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 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/
- http://vancouver.php.net/
- http://www.cakephp.org/
- http://www.djangoproject.com/
- http://developer.mozi...rg/en/docs/JavaScript
- http://php.net
- http://merbivore.com/
- http://www.python.org/
- http://www.rubyonrails.org/
- http://creativecommons.org
- http://code.google.com/apis/gears/
- http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/
- http://en.wikipedia.o..._Internet_application
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX
- http://drupal.org/
- 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!