Deadline: Feb 1, 2010 OSCON, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention July 19 - 23, 2010 Oregon Convention Center Portland, OR http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zg6ii2gsi1l6cshb1806k2apmotnacpkrk77ttgg Faster, Freer, Smarter: Whatever your Goal, Make It Happen with Open Source More than 2,500 experts, developers, sys admins, and hackers will meet up at OSCON 2010 to explore the tools, services, and platforms that make up the vibrant open source ecosystem. Join us! The OSCON Call for Participation is now open. If you have winning techniques, favorite lifesavers, war stories, productivity tips, or other ideas to share, we want to hear from you. We're especially on the look-out for ways to do more with less, design and usability best practices, mobile device innovations, cloud computing, parallelization, open standards and data, open source in government, business models, and beyond. Speak up about the freedom--and opportunity--of open source at OSCON 2010. Submit your proposal by February 1, 2010 at: http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2010/public/cfp/92 -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." --Red Adair