OMX, the first-ever O’Reilly Open Mobile Exchange, is for everyone involved in building out the open source mobile space, including platforms, standards, applications, hardware, integration, browsers, location, and services. This full day of insightful conversations, demos, technical presentations, and panel discussions brings together innovators from a broad swath of perspectives and backgrounds to share ideas and foster new thinking across technologies. Mobile guru Jeff Waugh is the OMX program chair–he’s putting together an agenda that will thoroughly explore the nexus of mobile and open source.

OSCON program co-chair Allison Randal has put out the call for nominations for the Open Source Awards, presented by O’Reilly and Google at OSCON.

The awards recognize individual contributors who have demonstrated exceptional leadership, creativity, and collaboration in the development of Open Source Software. Past recipients for 2005-2007 include Doc Searls, Jeff Waugh, Gerv Markham, Julian Seward, David Heinemeier Hansson, Karl Fogel, David Recordon, and Paul Vixie.

Deadline is May 15. Send your nominations to osawards AT oreilly DOT com.

Another deadline to keep in mind is the early registration discount–you’ll save up to $250 if you register by June 2.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Jay Lymon covers OSCON:

This year’s O’Reilly OSCON event in Portland, Oregon had the usual open source conference hallmarks - long, gray Unix beards, Linux-based long hairs, packs of PHP, Perl, Ruby and other programmers, laid-back geek attire consisting of shorts and sandles, open source executives in jackets (ties are not welcome), and free as in ‘free beer’ beer on the exhibit floor.

More OSCON coverage:

OSCON 2007 was a huge success for the PostgreSQL community.

Interesting article from Switzerland:

Two important facts, relayed in today’s press, show the increasing importance of the Open Source Community on the Internet.

Another article from reporter Elise Ackerman from OSCON:

Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, the world’s biggest community-written online encyclopedia, announced Friday that he had taken a small step toward his next big goal: a community-programmed search engine that competes with Google.

Got to love this headline:

Symas Corporation proclaims O’Reilly’s OSCon 2007 A Success!

Great “slice of life” take on OSCON:

OSCON is my favorite conference these days. I love it because it brings so many diverse people under a single umbrella for a week.

This is a fun take on the hectic schedule of life at a conference:

I’m back from OSCON, but still feeling the impact of what was another great event. It’s not just the great parties that leave you drained, it’s also the massive amount of learning, discussion and information.

This is a good article on happenings at OSCON:

The echoes from the last OSCON parties haven’t even stopped reverberating though the halls as the next convention moves in.

More award coverage from OSCON:

SourceForge, Inc. the leader in community-driven media and e-commerce, announced the winners of its second annual SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards in Portland, OR, at an evening celebration held during the OSCON conference.

Here is one of the exhibitor’s take on OSCON:

Just finished up my 2007 ‘OSCON Experience’ I attended the conference on Tuesday and Wednesday and we had our PDXPHP both in the exhibit hall as last year, but in addition I helped to organize the OSCamp room.

My last session of OSCON yesterday was Danese Cooper’s “The Art of Community” panel talk with Karl Fogel, Jimmy Wales, Dawn Foster, Sulamita Garcia, Whurley, and Brian Behlendorf. This year Danese asked community oriented questions and let the various panel members jump in to answer the questions. Blogging panel presentations can be tricky since the exchanges between the panel members and even the audience fly back and for quite fast. I tried to capture the best questions and the best responses, but I’m not even going to claim that my coverage is anywhere near complete.

It’s always nice to have the local media attend one of our conferences, here’s an article that resulted
from Mike Rogoway’s visit to OSCON:

With Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales in Portland to speak at OSCON on Friday

This is a really nice article from Michael Calore on Linux in schools:

It’s common knowledge that getting kids excited about computers and technology is the best way to get them excited about learning.

More coverage for Microsoft’s news:

In Bill Hilf’s keynote at Oscon today, he announced that Microsoft will submit it’s shared source licenses to the OSI for approval.

Always happy to Darryl Taft at an O’Reilly conference, here’s what he had to say about Microsft at OSCON:

Microsoft has recommitted to working with the open-source community, even submitting its Shared Source License to the Open Source Initiative for approval as an approved license for sharing code.

Another fine article on OSCON news from Matt Asay:

Tim notes that Microsoft will be submitting its shared-source licenses to the OSI for approval. He calls this “huge, long-awaited,…and earthshaking.” It’s actually none of the above, but it is welcome.