Codetown ::: a software developer's community
Time: July 20, 2015 to July 24, 2015
Location: Portland
City/Town: Portland, OR
Website or Map: http://www.oscon.com/open-sou…
Event Type: conference
Organized By: O'Reilly Press
Latest Activity: Mar 10, 2015
OSCON celebrates, defines, and demonstrates the power of open source in the world today. From small businesses to the enterprise, open source is the first choice of IT everywhere.
Open source is now found everywhere--from the bottom of the programming stack to the very top--so we're changing the way we organize these stories at OSCON. We've adopted a more holistic approach, focusing on the following topics as a means to consider and solve critical, real-world problems:
Stay tuned. We'll unveil the preliminary program and open registration in March.
Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.
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