Sponsors

Diamond Sponsors

  • Intel
  • Microsoft

Platinum Sponsors

  • Google
  • Sun Microsystems

Gold Sponsors

  • BT
  • IBM
  • Yahoo! Inc.
  • Zimbra

Silver Sponsors

  • Atlassian Software Systems
  • Disney
  • EnterpriseDB
  • Etelos
  • Ingres
  • JasperSoft
  • Linagora
  • MindTouch
  • Mozilla Corporation
  • Novell, Inc.
  • Open Invention Network
  • OpSource
  • RightScale
  • Silicon Mechanics
  • Ticketmaster
  • Voiceroute
  • White Oak Technologies, Inc.
  • XAware

Premier Media Partner

  • ZDNet

Sponsorship Opportunities

For information on exhibition and sponsorship opportunities at the conference, contact Sharon Cordesse at scordesse@oreilly.com.

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Press and Media

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Schedule: Keynote sessions

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8:30am - 8:35am Monday, 07/21/2008
Welcome
Location: F150/151
Surj Patel (GigaOM), Raven Zachary (The 451 Group)
This opening talk frames the opportunities, challenges, and unexpected directions mobile is going--and where it's taking us as a society. Read more.
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7:30pm - 8:00pm Tuesday, 07/22/2008
Keynote
Location: Portland Ballroom
Mark R. Shuttleworth (Ubuntu )
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8:00pm - 8:15pm Tuesday, 07/22/2008
Google O'Reilly Open Source Awards
Location: Portland Ballroom
Winners of the Google O'Reilly Open Source Award will be announced during this fun evening event. Read more.
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8:15pm - 8:45pm Tuesday, 07/22/2008
Exceptional Software Explained: Embrace Error
Location: Portland Ballroom
Robert "r0ml" Lefkowitz (Asurion)
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8:45pm - 9:00pm Tuesday, 07/22/2008
White Camel Awards
Location: Portland Ballroom
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9:00pm - 10:00pm Tuesday, 07/22/2008
Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming In Multiple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic Parallel Timespaces...Made Easy!
Location: Portland Ballroom
Damian Conway (Thoughtstream)
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9:00am - 9:15am Wednesday, 07/23/2008
Open Source on the O'Reilly Radar
Location: Portland Ballroom
Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
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9:15am - 9:30am Wednesday, 07/23/2008
Open Source Physical Security: Can We Have Both Privacy and Safety?
Location: Portland Ballroom
Christine Peterson (Foresight Nanotech Institute)
In today's post-9/11 world, it is increasingly assumed that security from terrorism and other attacks will require the loss of privacy by individuals and private organizations. Read more.
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9:30am - 9:45am Wednesday, 07/23/2008
Moblin, Linux for Next Generation Mobile Internet
Location: Portland Ballroom
Imad Sousou (Intel Corporation)
Imad Sousou, Director of Intel Open Source Technology Center will present the technology vision and direction for Moblin.org, The open source community for developing the next generation internet and media experience on a new category of internet-centric devices such as Mobile Internet Devices, netbooks, nettops and Automotive In-Vehicle Infotainment Systems. Read more.
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9:45am - 10:00am Wednesday, 07/23/2008
Tim O'Reilly Interviews Monty Widenius & Brian Aker
Location: Portland Ballroom
Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.), Michael Widenius (MySQL), Brian Aker (MySQL)
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10:00am - 10:15am Wednesday, 07/23/2008
Q & A
Location: Portland Ballroom
An open microphone question and answer session with the morning's keynote speakers. Read more.
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8:45am - 9:00am Thursday, 07/24/2008
Open Invention Network and Its Role in Open Source and Linux
Location: Portland Ballroom
Keith Bergelt (Open Invention Network)
The Keynote will outline the role of Open Invention Network in Open Source and describe the ways in which Capital, Leadership and Strategy are being leveraged to ensure the onward organic growth and development of Linux. Read more.
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9:00am - 9:15am Thursday, 07/24/2008
Anniversaries
Location: Portland Ballroom
Peter H. Salus (Anniversaries)
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9:30am - 9:45am Thursday, 07/24/2008
Why Whinging Doesn't Work
Location: Portland Ballroom
Danese Cooper (Open Source Initiative and Intel Corporation)
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9:45am - 10:00am Thursday, 07/24/2008
fork() && exec(): Spawning the Next Generation of Hackers
Location: Portland Ballroom
Nathan Torkington (He Hononga Software, Limited)
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10:00am - 10:15am Thursday, 07/24/2008
Q & A
Location: Portland Ballroom
An open microphone question and answer session with the morning's keynote speakers. Read more.
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8:45am - 9:00am Friday, 07/25/2008
Advocating Software Freedom by Revealing Errors
Location: Portland Ballroom
Benjamin Mako Hill (MIT Center for Future Civic Media)
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9:00am - 9:15am Friday, 07/25/2008
Three Challenges
Location: Portland Ballroom
Dawn Nafus (Intel)
Technical challenges are big—but so are social ones. Here I present three major areas of rapid social change, each of which poses its own set of challenges and opportunities. These are areas where robust social and institutional creativity are necessary alongside technological ingenuity. Read more.
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9:15am - 9:30am Friday, 07/25/2008
Open Source Heroes
Location: Portland Ballroom
Sam Ramji (Microsoft)
Over the past ten years, open source has fundamentally changed the way developers learn, communicate and code together. Over the past three years, Microsoft has made significant strides towards more fully participating in open source communities. Read more.
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9:30am - 9:45am Friday, 07/25/2008
Language Inflection Point
Location: Portland Ballroom
Tim Bray (Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
It would be nice to know which programming languages we're all going to be programming in ten years from now. I really have no more idea than you, but I am paid to worry about this kind of thing. So I'm going to worry out loud about this for fifteen minutes, highlight some trends and influences, and probably leave you with more questions than answers. Read more.
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9:45am - 10:00am Friday, 07/25/2008
Learning from Airports
Location: Portland Ballroom
JP Rangaswami (BT Design)
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10:00am - 10:15am Friday, 07/25/2008
Q & A
Location: Portland Ballroom
An open microphone question and answer session with the morning's keynote speakers. Read more.
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