San Francisco, CA, August 6, 2010 - O’Reilly Media, Inc. and UBM TechWeb, co-producers of the annual Web 2.0 and Gov 2.0 events, today release Gov 2.0 Summit’s new lineup of industry influencers hitting the conference stage. Key Federal figures join industry heavyweights like Cisco, Microsoft, VMware, Palantir, drop.io, and Slideshare to craft the future of technology policy. Celebrating this year’s theme: “Opening the Door to Innovation,” Gov 2.0 Summit will take place September 7-8, 2010 at the Grand Hyatt in Washington DC. For more information visit gov2summit.com.

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Sebastopol, CA, August 5, 2010 - The O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference will show the potential of publishing without boundaries February 14-16, 2011 at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers in New York City. Program chairs Andrew Savikas and Kat Meyer have opened the call for participation, requesting proposals for sessions, workshops, and tutorials.

TOC connects the people, companies, and organizations asking and answering the questions that will define the future of publishing. With a program that integrates the visionary with the proven and practical, TOC maps the new universe of publishing, where neither technological nor geographical boundaries determine what’s possible. Now in its fifth year, TOC has reached sold-out status for the last three years.

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Sebastopol, CA, July 22 2010 - About the only thing faster than a great website is how fast Velocity, the O’Reilly Web Performance and Operations Conference, keeps growing. Velocity roared into its third year by reaching soldout status the week before the conference started, then brought more than 1,200 people who make the Web work to the Hyatt Santa Clara in Santa Clara, CA, June 22-24, 2010.

Building on the original two Web Performance and Operations tracks, Jesse and Steve added a third track, Velocity Culture, this year. Conference keynotes included John Adams of Twitter, John Allspaw of Etsy.com, Bobby Johnson of Facebook, Tim O’Reilly of O’Reilly Media, Philip Dixon of Shopzilla, Cheryl Ainoa of Yahoo!, Yehuda Katz of Engine Yard, Marc Hedlund of Wesabe, Urs Hölzle of Google, John Rauser of Amazon, Shanti Subramanyam of Oracle Corporation, and consultant Nicole Sullivan.

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Confirmed Headliners Now Include Peter Chernin, John Doerr, Olli- Pekka Kallasvuo, Vinod Khosla, Michael Rubin and Mark Zuckerberg

Sebastopol, CA, July 15, 2010 - Today Web 2.0 Summit, https://www.web2summit.com, co produced by O’Reilly Media and UBM TechWeb, release six new additions to the lineup at this year’s event. Web 2.0 Summit — which has sold out year after year — brings together a powerful assembly of senior executives and entrepreneurial innovators, as well as technologists, financiers, analysts and pundits to discuss this year’s theme: “Points of Control: The Battle for the Network Economy.” Program Chair, John Battelle of Federated Media and O’Reilly CEO and founder, Tim O’Reilly will be moderating this year’s event November 15-17 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. For more information and to request an invitation visit https://www.web2summit.com/web2010.

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Conference Brings Rails Fans to Baltimore

Sebastopol, CA, July 7, 2010 - More than 1300 enthusiastic Rails developers and programmers met and collaborated at RailsConf 2010, https://www.railsconf.com. Co-produced by Ruby Central and O’Reilly Media, the world’s largest gathering of the passionate Ruby on Rails community convened at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, MD, June 7-10, 2010.

Chairs Chad Fowler and Ben Scofield created a program that highlighted the vibrant and expanding nature of the Rails community itself. While the exploration of Rails 3 attracted many, the conference explored many other areas of the Rails landscape. Featured speakers at RailsConf 2010 included Michael Feathers of Object Mentor, Inc., David Heinemeier Hansson of 37signals, Yehuda Katz of Engine Yard, Inc., Bob Martin of Object Mentor, Inc., Derek Sivers of Thoughts, Ltd., and Gary Vaynerchuk of VaynerMedia.

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San Francisco, CA, June 30, 2010 - O’Reilly Media, Inc. and UBM TechWeb, co-producers of the annual Web 2.0 Summit and Gov 2.0 Expo events, today announce Gov 2.0 Summit and release the lineup of industry influencers hitting the keynote stage. Momentum from the recent Gov 2.0 Expo, along with the success of Gov 2.0 Summit last year, brings this important group of government leaders and innovators of the Web together again to explore how technology enables transparency, participation, collaboration, and efficiency at all levels of government. Gov 2.0 Summit will take place September 7-8, 2010 at the Grand Hyatt in Washington DC. For more information visit gov2summit.com. “This year Gov 2.0 Summit 2010 brings together critical leaders and decision makers refining the concept of government-as-platform and exploring the ways in which it can be used for transformation,” said Tim O’Reilly, CEO and founder of O’Reilly Media. “Gov 2.0 is about creating a community of Gov 2.0 leaders who can push change forward and outward year-round, answering the President’s call to strengthen our democracy.”

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Sebastopol, CA, June 16, 2010 - Velocity, the O’Reilly Web Performance and Operations Conference, has become a sold out event in its third year. At maximum capacity a week in advance, Velocity brings the leaders taking web performance and operations into the future to the Hyatt Santa Clara in Santa Clara, CA, June 22-24.

“Over the past three years, the Velocity Conference has become the nexus in the movement to build a better, faster, more reliable web. The incredible growth in Velocity’s attendance shows that the world has finally recognized the critical nature of the work done by this amazing community,” says Jesse Robbins, who co-chairs Velocity with Steve Souders.

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Sebastopol, CA, May 18, 2010 - The O’Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo brought together database and open source stakeholders from around the world to explore the future of MySQL April 12-15, 2010 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. The conference program and expo floor illustrated the rich developer, technology, and partner communities that make up the MySQL ecosystem. This event, produced by O’Reilly Media, built on the tradition of past MySQL conferences, previously co-presented with MySQL AB and with Sun.

Despite the uncertainty about MySQL’s future, conference participants recognized that this is also a time of opportunity. The conference program highlighted the latest and best knowledge on MySQL and related technologies to a global community of DBAs, developers, and managers. Topics covered included: Cloud Computing, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence, Java, Migration, Performance Tuning and Benchmarking, Ruby, Security, Optimization, and emerging technologies such as NoSQL, among others.

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Sebastopol, CA, April 27, 2010 - The sixth annual O’Reilly Where 2.0 Conference showed a capacity crowd how to build on location as a platform March 30-April 1, 2010 at the San Jose Marriot in San Jose, CA. The sold-out event attracted the leaders and grassroots developers of the burgeoning location technology field to three full days of putting location to work.

The Where 2.0 program navigated along the three tracks of mobile innovations, mapping for consumers, and local opportunities and models. Participants explored topics such as the map as an information ecology, the new meaning of mapping, government’s role as a clearinghouse for data, open source mapping, local data, local search, augmented reality, location sharing, mobile cloud, game mechanics, and web vs. native apps.

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Five Companies Selected to Present on Stage and Receive Real-Time Audience Feedback

SAN FRANCISCO, April 21 - O’Reilly Media, Inc. and UBM TechWeb, co-producers of Web 2.0 Expo, Web 2.0 Summit, Gov 2.0 Expo and Gov 2.0 Summit, today announced the five companies chosen to participate in this year’s Launch Pad, sponsored by Elance and supporting sponsor, Zoosk. Launch Pad is a program designed to spotlight new products or technologies to the Web 2.0 market and will take place during Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco at the Moscone West Convention Center, happening May 3-7, 2010. For more information visit: www.web2expo.com/sf.

The five finalists were selected from over 80 submissions based on their innovation and value to market. Each finalist will present for five minutes in front of Web 2.0 Expo’s audience and judging panel of industry experts who will provide real-time feedback. Web 2.0 Expo’s panel of judges includes: Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb, Dave McClure of 500 Hats and Ellen Pack of Elance. Brady Forrest, Web 2.0 Expo Co-Chair, will emcee the program.

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Sebastopol, CA, April 5, 2010 - Open source makes it happen in a world where technology and society change faster than ever before. OSCON, the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, returns to Portland, Oregon to explore all things open source July 19-23, 2010, at the Oregon Convention Center. Program chairs Allison Randal and Edd Dumbill have announced the program, and registration has opened.

“It’s a fantastic time to be working with open source software,” said Edd, “Technology is being revolutionized by cloud and mobile services, and open source is leading the way. As well as our regular broad coverage, our 2010 highlights include NoSQL databases, new systems management tools, and Android and HTML5-based mobile development.”

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Sebastopol, CA, March 31, 2010 - The sixth annual O’Reilly Where 2.0 Conference has sold out, confirming the dramatic expansion of location technologies today, particularly in the areas of mobile, local, and mapping innovations. Where 2.0 2010 began March 30 and continues through April 1, at the San Jose Marriott in San Jose, California.

“To sell out a conference in today’s economy shows the importance of mapping, mobile, and location to the tech sector right now. I’m thrilled at how many people want to participate in Where 2.0,” says conference chair Brady Forrest. “This also means that O’Reilly’s first two conferences this year have sold out, which attests to the strength of our communities and the value our events deliver.”

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Sebastopol, CA, March 30, 2010 - The people creating the future of publishing filled the O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference at the Marriot Marquis in New York City on February 22-24, 2010. For the first time in its three years as a sold-out event, TOC reached maximum numbers before the conference even began. Over 1,250 members of the publishing community registered to attend TOC and experience the evolution taking digital tools and digital reading to the next level. As Calvin Reid wrote in Publisher’s Weekly, “The show’s combination of accessible brainy competence and visionary, science-fiction-like projections just seems to pack them in.”

The TOC program explored where digital publishing is today and where it will go next, covering topics such as how publishers can get closer to and build communities with their customers, ways publishers can add value for consumers, distribution of content, data’s crucial role in digital publishing, the dangers of DRM, the possibilities created by new ereading devices, and the explosive growth of the international mobile market, which program chair Andrew Savikas describes as “a bookstore in your pocket.”

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San Francisco, CA, March 29, 2010—O’Reilly Media, Inc. and UBM TechWeb, co-producers of Web 2.0 Expo, Web 2.0 Summit, Gov 2.0 Expo and Gov 2.0 Summit, today announced the keynote speakers scheduled for Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2010, themed around the “Power of Platforms.” This year’s theme is focused on helping business choose and leverage the right Web platforms for success. The event takes place May 3-6, 2010 at the Moscone West Convention Center. To register or for more information visit: web2expo.com/sf.

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Event Brings Together Government Leaders and Web 2.0 Innovators to Build a 21st Century Government

Sebastopol, CA, March 23, 2010 - Today Gov 2.0 Expo, co-produced by O’Reilly Media, Inc. and UBM TechWeb, provides a first glance at the key speakers, topics, and themes that apply technology best practices to improve transparency, efficiency, and cost containment in government programs. Gov 2.0 Expo will give government employees and contractors access to the practical tools, in-depth training, and new technologies needed to build a 21st century government. Gov 2.0 Expo will take place May 25-27, 2010 at the Washington Convention Center in Washington DC. For more information visit www.gov2expo.com

“Government has an extraordinary responsibility to harness the best, most efficient systems for delivering citizen services and overcoming the barriers of complexity and bureaucracy,” said Tim O’Reilly, CEO and founder of O’Reilly Media. “There has been a revolution in the private sector, with new technologies including cloud computing, web services, mobile devices, social media, and open data bringing unprecedented new services to individuals. The Government 2.0 Expo is the place to understand how these technologies can be applied to advance the mission of government agencies.”

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Sebastopol, CA, March 18, 2010 - Velocity, the O’Reilly Web Performance and Operations Conference, demonstrates how to automate performance and ops best practices to make sites fast by default. Now in its third year, Velocity brings together the leaders taking web performance and operations into the future. Velocity 2010 moves to a new location June 22-24, at the Hyatt Santa Clara in Santa Clara, CA. Program chairs Steve Souders and Jesse Robbins have announced the program of conference sessions, panels, and workshops at Velocity 2010. Registration has also opened, offering special savings for early registrants.

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The Where 2.0 Conference has its traditions, but we also bring in new activities and participants to inform and inspire. This year, one of the show’s highlights is a mash up of the new with the traditional in the form of recognizing winners of the NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge during Ignite Where on Tuesday night, March 30.

Ignite Where kicks off at 7:00 p.m. and NAVTEQ’s seven year old Global LBS Challenge developer competition takes the main stage live at 8:00 p.m. All twelve finalists will make a one minute pitch of their location-based applications, giving the audience a taste of what it takes to make it to the Challenge finals.

NAVTEQ has added a few new wrinkles to the competition this year, including polling the audience live via SMS to see if their predictions jibe with the judges’ conclusions. There’s a lot at stake, so it’s bound to be a nail-biter–the winner walks away with a share of a global prize pool valued at over $10 million in cash, data licenses, and other prizes.

Ignite Where and the NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge are open to the public as well as to all Where 2.0 Conference attendees.

Sebastopol, CA, March 15, 2010 - Dynamic new speakers have joined the lineup at the O’Reilly Where 2.0 Conference on March 30-April 1, 2010 at the San Jose Marriott in San Jose, California. The dramatic increase in the number of products, companies, and people affected by the expansion of location technologies has shaped the 2010 edition of Where 2.0 into the three tracks of Mobile Innovations, Mapping for Consumers, and Local Opportunities and Models. New keynote speakers include…

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Edward Screven to Answer Questions re: Future of MySQL

Sebastopol, CA, February 24, 2010 - Wonder about the future of MySQL? Curious about what Oracle plans for the open source database? Expect answers when Edward Screven, Oracle’s chief corporate architect and leader of the MySQL business, speaks at the O’Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo, scheduled for April 12-15, at the Santa Clara Convention Center and the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara.

Edward Screven reports to CEO Larry Ellison, and he drives technology and architecture decisions across all Oracle products to ensure that product directions are consistent with Oracle’s overall strategy. He’ll discuss the current and future state of MySQL, now part of the Oracle family of products. His presentation will also cover Oracle’s investment in MySQL technology and community, as well as the role that open source in general is playing within heterogeneous customer environments around the world.

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Sebastopol, CA, February 18, 2010 - This year’s RailsConf, offers the Rails community the opportunity to delve into the possibilities created by the Rails 3 release. O’Reilly Media and Ruby Central, Inc. have opened registration for RailsConf on June 7-10, 2010, at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, MD. To ensure that the program includes the most timely content possible, the call for participation remains open until March 17, 2010.

“With the imminent release of Rails 3, RailsConf is destined to be a hotbed of learning, collaboration, and exploration. The Rails framework gets a major internal overhaul with the new release, which will make for a cleaner, more productive experience for programmers. Its new flexibility will certainly provide new ways of getting things done,” says RailsConf chair Chad Fowler. “RailsConf is the first major gathering of Rails developers in the wake of this major event.”

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Sebastopol, CA, February 17, 2010 - O’Reilly Media announces that the O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference has sold out for its third consecutive year. While the previous two TOCs were also sold out events, this year’s conference is the first to reach capacity a week in advance. TOC will bring the leaders inventing the future of publishing to the Marriott Marquis in New York City on February 22-24, 2010.

For those who want to guarantee their attendance at TOC 2011, scheduled for February 14-16 of 2011 in New York, O’Reilly will open advance registration during this year’s event. A special early registration period will open at TOC 2010 on February 23.

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Event Launches New Intensives Program; Registration Now Open

San Francisco, CA, February 4, 2010 - O’Reilly Media, Inc. and TechWeb, producers of Web 2.0 Expo and Web 2.0 Summit, today announced the return of Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco, the annual event for designers, developers, entrepreneurs, marketers, business strategists, and venture capitalists building a web for the 21st century. This year, Web 2.0 Expo centers on the theme of “Power of Platforms,” helping businesses choose and leverage the right web platforms for success. Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco is May 3 - 6, 2010 at Moscone West.

“It’s not just about how companies use the web as a platform,” said Sarah Milstein, Web 2.0 Expo Co-Chair and TechWeb General Manager. “It’s about how they fit into an ecosystem or create new, larger ones. What we’re interested in this year is the new wave of companies that have the potential to build new economies and exploring exactly how that is done.”

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Sebastopol, CA, December 22, 2009 - OSCON, the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, puts the freedom of open source to work July 19-23, 2010, at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. Program chairs Edd Dumbill and Allison Randal have opened the call for participation, requesting proposals for sessions and tutorials.

OSCON is the premier gathering place to learn about and test all things open source. If you want your work to be faster, more effective, or more efficient, OSCON can help you make it happen.

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Sebastopol, CA, December 21, 2009 - The MySQL ecosystem continues to thrive, with an engaged community working together on the open source database. O’Reilly Media invites this community to a new event, the O’Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo 2010, April 12-15, at the Santa Clara Convention Center and the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara. Building on the tradition of past MySQL conferences, the new four-day conference showcases the full spectrum of MySQL. The Call for Participation has opened, requesting proposals for workshops and sessions. Registration has also opened, offering special savings for early registrants.

Featured speakers include such stars as Brian Aker, Kaj Arnö, Monty Widenius, and Tim O’Reilly. This deeply technical conference encompasses the entire MySQL ecosystem, including some of the most influential companies and projects in the MySQL community. The O’Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo 2010 offers hands-on learning, with creativity, real-world examples, and exposure to meaningful ideas and technologies.

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Sebastopol, CA, December 18, 2009 - See the future of a location-aware world at the O’Reilly Where 2.0 Conference, March 30-April 1, 2010 at the San Jose Marriott in San Jose, California. O’Reilly has opened early registration with special rates and announced the preliminary lineup of featured speakers.

We take location awareness for granted now, and Where 2.0 has become the epicenter for the people, projects, and issues creating value in the location industry. The sixth Where 2.0 is the must-attend conference for anyone working with location-enabled devices, mobile phone apps, open source platforms, and geospatial software. Where 2.0 doesn’t chase trends; it introduces them.

Featured speakers at Where 2.0 2010 already include Blaise Agüera y Arcas of Microsoft, Jack Dangermond of ESRI, Vanessa Fox of Nine by Blue, Raffi Krikorian of Synthesis Studios, Tim O’Reilly of O’Reilly Media, Ryan Server of Twitter, Dr. Walter Scott of DigitalGlobe, and Jeremy Stoppleman of Yelp.

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When I thought about compiling a list of The Influencers, Tim O’Reilly was the first person who came to mind. If anything, his inclusion might raise some eyebrows only because he’s such a technology icon, it might seem unimaginable that anyone in Silicon Valley hasn’t heard of him. Well, not everyone knows him - but they should.

Based in Sebastopol, his O’Reilly Media is one of the largest and most respected publishers of technology books. And for me, his conferences are can’t-miss events that establish an agenda for what the valley’s innovators are - or should be - thinking about.

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Sebastopol, CA, November 23, - Great engineers and developers recognize the big picture. They see web performance and operations as a whole organism, while still keeping their eyes on the smallest component. O’Reilly’s Velocity, the Web Performance and Operations Conference, enters its third year as the premier conference on performance optimization June 22-24, 2010, at the Hyatt Santa Clara in Santa Clara, CA. Program chairs Steve Souders and Jesse Robbins have opened the call for participation and invite proposals for conference sessions, panels, and workshops at Velocity 2010.

The emerging discipline of web performance and operations demands incredible breadth as it focuses more on how an entire system works together than on specific technologies. While people often specialize in particular components, great engineers understand web performance and operations in relation to the whole. Velocity 2010 showcases real-world best practices for optimizing web pages and sharing the unique knowledge only those who operate at scale experience. Performance and web ops experts and rock stars converge at Velocity to share case studies that provide information engineers can use today.

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Next-generation Web conference features exclusive exhibitor announcements

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 9 - O’Reilly Media, Inc. and TechWeb today preview several breaking announcements that will be made at the upcoming Web 2.0 Expo New York. Web 2.0 Expos are the leading global gatherings of developers, designers, marketers, and business professionals building the next generation Web. Web 2.0 Expo New York returns on November 16-19, 2009 to the Javits Convention Center. More information, including registration, is available at ny.web2expo.com.

“The announcements being made next week are proof that the world of the Web continues innovating, thriving and growing,” said Jennifer Pahlka, Web 2.0 Expo General Manager and Co-Chair. “The companies that will be making headlines at Web 2.0 Expo New York couldn’t have chosen a better place to do so.”

The line-up of Web 2.0 Expo New York exhibitors making announcements or demonstrating new products for the first time will grow as the event nears and currently includes:

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Sebastopol, CA, November 4, 2009 - The digital transformation in reading, writing, and publishing is happening faster than many imagined, fueled by the explosive growth of the mobile web. The O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference explores the new digital realities of publishing February 22-24, 2010, at the Marriot Marquis in New York City. With an emphasis on what the changing nature of creating, selling, distributing, finding, and reading books means for publishers and readers alike, conference chair Andrew Savikas has announced the program, and early registration has opened.

Now in its fourth year, the O’Reilly TOC Conference remains the best place to find insight into the innovators creating the future of publishing—innovators who often come from well outside the boundaries of traditional publishing circles. From authoring, editing, and layout to distribution and consumption, technology is shaping every aspect of our industry. TOC explores these changes through plenary and keynote presentations, focused breakout sessions, workshops, and networking events.

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Sebastopol, CA, October 27, 2009 - The Call for Participation has opened for RailsConf 2010, when the Ruby on Rails community will gather June 7-10, 2010, at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, MD. RailsConf, co-produced by Ruby Central, Inc. and O’Reilly Media, Inc., is the largest official conference dedicated to everything Rails. Program chair Chad Fowler invites proposals for conference sessions, workshops, and panels from Rubyists, hackers, web developers, system administrators, and anyone else with a passion for Rails. Once again, the call for participation will extend an additional three months in order to allow the program to include more up-to-the-minute Rails topics.

RailsConf 2010 will gather Rails and other web developers (independent, startup, enterprise/corporate); more open source developers seeking to expand their skillsets; IT managers tracking emerging technologies; tech-savvy entrepreneurs with business ideas looking to implement web-based startups quickly in order to assess their ideas’ potential for success; users at every level; and others interested in web technologies and strategic implementation.

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Sebastopol, CA, October 20, 2009 — Today Web 2.0 Expo New York announced this year’s keynotes and new program elements. O’Reilly Media, Inc. and TechWeb, co-producers of Web 2.0 Expo and Web 2.0 Summit, welcome a lineup of distinguished keynote speakers including Jay Adelson, Chris Brogan, Caterina Fake, Jascha Franklin-Hodge, Beth Novak and Kevin Rose, in addition to an expanded program with first time sessions and a New York Launch Pad. Web 2.0 Expo New York returns on November 16-19, 2009 to the Javits Convention Center. More information is available at ny.web2expo.com.

“The Power of Less is about how the principles of Web 2.0 can turn constraints into opportunities and drive innovation,” said Jennifer Pahlka, co-chair of Web 2.0 Expo. “We are inspired by the canonical examples of this power, such as Twitter’s character limit, but also by the products and services launching now, in a time of less, that will change the world.”

Web 2.0 Expo New York 2009 brings Launch Pad to New York for the first time and adds a series of new sessions to the program including a track on the topic of Government 2.0. On the heels of a successful Gov 2.0 Summit, the Gov 2.0 sessions will further illuminate how transparency, participation and collaboration can break down silos and increase efficiencies on the government level. In addition, the event presents a brand new Bootcamp program. These full day intensive programs, taking place Monday, November 16, are titled “Good Design Faster,” “Search as Strategy” and “Communilytics: Applied Community Analytics” and will further cover design and online communities, respectively, as they relate to successful business practices.

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Charities That Embody Web Squared Theme to Receive Donations of $1000 from Tickets Sold

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 6 - Kiva, The Girl Effect and charity: water, have been selected today as Web 2.0 Summit’s philanthropic partners. O’Reilly Media and TechWeb, co-producers of the event, are pleased to announce their alliance with these three deserving organizations that embody the theme of Web Squared. In a spirit of charitable support within the Web 2.0 Summit community, Web 2.0 Summit registrants are encouraged to support one of the Web Squared charities by registering with a charity code that donates $1000 to that organization. For more information, visit: https://www.web2summit.com/.

Web Squared, this year’s event theme, is inspired by a new direction for the Web, one that opens new business opportunities and new possibilities. Charity suggestions were solicited and received from over 70 members of the Summit community, using social media platforms like the Web 2.0 Summit Facebook page and Twitter. The three charity organizations selected from the submissions demonstrate the event’s Web Squared theme by putting inspiration into action and creating change on a broad scale. These worthwhile organizations include:

* Kiva: the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs around the globe for the sake of alleviating poverty.
* The Girl Effect: rooted in the work of the Nike Foundation, which has been joined by the NoVo Foundation in a shared mission to create opportunities for girls, and for the world. Adolescent girls are uniquely capable of raising the standard of living in the developing world.
* charity: water: a nonprofit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations, using 100% of public donations to fund water projects.

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Strong Interest in Government as a Platform Draws Big Crowd

Washington D.C., September 8, 2009 - O’Reilly Media and TechWeb, co-producers of Gov 2.0 Summit, announce that this exclusive event has sold out for its inaugural year. Attendance at the Summit was by invitation only to leaders in both the public and private sectors, with a focus on those individuals working towards transparency, participation, collaboration, and efficiency at all levels of government. Gov 2.0 Summit is taking place September 9-10, 2009 at the Grand Hyatt in Washington DC. For more information see www.gov2summit.com.

“The demand to attend the Summit speaks to the power of the Gov 2.0 movement and the potential for substantive change,” said Tim O’Reilly, CEO and founder of O’Reilly Media and co-chair of the Summit. “To meet the challenges of this era, we need to fundamentally rethink of the role of government and explore what it means when we see government as a platform. We’re pleased to convene a dynamic group of leaders who can drive this agenda forward.”

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San Francisco, CA, August 31, 2009 - O’Reilly Media and TechWeb, co-producers of the Web 2.0 Summit, are asking for help in choosing three charities that embody the spirit of Web Squared to partner with for this year’s Web 2.0 Summit, happening October 20-22, 2009, at the Westin Market Street in San Francisco. Proposals are being accepted at the Web 2.0 Summit Facebook page at bit.ly/W2Charities. Deadline for submissions is September 7. Web Squared, this year’s event theme and the title of the white paper by Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle, addresses the evolution of the Web from the emergence of Web 2.0 to its current and future state. The authors see a new direction for the Web, one that opens new business opportunities and new possibilities for impacting the world’s most pressing problems. Web 2.0 Summit is therefore looking for charity organizations that are innovative and affecting change on a broad scale as partners for this year’s big event.

“The inspiration behind Web Squared made it clear that we must embrace not only disruptive change, but also a ‘pay it forward’ attitude if we’re going to create change on a global scale,” said John Battelle, Web 2.0 Summit program chair. “We’re looking forward to partnering with organizations that are embracing change and putting inspiration into action.”

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Call for Participation from Companies Transforming Our World

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21 - O’Reilly Media, Inc. and TechWeb, co-producers of the annual Web 2.0 Expo, today announced the first Web 2.0 Expo New York Launch Pad, taking place during Web 2.0 Expo New York at the Javits Convention Center November 16-19, 2009. Launch Pad is a program designed to spotlight cutting edge and innovative new companies to the Web 2.0 market. This year, Launch Pad focuses on companies that are transforming the world in which we live. A call for Launch Pad submissions is now open and will close on September 25, 2009. To submit a proposal and for more information visit:https://www.web2expo.com/webexny2009/public/cfp/77.

Web 2.0 Expo New York is the leading global gathering of developers, designers, marketers, and business professionals building the next generation Web. This year, the event focuses on the theme “the Power of Less,” exploring how the principles of Web 2.0 can turn constraints into opportunities and drive creativity. The event will explore how transparency, participation and collaboration can break down silos and increase efficiencies. With that in mind, Launch Pad challenges Web 2.0 companies to showcase innovative and promising new products and services that withstand the test of venture capital and consumer scrutiny in challenging economic times.

“We’re excited to be bringing the Launch Pad program to Web 2.0 Expo New York to explore what the East Coast has to offer,” said Brady Forrest, Web 2.0 Expo Co-Chair. “The East Coast has its own rich start up culture so we are looking forward to engaging with media savvy companies-companies that will take advantage of real-time data streams, sensors in phones, the explosion of social media data and beyond.”

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Sebastopol, CA, July 21, 2009 — The O'’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference (TOC) will explore the critical trends emerging around the business of digital publishing February 22-24, 2010, at the Marriot Marquis in New York City. From authoring, editing, and layout to distribution and consumption, new technologies are changing all aspects of publishing. As digitalization and globalization continue to accelerate the rate of change, publishers face the urgent necessity of building a solid business on the shifting foundation of paid vs. free content, format and device innovations, conflicting standards and royalties. TOC offers publishers the blueprints for success.

Program Chair Andrew Savikas invites proposals for conference sessions and tutorials for this fourth annual TOC Conference, where the program will decipher the tools of change in this industry, show how to put theory into practice, and cut through the hype for a more profitable future in publishing.

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Top Experts in Web Performance and Operations Draw High Turnout
O’Reilly Velocity Conference Shows How to Achieve Website Speed and Reliability

Sebastopol, CA, July 16, 2009—The second year of the O'’Reilly Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference drew more than 700 web developers and experts, a larger group than attended last year’s, to San Jose June 22-24, 2009. They came to Velocity to pose their toughest questions to the people doing the best performance and operations work in the world.

“The fact that attendance has surpassed last year says something about the growing importance of this new field,” said O’Reilly Media founder and CEO, Tim O’Reilly.

Conference co-chairs Steve Souders of Google and Jesse Robbins of OpsCode and O’Reilly Radar designed the three-day conference with dedicated tracks for both web performance and web operations. Among nearly 80 speakers were some of the most innovative minds at industry-leading companies.

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White Paper Previews Key Concepts for Web 2.0 Summit’s Sixth Anniversary

SAN FRANCISCO, June 23 - O’Reilly Media and TechWeb, co-producers of the Web 2.0 Summit, announce the release of a white paper and an accompanying webcast on Web Squared, which will define the next phase of the Web. The free webcast is scheduled for Thursday, June 25th at 10:00 am PDT, and the white paper will be available on the conference web site shortly thereafter. To sign up for the webcast visit https://www.web2summit.com/web2009/public/content/webcast.

The Web Squared white paper, by Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle, addresses the evolution of the Web from the emergence of Web 2.0 to its current and future state, illustrating how the principles articulated in 2004 have evolved the Web so dramatically that they fundamentally changed the game. The authors see a new direction for the Web, one that opens incredible new business opportunities, and enormous new possibilities for impacting the world’s most pressing problems.

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Open source technologies are some of the most economical choices you can make for your business and we’ve just made it a little easier to get the info you need to maximize the value open source affords: The early registration discount for the O’Reilly Open Source Convention has been extended to June 23, 2009!

At OSCON 2009, you’ll explore how to migrate from expensive commercial installations, the latest innovations in network administration designed to increase efficiency, ways to keep your system scaled and optimized for time-saving performance, and much, much more.

In just five short days, OSCON packs in the richest, most diverse open source content around. Hundreds of experts lead sessions in over 20 tracks, offering hype-free guidance to give your business a solid footing for success, from cloud computing and Linux to Python, web apps, and beyond.

OSCON takes place in San Jose, California at the McEnery Convention Center. Join with nearly 3,000 other programmers, developers, engineers, admins, educators, and managers from around the world for a nowhere-but-OSCON learning and networking experience.

Be sure to save by signing up for OSCON before the early registration discount ends on June 23, 2009.

New Event to Bestow Govie Awards and Host Apps for America 2 Competition

Sebastopol, CA, June 3, 2009 - O’Reilly Media, Inc. and TechWeb, co-producers of the annual Web 2.0 Summit and Web 2.0 Expo events, today announce the Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase, a one day event featuring government projects that leverage the Web as a platform. The event will highlight the projects leading toward transparency, participation and collaboration in government. Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase will take place September 8, 2009 at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC.

The Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase will feature 20 government 2.0 projects in five categories, selected by a panel of judges, and will bestow the first ever Govie Awards to the top project in each category. In addition, the Showcase will host the Sunlight Foundation’s Apps for America 2: The Data.gov Challenge, the winner of which will also receive a Govie.

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Sebastopol, CA, May 26, 2009 — RailsConf 2009, the annual event for the Ruby on Rails community held May 4-7 in Las Vegas, gave new and experienced Rails users practical tools for staying agile and competitive in an industry being transformed by fast-paced innovation. For four intense days, developers engaged directly with more than 100 expert speakers, learning how to exploit the popular framework’s newest features to solve problems and build businesses.

RailsConf, co-presented by Ruby Central, Inc. and O’Reilly Media, Inc., is the largest official conference dedicated to everything Rails. More than 1,300 web developers, IT managers, web-based business entrepreneurs, and others gathered to learn the basics, catch up on the latest developments, and sharpen their expertise, through a variety of presentations and events arranged by Program Chair Chad Fowler and Associate Chairs David Black and Rich Kilmer. At CabooseConf, a free, parallel unconference, skilled Rails coders from all over the world met in one room to work on their Rails projects.

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What are the opportunities that today’s economic climate creates for open source? Register now for OSCON to take part in this and many other conversations around the business of open source when OSCON 2009 convenes July 20-24 in San Jose, California.

3,000 developers, programmers, sys admins, hackers, enterprise developers and managers, IT managers and CxOs, entrepreneurs, activists, and trainers will gather to sharpen their skills, network with experts and fellow users, and learn the latest advances in open source, including the savings and the profits it can hold for us all.

Due to demand, , so now there are over 20 topics you can follow: Administration, Apache, Business, Cloud Computing, Databases, Design & Usability, Desktop Applications, Emerging Topics, Fundamentals, Government, Java, Legal, Linux, Mobile, Mozilla, People, Perl, PHP, Programming, Python, Ruby, Security, Ubuntu, and Web Applications.

Just a few of the over-200 stellar OSCON 2009 speakers include: Rafael Almeria (Xerox), Matt Asay (Alfresco), Jono Bacon (Canonical), Deborah Bryant (OSU Open Source Lab), Douglas Crockford (Yahoo!), Greg Elin (Sunlight Foundation), Richard Fontana (Red Hat, Inc.), Yehuda Katz (Engine Yard Inc.), Federico Lucifredi (SUSE team, Novell), Erik Meijer (Microsoft), Chris Messina (OpenID Foundation), Stormy Peters (GNOME Foundation), Simon Phipps (Sun Microsystems), Karen Sandler (Software Freedom Law Center), Brian Shire (Facebook), Steve Souders (Google), and many, many more.

If you’re taking on new responsibilities or switching gears to work with new priorities, you’ll find out how others are meeting these same challenges and staying competitive at OSCON. Be sure to register before June 2 for OSCON to take advantage of early registration savings.

The second edition of Velocity, the Web Performance and Operations Conference from O’Reilly, is just about four weeks away. Program co-chairs Jesse Robbins (recently named Geek of the Week by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer) and Steve Souders are putting the final touches on the program; new speakers just confirmed include:

• Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer of Mozilla will delve into developer tools used to enhance web performance in their presentation, On Responsiveness
• Randy Bias, Technology Strategy VP at GoGrid, will chart the tactical and strategic vision around the technology for the GoGrid cloud computing platform
• In Go with the Reflow, Google’s Lindsey Simon will present some findings from testing reflow times in a variety of browsers under different conditions

For another peek into what’s in store at Velocity, be sure to read James Turner’s interview with Microsoft’s Eric Schurman, The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number.

Emerging Technology Adopted as Tool for Success

Sebastopol, CA, March 23, 2009 - ETech 2009, O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference held March 9-12 in San Jose, urged web technologists and visionaries to grasp the opportunities in today’s financial and political turmoil by focusing on work they care deeply about. Through four jam-packed days, conference-goers immersed themselves in revolutionary ideas and emergent technologies they can exploit to succeed.

The conference has been O’Reilly Media’s flagship event since its inception in 2002, fulfilling the company’s mission of “spreading the knowledge of innovators.” More than 130 speakers explored the far edges of web innovation, robotics, data applications, urban planning, and more.

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Oreilly.com contributing editor James Turner has been busy conducting a series of interviews with some of the most thought-provoking speakers slated for Where 2.0, coming up May 19-21 in San Jose:

• DARPA’s TIGR Project Helps Platoons Stay Alive
• Building the SENSEable City
• Tyler Bell on Yahoo’s Open Location Project
• Pelago’s Jeff Holden on Creating Stories Out of Your Life
• Eric Gunderson of Development Seed on the Promise of Open Data

Where 2.0 brings together the people, projects, and issues building the new technological foundations and creating value in the location industry. Join with other developers, technologists, CTOs, researchers, geographers, academics, business developers, and entrepreneurs to debate and discuss what’s viable now, and what’s lurking just below the radar.

Everyone who registers for Velocity by May 3 not only saves up to $150, but is also entered to win one free night at The Fairmont (during Velocity conference dates only).

The downturn is no time for downtime. If you are tasked with building faster sites, designing scalable infrastructure, and delivering a superior, always-available customer experience, Velocity is the single best place to go for crucial skills and knowledge.

Whether you work for a top-flight company or are a freelance rock star, Velocity addresses the tangibles and intangibles you are already taking into consideration when planning your conference budget for this year, from ROI, tools, and techniques to networking with experts and sharpening marketable job skills.

Just a few of the top practitioners you’ll hear from include:

• Dave Artz (AOL), The Secret Weapons of teh AOL Optimization Team
• Brad Chen (Google), Native CPU Performance in the Browser with Google Native Client
• Alan Kasindorf (Six Apart), Load Balanced Roundup
• Yaron Friedman (Google), High Performance Search at Google
• Eric Mattingly (Microsoft), Creating Instant Response Time Predictions with neXpert
• Aladdin Nassar (Microsoft/Hotmail), Performance-Based Design: Linking Performance to Business Metrics
• Alistair Croll (Bitcurrent) & Sean Power (Akoha), What the Rest of the Company Knows About Your Website
• Theo Schlossnagle (OmniTI), Scalable Internet Architectures
• Tenni Theurer (Yahoo!), Coding for Greener Applications: Style Makes a Difference

If you’re planning to attend, we encourage you to book a room now at The Fairmont San Jose to put yourself close to the action and increase your opportunities the conversations and revelations happen between attendees after the session are done for the day.

As people inspired, curious, and concerned about our planet, we’re looking forward to observing Earth Day. We’re offering an unprecedented 39% discount off any Where 2.0 Conference package to celebrate Earth Day’s 39 years of existence. Use discount code: whr09erd when registering, and make sure you sign up between now and 11:59 pm PST April 22.

Many of the projects we explore at Where 2.0 echo the themes and goals of Earth Day, and is a reminder of how our work has an impact on the global community. Just a few of the insightful speakers presenting workshops and plenary sessions at this year’s Where 2.0 include:

• Doug Eberhard (Autodesk) Digital Cities Modeling Workshop
• Denice Ross (Greater New Orleans Community Data Center) “Junk Mail” and the GeoWeb Shine Light on New Orleans Recovery
• Jubal Harpster (CH2M HILL) Geospatial Technology Program for sub-Saharan Africa
• Sam Hiatt (CSU Monterey Bay - NASA) Implementing Web Services for NASA’s Terrestrial Observation and Prediction System
• Will McClintock (University of California Santa Barbara) MarineMap: Crowdsourcing Scientifically Defensible Marine Habitat Protection Areas
• Rebecca Moore (Google) Indigenous Mappers
• Alex Oliver (Igloo Studios) Translating Geo-Web Efficiency into Real-World Sustainability

Check out the complete schedule, where you’ll also find info on after-hours events and networking opportunities like the Where Fair.

RailsConf program chair Chad Fowler is conducting a series of speaker interviews in the run-up to the event, which is happening very soon, May 4-7 in Las Vegas. Mosey on over to ChadFowler.com to read more about Neal Ford and Paul Gross of ThoughtWorks, Michael Bleigh, who is Creative Director and Open-Source Activist at Intridea, JRuby and Rubinius leaders Charlie Nutter and Evan Phoenix, as well as Chad’s musing on Rails, Ruby, and open source.

Five Finalists Present On Stage for Real-Time Feedback from Judges and Audience Attendees

SAN FRANCISCO, April 2 - O’Reilly Media, Inc. and TechWeb, co-producers of Web 2.0 Expo, Web 2.0 Summit and Gov 2.0 Summit, today announced the People’s Choice winner of the Launch Pad startup program. Nitobi’s PhoneGap, one of five on-stage presenters, was selected as the People’s Choice Winner on Thursday, April 2 during Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco at Moscone West.

Launch Pad, sponsored this year by Microsoft BizSpark, is a unique public forum for unveiling distinctive new companies and products. Web 2.0 Expo hosts the Launch Pad program to showcase the best Web 2.0 startups and provide a unique public forum for unveiling new companies and products. Web 2.0 Expo is the leading global gathering of developers, designers, marketers, and business professionals building the next generation Web. For more information visit: www.web2expo.com/sf.

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Sebastopol, CA, April 3, 2009 — Open source offers business a lifeline to economic survival, even as the economy crashes and companies flounder. The O’Reilly Open Source Convention shows the power of open source to help businesses rise above the competition in this daunting economic climate. Open source continues to thrive and grow because the open source community continues to find better ways, particularly to increase ease of use and lower the cost of deployment, to save technology costs in your organization. OSCON is the premier place to learn the latest advances and connect with leaders in this community. Registration has opened for the 11th OSCON, scheduled for July 20-24, 2009 in the new location of the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California. The early registration period, lasting until June 2, offers advance savings.

Program Chairs Allison Randal and Edd Dumbill reviewed almost 800 proposals in order to plan the conference around tracks for Linux, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, Mobile, Databases, Desktop Applications, Web Applications, Administration, Security, People, Business, and Emerging Topics.

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