Open Web Vancouver 2008

Open Web Vancouver 2008

A conference showcasing open source technologies, communities and culture. We are taking submissions for talks from all areas of open source technologies such as PHP,Ruby on Rails, XUL, Perl, OpenMoko, GPL, Linux, Drupal, HTML, CSS, Javascript and AJAX, GIMP, XML, Apache, MySQL, Web 2.0, etc.

Please contact us right away If you are interested in speaking. Deadline to accept talk submissions is Dec 31st 2007. Registration opens Dec. 22nd 2007 at $100 early bird pricing. After January 31st 2008, we offer registration for $150.

Conferences we have held in the past have sold-out, attracting audiences from all over the world, and have featured the biggest names in PHP and related topics and technologies.

VCEC is the largest conference facility in downtown Vancouver, located in the spectacular inner harbour.

The conference will open with a 'keynote' session featuring two major presentations and other short presentations of interest.

In addition to our three tracks of presentations on both days of the conference, there will be time allocated for attendees to give short talks on topics of interest in a 'Lightning Talk' format.

The first evening will host a specialist panel discussion, free and open to the public.

The conference will close with a Q&A session with all the conference speakers and sponsor product giveaways.

The Open Web is a presentation of the Vancouver PHP Users Association, a registered non-profit association for the advancement of PHP and the Open Web.