Sponsors
  • Intel
  • Microsoft
  • Google
  • Sun Microsystems
  • BT
  • IBM
  • Yahoo! Inc.
  • Zimbra
  • Atlassian Software Systems
  • Disney
  • EnterpriseDB
  • Etelos
  • Ingres
  • JasperSoft
  • Kablink
  • Linagora
  • MindTouch
  • Mozilla Corporation
  • Novell, Inc.
  • Open Invention Network
  • OpSource
  • RightScale
  • Silicon Mechanics
  • Tenth Planet
  • Ticketmaster
  • Voiceroute
  • White Oak Technologies, Inc.
  • XAware
  • ZDNet

Sponsorship Opportunities

For information on exhibition and sponsorship opportunities at the conference, contact Sharon Cordesse at scordesse@oreilly.com.

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Media Partner Opportunities

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Press and Media

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Gavin Doughtie

Gavin Doughtie
Developer, Google

Website

Gavin Doughtie is a front end developer on Google’s Picasa Web Albums. He started and ran the LA Java Users’ Group and has worked on the development teams of the two California Startup Weekends so far.

Sessions

8:30am Tuesday, 07/22/2008
An Open Source Startup in Three Hours
People, Programming, Tutorial, Web Applications
 Location: Portland 255
Gavin Doughtie (Google), Andrew Hyde (TechStars)
Interested in doing your own startup company, or starting a new project within your existing company? This 3-hour tutorial walks you through a compact version of the Startup Weekend experience, which has seen multiple companies go from nothing to a running prototype in 54 hours. Read more.
1:45pm Thursday, 07/24/2008
CSS for High Performance JavaScript UI
Web Applications
 Location: Portland 256
Gavin Doughtie (Google)
Programmers like to program, but sometimes executing JavaScript code to create user interface is far less efficient than having the browser render what you want at native speeds via CSS declarations. This session shows CSS techniques that every Javascript developer should be aware of, including browser limitations and cutting-edge features like WebKit animations. Read more.
OSCON 2008