# OSCON 2007 - Call for Proposals

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/oscon-2007-call-for-proposals/83420>\
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**Created:** [January 25, 2007, 9:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/oscon-2007-call-for-proposals/83420 "2007-01-25T21:47:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chad\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Chad\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chad_F)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 9:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/oscon-2007-call-for-proposals/83420/1 "2007-01-25T21:47:09Z")

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Hello Rubyists!

The CFP for OSCON 2007 closes Feb. 5. For the past 3 years, we’ve had  
a really nice Ruby track, and we’re soliciting proposals to do so once  
again. Here’s the full CFP announcement for the conference. Hope to  
see some of you there!

Be Heard at OSCON 2007 – Submit Your Proposal to Lead Sessions and  
Tutorials by February 5!

The O’Reilly Open Source Convention  
July 23-27, 2007  
Portland, Oregon

> **[Conferences - O'Reilly Media](https://www.oreilly.com/conferences/)**
>
> Transforming our in-person events to online

More than 2500 open source developers, gurus, experts and users will  
gather, eager to network, learn, and share the latest knowledge on open  
source software. We think of this group as “the best of the best,” and  
we  
invite you to contribute to the more than 400 sessions and 40 tutorials  
designed to build inspiration and know-how. Submit your proposals at:

> **[Conferences - O'Reilly Media](https://www.oreilly.com/conferences/)**
>
> Transforming our in-person events to online

Share your favorite techniques, your proven successes, and newly  
developed  
technology in tracks for Linux, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Java,  
Databases,  
Desktop Applications, Web Applications (client-side and server-side),  
Windows, Administration, Security, and Emerging Topics.

No topic (other than closed source software) is off-limits, so send us  
your best ideas. Among the hot topics we want to hear about are:

- Tools for the administration and deployment of large server farms
- Parallelization, grid, and multicore technologies
- Virtualization
- Ajax, Javascript, standards-based design, and other client-side web  
issues
- Seaside, Rails, Django, and other interesting server-side technology
- Ubuntu as an emergent usable Linux distro and contender for Red Hat  
and  
Sun’s client and server markets
- Java as open source
- AI, machine learning, and other ways of making software smarter than  
the  
people using it
- User experience and usability engineering lessons for web and desktop  
software
- The spread of open source into law, culture, data, and services, and  
the  
accompanying issues and lessons

For full details and guidelines on submitting your proposal, go to  
[Conferences - O'Reilly Media](http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2007/). If you know someone who would  
be a good speaker, please pass this email on.

Whether as a speaker or as an attendee, you’ll want to participate in  
this  
meeting of the best minds in the business, which will also include the  
O’Reilly Radar Executive Briefing. Be sure to save the dates – July  
23-27. Registration will open in early April.

We hope to see you in Portland in July!

The OSCON Team

P.S. Remember, proposals for sessions and tutorials must be submitted to

> **[Conferences - O'Reilly Media](https://www.oreilly.com/conferences/)**
>
> Transforming our in-person events to online

by (11:59PM Pacific Standard Time) Monday, February 5.

Chad (for the OSCON program committee)

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**Author:** ![Chad\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Chad\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chad_F)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 1:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/oscon-2007-call-for-proposals/83420/2 "2007-01-29T01:11:25Z")

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I’m going to submit something, I did a ten-minute screencast on the  
basic idea today:

[http://www.gilesbowkett.com/screencasts/seaside\_rails.mov](http://www.gilesbowkett.com/screencasts/seaside_rails.mov)

Very interested in feedback, if anyone wants to check it out.
