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- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 25, 1998
- CONTACT: Sara Winge, 707/829-0515 x285, sara@oreilly.com
- More information at http://opensource.oreilly.com
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- OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPER DAY PROVIDES NUTS AND BOLTS OF
- FREELY-DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE
- Essential Development Concepts, Successful Business Models Highlighted
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- Sebastopol, CA--The momentum of open source software has been building
- since March, when Netscape announced its freely-available Communicator
- source code; April, when O'Reilly & Associates sponsored the
- widely-reported Open Source Summit; and this week, with IBM's
- announcement that it is adopting Apache's free server for its
- e-commerce Web server. Continuing that momentum, O'Reilly is sponsoring
- the first Open Source Developer Day on August 21 at the Fairmont Hotel
- in San Jose, California, immediately following O'Reilly's Perl
- Conference 2.0. Complete information and online registration is at
- http://opensource.oreilly.com. Admission to Open Source Developer Day
- is $195 through July 15, and for attendees of Perl Conference 2.0;
- after July 15, general admission is $295.
-
- Open Source Developer Day is designed to provide practical information
- about how open source software works in the real world. The event
- focuses on how successful open source software communities have
- developed, and the business models and licenses which people have
- created to support them.
-
- Topics to be discussed include:
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- * Open Source: Essential Concepts and Models: an explanation of the
- theory and practice of creating successful open source software;
- * Open Source Project Management and Logistics: how to get a large,
- disparate group of volunteer developers to work in tandem, coordinating
- version control, security and bug fixes;
- * Open Source Business Models: presenters will discuss ways they've
- found to create profitable businesses while still supporting open
- source communities, including selling enhanced software, services, and
- books;
- * Licensing and Legal Issues: discussion of the thorny questions and
- creative solutions critical to the further development of open source
- software.
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- Key members of such open source communities as Apache, Linux, Perl and
- mozilla.org will be participants on panels, including:
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- *Tim O'Reilly, President/CEO, O'Reilly & Associates, publisher of books
- on open source software, Unix, the Internet;
- *Larry Wall, creator of Perl, widely used by system administrators and
- on nearly all active Web sites; Senior Developer, O'Reilly &
- Associates;
- *Jim Hamerley, Vice President, Client Products Division, Netscape
- Communications Corp., whose mozilla.org freely distributes source code
- for Netscape Communicator;
- * Bob Young, President, Red Hat Software, a software development
- company that sells products and provides services related to Linux, a
- freely available Unix-like operating system;
- * Brian Behlendorf, a founder of the Apache group, which created and
- maintains the world's most popular Web server;
- * John Ousterhout, CEO, Scriptics Corp. and creator of the popular Tcl
- scripting language;
- * Pamela Samuelson, Professor at the University of California at
- Berkeley with a joint appointment in the School of Information
- Management and Systems and the School of Law; co-director of the
- Berkeley Center for Law and Technology;
- * Eric Raymond, independent developer active in the Linux community;
- author of the influential paper, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar."
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