Registration is now open for the ninth edition of O'Reilly's annual conference on open source software. Described as a “gathering of developers, hackers, visionaries, and alpha geeks,” OSCON 2007 (Open Source Convention) is set for Jul. 23-27 in Portland, Ore.

OSCON is the oldest and largest of the many technical conferences now held by O'Reilly, a technical book publisher focused on the computer developer market. The ninth-year event is expected to offer 400 sessions and tutorials, in 15 tracks, from 84 speakers currently listed on the event's speakers page.

A sampling of the embedded-oriented sessions at OSCON 2007 includes:

• Brian Capouch, a professor at St. Joseph's College, will talk about “The Embedded Revolution”
• Matt Fletcher, a developer at Atomic Object, will discuss “Improving the embedded development process”
• Kevin Hilman, a MontaVista developer, will speak on an undisclosed topic
• Mark Gross, an Intel engineer, will discuss “OSS amateur robotics”
• Dr. Arthur Keller will discuss open source voting systems
• David Welton, Debian notable, will discuss “Hecl – Open Source scripting for mobile phones”
• Hinkmond Wong of Sun will present, “How to build, run, and develop code with the phoneME open source project”

Other featured presenters and their topics include:

• Kirill Grouchnikov, Amdocs, “Advanced effects in desktop Java applications”
• Rasmus Lerdorf, Yahoo!, “PHP-bigger and faster”
• Lamont Peterson, NeverBlock, “High availability Xen”
• Simon Willison, “OpenID Bootcamp”
• Rachael Madsen, “Exploiting multi-core capabilies from Python”
• Guido van Rossum, Creator of Python, “Python 3000”
• Theo Schlossnagle, “OmniTI advanced production troubleshooting”
• Chris DiBona, Google, “A year of open source at Google”
• Simon Peyton Jones, “Microsoft a taste of Haskell”
• Michael Koziarski, “Generating gorgeous Word documents, PDFs, and Excel spreadsheets”
• Jesse Vincent, Best Practical, “Building domain specific languages in Perl”
• Ben Krug, Adapt Technologies, “DBA tales from the front: from Oracle to MySQL”
• Dawn Foster and Danese Cooper, Intel, “Art of community”

Additionally, an Expo Hall is expected to attract about 2,500 attendees. Sponsors and exhibitors so far reportedly include Autodesk, Novell, Google, Intel, The New York Times, Sun, Microsoft, Optaros, IBM, and Ingres.

Co-located with the event is the O'Reilly Radar Executive Briefing, described as a “full-day discussion and debate that will give attendees the opportunity to take part in the conversation between Tim O'Reilly and the innovators, entrepreneurs, and leaders who are fostering the evolution of computing via open source technologies.”

More information and registration details for both events can be found here.

 
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