2008 CommunityOne Conference

Overview

CommunityOne is a free and open developer conference sponsored by Sun Microsystems. 
Date: May 5, 2008 (the Monday of the JavaOne conference week)
Location: Moscone Center, San Francisco, California  

CommunityOne offers 75+ sessions led by contributors and committers from more than 30 different projects spanning the open source stack and powering the Internet: from chip multithreading (OpenSPARC) and web scale computing (HPC, SaaS, utility / cloud, Open SSO and Project Darkstar), to operating systems (OpenSolaris and Linux distributions), to web and application servers (GlassFish, Apache HTTP, JBoss), databases (MySQL, postgreSQL, Java DB), scripting languages (PHP, AJAX, Python/Jython, Ruby/JRuby, Javascript, JavaFX, jMaki and more), tools (NetBeans, Eclipse, Subversion and others), Web 2.0 applications (social networks, mashups and web services), strategy and projects (importance and impact of FOSS, community building, music, robotics, OpenOffice.org, ODF, OpenJDK, mobile & embedded, and more). In one jam-packed day, developers and students will benefit from the diversity, innovation, and choice of the free and open source software ecosystem.

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Base Camp

The nexus of CommunityOne will be in Hall A.

Material Pickup

Get oriented with a program guide; gear up with a bag, t-shirt and other schwag.

HandsOn Demos

Demos from cosponsors and community-based projects

Sun Startup Camp Breakout Sessions

OpenSpace

Room for a couple large groups or a dozen small ones equipped with tables, wifi and power cords. Planned meetups include:

• OpenID
• Python
• Ruby
• Drupa

RedMonk unconference

Wireless Lawn

Just an area to power up your laptop, check email, take a break, whatever.

Lunch (Noon-2:00pm)

Grab a box lunch and head to your next session

Community Reception (6:00-8:00pm)

Last year featured good beer and good conversation. This year we are fortunate enough to fall on Cinco de Mayo.

Sessions

(See the content catalogue on the CommunityOne website for abstracts. All 76 session now available). Content subject to change.

Session schedule (PDF)

RedMonk Unconference

The analysts of RedMonk – James Governor, Steven O'Grady and Michael Cote – will be moderating their second annual unconference at CommunityOne. Any subject is fair game, but open source will likely be the common thread. Propose and lead a session, or be an active participant.

Sun Startup Camp

Sun will host its fifth Sun Startup Camp(SM) event May 4-5, 2008 during CommunityOne in Moscone Center in San Francisco. (http://www.startupcamp.org/sc5sanfran_register.html)

Sun Startup Camp San Francisco is an interactive unconference, where participants are invited to come, share, listen, and learn. Startup Camp involves leader-moderated discussions that everyone is free to contribute to.

The majority of the event's agenda will be determined at event time by the attendees themselves. Once in Camp, participants can join any discussion that seems interesting, or propose a topic of their own choice. Interested participants may also publish topic ideas for discussion sessions and view those that others are proposing, by visiting the Discussion Ideas page at: <http://wiki.startupcamp.org/wiki/StartupCamp2DiscussionIdeas>.
The event also includes other interactive activities such as SpeedGeeking, where startup founders can compete in the Best Startup Contest by presenting a 5-minute pitch of their business to small groups of peers. The top 3 participants who receive the most votes win prizes which range in value from a new server, and free partner hosting to an iTouch.

Participants also have an opportunity to mingle with the event co-hosts, who at past camps have included industry leaders such as Google, JLA Ventures, NaviSite, Microsoft, salesforce.com, SDForum, Sapoteck, Yahoo! , and ZDNET, to name just a few. Following the camp, participants come away with a sense of contributing to a community of interest with a network of peers who share the common goal of developing the right solutions for building a successful startup. Registration is free and easy - simply visit:http://www.startupcamp.org/sc5sanfran_register.html

Day at a glance

Resources

Registration is open and session details are available on the CommunityOne website.

Questions

Questions can be submitted here, or sent to "communityone-info(at)sun(dot)com."