The 2008 Open Web Conference is looking for speakers. I'm also interested in having ladies represent so if either of you can pass this on to women who might be interested in speaking, I'd be much obliged. The conference web site is http://www.openwebvancouver.ca/, and the call for speakers is below.
2008 Open Web Conference: Call for papers
The Vancouver PHP User Group is proud to announce the Vancouver Open Web Conference coming in April 2008. With this year's conference we have decided to broaden the focus from 'just PHP' to encompass what we call the 'Open Web', perhaps best defined by Brendan Eich as "open standards, open source, and a web whose major content formats are not controlled by a single vendor" [1].
The conference will have three tracks and take place over 2 days. We are looking for talk submissions for this conference on any number of topics that fit under the umbrella of the 'Open Web', including specific technologies, applications, solutions, communities and projects. Talk submissions will be chosen by the conference organizers based on relevance, innovation, how well they fit with other talks under consideration and of course, how compelling your talk submission is. Talks will be roughly 50 minutes long.
Server-side Technologies
Dynamic, Open source languages including Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Databases such as MySQL, SQLite, PostGreSQL
Linux, *BSD and other open source operating systems
Apache, Lighttpd, other web servers
Client-side technologies
JavaScript, jQuery, YUI, etc
Firefox, Webkit
HTML, XML, CSS
Xul
Applications and Frameworks
Frameworks such as Rails, Django, Cake
CMS systems such as Drupal, Joomla, Plone and Bricolage
Services & Mashups
Google ( gmaps, gdata, opensocial )
FaceBook
Amazon
Flickr
etc...
Open Web Culture
Media and Creative commons
open source licensing
social networking ( Facebook, Opensocial, etc )
[1] Brendan Eich's blog: http://tinyurl.com/2doxzc --
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