[Olug-list] FLOSS Conference in Oslo - GoOpen 2011

Salve J Nilsen salve at friprog.no
Thu, 3 Mar 2011 10:26:51 +0100 (CET)


Hi!

In a few weeks there's an Open Source conference in Oslo!

     * GoOpen 2011
     * March 22nd and 23rd 2011
     * Radisson Blu Scandinavia Hotel, Holbergs plass, Oslo
     * http://www.goopen.no/program/

There'll be plenty of interesting speakers, including Simon Phipps=20
(ForgeRock, Sun Microsystems), Evan Prodromou (Status.net), Erik=20
M=C3=B6ller (Wikimedia Foundation), Sm=C3=A1ri McCarthy (IMMI.is, fsfi.is) =
and=20
many others.

GoOpen is the biggest Open Source conference in Scandinavia, and a=20
great meetingplace for anyone who cares about FLOSS, Open Standards=20
and issues around this. The main goal is to give the Norwegian public=20
sector a good place to meet and learn.

This year GoOpen has five tracks, ranging from the high-level=20
non-technical, to technical introductions on a wide range of matters.=20
Topics the conference touches on include Data Openness, Open Source=20
use in projects, Open Source and society trends and important=20
technical issues like the major move to IPv6 currently going on.

Here's a small taste of what you can expect at the Technical and
FSCONS tracks at GoOpen:

     - Building social software
     - iPhone vs. Android vs. HTML5
     - Experiences around migration to IPv6
     - How to choose the right FLOSS license for your needs
     - Fighting distributed denial of service attacks
     - Peer to Peer education
     - Cloud Computing and Regulatory Policies

For more info and registration, please see the conference website at:

      http://www.goopen.no/


Kind regards,

- The GoOpen program group, Christer, Martin and Salve