EuroOSCON
Early Registration Extended -- Join us for the
first annual O'Reilly European Open Source Convention, October 17-20 in
Amsterdam. EuroOSCON targets the specific needs of European developers,
programmers, strategists, entrepreneurs, and technologists, helping
them to deliver the benefits of open source technology to their
companies and organizations. Sign up now and save before early registration prices end on September 21st.
How to Decide What Bugs to Fix When, Part 1
-- There are two challenges to making smart bug decisions:
first, understanding how to make good bug-fix decisions; and second,
creating and following rules that make it easy to stick to those
decisions when the pressure is high. In this first installment of a
two-part essay, Scott Berkun provides the core ideas you need to make
your own bug-fixing rules. Scott is the author of The Art of Project Management.
ETech 2006 CFP
Now Open -- O'Reilly's Emerging Technology
Conference 2006 is scheduled for March 6-9 in San Diego. We invite
technologists, strategists, CTOs, chief scientists, researchers,
programmers, hackers, standards workers, business developers, and
entrepreneurs to lead sessions and tutorials at ETech. This year's
challenge focuses on the amazing amount of digital data in our worlds:
how do we visualize the data, filter it, remix it, and access it in
meaningful ways? Proposals are due by September 19th.
Learning Lab August Special
-- In our practice-based, self-paced courses, you can
build your online portfolio with plenty of instructor feedback and a
free O'Reilly book for reference. For a limited time, use the discount
passcode "tigercub" to save an extra 15% off any of our
courses--including all University of Illinois Certificate Series. Take
advantage of this great deal and register today!
The Virtual Referral: Mitigating Risk by Hiring
Open Source Developers -- Hiring a new employee is
almost always a risk, and hiring the wrong employee can prove a costly
mistake for managers. Brian Fitzpatrick suggests you hire an open
source programmer. Find out why doing so mitigates the risks involved
in hiring. Brian will be leading a Subversion tutorial and a session on
switching from CVS to Subversion at this year's O'Reilly Open Source
Convention (OSCON), August 1-5 in Portland, Oregon.
EuroOSCON -- Join developers, systems and network administrators,
and IT managers at the very first O'Reilly European Open Source
Convention in Amsterdam on October 17-20. EuroOSCON will explore the
best and newest open source technologies, particularly for companies,
governments, and nonprofits. EuroOSCON showcases the diversity in open
source while maintaining a practical edge. To receive up-to-date
conference news and information, sign up for
the OSCON newsletter.
