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November 04, 2005 | Comments: (0)

Open source events not to be missed in 2006

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Conference season is pretty much done for 2005, but here are the few shows you should definitely plan to attend in 2006. Why attend conferences? I find they're the best places to meet up with the relevant people in one's industry, and to get a sense for where an industry is going. I wouldn't miss these mentioned below.

• Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) San Francisco. February 14-15, 2006. San Francisco, CA. The place to discover emerging open source companies and business strategies (Vendor, IT, legal, venture capital). The theme? "The Rise of the Enterprise Communal Application." OSBC San Francisco 2006 will focus heavily on the rise of enterprise open source applications and how to build communities to drive them (and open source projects generally).

• O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference (eTech). March 6-9, 2006. San Diego, CA. Not really an open source event, but a great place to see what's coming next. Sometimes a bit too far out there for me (non-hacker), but perfect for the hacker/VC/etc. who wants to see what's coming down the pike.

• Novell's BrainShare Salt Lake City. March 19-24, 2006. Salt Lake City, UT. The source for all things Novell.

• LinuxWorld Boston. April 3-6, 2006. Boston, MA. Great place to browse the growing world of Linux (and an increasing array of open source software).

• MySQL Users Conference 2006. April 24-27, 2006. Santa Clara, CA. The source for all things MySQL.

• Red Hat Summit. May 30 - June 2, 2006. Nashville, TN. The source for all things Red Hat.

• OSCON (O'Reilly Open Source Convention). July 24-28, 2006. Portland, OR. An amazing geek-a-thon (though Gina has added a growing Open Source Business Review for IT executives). No better place on this earth to find out how to use all the cool new open source projects, and to see what's coming next.

• LinuxWorld San Francisco. August 14-17, 2006. San Francisco, CA. Great place to browse the growing world of Linux (and an increasing array of open source software).

• OSBC Boston 2006. October 17-18, 2006. Boston, MA. Much like its West Coast event, OSBC Boston provides access to the leading open source businesses and the people driving them.

• JBoss World. Dates TBA. Probably something in the spring (Atlanta, GA) and in the fall (Europe), if JBoss keeps to what it did in 2005.

• EuroOSCON. Not sure if they're doing it again, but O'Reilly should. I wasn't able to attend, but heard great things about it.

• OSBC Europe. Still under development....

Not yet an "Alfresco World" you can attend. But give us time. :-)

Posted by Matt Asay on November 4, 2005 09:31 AM

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