Girls In Tech

Register now for OSCON 2011, happening July 25-29, 2011, at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. For 13 years, OSCON, the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, has put open source to work building the future. OSCON’s program encompasses 20 tracks to explore all things open source. New tracks have been added to OSCON this year, including Citizen Science, Geek Lifestyle, Open Data, Programming, and Emerging Languages, while Healthcare returns for its second year.

OSCON Java and OSCON Data – two new distinct events co-located with OSCON, debuting on July 25-27. OSCON Java combines Java and open source to take on the tech world’s juiciest challenges—in cloud computing, big data, mobile, and more. OSCON Java tracks include Client, Cloud, Craftsmanship, JVM, and Trends. At OSCON Data, learn about the open source technologies for gathering, storing, and analyzing data that make it possible to use new data sources and do new things with existing data. OSCON Data tracks include Analytics and Visualization, Hadoop, NoSQL Databases, Real-Time and Streaming, Relational, and Roulette. Don’t miss all the valuable tutorials, keynotes, hundreds of sessions and events. Girls in Tech readers can use discount code os11git to save 15% on your registration.

Girls in Tech will be at OSCON 2011 as they kick off the inaugural GIT Mentorship Pilot Programs globally (everyone is welcome). Learn more about the mentorship programs(for k-12, colleges/universities, working professionals), get involved and participate,  and how you could help spread the word. If you are attending Oscon 2011, don’t forget to join us on Thursday on July 28th 1-2pm in room #D134.  http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011/public/schedule/detail/21239

For more info contact: ivo@girlsintech.net     |    Follow me @MsSonicFlare

Need a press pass to cover GIT mentorship session? contact : ivo@24notion.tv

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O’Reilly Where 2.0

March 30-April, 1, 2010

San Jose, CA

http://en.oreilly.com/where2010

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Now in its sixth year, Where 2.0 is one of the world’s foremost events dedicated to exploring the emerging technologies in the geospatial industry. At Where 2.0, we expose the tools pushing the boundaries of the location frontier, track the emergence of new business models and services, and examine new sources of data and the platforms for collecting them.

Happening March 30-April 1, 2010 at the San Jose Marriott in San Jose, California, Where 2.0 brings together the people, projects, and issues building the new technological foundations and creating value in the location industry. Join with other developers, technologists, CTOs, researchers, geographers, academics, business developers, and entrepreneurs to debate and discuss what’s viable now, and what’s lurking just below the radar and how to gain a competitive edge.

At Where 2.0, you’ll find source mapping tools, reality mining, open standards for data and location web services, and sensors for obtaining location data. We’ll learn how the established geo industry is reacting to the first businesses making money from their grassroots geospatial projects. There’s no better place to meet the people behind the mashups, the people behind the platforms, and the people looking ahead to the future of geospatial.

Where 2.0 2010 encompasses a full day of workshops followed by two days of sessions featuring a unique combination of high profile keynotes with big players, lightning talks, panel discussions, demos, product launches, Q&A time, and much more. The most innovative and interesting people in this space are featured on stage, and they stay around to debate and discuss with other conference-goers off stage.

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http://en.oreilly.com/where2010

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Girls in Tech is proud to be a media sponsor for O’Reilly OSCON 2009, taking place in San Jose, CA from July 20-24.  Thanks to O’Reilly’s generous donation, we will be giving away a free ticket to the Girls in Tech member with the best answer to the question ”Why do you want to attend OSCON?”.  There are two tickets up for grabs so you have two chances to win a FREE OSCON conference ticket valued at $1500!  You can enter the contest one of two ways:

1. Leave your answer as a comment on Twitter making sure to include “@GITweet” and “#oscon” in your tweet

2. Post a comment on our Facebook Girls in Tech San Francisco group page here.

There will be one winner for each entry type.  Entries are due by 8pm PST Wednesday, July 15, 2009.  We will notify the winners on July 16.  You don’t have to be a Girls in Tech member, but you should be!  You can register for GIT membership by clicking here.

About O’Reilly OSCON
Now more than ever, open source technology is the smart choice for navigating uncertain economic waters. In a competitive business environment, open source gives you the means to drive down costs while increasing system and staff efficiencies. OSCON 2009 is where you’ll find the latest information and new ways to connect with the growing community that is open source.  To find out if you should be attending OSCON, click here.  The detailed program can be accessed here.

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O’Reilly Open Source Convention - OSCON
July 20-24, 2009
San Jose McEnery Convention Center
San Jose, CA
http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon

What Does Open Source Mean for You and Your Business? Find Out at OSCON 2009, July 20-24 in San Jose, CA.

Registration for the 11th annual O’Reilly Open Source Convention is open, and registrants are responding quickly, eager to meet the challenges and opportunities of current economic conditions, which invite the open source community to sustain, apply, and expand open source to change the world. At the core of so many emerging technologies, open source is driving the innovation engine, offering ways to save technology costs in your organization and to keep your business moving forward in tough times. Join us in San Jose, as we redefine the future of open source, including the savings and the profit it can mean for all of us. 

More than 200 sessions will focus on how open source can save money, save the day, and spread the word. Seventeen tracks include: Administration, Business, Databases, Desktop Applications, Design & Usability, Emerging Topics, Java, Linux, Mobile, People, Perl, PHP, Programming, Python, Ruby, Security, and Web Applications. More than enough to satisfy the 3,000 or so conference participants, many looking for new opportunities to regroup, retrain, and rebuild.

Some 3,000 developers and programmers, designers, sys admins, hackers and geeks, enterprise developers and managers, IT managers and CxOs, entrepreneurs, activists, trainers and educators will gather to confront the realities of open source in today’s environment–how to stay competitive, how to open up new avenues for open source, and how to find better ways to use open source in every aspect of business and life. Open source continues to thrive and grow because better ways to increase ease of use and lower the cost of deployment continue to be found. 

Save an additional 20% using discount code: 0s09git at: https://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009/public/register

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O’Reilly Found
June 9-11, 2009
San Francisco Airport Marriott
Burlingame, CA

Register now to save $100 plus an additional 20% with a special Girls in Tech discount code fo09git when you signup.

Found, the new Search Acquisition and Architecture Conference from O’Reilly, June 9-11 2009, in Burlingame, CA, will explore building search engine optimization best practices into the development process, so search engines drive more qualified customers to your website. Developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and more will learn how website architecture can impact SEO, and hear the experiences of industry experts from companies like the New York Times, MRM World Wide, Microsoft and Google. This 3 day conference is the authoritative place for making content on the Web findable and gain a thorough understanding of why search-friendly architecture is absolutely mission-critical to businesses of all sizes.

O’Reilly Velocity
June 20 – 22, 2009
San Jose, CA

Register now to save $300 plus an additional 20% with a special Girls in Tech discount code vel09git when you signup.

Join us at Velocity 2009, the Web Operations and Performance Conference dedicated to helping people build a better Internet. Happening June 20 – 22, in San Jose, CA, Velocity is the essential conference for web developers who build Internet infrastructure, enterprise websites, or need to bootstrap a startup to scale for a global audience. Learn — straight from the experts — how to build large scale websites that were fast, scalable, efficient, and always available. Help your company to achieve more with less.

Velocity offers a full day of workshops, lead by industry experts, plus two days of in-depth sessions, offered in dedicated Web Performance and Operations Tracks and an Exhibit Hall featuring state-of-the-art technology.

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