Tomorrow I leave for San Diego to attend the O'Reilly Open Source Conference. I know that Jeremy is going, as are a number of other folks.
Click below for my "planned schedule" if you want to try and find me while I'm there....
Anyone who's attended before knows that "what you plan to do" and "what you end up doing" are frequently divergent. But, as I get ready to leave, this is my intended schedule:
Mon A: Introduction to PHP
Mon B: PHP: Frequently Solved Problems
Tue A: Optimize Your Perl Code
Tue B: Migrating to Apache 2.0
Tues Eve:
State of the Onion, Internet Quiz Show (on the team "Still Undefeated Returning Champions")
Wed:
08:45-09:30 Keynote: Lawrence Lessig
09:30-10:15 Keynote: Richard Stallman
10:45-11:30 Linux Kernel 2.5 Changes In a Nutshell
or Introducing the Perl 6 Language
11:30-12:15 Mac OS X for Open Source Developers
13:45-14:30 MySQL Backup and Recovery (Jeremy)
or Perl 5.8 At Last
or RMS and Miguel: Straight Talking
14:30-15:15 Preparing for Perl 6
16:30-17:15 Perl Lightning Talks
or Mac OS X: The New UNIX Desktop
or Speaking The Same Language As The Decision Makers
17:15-18:00 Perl Lightning Talks (cont'd)
Thu:
08:45-09:30 Keynote: Hacking the Genome: Open Source in Bioinformatics
09:30-10:15 Keynote: Evolution In Action
10:45-11:30 Legal Issues For Open Source Projects
or Introduction to Moveable Type
11:30-12:15 Journaled File System for Linux
13:45-14:30 CPANPLUS - Beyond CPAN.pm
or Moving Away From Windows - Promoting OS in a Bureaucracy
15:45-16:30 Writing Maintainable Perl
16:30-17:15 Teaching 'Learning Perl'
or The Regex Guru Is In (Jeffrey)
Thu Eve:
Milter BOF 18:00-19:00, Harbor Island II (ME!)
Blog BOF 19:00-20:00 ("Weblog Gathering"), Marina IV
Q3A Lan Party, Quinn's Sports Bar (provided I have enough ambition to move RTCW and Medal of Honor aside long enough to play Quake... does anyone still play Quake given that RTCW and Medal Of Honor are just so much better?
Fri:
10:45-11:30 Managing MySQL Replication (Jeremy)
or The RT Issue Tracking Platform
11:30-12:15 Samba - Good Just Keeps Getting Better
13:45-14:30 Standards-Based Security Using Open Source
or Writing Secure Perl Programs
or Jabber Developer Overview
14:30-15:15 Outrageous Uses of Jabber
15:45-17:15 Town Hall