In three weeks, developers from around the world will converge on Portland, Oregon for O’Reilly Media’s annual open source conference, OSCON. The gathering of 2,000+ open source enthusiasts will take place July 22-26 at the Oregon Convention Center in the City of Roses.
This year 19 Googlers will be hosting sessions on a variety of topics with dozens more attending the open source conference. A list of all of the talks hosted by Googlers can be found below in chronological order.
Monday, July 22nd
9:00am Ronald Minnich and Stefan Reinauer “Coreboot Tutorial”
1:30pm Francesc Campoy Flores “Introduction to Go”
Wednesday, July 24th
1:40pm Johan Euphrosine “How Learning Go Made Me A Better Programmer”
2:30pm Francesc Campoy Flores “Go Best Practices”
4:10pm Alice Boxhall and Rachel Shearer “Testing for accessibility”
Caskey Dickson “While (true) do; how hard can it be to keep running?”
7:00pm Google Open Source Team “Google Summer of Code Birds of a Feather” - check the BoF Board onsite for location
Thursday, July 25th
10:40am Alex Martelli “‘Good enough’ is good enough!”
Augie Fackler and Nathaniel Manista “The End Of Object Inheritance & The Beginning of Anti-Rumsfeldian Modularity”
1:40pm Tim Bray “Reducing Identity Pain”
Gustavo Franco “Go Language for Ops and Site Reliability Engineering”
4:10pm Stuart Langley, moderator; Amy Unruh, panelist “Building Scalable PHP Applications Using Google’s App Engine”
Wesley Chun “Python 103: Memory Model & Best Practices”
Friday, July 26th
10:00am Brad Fitzpatrick “dl.google.com: powered by Go”
11:00am Chris DiBona, Shawn Pearce and Carol Smith “The Google Open Source Update”
We hope to see you at OSCON!
By Stephanie Taylor, Open Source Programs
Google Open Source Blog
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