Everyone's Coming up to the City of Roses

As the temperatures rise in the northern hemisphere, Googlers from across the world will travel to the City of Roses, (Portland, Oregon) for OSCON, O’Reilly’s 14th annual Open Source convention held July 16-20 at the Oregon Convention Center. Over 2,500 open source enthusiasts from around the world will congregate for sessions and tutorials on everything open source.

This year 18 Googlers will be talking and teaching on a variety of topics with another 30 or so attending the weeklong conference. The schedule of the talks by Googlers are listed below in chronological order.

Monday, July 16th
7:00pm
Google Summer of Code Birds of a Feather (BoF) - All past and present participants in the Google Summer of Code program are welcome to join us, all you need is a free Expo Only Hall pass for OSCON.

Tuesday, July 17th
1:30pm
Andrew Gerrand - “Building real software with Go”

Wednesday, July 18th
10:40am 
Wesley Chun - “Python 3: the Next Generation (is here already)”
Joe Gregorio - “Scaling to 100+ APIs”
Rob Pike and Andrew Gerrand - “The Go 1 Programming Environment”

1:40pm 
Bob Evans - “Experience Sampling Experience”
Alex Martelli - "Permission or Forgiveness?”

Thursday, July 19th
10:40am
Bob Nystrom - “Dart: Google’s evil plot to make it easier for you to build web apps”

11:30am
Christopher Swenson - “Google Government Public Data: Finding and delivering the world’s government, tabular data”

1:40pm
Chris DiBona - “Ask a Google Engineer Anything”
Google will again sponsor its popular “Ask Google Engineers Anything” session. The session is intended to help developers work better with Googlers and Google technology and to answer most of the questions that developers might be puzzled about.
Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian Fitzpatrick - “The Art of Organizational Manipulation”

2:30pm
Alice Boxhall - “Web Application Accessibility”
Wesley Chun - “Connecting to Twitter and Google+ using Python”

3:20pm
Bob Nystrom - “Office Hour with Bob Nystrom”

Friday, July 20th
9:05am
Chris DiBona - “Keynote”

10:00am
Chris DiBona, Shawn Pearce - and Carol Smith - “The Google Open Source Update”
Augie Fackler and Nathaniel Manista - “Stop Mocking, Start Testing”
Justin McWilliams - “Using and Building Open Source in Google Corporate Engineering”

For a complete schedule of talks at OSCON, you can visit the conference site. We hope to see you at OSCON!


By Stephanie Taylor, Open Source Programs