August 2007 Archives

Web 2.0 Summit chair John Battelle blogs about the VC panel and the changes being made in this year’s format:

This year we’re doing something new - having a panel of VC judges who critique your presentation on stage.

This is an interesting blog entry about events at OSCON and the notion of bringing Open Systems and Microsoft together….

When I describe my job as “helping Microsoft and open source to grow together,” I get a broad range of reactions from people outside and inside of Microsoft. These reactions have included sentiments along the lines of “that must be tough,” or “you must be a glutton for punishment” on occasion.

This is a link to a news release that ELC issued about RailsConf Europe:

At the RailsConf Europe, scheduled to be held here September 17-19, Jonathan Siegel, founder and UK President of ELC Technologies, will deliver a keynote presentation entitled “Beyond Startup: Rails Demand in the Global 2000.”

Valleywag, always a site to tell it like it really is, had this to say about the upcoming Money:Tech Conference:

Finally, a get-together where geeks can safely admit to being motivated by something other than changing the world.

The charity angle continues to garner media hits:

You might recall, a few short months ago, that Dr. Nic built and released a site called MyConfPlan. Its prime objective was to enable RailsConf 2007 visitors to easily plan their schedules

We’re all excited about RailsConf Europe but a month early? This is too funny not to share:

After we took part in the RailsConf 2007 in Portland, we’re preparing to join the RailsConf Europe in Berlin, once again also as Gold Sponsor.

TOC program chair and Radar member Andrew Savikas posted the following:

Now comes word that CafeScribe.com will be sending eBook buyers a scratch-and-sniff sticker to bring the musty smell of “old books” to digital reading

The attached news release makes it official, the “call for participation” is open. Let the ideas roll on in…

ETel Release

The attached news release makes it official, the “call for participation” is open. Let the ideas roll on in…

ETel Release

Nice coverage about the topics that will be featured at Money:Tech. I particularly like the last comment:

Not to be missed!

Kara Swisher comments on the upcoming Money: Tech:

Set to take place in February in New York (this dead-of-winter-and-thus-grimy-in-Manhattan prospect loses the conference immediate sexy points) and in partnership with longtime conference pro Tim O’Reilly, the event will focus on “near and dear to my heart: the confluence of money and technology (hence the name),” wrote Kedrosky on his also aptly named “Infectious Greed” site.

More media hits for the riveting Manolis Kelaidis’ presentation at TOC:

Then there are the thousands of multimedia, generative and participatory works that will always require reading from a screen rather than a printed page; then there is the hugely interesting potential for crossover devices such as Manolis Kelaidis’ blueBook (for more on this see the Nov 2006 booktwo post, or the June 2007 post by Tim O’Reilly after this years O’Reilly conference, where Manolis and the blueBook were the undisputed stars).

Chad Fowler proves, once again, that charity and altruism can have a place, even at a technology conference:

RailsConf Europe is right around the corner, and on the first day Marcel Molina and I will be doing a full day tutorial on advanced Ruby and Rails testing techniques.

Alisa Leonard, Social Media Consultant makes some amusing commentary on the idea of an invite only event being the hallmark of having “made it.”

Ah, the private, invite-only beta, the hallmark of any self-respecting Web 2.0 start up– first there were the coveted Joost invites (which, I had courtesy of the 2007 Web 2.0 Expo, thanks O’Reilly!)

This article demonstrates why Money:Tech is right on time. Note that conference speaker Nassim Nicholas Taleb, former quant-jock and bestselling contrarian author, is quoted…

They are the powerful, cerebral and offstage actors of Wall Street, but the recent turmoil in the financial markets has yanked them into the light.

Direct from Amsterdam, coverage of our newest conference Money:Tech:

Money:Tech, O’Reilly’s Newest Conference

Conference Chair, Paul Kedrosky discusses the latest addition to O’Reilly conferences:

I’m delighted to be chairing the conference, and thus partnering with the estimable Tim O’Reilly and the fine folks at O’Reilly, as the subject is one near and dear to my heart: the confluence of money and technology (hence the name).

Here is a link to the official release announcing the new conference:

Money:Tech Explores the Intersection of Technology and Money

We knew from his speaking gig at OSCON he was funny, but this is well worth reading. Be forewarned, don’t read this with anything liquid in your hand (ie coffee…)

Whoops. It turns out Nat had me scheduled LAST. There were like four or five keynote speakers before me. Imagine that! Tim O’Reilly managed to get three thousand programmers to wake up at 7am. There must have been some sort of measurable blip on our GNP over the next week.

The audience of this blog is marketing folks who are deciding which conference is right for them. O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Summit and ETech are both mentioned…

So which conference should we sponsor?
I went to ETech this year and regretted that we did not sign up for a sponsorship (silver or bronze).

It’s amazing how quickly these videos make it around the web. Here Robert Ottaway blogs about Steve Yegge:

So anyway Steve gave a talk at OSCON that is good food for thought.

Welcome to the news and coverage page for our latest addition to O’Reilly conferences: Money:Tech. The conference is scheduled to take place February 6-7, 2008 in NYC, NY. Money:Tech will bring together entrepreneurs, investors, technologists, academics, and high-profile speakers to uncover the opportunities created by rapid change in money and markets. The conference will include two days of plenary sessions, demonstrations, panels, and keynote presentations around the new technologies and methodologies that are transforming how money–and information–changes hands.

Watch for more news here!

This post does a nice job of discussing trends in publishing:

O’Reilly Radar recently reported on a talk by Manolis Kelaidis at the Tools of Change (TOC) conference on his work with a book utilizing this technology.

This is a nice post about the highlights of OSCON:

Three weeks ago, I went to OSCON up in Portland. It was terrific, one of the best I’ve attended.

Susan is a venture capitalist and gives Summit a nice plug in this post:

This was my motivation behind putting together a Virtual Worlds/Casual MMO panel at the Web 2.0 Expo and for including the panel on “Virtual Items: Mainstream or Not” at the Virtual Goods Summit.

This is a nice round up of the whole OSCON/Portland experience:

Last week, we headed to Portland for the Open Source Convention, lovingly known as OSCON, where thousands of open source software developers, system administrators and technology lovers from around the globe came to bask in the glory of unadulterated geek-speak.

In this blog, marketed to leaders in National Yellow Pages Advertising and Internet Marketing, the issue of mapping:

At a recent Where 2.0 conference in San Jose, California, the subject of 3D Mapping was the hot topic of discussion, specifically the so-called “3D Data arms race” between Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and others Web companies spending fortunes vying to have developers use their platforms for cityscapes.

This is a good article on the future of location-based technology and how it featured at this past Where 2.0 Conference:

While I’d love to talk about time travel theory and DeLoreans, I can’t stop talking about location, location, location.

This is short, but I particularly love this part:

Portland / Ubuntu Live / OSCON. Really good times.
LinuxWorld — Weird times.

For the whole post visit:

What Andy’s been up to

This national organization, who organizes it’s own conference on publishing, included a very nice mention of TOC in their newsletter:

NFAIS Enotes, July 31, 2007
Jill O’Neill, NFAIS

Buzzwords and Bemusement

Six weeks ago, I attended the O’Reilly Tools of Change (TOC) conference in San Jose, an event aimed at the book publishing community. I came away with a reinforced sense that publishing as an industry is changing at very different rates of speed, depending upon the sector in which one operates. TOC was, in many respects, a practical meeting with tutorials on XML, discussions of intellectual property and business models, and featured keynote segments that covered widgets, wikis, and Web 2.0. That’s publishing as it exists today - buzzwords and bemusement.

Underneath the buzzwords and bemusement, however, I believe that I came away from the event with some idea of emerging discussions in the book publishing world (and, by extension, our own).

Information Today’s Don Hawkins attended our inaugural version of the Tools of Change conference and filed the following story:

TOC Coverage

Here is the official “call for participation” press release:

Press Release

The call for participation is getting a nice hit on Wired:

Nowadays, you could probably just *hang out on the ETech wiki* and still end up dripping big gooey video-streaming gouts of alphageek.

Another RailsConf Europe speaker who is anticipating the Berlin show….

I’m speaking at RailsConf

Catch the podcast from Ubuntu:

THEN - We share our coverage of the Ubuntu Live conference, plus so much more!

Another nice “mark your calendar” style post:

Mark your calendar - Where 2.0 2008 will happen May 12-14, 2008

People are already talking about the next Where 2.0 conference:

Where 2.0 2008 will happen May 12-14, 2008 at the San
Francisco Airport Marriott in Burlingame, California. Where 2.0 is being
extended to three full days to include in depth workshops on the first
day.

A nice pick up of our recent media release regarding expanding the program at RailsConf Europe:

Technology conference producer O’Reilly Media (oreilly.com) announced this week that the conference program of its upcoming RailsConf Europe (railsconfeurope.com) event is complete, with the recent addition of several new speakers.

Here is the final “wrap-up” release for Ubuntu Live 2007:

Ubuntu Live Press Release

Here is the final “wrap-up” release of all the news fit to print at OSCON 2007:

OSCON Press Release

Conference sponsor Intel hosted a big party Monday night during OSCON, this is a very good article that sums up what was discussed at the event:

Last week, Intel officially released the source code of Threading Building Blocks (TBB) 2.0, a C++ template library that facilitates a task-oriented approach to parallelism.

A blog entry about attending both events, Ubuntu Live and OSCON:

Ubuntu Live and OSCON were awesome. Eric and I got a bunch of good hacking done during the sessions.

More pick up on the news from Prentice Hall at OSCON:

Addison-Wesley Professional (AW), Prentice Hall Professional (PH) and SAMS Publishing today announced the release of new cutting-edge books for the open source community

Mozilla, OSCON sponsor posted this about their activities while at the conference:

Mozilla has participated in the conference for several years now and had targeted it as a major open source community and developer relations event.

Another OSCON attendee reviews his experiences at the conference:

For the last three OSCON’s I’ve been attending a meeting for people deeply involved in the operation of open source foundations. Allison Randal of the Perl Foundation and O’Reilly has done a great job of getting the foundations to talk to each other about common issues.

These are kind of fun, they give you a “slice of life” at OSCON. I think this sums it all up:

“The trip was worth every penny, every bit of effort, the lost sleep, and the crazy schedule. I learned more than I ever thought I would. I met more people than I thought I would, and I got to learn about new companies, new products, and new ideas. I really hope to be able to return next year, but that’s a year off. We’ll see how it goes at that time.”

OSCON — Day 1

OSCON — Day 2

OSCON — Day 3

OSCON — Day 4

OSCON — Day 5

From the Haskell blog, news of Simon Peyton Jones’ success while at OSCON:

At OSCON last week, Simon Peyton Jones delivered some superlative sessions.

Anytime an O’Reilly conference is “diggable” it’s good news, here’s some feedback about an OSCON panel:

Apparently this was a standing room only session and was quite well received. People were talking about this session through the remainder of OSCON.

Great interview with hackfest winner regarding developing with Rails and his plans to attend RailsConf Europe:

I’m definitely going to be at RailsConf Europe. Norbert and I are taking the train from Amsterdam to Berlin on Sunday the 16th of September, first stop is Bratwurst on Rails.

More OSCON coverage about Microsoft’s strategy:

Microsoft has begun to talk about open source again. Sure, atheists sometimes do talk about God.

This is a pretty hard hitting article about Microsoft’s open source strategy:

Ever since the Halloween memo surfaced almost nine years ago, we’ve all known that Microsoft regards Open Source as a threat to its PC software monoculture and thus, its extremely lucrative business monopoly.

Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier comments on his take away from OSCON:

In many ways, OSCON is summer camp for geeks.

More coverage of the various announcements made at OSCON:

Last week at OSCON in Portland, Ore. three companies made three announcements regarding free and open source licensing. These are their stories.

Analyst Joe Niski had this to say about what he learned at OSCON:

One could describe OSCON as a really good developers’ conference, with plenty of technical breadth and depth. But it definitely had a sense of espirit de corps that I haven’t encountered elsewhere.

Blogger and OSCON attendee Brian Fitzpatrick’s amusing take on the conference:

Portland was, as always, a fantastic city, and I really enjoyed catching up with what I call my “second family” of conference friends that I see several times a year.

Jimmy Wales of Wikia gets some nice coverage on this blog:

“If we can get good quality search results, I think it will really change the balance of power from the search companies back to the publishers,” said Wales at the developer conference OSCON in Portland, Oregon.

Here are some details on the SourceForge awards at OSCON:

SourceForge announced the winners of its second annual SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards during the OSCON conference.

Sean Campbell and team did many interviews from OSCON, here’s video from one of them with Intel:

James Reinders Interview

To read the results of the Google-O’Reilly Open Source Awards from OSCON follow this link and scroll down:

Last night, July 24, at the Open Source Conference in Portland the winners of the coveted Google-O’Reilly Open Source Award were announced.

It’s always a pleasure having John Dorsey at an O’Reilly event, these are the stories he filed from OSCON:

Java at OSCON

Apatar Data Mashup Contest

Open Source and the Enterprise

Wikia Acquires Grub Search Tool

SnapLogic was a key player as an sponsor/exhibitor at OSCON, this post is fun:

The energy level was high throughout the conference. Anyone who thinks the free software movement is losing steam or is in tumult is wrong.