ GNOME founder Miguel de Icaza will announce technical details of Mono and discuss the advantages of the .NET development environment and why the open source community should join him in developing Mono--a free implementation of .NET. Attend, and hear about the latest progress in the C# compiler, Virtual Execution System, class library, CIL GCC frontend, and visual development tools. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2001/view/e_sess/1917 Read more about this important announcement at the O'Reilly Network .NET Dev Center http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2001/07/09/icaza.html ============================================== Register Now! Don't miss participating in an important debate about the future of the open source movement - The Great Open Source Debate! http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/ ============================================== Microsoft Senior Vice President Craig Mundie and Red Hat CTO Michael Tiemann set the stage for a wide-open keynote and panel discussion about Microsoft's Shared Source program and the response from the open source community, when they square off in this shared source vs. open source debate. (Sponsored by Sun Microsystems) http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2001/view/e_sess/1834 GO WILD ON SAFARI - FREE ALL DAY ACCESS Thursday is Safari Day at the Open Source Convention! Explore Safari, O'Reilly's new online book service, for FREE all day Thursday (7 am - 10 pm). The convention network (Terminal Room and wireless connections) will let you search, browse, reference, swap, and read the full text of over 100 O'Reilly books online. http://safari.oreilly.com Need it Now? Safari lets you subscribe to five books for a low price of $9.95 per month. (Corporate pricing is also available.) Join us Thursday evening for a special Safari Birds of a Feather (BOF) session (Check on site BOF schedule for time and location). All BOF attendees will get a free Safari T-shirt. And don't forget to stop by the Safari booth to enter our drawing for one month free access to all of Safari (over $75 value, one drawing per day). SPECIAL SCREENING OF OPEN SOURCE FILM Come see Revolution OS, a documentary that chronicles the Open Source movement (free shuttle bus to and from the theater). The movie screens at 8:00 pm. The filmmaker, J.T.S. Moore will be on hand for a pre and post show talk. (Sponsored by Hewlett Packard). COMPLIMENTARY SUBSCRIPTION TO DR. DOBB'S JOURNAL Open Source Convention media sponsor Dr. Dobb's Journal has graciously offered a year's complimentary subscription to DDJ when you register! Already have a subscription? DDJ will add a year onto your current subscription! Register today http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2001/create/ord_os01 CONVENTION DETAILS This year's convention offers over 250 sessions in 16 tracks including Perl, Apache, XML, Python, PHP, MySQL, Linux, just to name a few. If you're a hard-core system administrator, programmer, or Web developer, you'll learn to understand, code, and manage these powerful tools. Whatever you're looking for is most likely here. Why attend the O'Reilly Open Source Convention? Get the latest and the deepest information on what's new in open source software --Read Tim O'Reilly's reasons why Open Source is Here to Stay. http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/tim_letter.html Make or renew professional contacts, network with industry colleagues, add new technologies to your resume--Check out the Convention schedule. http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/ Vacation with the family in beautiful San Diego -- We've added new events and services to make it easy for you to attend the Convention and safe for your family to enjoy San Diego. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2001/pub/10/see_do.html Attendee Community Board - Logon and join other attendees in discussions about the many See & Do activities at the Open Source Convention. Learn about the O'Reilly sponsored children's program at Kid's World, San Diego sites and attractions and more. http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/board/ ====================================== Register Now! Visit http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/ for information on what to do in and around sunny San Diego ====================================== Program Highlights The Perl Conference 5--Where else can you get together with Perl hackers, learn something useful, have fun, and change the world? The Camel is back, this time in San Diego. http://conferences.oreilly.com/perl/ O'Reilly XTech2001 Conference (New this year, in association with Graphic Communications Association)--The O'Reilly XTech2001 Conference is the perfect setting for a serious technical discussion between XML developers. http://conferences.oreilly.com/xml/ PHP Conference--The first ever PHP Conference brings the community together for sessions and tutorials designed to explore and strengthen PHP in the open source space. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2001/pub/w/os2001/sessions_php.html http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2001/pub/10/php_tutorials.html The O'Reilly Summit on Open Source Strategies-- Collocated at this year's Open Source Convention this strategic summit explores the best practices in collaborative software development, allowing any organization to utilize widely distributed network resources. This conference is for technical managers and technology executives and examines innovative, open solutions to business problems. http://conferences.oreilly.com/summit/
