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June 27, 2008

Christer Edwards
nonic
Ubuntu Tutorials : Dapper - Feisty - Gutsy - Hardy
» Presenting at OSCON 2008 : July 21-25, 2008

Some of you might remember, long ag, that I asked for some feedback regarding a presentation at Ubuntu Live 2008. Well, as it turns out the Ubuntu Live conference was cancelled by my presentation was migrated to OSCON instead.  I’m pretty excited to be going to OSCON this year, especially as a speaker.  I went last year, but just to work in a booth as a volunteer.  This year will be a much more fun!

If you’re going to be at OSCON come and say hello.  I’ll be presenting:

LTS Tutorials : Using Ubuntu in the Enterprise - 10:45 on 23 Jul 2008

I’ll be covering things like automated installations with kickstart and preseed, automated “stack” setup with the server installer (LAMP, etc), basic security with ufw, and more.  I think it’ll be a lot of fun and I hope to be able to show how Ubuntu Server can make Enterprise Linux simpler while remaining just as stable and secure as anything else.

If you haven’t yet registered I’ve outlined some of the available discount codes below.  If you can get the time, and if the discount help, OSCON is *really* a lot of fun and the education you get is worth every penny.

OSCON Registration Discount Codes

  • os08fts - 65% off with proof of full-time student status: a copy of ID & class schedule demonstrating enrollment in 12 or more units per semester/quarter. Fax to (707) 829-1342. Please use os08fts in the discount field.
  • os08team - 10% off per person if you register 3 or more people from one company. Please use os08team in discount field. Proof of status of employment (copy of business card) for each attendee must be faxed to (707) 829-1342.
  • os08np - 40% off with proof of full time employment at a non-profit organization and verification of non-profit status (501 c3 or equivalent). Fax to (707) 829-1342. Please use os08np in the discount field.
  • os08gov - 10% off with proof of full-time employment with a government agency. Use discount code os08gov, and fax proof to (707) 829-1342.
  • os08as - 25% off with proof of full time academic employment status on organization letterhead. Fax to (707) 829-1342. Please use os08as in discount field.

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by Christer Edwards at 6:34 PM under community , enterprise , lamp , oscon , ubuntu , ufw (Comments)
June 13, 2008

Jesse Stay
obfuscated, Uncle_Jesse
Stay N' Alive » OSS
» Facebook Announces F8 In the Middle of OSCON, Coincidence?

l11204705797_2531.pngJust yesterday, Facebook announced their second F8 conference, to occur July 23, 2008. This Developer-targeted event is said to possibly include some major announcements, including the new Profile redesign, more information about the fbOpen platform, and most significantly, possibly the launch of their E-Commerce platform. What hasn’t been announced or shared however is the odd timing of the event.

The event occurs right smack dab in the middle of O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention, scheduled to occur for about the past year now from July 21 through July 25. This conference is known as an essential “Mecca” for Open Source developers around the globe, and has presentations from such players as Google, MySQL, Sun, Meebo, and even SixApart. Everyone who is a developer (unless you solely develop for Microsoft) or Sysadmin will be at this conference.

As a developer, this is tough news to hear that Facebook will make me choose between OSCON and them. Frankly, I would by default choose OSCON if I were any smart developer, as I would get more. So why isn’t Facebook just joining OSCON and doing an “F8″ track there? Do they really want to tick off Open Source developers? You better bet that OpenSocial will have a presence there. If Facebook really wanted to target the Open Source crowd, as they have “claimed” to do with their fbOpen Platform and a few other contributions back to the community, they would try to have a presence at this conference and not interrupt it as they are currently doing. I was actually going to go to OSCON to promote my FBML Essentials book to potential Facebook developers for O’Reilly. Now I’m forced with a decision. I’ve contacted Facebook with no response, and I’m getting a little frustrated as a Social Media developer. Which conference will you choose?

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by Jesse Stay at 10:20 PM under f8 , facebook , facebook open source , facebook platform , fbml essentials , google , opensocial , oreilly , oscon , oss , perl , social media (Comments)
August 9, 2007

Jason Hall
jayce^
Jayce^
» Data Management

So apparently the Ingres company is using salesforce.com.  How do I know?  I just received an email from salesforce, that is apparently sent out to their salespeople, telling the agent they have a new lead to follow up on.  The email includes some of my information (from their booth at OSCON), nothing special really.  My favorite part was the instructions:

Please contact this lead within the next  business days and be sure to log all activities.  Change the lead status to IN PROGRESS, etc. once you have acted on the lead.

So I have instructions to call myself now.  I wonder if they'll find out their error?  If I do get a call I know I'll have to ask them if they've changed my lead status yet, and if they are logging all activities.  I wonder what activities I should tell them to write down :-p

Anyways, this brief bit of humor is funniest to me because Ingres is of course a database company, so getting their data mixed up just tickled the geeky funny bone.  So beware, I guess those salesforce.com data uploads can be tricky.

by Jayce^ at 7:03 PM under business , cluestick , geeky , oscon
July 26, 2007

Matt Harrison
no nic
Latest entries from panela.blog-city.com
» OSCON 2007 (July 25)

I arrived in Portland last night for OSCON. From a conference standpoint, it feels very similar to when I attended in 2005. The attendance hasn't grown much and the exhibition hall is about the same size. Though there appear to be a few more "comm

by Matt at 3:58 AM under apple , atom , atompub , clutter , gpl3 , gregorio , hadoop , intel , orielly , oscon , oscon2007 , peyton , shuttleworth , solr , sugarcrm , ubuntu , waugh (Comments)