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Attend sessions on:
• Projects and Strategy
  Join in the successes, challenges, and strategies of open source projects. Learn about free and open source principles, best practices for community building, governance issues, and how to get involved.

• Operating Systems: OpenSolaris and Linux Communities: Ubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE
  Choice and cross-pollenization are driving operating system innovation. Learn about virtualization, application observability, security, interoperability, and performance and more. Hear from leaders from OpenSolaris and Linux distribution communities including Ubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE.

• Databases: MySQL, postgreSQL and more
  Key to the ability to scale rapidly, dependably and cost-effectively is the database. Learn about design and development, stability, flexibility and performance.

• Web and Application Servers: GlassFish, Apache, and more
  Server choice can simplify your development process. Learn about speed and scalability, security, interoperability, footprint, flexibility and performance.

• Scripting and Rich Internet Applications (RIAs): PHP, Python, Ruby, Javascript, JavaFX, AJAX, jMaki and more
  Rich Internet Applications are redefining the web experience. A new generation of languages and tools simplifies the development of dynamic experiences across a wide variety of devices. Learn about content authoring and RIAs, scripting languages and more.

• Tools and IDEs: NetBeans, Eclipse and more
  IDEs enhance development productivity by providing tightly-knit components for authoring, modifying, compiling, deploying and debugging. Learn how to speed your development with collaboration tools and create a compelling end user experience.

• Next Generation Web Applications
  Web 2.0 applications tap the power of user generated content (UGC) and grow in effectiveness the more people use them. Learn about web services and social networking, as well as related tools and development methodologies.

• Web Scale Computing
  The shift to Web scale computing requires a high performance, scalable flexible infrastructure. Learn about the demands and opportunities of utility (cloud) computing, software as a service (SaaS), high performance computing (HPC) and related networking, systems, database, and development issues.

• Chip Multithreading (CMT): OpenSPARC
  An open, collaborative process around developing new chips is advancing the 64-bit processor environment and multithreading capabilities. Learn about issues related to throughput and parallel computing, networking and security, application qualification, hypervisor and virtualization, and development and deployment best practices.

• The RedMonk Unconference
  Expect a rich mix of open source, dynamic languages, development in general, Java, social media high jinks, and more. This year we plan a Rich Internet Panel (with JavaFX, Adobe, Nitobi, and other folks) and a discussion about the Mylyn Eclipse personal productivity IDE. This is the CommunityOne unconference by you, for you, so please come along and set the agenda.

• Startup Camp: The unconference for the StartUp Community
  May 4-5. 2008 | Moscone Center
  Starting up? It's a jungle out there. There are many other startups like yours just beginning the road to viability. Luckily, others have gone through some of the same challenges. Learn what's worked and what hasn't, while sharing your own insights. Find out more at the Startup Camp wiki

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