From:	 Suzanne Axtell <suzanne@oreilly.com>
To:	 lwn@lwn.net
Subject: Registration Open for O'Reilly Open Source Convention
Date:	 Thu, 11 Apr 2002 18:33:28 -0700 (PDT)

For Immediate Release
April 11, 2002
For more information contact:
Suzanne Axtell, (707) 827-7114 or suzanne@oreilly.com

INNOVATION AT THE HEART OF THE ENTERPRISE:
THE 2002 O'REILLY OPEN SOURCE CONVENTION

"In lean times, the hardiest things flourish..."
--O'Reilly founder and president Tim O'Reilly

Sebastopol, CA--Registration has just opened for the 2002 O'Reilly Open
Source Convention, one of the most anticipated annual technical
conferences for the open source community. Creators, practitioners,
and hackers come together once again at the Sheraton Hotel and Marina
in sunny San Diego, California, July 22-26, 2002.

Open source software has grown from radical business choice to solid,
mainstream option. Major corporations that once scoffed at or resisted
using open source tools are now embracing them as a viable and
economical alternative. In 1997, O'Reilly debuted its first Perl
Conference; since then, the convention has grown up with the open
source movement, becoming both a focal point for recognizing its
successes and a flash point for continued open source innovation.

The O'Reilly Open Source Convention distills open source values into
programs designed to share information, transfer skills, and integrate
grassroots organizations and prime movers into the burgeoning open
source community. The 2002 Convention will be juiced by all the
sessions, personalities, and events that perennial conventioneers have
come to expect, including:
-Thought-provoking keynote presentations by legal conscience Lawrence
Lessig, and by the leader of the free software movement, Richard
Stallman.
-This year's convention highlights the open source aspects of
bioinformatics, with keynote addresses slated from Ewan Birney and
James Kent.
-Bioinformatician Lincoln Stein offers a "Network Programming with
Perl" tutorial.
-James Duncan Davidson describes the best of many worlds with an "Open
Source and Java: Lessons from the Apache Experience" presentation.
-Mono project leader Miguel de Icaza explains how to develop an
application in the open source implementation of Microsoft's Common
Language Runtime.
-Python tamer Guido van Rossum delivers a "State of the Python Union"
address.

CONFERENCES WITHIN THE CONVENTION
Perl Conference 6
Perl legends and great entertainers Larry Wall and Damian Conway
introduce Perl 6, the latest edition of the leading general purpose
scripting language. Participants in this conference focus on the
here-and-now (Perl 5, new modules, XML and web services) as well as the
future (Perl 6 and Parrot).

PHP Conference 2
Responsible for over 7 million domains, PHP is a leading open source
development language. The conference showcases PHP and Unix, Windows,
Apache, security, new developments, case studies, large-scale
applications development, and best practices. Go to "PHP 4.1 and
Beyond" with Rasmus Lerdorf, PHP Project founder.

XTech2002 XML Conference
XML is the key to that new buzz phrase, web services. This conference
cuts through the hype by covering present essentials, as well as what's
coming down the pike: web services, topic maps, integration with
relational databases, parsing, transformations, SVG, and standards and
schemas.

FEATURED TRACKS
-Python, with an emphasis on Zope
-Apache Web Server, specifically 2.0, modules, configuration, and
performance tuning
-Java, featuring Jakarta, Jserv, Ant, and Jboss
-Operating Systems: Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OS X
-Databases, focusing on MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redhat B, SAPDB, Berkeley DB
-Emerging topics, such as gaming, shared source and government projects

HIT THE BOOKS, THEN HIT THE BEACH
Get ready to roll up your trousers and wiggle your toes in the sand:
the convention hotel is steps away from the warm Pacific. Don't worry
about leaving the family behind during summer vacation--even if your
10-year-old daughter isn't a hacker (yet), bring 'em along. Once again
we're offering a Kids World option to attendees, as well as free
shuttle buses to area attractions.

SPONSORSHIP INFORMATION
For the first time, Apple has signed on as a Platinum Sponsor. For more
information regarding exhibition or sponsorship opportunities at the
convention, contact Andrew Calvo at 707-827-7176, or
andrewc@oreilly.com.


ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
For more information about the 2002 O'Reilly Open Source Convention,
visit <http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/>.

Information about "Free as in Freedom," a biography of Richard Stallman
by Sam Williams, is available at
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/freedom/>.

For information on the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, May
13-16, 2002 in Santa Clara, CA, visit
<http://conferences.oreilly.com/etcon/>.

Click over regularly to the O'Reilly Network's open source DevCenter if
you're hungry for more open source news <http://www.onlamp.com/>.

Miss last year's Convention? (Craig Mundie's Shared Source presentation
was a doozy!) Check out press coverage of the 2001 event
<http://www.oreillynet.com/oscon2001/>.

WORDS ABOUT THE 2001 OPEN SOURCE CONVENTION
"It's a rare thing to attend a computing conference where something
actually happens--here, instead of people waxing profound on the
possibilities of this technology or that (in between coffee breaks),
you get a surprise announcement that's certain to shake up the world as
we know it. But there's a sense here this week that this
conference--the O'Reilly Open Source Convention--might be one of those
that amounts to something: Minds will be changed. People will see the
light. The world will be better after this."
--Farhad Manjoo, Wired, July 25, 2001

"O'Reilly's Open Source Conference (OSCON) is easily the most
interesting technical event I attend every year. Each day at the
conference I get the chance to talk with brilliant, passionate people
who have done amazing work. I doubt that in the course of my life I
will ever be in a place where the average IQ or level of dedication is
any higher."--WebMonkey, August 2, 2001


About O'Reilly
O'Reilly & Associates is the premier information source for
leading-edge computer technologies. The company's books, conferences,
and web sites bring to light the knowledge of technology innovators.
O'Reilly books, known for the animals on their covers, occupy a
treasured place on the shelves of the developers building the next
generation of software. O'Reilly conferences and summits bring alpha
geeks and forward-thinking business leaders together to shape the
revolutionary ideas that spark new industries. From the Internet to
XML, open source, .NET, Java, and web services, O'Reilly puts
technologies on the map. For more information: http://www.oreilly.com

# # #

O'Reilly is a registered trademark of O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. All
other trademarks are property of their respective owners.