I vote for Marcos to speak at OSCON! 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 http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2007/ 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: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2007/create/e_sess 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 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 http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2007/ by (11:59PM Pacific Standard Time) Monday, February 5. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com