Sebastopol, CA, May 26, 2009 — RailsConf 2009, the annual event for the Ruby on Rails community held May 4-7 in Las Vegas, gave new and experienced Rails users practical tools for staying agile and competitive in an industry being transformed by fast-paced innovation. For four intense days, developers engaged directly with more than 100 expert speakers, learning how to exploit the popular framework’s newest features to solve problems and build businesses.

RailsConf, co-presented by Ruby Central, Inc. and O’Reilly Media, Inc., is the largest official conference dedicated to everything Rails. More than 1,300 web developers, IT managers, web-based business entrepreneurs, and others gathered to learn the basics, catch up on the latest developments, and sharpen their expertise, through a variety of presentations and events arranged by Program Chair Chad Fowler and Associate Chairs David Black and Rich Kilmer. At CabooseConf, a free, parallel unconference, skilled Rails coders from all over the world met in one room to work on their Rails projects.

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What are the opportunities that today’s economic climate creates for open source? Register now for OSCON to take part in this and many other conversations around the business of open source when OSCON 2009 convenes July 20-24 in San Jose, California.

3,000 developers, programmers, sys admins, hackers, enterprise developers and managers, IT managers and CxOs, entrepreneurs, activists, and trainers will gather to sharpen their skills, network with experts and fellow users, and learn the latest advances in open source, including the savings and the profits it can hold for us all.

Due to demand, , so now there are over 20 topics you can follow: Administration, Apache, Business, Cloud Computing, Databases, Design & Usability, Desktop Applications, Emerging Topics, Fundamentals, Government, Java, Legal, Linux, Mobile, Mozilla, People, Perl, PHP, Programming, Python, Ruby, Security, Ubuntu, and Web Applications.

Just a few of the over-200 stellar OSCON 2009 speakers include: Rafael Almeria (Xerox), Matt Asay (Alfresco), Jono Bacon (Canonical), Deborah Bryant (OSU Open Source Lab), Douglas Crockford (Yahoo!), Greg Elin (Sunlight Foundation), Richard Fontana (Red Hat, Inc.), Yehuda Katz (Engine Yard Inc.), Federico Lucifredi (SUSE team, Novell), Erik Meijer (Microsoft), Chris Messina (OpenID Foundation), Stormy Peters (GNOME Foundation), Simon Phipps (Sun Microsystems), Karen Sandler (Software Freedom Law Center), Brian Shire (Facebook), Steve Souders (Google), and many, many more.

If you’re taking on new responsibilities or switching gears to work with new priorities, you’ll find out how others are meeting these same challenges and staying competitive at OSCON. Be sure to register before June 2 for OSCON to take advantage of early registration savings.

The second edition of Velocity, the Web Performance and Operations Conference from O’Reilly, is just about four weeks away. Program co-chairs Jesse Robbins (recently named Geek of the Week by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer) and Steve Souders are putting the final touches on the program; new speakers just confirmed include:

• Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer of Mozilla will delve into developer tools used to enhance web performance in their presentation, On Responsiveness
• Randy Bias, Technology Strategy VP at GoGrid, will chart the tactical and strategic vision around the technology for the GoGrid cloud computing platform
• In Go with the Reflow, Google’s Lindsey Simon will present some findings from testing reflow times in a variety of browsers under different conditions

For another peek into what’s in store at Velocity, be sure to read James Turner’s interview with Microsoft’s Eric Schurman, The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number.

Emerging Technology Adopted as Tool for Success

Sebastopol, CA, March 23, 2009 - ETech 2009, O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference held March 9-12 in San Jose, urged web technologists and visionaries to grasp the opportunities in today’s financial and political turmoil by focusing on work they care deeply about. Through four jam-packed days, conference-goers immersed themselves in revolutionary ideas and emergent technologies they can exploit to succeed.

The conference has been O’Reilly Media’s flagship event since its inception in 2002, fulfilling the company’s mission of “spreading the knowledge of innovators.” More than 130 speakers explored the far edges of web innovation, robotics, data applications, urban planning, and more.

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