Get the latest on Open Source business and hear from Joy and
Kawasaki at O’Reilly’s Open Source Software Convention, August
21-24, 1999.
The Open Source Business Track, keynotes by Bill Joy and Guy
Kawasaki, special presentations by Eric Raymond and Larry
Wall–you’ll find all that and more at O’Reilly’s Open Source
Convention, August 21-24 at the Monterey Conference Center. Press
registration is at http://www.infolab.com/oreilly/press.html.
For more information, see http://conferences.oreilly.com.
Is Open Source really a viable business strategy? Hear from
those in the thick of it in the Open Source Business Track. It
starts on Sunday, 8/22, from 2:30-5:00pm with an in-depth tutorial,
“A Primer on Open Source and Community Licenses.” Sessions on
Monday and Tuesday include:
- How to Finance an Open-Source Company
- Open Source in Business: A Status Report
- How to Launch an Open-Source Project
- How to Manage the Group Dynamics of an Open-Source Project
- How to Build a Scalable Platform for an Open-Source
Project - Early Lessons from Mozilla
The Convention keynotes look at the heritage and future of Open
Source:
Guy Kawasaki, CEO and Chairman of garage.com, offers “Rules for
Revolutionaries-Some Practical Advice for the Open-Source Movement”
in his keynote on Monday, 8/23, at 9:00 a.m.
In “From BSD to Jini: Adventures in Technology, Openness, and
Community,” Bill Joy, co-founder and Chief Scientist of Sun
Microsystems, Inc., will look at how and why TCP/IP and Berkeley
UNIX succeeded, and draw lessons for Sun’s Jini and other Open
Source/open systems initiatives on Tuesday, 8/24, 9:00 a.m.
Special presentations by Open Source leading lights include:
The inimitable Larry Wall, creator of Perl, rn, and patch,
presents his third “State of the Onion” speech to the Perl
Conference at 9:45 a.m. on Monday, 8/23.
Open Source evangelist Eric Raymond presents “The Magic
Cauldron,” his newest musings on the philosophy and practical
reality of Open Source, on Tuesday, 8/24 at 4:00 p.m.