Making Open Work
May 8–9, 2017: Training & Tutorials
May 10–11, 2017: Conference
Austin, TX

The original (also the biggest, baddest & broadest) open source gathering comes to Austin.

OSCON: The open source community's annual gathering

Since 1999, OSCON has brought together talented people from diverse backgrounds who are doing amazing things with open source. We share new techniques and approaches, proven best practices, and practical skills. No matter what your technical experience level, if you want to learn from useful stories and hard-won experience, and discover intriguing projects and innovations, there's no better place than OSCON.

Open source is now found everywhere—from the bottom of the programming stack to the very top—so we're focusing on these topics as a means to consider and solve critical, real-world problems:

  • Open Source: From Consumer to Contributor
  • The Business of Open Source: From Project to Product
  • Infrastructure
  • In Real Life (IRL)
  • Adopt This Now
  • Security
  • Performance
  • Collaboration and Community
  • Leadership
  • Architecture
  • The Cutting Edge
  • Data, Big and Small
  • From Crumbling to Smart Cities

If you love open source and you want to help build the community, we want YOU to join us at OSCON 2017. Become a contributor to open source projects, learn how open source can be a strategic business advantage, and find out how to leverage the unique strengths that open source technology has to offer.

Important dates

  • Call for Participation closed: October 25, 2016
  • Proposers notified: By December 2016
  • Registration opens: December 2016

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