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All Events in Oregon Convention Center (6)
July 25Monday
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Oscon
July 25, 2011 to July 29, 2011 – Oregon Convention Center Join open source innovators and builders for Oscon 2011 on July 25-29 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. You get first-hand accounts of how open source is changing development standards tod… Organized by | Type: convention
July 16Monday
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OSCON
July 16, 2012 to July 20, 2012 – Oregon Convention Center Organized by OSCON | Type: conference
July 20Sunday
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OSCON
July 20, 2014 to July 24, 2014 – Oregon Convention Center Once considered a radical upstart, open source has moved from disruption to default. Its methods and culture commoditized the technologies that drove the Internet revolution, and transformed the prac… Organized by OSCON | Type: conference
July 18Saturday
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Community Leadership Summit 2015
July 18, 2015 at 9am to July 19, 2015 at 5pm – Oregon Convention Center The Community Leadership Summit 2015 is the sixth incarnation of the primary event that brings together community leaders and managers and the projects and organizations that are interested in growin… Organized by Jono Bacon | Type: conference
July 20Monday
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Cultivate (a leadership conference)
July 20, 2015 to July 21, 2015 – Oregon Convention Center To be a leader today, you need to master the new essentials—data-informed decision-making, design-first thinking, and rapid, iterative development—and to create a productive work environment for all… Organized by O'Reilly Media | Type: conference
July 16Monday
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OSCON 2018
July 16, 2018 to July 19, 2018 – Oregon Convention Center Join us at OSCON -- O'Reilly Open Source Convention | July 16–19,2018 | Portland, Oregon OSCON brings together talented people from diverse backgrounds who are doing amazing things wit… Organized by O'Reilly | Type: conference
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