Rich Buggy

It’s that time of year again. Tickets are available now http://www.webblast.com.au/

While chatting with Nick Hodge about tomorrows panel session at Remix09 he mentioned that he was hosting a series of open source information evenings with Jorke Odolphi later this month. I’m sure many in the open source community are skeptical about any Microsoft involvement in open source but they do seem to be making an effort to get along and even help those who want to bring open source to Windows. Importantly the evening is about two way communication and not just a crafted message. If you’re interested in attending you can register at https://www.microsoft.com.au/events/register/home.aspx?levent=750528&linvitation

I received this yesterday from Rob at Yahoo!7.

For the second of our Yahoo!7 Open Sessions we have Philip Tellis, Sunnyvale  based Yahoo! geek coming to chat about performance.  Philip will explain why performance is everything and give you some hints and tips on how to create “websites on speed”.

Philip has spoken on various topics at several international conferences including Linux Bangalore, FOSS.IN, Freed.in, Ottawa Linux Symposium, Ubuntulive and Yahoo!’s Front end engineering conferences. He has covered topics ranging from opensource applications, education and new technological ideas, to project management and new web development technologies.

Philip is in Sydney for the webdu event http://www.webdu.com.au/ so we’re pleased he can also drop by the Sydney Yahoo!7 office for the Open Session.

The stuff you need to know:
*       Philip Tellis, Performance guru and Yahoo! Geek
*       6pm, Monday 25th May
*       Yahoo!7 offices, Level 2, Pier 8&9, 23 Hickson Road, Millers Point
*       Numbers are limited so registration is a must.

To register go to: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2570945/

For more information about the Yahoo Developer Network: http://developer.yahoo.com/

I’ve been invited to be on a panel session at Remix09. Thanks for thinking of me Nick.

For the last year I’ve been involved in organising this years Open Source Developers Conference with a really great bunch of people. This years conference is almost here leaving me both excited and glad that we’ve made it. On Tuesday we’re hosting the Google Hackfest Day (free to OSDC attendees who registered for the hackfest too) with the conference itself running from Wednesday to Friday. If you’re in Sydney and into Open Source then you should really consider attending.

This year our keynote speakers (sorted by last name) are:

• Anthony Baxter (Python release manager)
• Chris DiBona (Google Open Source Manager)
• Andrew Tridgell (rsync, Samba)
• Larry Wall (Creator of Perl, patch and rn)
• Pia Waugh (Waugh Partners & OLPC Australia)

The full program is also available online if you still need a reason to attend.