"For those who have not been to OSCON, it's a great technical conference covering the whole spectrum of open source, including Linux, MySQL, the LAMP stack, Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails, middleware, applications, cloud computing, and more. OSCON always has great keynotes, tutorials, and evening Birds-of-a-Feather sessions. As with many conferences, a lot of the meat takes place in hallway conversations and impromptu sessions." —Zack Urlocker, InfoWorld

"For the past few years, we at NYTimes.com have been attending OSCON. It has become the premier conference for us because it offers so many opportunities to engage with fellow developers. We’ve met new friends, given talks, led Birds-of-a-Feather sessions..." —Derek Gottfrid, NYTimes.com

"OSCON [2008] was everything I'd hoped it would be and then some." —Serdar Yegulalp, InformationWeek

"Speaking at conferences like linux.conf.au and OSCON is great fun. It's challenging to speak to an audience that's so diverse that it includes both the creator of the Linux kernel and students who just discovered it exists. It's humbling to know that the intelligence and achievement in the audience dwarfs anything I've ever done." —Simon Phipps, Sun

"OSCON is a great opportunity for us to really get our geek on and meet with some of the industry's sharpest people. Love the 'Birds of a Feather' sessions. We had a great time at what we consider the best conference we get to attend." —Nick Thuesen, Senior Software Engineer, The New York Times

"I've recently been appointed to the board of the United States PostgreSQL Association (postgresql.us); I could never have gotten this without the connections I've made at OSCON over the years."—Michael Alan Brewer, University of Georgia

"...the annual Woodstock (or perhaps Coachella) of the open source crowd." —Zack Urlocker, Infoworld

"O'Reilly conferences are ground zero for the open source alpha geek tribe." —Jon Udell, Infoworld

"An amazing geek-a-thon...No better place on this earth to find out how to use all the cool new open source projects, and to see what's coming next." —Matt Asay, Infoworld

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