Conference Mashup
At OSCON this year we decided to shake things up a bit. In addition to the usual sessions and events, we've also added OSCamp. It's a bit like a conference within a conference, running all week long right there in the convention center. It's completely free for anyone to attend and completely open for anyone to speak. The schedule isn't planned in advance and anyone can walk in, write their name on the board, and hold a talk or group discussion, whether they're attending the conference, live in the area, or just travelled in to enjoy the "hallway track" and brush shoulders with the Open Source rock stars.
I've wanted to do something like OSCamp at OSCON for years now, so I'm excited to see it come together.
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Cool idea - I hope you do this for Where 2.0 next time. There are now so many conferences it's prohibitive in money and time to go to all the ones you'd like to attend.
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Reuven Cohen, CTO, Enomaly Inc [07.20.06 10:07 AM]
One of best conference idea's I've seen in a while. As a self funded open source entrepreneur, I am constantly trying to get speaking engagements. It's quite difficult to get speaking opportunities in an arena dominated by VC backed OS startups. This is a great idea, allowing equal access for the rest of us. Too bad this wasn't announced earlier, i would have attended.