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<p>Hello, </p>
<p>The call for participation for <strong>Velocity New York</strong> is <a href="http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zsi8hesvdf09ghdltdv35lilp5n1jfg8bg5jrq08" style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">now open</a>. If you have insights, knowledge, or practical experience in any of the themes we'll explore at Velocity in New York this October—we want to hear from you. We're accepting proposals through April 29, 2013. For complete details, see the <a href="http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zq7uvtk04tcs2fmvdssjhc6oo78grmerep9doga0" style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Velocity Call for Participation page</a>.</p>
<p>Some of the themes and memes we're interested in for the 2013 conference program include:
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<li>Building resilience into applications, infrastructure, and teams</li>
<li>Operations escalation and outage handling patterns</li>
<li>Production datastore architectures at scale</li>
<li>TCP, HTTP, and SSL optimizations</li>
<li>Metrics and monitoring</li>
<li>Impact on the bottom line</li>
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To see the rest of the conferences we have planned for 2013, <a href="http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1z1f4tichvfcreoj0b610dtto2792josgqk583ho8" style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">look at our schedule</a>.
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>—Marsee Henon and Jon Johns</p>
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<h3>Available for Review</h3>
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<h3>Big Data TechCon—$100 UG Discount (April 8-10—Boston, MA)</h3>
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<p>BZ Media's inaugural <a href="http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1z7kl8fupuvvtiveive4glp5c4rva6ptdme4e0jko" style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Big Data TechCon</a> will focus on the entire big data ecosystem and attract developers, IT managers, and practitioners. Big Data TechCon is technology-agnostic and will apply to organizations using relational databases, NoSQL databases, graph databases, unstructured data, flat files and data feeds. <strong>Receive a $100 discount off the 3-day pass</strong> by inserting the code <strong>OREILLY</strong> when prompted. Exhibits are free. </p>
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<h3>Open Tech NYC 2013 (March 30—NYC)</h3>
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<p>Open source is driving the NYC tech scene - from locally grown open source projects, to <strong>startups</strong> and big enterprises that run on open source, to new organizations and collaborative models that grew up in <strong>New York City</strong>.<br>
<a href="http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zth67063q3sc7117ldkfjrd2dr1s1gp8e0cl71g0" style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Open Tech NYC 2013</a> will be held from 9:30AM to 4:30PM on March 30, 2013 at the Hunter's Point Event Space in Queens - less than fifteen minutes from Manhattan. They'll be welcoming a variety of speakers for 45 minute talks, and coffee and lunch breaks will be provided as well.</p>
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<h3>GOTO Conference (April 23-24—Chicago, IL)</h3>
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<p>The first <a href="http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zck7rateqeah84f51flcri1jf4iju66uja7hrcr8" style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">GOTO Chicago</a> conference to take place this April in Downtown <strong>Chicago</strong> at the Drake Hotel. The GOTO Chicago program is created "by developers, for developers" where the emphasis is placed on presenting latest developments as they become relevant and interesting for the software development community. Some of the industry's best speakers, practitioners and trainers will be at GOTO Chicago to present and train on a variety of topic areas. Speakers include <strong>O'Reilly</strong> authors <a href="http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1z7117f1q9suld6r280eb0udtkgnp57ds37os7tn0" style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Dean Wampler</a> and <a href="http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zotrbnsc32209gjkriaf839ffb37kvcbfltoq9m8" style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">John Allspaw</a>.</p>
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<h3>Using Arduinos to make conferences better</h3>
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<p><a href="http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zcpg946v3b19dehka3tofvv02k5eh12corbfu3ng" style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">GigaOM </a>recently wrote about our <a href="http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1z602sft8tmf1t273t8et6hrhs97h78pccoibs7c0" style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Data Sensing Lab</a> at the recent <a href="http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zvg3lebsoumdt9rjqcqlq8p404dnfcknre3ob5qg" style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Strata Conference</a>: "Can Arduino devices jam-packed with sensors help you plan your next conference better? That's what O'Reilly Media is trying to figure out....A small and simple open-source computer board that can connect to sensors, the <strong>Arduino</strong> was one of 50 such gadgets that O'Reilly Media, host of the Strata Conference, planted around the facility. <strong>Sensors</strong> attached to the Arduinos pick up humidity, motion, sound and temperature data which they collect and wirelessly send to a <strong>ZigBee</strong> device that uploads it all to an Amazon Web Services cloud for <strong>real-time visualization</strong> and analysis and future processing, said tech-book author <a href="http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zqovufp4hh5j1lqbb8touquea1k7mfiidt6cfko0" style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Alasdair Allan</a>, one of the people behind the project."</p>
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