Get Read for OSCON 2009!

OSCON 2009 will be held this July 20-24 in San Jose, California at the McEnery Convention Center. It seems that they’re expecting 3,000+ people at the event from different backgrounds who share the same interest: Open Source Software. Hopefully this will be a good time to meet the software developers our favorite open source applications and learn from them.

A sample of topics:

• Perl 6: Why? What? How?, Damian Conway, Thoughtstream
• Introduction to Google App Engine, Joe Gregorio Google
• How to Write Your Own Eclipse Plug-ins, Beth Tibbitts, IBM
• Django in the Real World, Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Django
• What You Need to Know About Rails3, Yehuda Katz, Engine Yard
• Linux Filesystem Performance for Databases, Selena Deckelmann, PostgreSQL Project
• Cloud Computing – Why IT Matters, Simon Wardley, Canonical Ltd
• Building a Business on the Cheap, Chris Wanstrath, GitHub
• The HTML 5 Experiments, Bruce Lawson, Opera Software ASA
• High Performance APC, Brian Shire, Facebook, Inc.

I am sure that some of my co-workers will want to go if it was possible. There are topics that would be of interest to us:

• Use Open Source Tools to Program iPhone Games on Linux and Windows Without the iPhone SDK, PJ Cabrera
• Writing Open Source, moderated by Addison Berry and Emma Jane Hogbin
• Using Drupal, James Walker and Angie Byron, Lullabot
• Google O’Reilly Open Source Awards
• A Brief History of Software, Michael Lopp, Rands in Repose
• Business Models for Open Source Developers, Darrius Thompson, OpenCandy

Check out the complete schedule of OSCON 2009 here.

Looks like it could be interesting to go there. But as I live in another country, it’s not possible for me. I hope to hear more about it from you guys after the event, in case you will be going. I hope people will have a great time learning together and meeting new contacts.

Register soon so you could ensure your slot in the said event. (OSCON 2009 Registration Details.)