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Its OSCon time again. I'm flying up to Portland tonight and looking forward as always to a great conference. No matter what Sun UK employee Alan Burlison thinks, OSCon is still the center of the F/OSS Conference universe to me. This year lots of Sun folk are attending and several are speaking:

Simon Phipps is participating in two talks, one on Wednesday at 10:45am, the "Open Source Java Debate" with Tim O'Reilly and Eric Raymond on Open Source Java, and a separate session on Thursday at 10:45am called Open Source Software - An Industrial Revolution for the 21st Century"

Peter Korn is giving a great talk on Thursday at 1:45pm about the future of Java Desktop System. I saw this talk last month in Sweden and its really inspiring.

Members of the Solaris Kernel Engineering team are doing a BOF on Solaris 10 and Open Source, and they'll be giving away t-shirts and other goodies as well, to entice everyone to come on by before they go to the Free Speech party upstairs.

Other sessions of interest include Christian Cheline talking about java.net (which isn't on the schedule next, but I think its happening on Friday in the Products and Services track). Also we look forward to Chris DiBona's Java On Linux BOF, Louis Suarez-Potts' OpenOffice.org Workshop BOF and Bruno Souza's Java Libre BOF.

Hopefully if you read this blog and are going to OSCon you'll catch me in the halls or at one of these sessions to say, "Hi!".