Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 18:58:42 -0800 (PST) From: Cammie Noah <cammie@oreilly.com> To: lwn@lwn.net Subject: O'Reilly Posts Open Source/Perl Call for Papers FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JANUARY 11, 2001 CONTACT: Cammie Noah 707/829-0515 x 437 cammie@oreilly.com http://www.oreilly.com O'REILLY SEEKS OPEN SOURCE AND PERL EXPERTS TO PRESENT AT THE O'REILLY OPEN SOURCE CONVENTION AND PERL CONFERENCE 5.0 July 23-27, 2001 in San Diego, CA Developer & Programmer Convention Focuses on Emerging Techniques for Open Source and Perl Communities O'Reilly & Associates has posted a Call for Participation soliciting masters of Open Source and Perl technologies, who are interested in leading tutorial and conference sessions at the 2001 O'Reilly Open Source Convention and Perl Conference 5. Session speakers are sought for three classes of talks: tutorial programs, convention presentations, and refereed papers. The submission deadline for all proposals is February 1, 2001. Presenters will be notified of selection results by March 1, 2001. For complete information about our submission and acceptance process for the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, go to, http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2001/call.html The program committee invites submissions of tutorials or convention presentations on topics of interest to programmers. The tracks at the Open Source Convention will be: XML MySQL Apache PHP Python Mozilla Linux Tcl Zope For complete information about our submission and acceptance process for the O'Reilly Perl Conference 5, go to, http://conferences.oreilly.com/perl5/ Here are some suggested topics for Perl proposals: Perl 6 Perl 5 Internals Threads The Web I18N/L10N XML SOAP/XML-RPC/CORBA LDAP Linking Perl and C/C++/Java The Compiler Databases GUIs and Graphics P2P .NET ABOUT O'REILLY & ASSOCIATES O'Reilly & Associates is the premier information source for leading-edge computer technologies. We communicate the knowledge of experts through our books, conferences, and web sites. Our books, known for their animals on the covers, occupy a treasured place on the shelves of the developers building the next generation of software. Our conferences and summits bring innovators together to shape the revolutionary ideas that spark new industries. >From the Internet to the web, Linux, Open Source, and now peer-to-peer networking, we put technologies on the map. # # #