THIRD OSCOM CONFERENCE
The third international OSCOM conference[1] at Harvard Law School Berkman Center for Internet and Society (3 days - May 28-30) is a fantastic opportunity for cms-listers and any of your friends or clients
in schools and businesses studying CMS to meet with the leading developer teams in the free and open source side of the industry.
There will also be great proprietary/commercial people there. Dave Winer
and Jon Udell will keynote. Although Dave's main CMS products, Manila and Radio Userland, are not licensed as open source, his code is open
without a 100-pound NDA required like that from Microsoft. And with his
great open standards and formats - SOAP, XML-RPC, RSS .91 - 2.0, and OPML,
Dave has probably given more to the open source world than anyone else at the conference.
CMS Watch editor Tony Byrne will review the Top Ten Features from the Commercial CMS World.
A provocative session "You Can't Make Money In Open Source" will examine the business model. A panel on legal issues will explore ways to sell open source legally, with "dual" GPL and "non-GPL" licenses for the very same product, like MySQL is doing.
A Users panel will feature real world moves to an open source CMS, like Boston.com (the web side of the Boston Globe, a New York Times company), who is rebuilding their website based on Zope.
The theme is "Leveraging the Semantic Web," and several papers will report on RDF projects around the world.
Extensive tutorials will let attendees build out a newspaper style site
themselves.
As an added incentive for you to register early (so the conference administrators can judge the attendance and get some needed cash flow
coming in soon), we are offering anyone who registers a copy of O'Reilly's classic ($24.95) book "Open Sources," with landmark articles by Eric Raymond, Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, Bruce Perens, Brian
Behlendorf, Tim O'Reilly, and Larry Wall. You should have this book in your library.
To have a copy waiting for you when you come to OSCOM, just register
now[2] and then send an email to me[3] (editor@cmsreview.com) and I will have a book with your name on it at the registration table at Harvard.
Then add your name to the growing Participants mailing list[4] to help us design the OSCOM conference in the open! We want it to be the kind of conference you are looking for. For example, every seat will be equipped with an Internet connection. Sign on now before all the seats are filled up.
Please tell your friends or clients about this opportunity, or cross post this offer to lists you think should see it. The registration fee is most affordable, just $200 for three days.
P.S. If your company has a lot of money, ask them to consider sponsoring OSCOM[5]. Sponsors help keep the registration fee low.
Thanks, and see you at Harvard.
Bob Doyle.
[1] http://www.oscom.org/Conferences/Cambridge/
[2] http://www.oscom.org/Conferences/Cambridge/Registration.html
[3] mailto:editor@cmsreview.com
[4] http://lists.oscom.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/participants
[5] http://www.oscom.org/Conferences/Cambridge/sponsoring.html
[6] http://www.oscom.org/Conferences/Cambridge/Program/
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