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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.

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.

David Recordon, the open platforms tech lead for blogging company Six Apart, was on hand at OSCON this morning to deliver a keynote about ways to support the Open Web, a term that denotes a group of Web specifications developed within the open source community. Since many projects need help understanding the legalities behind adopting these specifications,ﾠ Recordon took the opportunity to announce the newly formed Open Web Foundation (OWF), an independent non-profit dedicated to the development and protection of open, non-proprietary specifications for web technologies.

The Ubuntu community hit the ground running at OSCON this week. Scarcely a couple of days into the event, there's already a new version of the distro to peruse and updates to the code hosting platform Launchpad to talk about. In the meantime, the project's founder, Mark Shuttleworth, still found time to deliver a presentation at the event and meet with a local tech group to talk about his vision for the future of Linux.