O'Reilly is soliciting speakers for its ninth annual open source convention. The 2007 O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON), set for July 23-27 in Portland, Ore., will focus on “the progress and innovation that open source movers and shakers are contributing to the computing industry,” organizers say.

In all, OSCON 2007 will feature more than 400 sessions and tutorials, and will cover a broad range of topics related to open source. Suggested topics for talk proposals include:

• Tools for the administration and deployment of large server farms
• Parallelization, grid, and multicore technologies
• Virtualization
• Ajax, Javascript, standards-based design, and other client-side web issues
• Seaside, Rails, Django, and other interesting server-side web technology
• Ubuntu as an emergent usable Linux distro and contender for Red Hat and Sun's client and server markets
• Java as open source
• AI, machine learning, and other ways of making software smarter than the people using it
• User experience and usability engineering lessons for web and desktop software
• The spread of open source into law, culture, data, and services, and the accompanying issues and lessons

Sessions and tutorials should contain “actionable information and advice, above and beyond what is currently available online or in books,” organizers say. “We want to hear about your winning techniques, favorite life-savers, and the system you've made that everyone will be using next year,” said program co-chair Nathan Torkington.

Over 2,500 attendees are expected, including “programmers, hackers, IT managers, designers, academics, and alpha geeks,” O'Reilly says. Last year's event attracted 2,700 attendees, and 65 sponsors, exhibitors, and community projects.

The deadline for proposals is Feb. 5. Acceptance notices will be sent by Feb. 26, and session details and speaker bio's will be due by May 20.

General registration for OSCON opens in early April.

Additional details can be found here.

 
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