Sebastopol, CA, January 26, 2009 - Want to see Rails 3 roll out? O’Reilly Media and Ruby Central have opened registration for RailsConf 2009, happening May 4-7, 2009, at the Las Vegas Hilton. RailsConf, the official event for the Ruby on Rails community, will showcase the latest developments in the merger of Rails and Merb into Rails 3.
RailsConf, co-presented by Ruby Central, Inc. and O’Reilly Media, Inc., is the largest official conference dedicated to everything Rails. Innovative and successful Rails experts and companies interact at RailsConf through keynotes, sessions, tutorials, panels, and events. The conference provides attendees with examples of business models, development paradigms, and design strategies which enable new arrivals to the Web and Rails to take advantage of this new generation of services and opportunities.
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ETech is a technologist’s playground. We specifically design the conference to expose new ideas and learn from the people behind them. This year the focus is on how the way we live is changing — through policy, technology and ideas. The proliferation of sensors, advances in materials and manufacturing, the changes in government and the financial market will all have a profound effect on our industry.
ETech is a four-day conference that runs from March 9-12 in San Jose, CA. Early registration ends on Monday. Use et09rad at checkout for an additional 10% off (this will work even after early registration pricing ends).
ETech is a broad conference. The first day is filled with three-hour tutorials that range in topics from Refactoring Your Wetware (by Andy Hunt), Lilypad Arduino (was sold-out, but we were able to free up some new spots), an RFID-Arduino project, mapping with Stamen Design, 3D printing with the Reprap, and programming with MIT’s Scratch. The following three days will be mix of plenary and breakout sessions. Here’s a listing of all the talks and speakers. They’ll be focused on:
I hope to see you there.
I’ve been involved in the MySQL Conference & Expo ever since O’Reilly partnered with MySQL for the event in 2005. I *heart* this event for many reasons:
- it’s a tightly focused, deep dive into a very specific technology, but still feels connected to the bigger open source community.
- MySQL folks take their tasks and goals very seriously–they really work on stuff that matters as Tim O’Reilly would say, and what they accomplish has a very real effect on the bottom line of many a company. It’s rewarding to play a small part in facilitating that.
- MySQL is a particularly global community, and the event brings together people who don’t see each other very often or who have only known each other virtually. Watching the attendees connect in person is a joy to behold.
- An incredible cross section of the MySQL ecosystem comes. Recent adopters, gurus, grizzled programmers–it’s a place to meet the “who’s who” while making the new folks feel welcome.
- MySQL technology gets people really, really psyched and that enthusiasm is infectious. It’s obvious people care about making it a better technology.
- The conference has a lot of traditions (the Quiz Show!) and that consistency is comforting–you know what you’re gonna get when you head to the CE year after year.
- As a Virgo, I appreciate the MySQL dedication to order and getting things right; it’s wonderful to work with such a thoughtful crew.
The MySQL Conference program team has rotated over the years, giving O’Reilly folks a chance to work with new people, which has been a wonderful experience. They’re mindful of maintaining the traditions I mentioned, but they also are up for trying new things.
For instance, one of the biggest additions to the CE in 2009 is MySQL Camp. Colin Charles, Giuseppe Maxia, and the rest of the program team really wanted to make a place for community members at the conference. They came up with this “unconference” component, headed up by Sheeri K. Cabral. Definitely a “uniter” in the MySQL community, Sheeri is a great choice to organize the event.
We’ll be posting more details soon about this and other interesting extracurricular stuff happening in the very near future. In the meantime, check out the formal program.
In addition to the formal program that includes the likes of Leah Buechley (MIT), Greg Elin (Sunlight Foundation), and Eric Rasmussen (InSTEDD), Brady and the ETech team have also been busy lining up extracurricular events that add a new dimension to the ways we’ll be able to connect during the conference:
MAKE Room: Brian Jepson and some of his fellow Makers will have their own room during ETech to spread out and help you get your DIY on.
FreeTech: an unconference, ETech style.
Zoe Keating: a cellist and composer, Zoe fuses layers of music into an incredible sound using her cello and her Mac.
LateTech: This is still in the noodling phase, but we’re thinking of an after-hours open-mike-meets-lightning-talks kind of event
Ignite will be back, too.
And news for the pocketbook: we’ve also moved the early registration discount deadline for ETech to January 26. We know times are tough and unpredictable, and we hope keeping the discount active longer will help more people attend what’s shaping up to be an amazing event this year.
Sebastopol, CA, Dec 18 2008—Sun Microsystems and O’Reilly Media have now opened registration and unveiled the program for the seventh annual MySQL Conference & Expo, April 20-23, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. The world’s largest open source database event unites over 2,000 MySQL enthusiasts to harness the power of MySQL and celebrate the huge MySQL community.
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Registration Now Open
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16 — O’Reilly Media, Inc. and TechWeb, producers of Web 2.0 Expo and Web 2.0 Summit, today announced the return of Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco, the annual event for developers, designers, marketers, and business professionals building the next generation Web. This year, Web 2.0 Expo centers on the idea of “the Power of Less,” exploring how the principles of Web 2.0 can turn constraints into opportunities. Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco is March 31 - April 3, 2009 at Moscone West.
Web 2.0 events have consistently inspired and educated this industry through memorable and market-moving programs. “The Web is serving as the innovation engine for an economy in peril,” said Jennifer Pahlka, co-chair of Web 2.0 Expo, “and the recent slate of Web 2.0 programs, including the sold- out Web 2.0 Summit in November, attest to the energy and excitement of the community. There is enormous opportunity available to those willing to embrace the Web as a platform.”
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11:59 p.m. Jan. 12 is the deadline to submit speaking proposals for Velocity, the O’Reilly conference on web performance and operations. The program committee is interested in presentations for a variety of skill levels around the following topics:
- How to tie web performance and operations to the bottom line
- Real-world incident management - getting “tight like a pit crew”
- Making websites as fast and reliable as desktop apps
- Networking, DNS, and load balancing
- Profiling’s not just on the backend: JavaScript, CSS, and the network
- Managing web services - flaming disasters you survived and lessons learned
- The intersection between performance and design
- Wicked cool (and actionable) metrics
- Ads, ads, ads - the performance killer?
- Troubleshooting in production
- How to scale and be fast on the social web
- Capacity planning and load testing
- Establishing performance and operations best practices within your organization
- Configuration management best (and worst) tools and practices
- Monitoring and instrumentation: Open Source, as a service, commercially supported solutions
- Using multiple CDNs to improve customer experience and reduce cost
A limited number of speaking opportunities are also available through conference sponsorship. Contact Sharon Cordesse at scordesse@oreilly.com for more information.
This Friday, January 16 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific time, join us for a free, live webcast with Money:Tech co-chair Robert Passarella. Rob’s topic is “Equity Research in the Age of Web,” an eclectic yet practical look at Wall Street, equity research, technology and the Internet. Hear how new ideas of finding and getting information are supercharging the research process for companies and industries. Because this is a live event, you’ll have the chance to ask questions and interact during the hour-long presentation.
One particularly sweet and surprising piece of tech news happened just before Christmas, traditionally a pretty slow time of year for most important announcements: Rails and Merb will be merged into Rails 3.
Judging from the wealth of comments on both David Heinemeier Hansson’s and Yehuda Katz’s blog posts about it, the news was enthusiastically received by both communities. As one of the nearly 200 commenters on DHH’s blog post announcing the merger wrote, “Rails 3 FTW!”
Over on the Eden Development blog, Chris wrote
Now, the best bits of merb will become Rails 3, and some of the best ruby coders in the business will be working on the framework we use every day. That’s a great thing for Rails users everywhere. Despite the claims of some, it’s not about one set of people ‘winning’ and one ‘losing’. Ultimately the combined codebase is the real winner, and therefore the people that use it, such as companies like ourselves. We’ll certainly do all we can to support the move here.
While tentatively scheduled to release during RailsConf May 4-7 in Las Vegas (an admittedly ambitious timeframe), DHH recently noted that the flow of Merb ideas into Rails 3 is already under way.
The Call for Participation for RailsConf is open until February 17–a much longer period than usual, precisely to accommodate new developments like this.
