[Van-pm] Open Web Vancouver 2008 Registration Open: Speakers from Google, Sun, Facebook, Mozilla, and more...

[Mike Cantelon]

Geeks Unite! The Vancouver PHP Association is proud to announce that
registration is now open for the Open Web Conference, this year to be
held at the Vancouver Conference and Exhibition Centre, Mon., Apr. 14
to Tues., Apr. 15, 2008. After bringing Vancouver two sold out
conferences two years running, the Open Web Conference is shaping up
to be our biggest and best effort yet!

Some of the big names you can expect to hear include: Tim Bray,
co-author of XML / Sun Microsystems; Zak Greant, Foo Associates /
Mozilla Foundation; Patrick Chanezon, Google; Laura Thompson, Google,
and Bran Shire, Facebook. You can read a list of this year's talks at:
http://www.openwebvancouver.ca/talks.

Our space at the Vancouver Conference and Exhibition Centre, located
on the beautiful Burrard Inlet, on the edge of Gastown and downtown
Vancouver, will accommodate 400 geeks to hear all the latest and
greatest news and advancements on Open Source technologies such as:
PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, XUL, OpenMoko, Linux, Django, Drupal  and
more.

Register now here, as we expect to sell out quickly. Registration is
only $150 ( +$20 if you want a fabulous t-shirt - your choice of 2
designs) All proceeds go directly towards conference expenses and
promoting similar events in the Vancouver area.

What: The Open Web Conference
When: Monday, April 14 to Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Where: Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Centre (VCEC), 999 Canada
Place, Vancouver, BC
Why: For the love of open source technologies, communities and
culture, talks from all areas of open source such as PHP, Python, Ruby
on Rails, XUL, GPL, Linux, Django and Drupal.
Who: You and the Vancouver PHP Users Association, a registered
non-profit association for the advancement of PHP and the Open Web.

http://openwebvancouver.ca