http://www.openwebvancouver.ca/callforspeakers

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 licensing
    * Open source licensing
    * Social networking ( Facebook, Opensocial, etc )

If you're interested, please submit a talk using the form on this site 
<http://www.openwebvancouver.ca/node/add/talk> . The deadline for 
submissions is December 31.


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