For Geeks, by Geeks: The Open Web Conference
In a binary view of the world, there are two types of of technology conferences: those run with a profit motive and those run for by technologists for technologists.
The Open Web Conference falls into the latter category. It is an event organized by the PHP Users Association »">Vancouver PHP Users Association (who are a bunch of web developers, hackers and technologists) for other web developers, hackers and technologists.
The event features sessions on a broad range of topics, including:
- web-centric programming languages and frameworks. During the event we have presentations covering CakePHP, Django, JavaScript, PHP, Merb, Python and Ruby on Rails.
- business and social phenomenon on the Net including social networking, mesh networks and online advocacy.
- open content and open knowledge, including a presentation by the CTO of the Creative Commons
- emerging Web technology such as Google Gears, Microformats, OpenSocial and Rich Internet Applications
- established web technologies such as AJAX, the Drupal CMS, HTML, MySQL, XML, etc.
- career-critical topics such as test-driven development, scaling, security, design patterns, navigating unfamiliar codebases and coding best practices
Speakers include core developers from open source projects, local Vancouver innovators and globally-recognized industry leaders. Organizers and confirmed participants include the core of the Vancouver open technology scene.
For $150, it is one of the highest value technology conferences this year. In two days, you can keep up-to-date on the leading edge of Web technologies while having fun, building your career and expanding your business network. All of the sessions are hand-picked by geeks, for geeks: there are no content-free vendor keynotes or sales pitch presentations — just good clean geeky fun.
Additionally, we have a keynote by Tim Bray on the future of the Web. Tim is one of the early innovators on the Web: helping to develop one of the first Internet search engines, co-inventing XML and helping to develop and steer the foundational technology for the Semantic Web.
I am very pleased to open the conference with my Age of Literate Machines keynote. I just hope that speaking before Tim doesn't give me to many butterflies.
To register, visit https://events.coverallcrew.com/openweb (yes, we had to use a third-party for conference registration — volunteers can't do everything :-)
Disclosure: I am a board member of the Vancouver PHP Users Association. However, I have no financial incentive for the conference other than keeping the Association out of the red. That means encouraging people to sign up for the conference. :-)
Link Summary
- http://www.openwebvancouver.ca/
- More about PHP »
- More about CakePHP »
- http://www.djangoproject.com/
- http://developer.mozi...rg/en/docs/JavaScript
- http://php.net
- http://merbivore.com/
- More about Python »
- More about Ruby on Rails »
- More about Creative Commons »
- More about Google Gears »
- http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/
- http://en.wikipedia.o..._Internet_application
- More about AJAX »
- More about Drupal »
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Bray
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
- https://events.coverallcrew.com/openweb
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March 26th, 2008 at 1:33
I had hoped to go to this as a Mozilla person but I got politely informed that since it fell in the middle of our Firefox 3 work for shipping that I shouldn't go… I hope you have a good time!
March 26th, 2008 at 1:40
Bah! Release-shmeelease! Well, I guess that the release is kind of important. ;) Good luck!