Open Source Days declares the bazaar OPEN
Its time to get up from that comfy chair, detach the terminal, shut down the debugger, spreadsheet, or favorite editor and dust of the social skills and attend this years best Open Source conference - Open Source Days 2008
On Friday October 3rd and Saturday October 4th its time to meet, share, experience and learn.
The conference is held at the Copenhagen IT-University at Rued Langgaardsvej 7, 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark
If you haven't bought a ticket yet, you can do so by pointing your favorite browser to: http://www.opensourcedays.org/2008/registration
There are two different types of tickets:
- A combined Friday and Saturday ticket 1095 DKK (lunch Friday included)
- A Saturday only ticket 250 DKK
The agenda
The program for the conference is available at: http://www.opensourcedays.org/2008/agenda.
This year we have extended the program a lot - especially by adding
short "lightning talks" in the Saturday program, which means we are up
to 5 tracks and more than 60+ sessions spread across the two days.
Friday October 3rd you have the opportunity to meet (among many):
- Robin Rowe and Gabrielle Pantera - a keynote on Linux in Hollywood
- Nigel Kersten, Google - on Using Puppet to Manage Linux and Mac platforms in an enterprise environment
- Robert Douglass, Drupal - on The Alexandria Project: Accelerating the ease of learning and the adoption of open source
- Kris Buytaert - on Open Source Virtualization, an Overview
- Martin Strandbygard - on OpenID and User Centric Identity
- Poul-Henning Kamp - on Best Practices
Saturday October 4th you have the opportunity to meet (among many):
- Louis Suarez-Potts, Sun - keynote on Why Formats Matter
- Jordan K. Hubbard, Apple - keynote on MacOSX - 8 years of Innovation and open source
- Stephen Hemminger, Vyatta - on An attempt at herding cats, or making Linux routing accessible
- Tommy Dejbjerg Pedersen - on Google Android - what is it?
- Magnus Hagander - on Hidden gems of PostgreSQL
- Jan Wieck, core developer for PostgreSQL and prime contributor for Slony along with Christopher Browne, also part of the PostgreSQL development team
- Daniel V. Klein - keynote on Security As if Your Life Depended on it (because it might!)
Exhibitors and sponsors
On the ground floor you will find our exhibition area with more than 25+ exhibitors large and small - including:
- Armada Hosting
- IBM
- Fab:IT
- GratisDNS
- HP
- Op5
- Open Source Leverandør foreningen
- Prosa
- Redpill / Linpro
- Sun Microsystems
- cap:mon
- Tietoenator
- PKF
- Casalogic
- IT & Telestyrelsen
- DKUUG
- Linux Shop
- SuperUsers
- Tang
- Polyteknisk Bookstore
Come and check out the newest trends - meet your future employeer or fill up the order book.
We would like to encourage your company to sponsor Open Source Days. We can use small as well as large sponsorships, so we can offer even more content at the conference. Contact to hear more.
The hallway track
In the hallway you will find Polyteknisk book store, KD85.com and LinuxPusher. You'll also have the opportunity to meet and talk to several user groups and open source projects including:
- Amarok
- BSD-DK
- Copenhagen Perl Mongers
- Danish Open Solaris user group
- dk.OpenOffice.org
- Exherbo
- IT-Politisk Forening
- Joomla
- NJLUG
- OpenID
- QuizComposer
- SSLUG
- Ubuntu-dk
- The Camp
You can read more about them on http://opensourcedays.org/2008/community/
See you at Open Source Days
Don't forget to buy your ticket today at http://opensourcedays.org/2008/registration/