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Community Conferences Win Hands Down

In a year that's been pretty rough on commercial conferences, community run events like FOSDEM, SCALE, SouthEast LinuxFest, LinuxFest Northwest and this past weekend's Ontario GNU Linux Fest are thriving. Why is that? Community conferences win out for a number of reasons.

Attending conferences is a big part of my job, and over the years I've started to take note of what events are worth attending and which events aren't. By and large, it's the smaller community events that are worth your time and money.



OSCON 2010 Returning to Portland After Brief Jaunt to San Jose

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Silicon Florist blogger Rick Turoczy is reporting that the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) 2010 is returning to Portland, OR next year. Organizers moved this year's event to San Jose to San Jose, CA and by the time the conference was over, they were already telling attendees OSCON 2010 would most likely be held once again in Portland.

Organizers claimed the move to San Jose was prompted by the high cost of travel to Portland and its cramped convention facilities. The reasons for moving back to Portland for OSCON 2010 are much more elusive, but Portland's mayor confirmed it has signed a contract to play host next year.



A Field Report from OSCON

As you?re probably well aware, OSCON is one of the must-attend open source conferences held each year, and last week, the 11th annual OSCON was held in San Jose, California. Although some felt that OSCON didn?t quite make the splash in its new San Jose home that was expected, the decidedly geeky conference put on by tech publisher O?Reilly Media included many sessions and exhibitors of interest. Here are a few notable examples, in a guest column from SourceForge advisory board member Mark R. Hinkle.


Community Leadership Summit: Days Away in San Jose

As Kristin covered in April, the upcoming OSCON conference will be immediately preceded by an unconference called the Community Leadership Summit, to take place July 18th and 19th in San Jose, California. The event is free for anyone to attend, although if you're planning to attend you should pre-register. There are some scheduled presentations, panel discussions, and social gatherings planned, but much of the event will consist of free-form discussion on what it takes to build a thriving, productive community around an open source project. More details are emerging on the participants, and it looks like a solid event.


OSCON Conference Coming Up, Speakers Scheduled

The OSCON (Open Source Convention) conference is quickly approaching, to be held July 20th through 24th in San Jose, California. The schedule and roster of speakers is becoming finalized, and looks to be very interesting this year. Keynote speakers include Google Open Source Program Manager Chris DiBona, and Intel's Imad Sousou. In addition to the sructured, scheduled events at this year's OSCON, there will be an unstructured Unconference. This is an on-the-fly program created by OSCON participants. Here are more details.


SourceForge Opens Nominations for Community Choice Awards

For four years now, it's been one of the harbingers of OSCON -- the opening of nominations for the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards. Open source fans are welcome to nominate their favorite projects from now until May 29th. In late June, finalists will be announced and voting begins. The winners will be announced at OSCON on July 23rd.

Five new categories have been added to the competition, including what's affectionately referred to as the Swimsuit Competition (Best Visual Design/UI) and the broadly defined (and slightly anxiety-inducing) Most Likely to Change the Way You Do Everything.



Nominations Open For OSCON's Open Source Awards

OSCON 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, July 20 - 24, 2009, San Jose, CA

What do Pamela Jones, Chris Messina, Doc Searls, and Angela Byron all have in common? Aside from being very cool people, they?re also all past winners of a Google-O?Reilly Open Source Award.

The honor is bestowed on people in the FOSS community? who have ?demonstrated exceptional leadership, creativity, and collaboration in the development of open source software. The 2009 award winner will be announced at this? year?s O?Reilly Open Source Convention 2009 (OSCON) later this summer so if you know someone who you?d like to see win, there are still a few weeks left to nominate your favorite geek.

 



Community Leadership Summit, Kick Off OSCON at an "Unconference"

How do you manage, grow, and foster active involvement in a community? One way might incorporate planning several events at approximately the same time and venue. This is why you can rest assured that the organizers behind the Community Leadership Summit can help you learn to manage your project's community in the most effective way possible.

Jono Bacon, Ubuntu's community manager, officially announced the unconference (an event so focused on discussion that an open, organic schedule is required) on Sunday. The event itself takes place the 18th and 19th of July in San Jose, California. The summit is mere hours before OSCON 2009 kicks off -- in the very same convention center.



Will Open Source Conferences Go the Way of BrainShare?

GigaOm did an interesting piece on Wednesday called The End of MacWorld, addressing the fact that Apple is pulling out of the Macworld trade show after January, and Steve Jobs won't do a keynote address there. The piece includes some good analysis of how rapidly technology is undermining the status quo at trade shows and conferences. Then, just yesterday, Novell announced that it is cancelling BrainShare after 20 years. Will this erosion of high-profile gatherings extend to the major open source conferences?


OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

Precipitate merges Mac OS, Google Cloud.....

With Android it's the software stupid.....

Open source software in U.K. schools gets the green light.....

Open source founders doubling up on startups.....

OSCON leaves Oregon, will be held in San Jose.....



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