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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 25, 1998
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CONTACT: Sara Winge, 707/829-0515 x285, sara@oreilly.com
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More information at http://opensource.oreilly.com
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OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPER DAY PROVIDES NUTS AND BOLTS OF
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FREELY-DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE
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Essential Development Concepts, Successful Business Models Highlighted
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Sebastopol, CA--The momentum of open source software has been building
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since March, when Netscape announced its freely-available Communicator
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source code; April, when O'Reilly & Associates sponsored the
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widely-reported Open Source Summit; and this week, with IBM's
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announcement that it is adopting Apache's free server for its
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e-commerce Web server. Continuing that momentum, O'Reilly is sponsoring
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the first Open Source Developer Day on August 21 at the Fairmont Hotel
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in San Jose, California, immediately following O'Reilly's Perl
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Conference 2.0. Complete information and online registration is at
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http://opensource.oreilly.com. Admission to Open Source Developer Day
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is $195 through July 15, and for attendees of Perl Conference 2.0;
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after July 15, general admission is $295.
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Open Source Developer Day is designed to provide practical information
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about how open source software works in the real world. The event
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focuses on how successful open source software communities have
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developed, and the business models and licenses which people have
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created to support them.
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Topics to be discussed include:
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* Open Source: Essential Concepts and Models: an explanation of the
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theory and practice of creating successful open source software;
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* Open Source Project Management and Logistics: how to get a large,
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disparate group of volunteer developers to work in tandem, coordinating
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version control, security and bug fixes;
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* Open Source Business Models: presenters will discuss ways they've
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found to create profitable businesses while still supporting open
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source communities, including selling enhanced software, services, and
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books;
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* Licensing and Legal Issues: discussion of the thorny questions and
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creative solutions critical to the further development of open source
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software.
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Key members of such open source communities as Apache, Linux, Perl and
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mozilla.org will be participants on panels, including:
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*Tim O'Reilly, President/CEO, O'Reilly & Associates, publisher of books
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on open source software, Unix, the Internet;
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*Larry Wall, creator of Perl, widely used by system administrators and
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on nearly all active Web sites; Senior Developer, O'Reilly &
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Associates;
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*Jim Hamerley, Vice President, Client Products Division, Netscape
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Communications Corp., whose mozilla.org freely distributes source code
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for Netscape Communicator;
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* Bob Young, President, Red Hat Software, a software development
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company that sells products and provides services related to Linux, a
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freely available Unix-like operating system;
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* Brian Behlendorf, a founder of the Apache group, which created and
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maintains the world's most popular Web server;
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* John Ousterhout, CEO, Scriptics Corp. and creator of the popular Tcl
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scripting language;
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* Pamela Samuelson, Professor at the University of California at
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Berkeley with a joint appointment in the School of Information
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Management and Systems and the School of Law; co-director of the
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Berkeley Center for Law and Technology;
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* Eric Raymond, independent developer active in the Linux community;
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author of the influential paper, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar."
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