Conference Update OSCON 2006 2006

What:

From the site:

We translate the innovator's knowledge into useful skills and tools that can be applied to real world applications.First in an annual series of winter symposia on best practices in software engineering and development

When:

July 24-28, 2006

Where:

Portland Oregon

And Now I will read you a list

Monday

Ruby Guidebook (Mike Clark, Dave Tomas)
Rails Guidebook (Mike Clark, Dave Tomas)

dudes

Tuesday

AJAX on Rails (Stuart Halloway)
More Perl Best Practices (Damian Conway)

conway

Tuesday Evening Session

Google Open Source Awards $5K (before taxes!): Legal, community activism, toolsmith, best all around -> subersion
State of Perl

larry wall

Perl White Camel Awards
DaVinci Codebase

codebase

Wednesday

Tim O'Reilly Keynote on State of Open Source
Scott Yara on Web2.0 trying to suck less. (Applications enhancements…15 minutes 168 slides)
Mike Olson Interview (Oracle's purchase of Sleepycat)
Back to the hotel to code QuickStart
Deploying Rails Applications (Mike Clark)

Thursday

Binding Rails to Legacy Applicaitions (Robert Treat)
A Relational Object Driver That Doesn't Suck (Ben Trott's Data::ObjectDriver)
Perl6 Update (Conway, Wall)
Testing Rails Apps (Mike Clark)
Vendor time…

LinuxCOE

Friday

History of the PC (Dave Bradley)
Highly-technical Management of Software Development (Alex Martelli)

Alex Martelli is Uber Technical Lead at Google, Inc.

The Renaissance of Invention: Free Software and the Next American Century (Eban Moglen)

Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University Law School and General Counsel of the Free Software Foundation.

eban moglen

Josh Richard
UMD ITSS
726.8848
jrichar4@d.umn.edu