created on Thu, 2008-04-10 09:50 Conferences, barcamps galore abound in this city, sign up quickly for the Open Web Vancouver conference, including:

2 jam packed days of technology talks

• keynotes: Tim Bray on the future face of the web and Zak Greant on Visionary look at open source
• Web 2.0 Design Patterns, Models and Analysis by Duane Nickull
• some of my favourite PHP speakers; Damien Seguy on Security for Web applications and Derick Rethans on EZ component Library and Test Driven Development
• a speaker from Mozilla: Laura Thomson on Robust and Maintainable code
• OpenStreet Map by Corey Burger from Ubuntu
• OpenRIA with Jeff Griffiths
• Frameworks: cakephp, drupal, merb, django, Djun Kim with Metrics for understanding frameworks
• Nathan Yergler on semantic web and creative commons licensing, microformats with Ryan King, Microformats (+DiSo) with Chris Messina
• visionaries and activists: Darren Barefoot 1100 stacies, Joe Bowser on Technology Behind FreeTheNet, Irwin Oostindie on Re-routing the Digital Divide with Mobile, Roland Tanglao on Grassroots Open Mobile Technology, Kate Milberry on Open Source and Social change
• Many more, including Google Gears, Brian Shire on OpenSocial, Eric Promislow Scaling Javascript, Paul Reinheimer Ajax applications

OpenSocial/Facebook Camp

• Sign up for lightning talks, read more on Social Camp
• Gerald Bauer will talk on developing social web applications using Ruby on Rails
• Boris Mann on Social Graph enabling every website

Mozilla/XUL Camp

MozCamp organized by Shane Caraveo of Activestate, local guru extraodinare.