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From Disruption to Default: Early Registration Opens for OSCON, OSCON Data, & OSCON Java

May 5, 2011

Sebastopol, CA, May 5, 2011—What do you do after you change the world? You change it again, using open source, of course. For thirteen years, , the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, has put open source to work building the future. This year, we've added two new conferences. and have graduated from tracks at previous OSCONs to become two distinct events, co-located with OSCON. OSCON Data and OSCON Java premier July 25-27, while OSCON runs the entire week of July 25-29, 2011, at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland.

Once considered a radical upstart, open source has moved from disruption to default. The language of open is spoken in increasingly larger spheres, and OSCON's program encompasses to explore all things open source. Chairs Edd Dumbill and Sarah Novotny have added new tracks to OSCON this year, including , , , , and , while returns for its second year.

Keynote speakers at OSCON 2011 include:

  • (Rands in Repose)
  • (Canonical)
  • (Author, Geek Atlas, VP of Engineering, Causata, Inc.)
  • (Gamification Co)
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  • (Facebook)
  • (BioCurious)
  • (spacehack.org)
  • (Linux Foundation)
  • (Perl Training Australia)

    • Combine Java and open source and you can take on the tech world's juiciest challenges—in cloud computing, big data, mobile, and more. Chairs Stephen Chin and Laurel Ruma have shaped the OSCON Java program to cover tracks including , , , , and .

    Featured speakers at OSCON Java include:

  • (Engine Yard, Inc.)
  • (Scala Solutions)
  • (Oracle)
  • (JBoss by Red Hat, Inc.)
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  • (ThoughtWorks)
  • (Twitter)

  • Learn about the open source technologies for gathering, storing, and analyzing data that make it possible to use new data sources and do new things with existing data at . OSCON Data tracks created by chairs Sarah Novotny and Bradford Stephens cover , , , , , and .

    Featured speakers at OSCON Data include:

  • (Netflix)
  • (Data Differential)
  • (Cloudera)
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  • (Yahoo!)
  • (Boundary)
  • (eBay Local/Milo.com)

    • applies until June 6.

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