Another year passed for OSCON 2011 with over 3000+ attendees flocking to Portland, Oregon for this year’s theme: From Disruption to Default.
On Thursday, July 28th 2011, Global Girls in Tech Mentorship Program kicked off their inaugural VIP sessions at Oscon. Fortune 500, academic, tech and entrepreneurs and leaders from all over the world gathered together to participate and support our kick-off meet-up. Thanks so much to everyone who showed up. We couldn’t have done it without your continued help and participation. Interested in participating? Drop me an email: ivo@girlsintech.net
For More info about GIT Mentorship. Watch live video interview with Ivo Lukas and OSCON 2011 and follow me @MsSonicFlare
GIT Mentorship Program sponsored by 24Notion
OSCON 2011 events, tracks, sessions and keynotes raised the bar again. Here are a few highlights of the keynote session and tracks:
– Rob Pike: The expressiveness of Go programming language
– Ariel Waldman: On hacking space exploration
– IBM: On building native mobile apps with phone gap. Becky Gibson and Simon MacDonald showed best practices on mobile apps
– Microsoft Keynote by Gianugo Rabelino, Sr Director of Open Source Communities is quite great as he talks about the future of community: informed trends: education, repeatable science and experience
– Netflix, Kim Trott and Matt McCarthy on Javascript and HTML 5
– Last but not least, Gabe Zichermann discussed the importance of Gamification
Check out full program speaker and slides
Check out keynote and video interviews
