OSCON 2009 will be held this July 20-24 in San Jose, California at the McEnery Convention Center. It seems that they’re expecting 3,000+ people at the event from different backgrounds who share the same interest: Open Source Software. Hopefully this will be a good time to meet the software developers our favorite open source applications and learn from them.
A sample of topics:

Perl 6: Why? What? How?, Damian Conway, Thoughtstream
Introduction to Google App Engine, Joe Gregorio Google
How to Write Your Own Eclipse Plug-ins, Beth Tibbitts, IBM
Django in the Real World, Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Django
What You Need to Know About Rails3, Yehuda Katz, Engine Yard
Linux Filesystem Performance for Databases, Selena Deckelmann, PostgreSQL Project
Cloud Computing - Why IT Matters, Simon Wardley, Canonical Ltd
Building a Business on the Cheap, Chris Wanstrath, GitHub
The HTML 5 Experiments, Bruce Lawson, Opera Software ASA
High Performance APC, Brian [...]

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