Press Release
March 18, 2003
2003 O'Reilly Open Source Convention: Embracing and Extending Proprietary Software
Sebastopol, CA--Registration has just opened for the 2003 O'Reilly Open
Source Convention, a much-anticipated annual event for the open source
community. Programmers, developers, strategists, technical staff, and
other open source votaries from around the world congregate for five
days of tutorials, conference sessions, and networking of the
flesh-and-blood variety. Recognizing that open source tools have moved
squarely into the mainstream, this year's convention focuses on
"embracing and extending proprietary software." The convention takes
place July 7-11 in Portland, OR, one of the most wireless cities in
America.
Melding open source and commercial aspects in operating systems and
applications is becoming the norm, for financial and technical reasons,
making open standards for data exchange and service interoperability
essential. "You can't scratch a Fortune 500 company without finding
free and open source software," observes Tim O'Reilly, founder and
president of O'Reilly & Associates. Some state governments are
mandating that open source software be considered when making software
purchases, and large-scale open source enterprise applications are
multiplying. The convention's corporate sponsors--Apple, IBM, HP, Sun
Microsystems, and Ticketmaster, among others--are another indicator of
the breadth of open source technology.
"We were amazed at the number of high quality proposals we received
this year," notes O'Reilly editor and convention program chair Nathan
Torkington. "The committee had a difficult time paring them down to the
number of slots available. But that's a good problem to have." Adds
Torkington, "We've added a couple of new things to this year's program:
our first-ever Hackathon, which takes place just before the convention
officially begins. It should be a blast. We're also expanding on Larry
Wall's State of the Onion talks, which have been a feature of the last
OSCONs. We've asked well-known folks from five other technologies to
tell us what's new in their worlds, so not only do we have Larry
speaking about Perl, but Guido van Rossum will speak about Python,
Monty Widenius about MySQL, Shane Caraveo about PHP, Theodore Ts'o
about Linux, and so on."
Many other notable speakers bringing a wealth of know-how to the
convention include Perl fixtures Damian Conway and Mark-Jason Dominus,
IBM Eclipse director Paul Buck, Mitchell Kapor of OSAF, HP open source
program director Stormy Peters, Ximian CTO Miguel de Icaza, MySQL AB
co-founder and VP David Axmark, Jabber Software Foundation's Jeremie
Miller, chromatic, Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, and Gurusamy Sarathy.
Milton Ngan will present a sequel to last year's keynote on the making
of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, focusing this year on "The Two
Towers."
This year's tutorials and sessions are organized into specific tracks
and conferences:
Perl Conference 7: Perl 5, Perl 6, Parrot, and mod_perl, including
useful modules, software development tips, developing for Parrot and
Perl 6 The Python 11 Conference: Python and Zope, in particular using the
latest modules, software engineering, case studies PHP Conference 3: Unix, Windows, Apache, and beyond, plus new
developments, security, case studies, large-scale applications
development, best practices Apache: The Apache web server, including 2.0, modules, configuration,
performance tuning, security, Apache XML projects, Apache Java XML: schemas, software, standards, best practices, web services, IP
issues around standards and schemas Applications: system administration tools, servers, back office
utilities, GUI systems, user applications, productivity tools MySQL and PostgreSQL: configuration, migration, data warehousing,
tuning, clustering and replication, fallover, backups, efficient
client-side processing and query design Ruby: introductions to Ruby, and power user talks for experienced Ruby
programmers
The body of knowledge a programmer, systems manager, or administrator
needs these days is an eclectic mix of decades-old best practices,
modern innovations, and forward thinking possibilities. The fifth
annual O'Reilly Open Source Convention addresses these needs with
well-established principles born again in new forms, the new ideas that
will soon be common wisdom, and everything in between.
Additional Resources:
Comments about the 2002 O'Reilly Open Source Convention:
"The conference was just excellent and the community, experience, and
discussions from the keynotes, with the attendees and the speakers were
invaluable for me and my two collegues."
--Jonagustine Lim, eGovernment Team Specialist, State of Hawaii
"I am really looking forward to the Open Source Convention. IMHO I
think it is the best event I attend every year."
--Stacey Quandt,
Industry Analyst, Linux and Open Source, Giga Information Group
"...hordes of volunteer programmers who make up the open-source
movement met this week for their annual convention in San
Diego..."
--The Economist, July 25, 2002
About O'Reilly
O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly Media has been a chronicler and catalyst of cutting-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.
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