O'Reilly is hosting the Open Source Developer Day in San Jose, CA, USA this Friday, Aug. 21, and XEmacs will have a presence there. This is your chance to hobnob with the personalities in the Free Software world, including Eric Raymond, Larry Wall, Brian Behlendorf, John Ousterhout, Richard Stallman, Michael Tiemann and many others. This conference would normally cost $295, but you can get in for FREE in exchange for volunteering to help staff the XEmacs table for part of the period from 12pm-5pm. The more people volunteer, the less work for everyone. There are currently two volunteers - myself and Ben Wing. I will be providing a computer running XEmacs. If you're interested, contact me or Ben as soon as possible. I mean, like, the next few hours. Contact information: Martin Buchholz 650-322-3649 martin(a)xemacs.org Ben Wing 415-643-4366 ben(a)xemacs.org Here are the relevant details from O'Reilly: http://opensource.oreilly.com/news/osdd_0698.html - osdd home page We need a volunteer with presentation development skills to create a sign for XEmacs at the demo. We are not allowed to hang signs off of the ceiling or the walls, and so the sign must either hang off of or be supported by the table. The remainder is ASCII extracted from the above mentioned web page. Open Source Developer Day August 21 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California Open Source Developer Day Partners Attend the Open Source Developer Day! Don't miss the Open Source Town Meeting from 5-6:30. Open source software is gaining ground! In March, Netscape announced it was making Communicator source code freely available; in April, O'Reilly hosted the Open Source Summit; and this week, IBM announced that it is adopting Apache for its e-commerce Web server. Join us in building the momentum--and learn the ropes of open source development. O'Reilly is sponsoring the first Open Source Developer Day on Friday, August 21 from 9:00am-5:00pm at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California, immediately following the Perl Conference. Open Source Developer Day is designed to give you 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. Agenda 9:00am-10:00am Keynote: Open Source Essential Concepts and Models -- Eric Raymond, author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar, independent developer and Open Source evangelist. 10:00am - 10:30am Break 10:30am - Noon Open Source Project Management & Logistics -- Open Source leaders who've created successful tools discuss how to get a large, disparate group of volunteer developers to work in tandem, coordinating version control, security, and bug fixes. PANELISTS: Larry Wall, O'Reilly & Associates and creator of Perl -- The Governing Bodies of Perl. Brian Behlendorf, C2Net Software and co-founder, Apache Group -- Apache and Collaborative Decision-Making. Jeremy Allison, SGI and co-creator of Samba -- Maintaining Quality on a Distributed Project. MODERATOR: Gina Blaber, Software Director, O'Reilly & Associates. Noon-1:30pm Lunch (on your own). 1:30pm-3:00pm Open Source Business Models -- Successful open source entrepreneurs and business leaders reveal how they've created profitable businesses while supporting open source communities -- including selling enhanced software, services, and books. PANELISTS: Bob Young, Red Hat Software -- The Free Software Distribution Model. James Barry, IBM -- Why Apache Makes Sense for IBM. John Ousterhout, Scriptics Corporation and creator of Tcl -- Free Software Needs Profit. Michael Tiemann, Cygnus Support co-founder -- Cygnus and Free Software MODERATOR: Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly & Associates. 3:00pm-3:30pm Break 3:30pm-5:00pm Licensing and Legal Issues -- Open source leaders and legal experts address thorny questions and creative approaches that support the further development of open source software. PANELISTS: Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU project -- Copyleft and the GNU Public License. Jim Hamerley, Netscape Communications Corp. -- The Mozilla Public License and the Netscape Public License. Pamela Samuelson, University of California at Berkeley and Berkeley Center for Law and Technology -- Legal Perspectives on Free Software Licenses. MODERATOR: Mark Jacobsen, O'Reilly & Associates. Added Bonus The Open Source Town Meeting -- Attend the Open Source Town Meeting, starting at 5:00pm at the Fairmont, directly following the Open Source Developer Workshop. 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.