Exhibitors at OSCON 2010

2600hz
The 2600hz.org project is everything you need to make your next VoIP endeavor a success. Our powerful, open-source VoIP software delivers a fully functional GUI for your VoIP project. It works with the most popular open-source libraries, telecom vendors and web technologies. It can happily live in the cloud or on the premise. It provides a framework you can customize completely. All under one virtual roof.

ActiveState
ActiveState, the dynamic language experts, is the world leader in enabling companies to develop, manage, and distribute applications with dynamic languages. With a focus on Perl, Python, Tcl and web languages, over 2 million developers and 97% of the Fortune 1000 rely on ActiveState, including many major technology, finance, aerospace, and government organizations.

Actminds
Actminds is a CMMI Application Development and Management services provider, offering services to North American companies from its development centers located in Brazil. Led by a team of highly qualified and certified professionals, Actminds can offer competitive rates, while enjoying a one time zone difference from EST, enabling onshore and offshore teams to work at the same time. Actminds assists customers deploying enterprise-class solutions based on various platforms and technologies.

Amazon
Amazon.com, a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and offers Earth's Biggest Selection. The brightest minds come to Amazon to develop technology that improves the lives of shoppers and sellers around the world. Amazon also provides the developer community access to our own in-the-cloud computing infrastructure, enabling virtually any business.

The Apache Software Foundation
Established in 1999, The Apache Software Foundation provides organizational, legal, and financial support for more than 130 freely-available, collaboratively-developed Open Source projects. The pragmatic Apache License enables individual and commercial users to easily deploy Apache software; the Foundation's intellectual property framework limits the legal exposure of its 300 Members and 2,500+ Committers.

Apress
Apress is a technical publisher devoted to meeting the needs of IT professionals, software developers, and programmers, with more than 1000 books in print and a continually expanding portfolio of publications. Apress provides high-quality, no-fluff content in print and electronic formats that help serious technology professionals build a comprehensive pathway to career success. Apress books are written with The Expert's Voice™.

BlackRay
BlackRay is an innovative, fully relational in-memory database system designed to offer performance features commonly associated with search engines. It offers fulltext search, function based indeces, JDBC/ODBC via Postgres drivers as well as object oriented APIs. BlackRay is available under the GPLv2.

Chisimba
The African Virtual Open Initiatives and Resources (AVOIR) builds capacity in software engineering in Africa primarily using Chisimba. The organization has 16 African Universities and partners outside the continent. They collaboratively participate in development, implementation of Chisimba products, seek business opportunities for sustainability, and promote the network, and its services.

click2try
click2try™ is a content rich website for testing, evaluating, demoing, and hosting Open Source software products on pre-configured virtual appliances. click2try™ is committed to extending the access and usability of Open Source software to as many people as possible by making it simple, reliable and economical to use. Visit http://www.click2try.com.

Cloudera
Cloudera provides software, support and services for large-scale data consolidation, storage and processing. Based on the popular Apache Hadoop project, Cloudera's products allow enterprises to capture and explore complex and structured data using powerful analyses. Cloudera's products integrate with existing data warehouse deployments enabling organizations to analyze all their data.

Code for America
Code for America was founded to help the brightest minds of the Web 2.0 and open source communities transform city governments. What if, instead of cutting services or raising taxes, cities could leverage the power of the web to become more efficient, transparent, and participatory? Come find out how you can help.

Codeplex
Codeplex.org is an independent open source foundation that enables corporations to innovate with more agility by collaborating with open source communities. The only open source foundation that is platform, technology, and license agnostic, Codeplex.org provides governance and legal mechanisms that support clarity and certainty for corporations that want to participate in open source as well as best practices, processes and legal structures that meet the needs of open source developers.

CommonPlaces
CommonPlaces e-Solutions (commonplaces.com) provides open source strategy and Web development services for member-driven businesses and organizations. With 12 years of development integration, and data collaboration experience, CommonPlaces delivers award-wining Web and Mobile applications that blend Content Management with custom e-Commerce to help our clients reach the next level of profit and success.

DB Relay
DB Relay is an open source project built around the NGiNX web server platform, providing an HTTP/JSON interface to a variety of database servers. It enables database access without drivers and web application development without middleware. Designed for operational efficiency and ease of maintenance. Hosted at http://www.dbrelay.com/

DemocracyLab
DemocracyLab is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the democratic process and producing collaborative solutions to public policy problems. DemocracyLab is an interactive online think tank that uses participants' posts and votes to build a dynamic map of political thought. The result is an engaging public forum where the best thinking rises to the top, creating a community-driven alternative to traditional politics.

Dreamfish
Dreamfish offers you the opportunity of a global work cooperative with a human vision. We enrich our lives with open technology, service learning, and a peer economy. We are alleviating poverty, one person at a time. Dreamfish for human work. Join us at OSCON - visit our booth. @love2dreamfish

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the leading organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. We defend free speech on the Internet, fight illegal surveillance, promote the rights of innovators to develop digital technologies, and work to ensure that the rights and freedoms we enjoy are enhanced, rather than eroded, as our use of technology grows.

Everest Consultants
Everest Consultants is a proven outsource development and recruiting partner. From requirements definition to development to testing, Everest's certified engineers allow you tremendous resource flexibility to allow you to deliver more while dramatically reducing engineering costs. With onsite and offshore delivery models to best fit your needs, Everest can help you reach your goals!

Facebook
Founded in February 2004, Facebook is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. The company develops technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph, the digital mapping of people's real-world social connections. Anyone can sign up for Facebook and interact with the people they know in a trusted environment. Facebook is a part of millions of people's lives and half of the users return daily. Facebook is a privately-held company and is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif.

FamilySearch International
FamilySearch International is delivering Open Genealogical Data through an expanding platform that includes: 1) APIs to billions of names and records 2) encouragement and contribution to open source projects for API wrappers and sample code for many environments. 3) Free Developers Services are offered through DevNet.FamilySearch.org, Forums, List Services, Groups, Phone and Email Support.

Fedora
Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that showcases the latest in free and open source software. Fedora is always free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute. It is built by people across the globe who work together as a community: the Fedora Project. The Fedora Project is open and anyone is welcome to join.

FireHost
FireHost is a leading Secure Web Hosting company that provides premium Web hosting solutions to protect against today's unique security threats. For small to mid-size businesses with mission critical websites, FireHost delivers secure enterprise-level hosting solutions at affordable rates.

FreeBSD
FreeBSD® is an advanced operating system for modern server, desktop, and embedded computer platforms. FreeBSD's code base has undergone over thirty years of continuous development, improvement, and optimization. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. FreeBSD provides advanced networking, impressive security features, and world class performance and is used by some of the world's busiest web sites and most pervasive embedded networking and storage devices.

GoDaddy
When you're already good at what you do, having the right resources can take you even further. Join our application developer teams and work with cutting edge technologies. We reward innovation and value hard work. Want to learn more contact us at recruiting@godaddy.com or visit godaddy.com/jobs.

HP
As the world's largest IT company, HP focuses on simplifying technology experiences for all its customers - from individual consumers to large enterprises. HP helps businesses focus on innovation instead of IT operations by offering robust solutions based on HP inventions, open source software, and industry-standard hardware in a converged infrastructure. In fact, as the leading provider of scalable Linux platforms, HP ships one Linux server every minute. HP not only uses open source within the company extensively but also contributes our expertise to hundreds of open source projects worldwide. In fact, we built tools for open source governance in enterprises, then released them as an open source project called FOSSology. Also, HP helps lead the thriving FOSSBazaar community focused on free and open source governance best practices, education, and tools. Stop by our booth to learn more about open source and Linux from HP.

HTSQL by Prometheus Research
HTSQL by Prometheus Research is the easiest way to connect SQL databases to the web, reducing development time and minimizing mistakes. HTSQL uses simple URL queries, works with open source databases, and is a painless way to create data-driven reports, dashboards, and web applications fast and at low cost.

Impetus Technologies Inc.
Impetus provides Software Product Engineering and Technology R&D services. Offering innovative and agile business models, we partner with our clients comprising large scale ISVs and technology innovators, to deliver cutting-edge software products. Our expertise spans the domains of Data Analytics, Large Data Management, SaaS, Cloud Computing, Performance Engineering, and Social Media. Our contributions to Open Source in the areas of Ruby on Rails, Google App Engine, Hadoop and Apache Shindig are noteworthy examples of our commitment to this community.

Infobright, Inc
Infobright's high performance columnar database, based on MySQL, is the preferred choice for analytic applications and data marts, delivering fast query performance against large data volumes. Easy to implement, with unmatched operational simplicity, Infobright is being used by enterprises, SaaS and software companies to provide rapid access to critical business data. Download Infobright Community Edition and join the Community at infobright.org

Intel
Intel's Open Source commitment runs deep. We offer deep technical expertise to the ecosystem, making contributions that enhance the performance, stability, and security of Open Source software. We also initiate communities like MeeGo.com and LessWatts.org that help foster innovation, and we participate in standards bodies to help move the industry forward. Because commercial products based on Open Source are an important part of the ecosystem, Intel works with those providers to optimize their solutions for the latest hardware features. As a result, end customers all over the world look to Intel® architecture as the platform of choice for Open Source solutions. Learn more at oss.intel.com.

ISC
Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation best known for the open source software BIND and ISC DHCP. ISC operates the F-root nameserver, DLV registry and provides secondary DNS service for non-profit and for commercial enterprises. ISC also offers professional services related to our open source products such as support, training and consulting.

JasperSoft
Jaspersoft's open source business intelligence is the world's most widely used BI software, with more than 10 million product downloads worldwide and more than 12,000 commercial customers in 100 countries. Jaspersoft is the only BI vendor enabling true multi-tenancy while providing a common platform for on-premise, virtualized, SaaS and Cloud deployments.

Joget Workflow Management System
Joget Workflow is an open source workflow management system that simplifies the building of web-based, workflow-driven applications. Business users can graphically design, execute as well as monitor processes and forms in a simple cycle. Developers can extend the system using a plugin architecture and simple APIs.

Kaltura
Kaltura provides the world's first Open Source Online Video Platform. Over 60,000 web publishers, service providers, developers, and educational institutions use Kaltura's flexible platform to enhance their websites, web-services, and web-platforms with advanced customized video, photo and audio functionalities, including publishing, management, syndication, monetization and analysis, as well as content uploading and remixing. The free community-supported self-hosted software and source-code is available for download at www.kaltura.org. A commercial version of the software can be obtained at www.kaltura.com along with Kaltura services such as streaming, hosting, transcoding, analytics, ad serving, support and maintenance packages, and professional development. Founded in 2006, New York-based Kaltura is also a founding member of the 'Open Video Alliance' (www.openvideoalliance.org), a coalition of organizations dedicated to fostering open standards for online video. For more information: www.kaltura.com and www.kaltura.org.

LINBIT
LINBIT has led the way in high-availability since 2001, and continues to be the open-source market leader in business uptime, disaster recovery, and continuity solutions. Built on a solid base of Austrian software engineering and open-source technology, DRBD is the industry standard for high-availability (HA) and data redundancy for mission critical systems. DRBD enables disaster recovery and HA for any application on Linux, including iSCSI, NFS, Apache, MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, Xen and KVM Virtualization, and many more.

Linux Fund
Linux Fund is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides financial and advisory support to the free and open software community. We have given away over $750,000 to open source events and development around the world since our founding in 1999 using funds raised through our line of credit cards and direct donations.

Linux Journal
Linux Journal is the premier Linux magazine, dedicated to serving the Linux community and promoting the use of Linux world-wide. A monthly periodical, Linux Journal was founded in 1994 and is currently celebrating its fourteenth year of publication.

Linux Pro Magazine
Linux Pro keeps the emphasis on practical techniques and delivers insightful technical articles on a range of topics, including reviews, advice on tools for sys admins, programming tips, and more. Each issue includes a Free Linux DVD! If you use Linux, you need Linux Pro! http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/

LinuxFest Northwest
LinuxFest Northwest is presented by volunteers from Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia, and draws hundreds of attendees from around the region. It features internationally recognized speakers from well-known open source projects, as well as a variety of interesting exhibits and demonstrations. Admission is free, and all ages are welcome.

Lockheed Martin
At Lockheed Martin, we are driven by innovation and integrity. We believe that by applying the highest standards of business ethics and visionary thinking, everything is within our reach -- and yours. Like creating systems vital to the safety and security of our nation and international partners. Like shaping the latest technological breakthroughs that redefine defense, information technology, and commercial business. Like delivering countless systems and products that reflect the best ideas of people around the globe. We invite you to explore the possibilities with one of the foremost systems engineering, software and systems integration companies in the world.

Manning Publications
Manning Publications publishes computer books for professionals--programmers, system administrators, designers, architects, managers and others. Our focus is on computing titles at professional levels. We care about the quality of our books. We work with our authors to coax out of them the best writing they can produce. We consult with technical experts on book proposals and manuscripts, and we may use as many as two dozen reviewers in various stages of preparing a manuscript. The abilities of each author are nurtured to encourage him or her to write a first-rate book.

MariaDB
MariaDB is a database server that offers drop-in replacement functionality for MySQL. MariaDB is built by some of the original authors of MySQL, with assistance from the broader community of Free and open source software developers. In addition to the core functionality of MySQL, MariaDB offers a rich set of feature enhancements including alternate storage engines, server optimizations, and patches.

Marvell
Marvell's expertise in microprocessor architecture and digital signal processing drives multiple platforms including high volume storage solutions, mobile and wireless, networking, consumer and green products. World class engineering and mixed-signal design expertise helps Marvell deliver critical building blocks to its customers, giving them the competitive edge to succeed.

memcached
Free & open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.

Mifos
Mifos® is Grameen Foundation's award-winning open source information management platform for microfinance. Our technology, freely downloadable or available in the Cloud, powers the operations of a microfinance institution to more efficiently deliver financial services to the poor. Mifos and its global community are supported and led by Grameen Technology Center in Seattle. Join us and help transform technology from a barrier into an accelerator to scale the growth and impact of microfinance.

MindTouch
MindTouch leads the Enterprise Collaborative Network market, offering open source solutions that increase workgroup efficiency and productivity and rapidly produces results through the use of collaborative intranets, extranets and knowledge bases. With over 1,000 customers and 16 million users, MindTouch delivers the world's best platform for creating, aggregating, and sharing information regardless of form. In 2009, MindTouch was cited as a Forrester Wave Strong Performer and the best product alternative to Microsoft SharePoint and IBM Lotus.

MongoDB
10gen sponsors the open source project MongoDB, and provides commercial support, consulting, and training for Mongo. MongoDB (from "humongous") is a scalable, high-performance, document-oriented database. MongoDB bridges the gap between key-value stores (which are fast and highly scalable) and traditional RDBMS systems (which provide rich queries and deep functionality).

NorthScale, Inc.
NorthScale, the elastic data infrastructure software company, provides a new class of data management technology that scales out, enabling customers to dramatically lower costs while improving scalability and performance of their web applications. NorthScale is behind some of the world's busiest web applications including Zynga's FarmVille and Cafe World.

O'Reilly Media
O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying faint signals from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. Whether it's delivered in print, online, or in person, everything O'Reilly produces reflects the company's unshakeable belief in the power of information to spur innovation. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.

Ohio LinuxFest
The Ohio LinuxFest is a free, grassroots conference for the GNU/Linux/Open Source Software/Free Software community. OLF offers a wealth of authoritative speakers, classroom and workshop learning experiences, an expo area with exhibits from sponsors and non-profit groups alike, and much more. Ohio LinuxFest is held every fall in Columbus, Ohio.

OpenBSD
The OpenBSD project produces a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. The project's efforts emphasize portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography. The project is widely known for the developers' insistence on open source code and quality documentation; uncompromising position on software licensing; and focus on security and code correctness.

OpenClothes.org
OpenClothes.org is an innovative way to support your favorite free software projects. The OpenClothes team is dedicated to supporting open source and free software developers through advertising and donations. We offer open source and free software users the ability to purchase quality merchandise embroidered with the logos of the projects that contribute to the enjoyment, productivity, and quality of their lives. A large portion of the proceeds from this merchandise goes directly to support the software project.

OpSource
OpSource provides cloud and managed hosting solutions that enable businesses of all sizes to accelerate growth and scale operations while controlling costs and reducing IT infrastructure support risks. More than four hundred Software-as-a-Service ISVs, cloud platform providers, carriers and enterprises rely on OpSource's expertise, experience and agility to operate high-availability, business-critical hosting environments.

Oracle
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company. For more information about Oracle, visit oracle.com.

OSU Open Source Lab
The Open Source Lab is home to growing, high-impact open source communities. Its world-class hosting services have enabled Linux, Apache, Firefox and over 50 other leading open source software projects to reach millions of users. Through custom development and industry events, the Lab's staff and students encourage open source adoption in education, government, health care and other sectors.

OW2
OW2 is an independent industry community dedicated todeveloping open source code infrastructure (middleware and generic applications) and to fostering a vibrant community and business ecosystem. The OW2 Consortium hosts some one hundred technology projects, including Acceleo, ASM, Bonita, eXo Platorm, Funambol, JOnAS, Lomboz, Orbeon Forms, PetALS, SpagoBI and XWiki. Visit www.ow2.org

Palamida
Palamida is the industry's first application security solution targeting today's widespread use of Open Source Software. It uses component-level analysis to quickly identify and track undocumented code and associated security vulnerabilities as well as intellectual property and compliance issues and allows development organizations to cost-effectively manage and secure mission critical applications and products.

Parallels
Parallels is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and cloud services providers across all major hardware, operating systems, and virtualization platforms. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with more than 700 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information, please visit www.parallels.com.

PayPal
PayPal X, PayPal's open payments platform, offers a versatile, easy way to integrate secure, globally-accepted payment functionality directly into almost any experience, product or service. Using an innovative set of APIs, developers can now monetize their applications and innovations quickly and easily. Visit us at X.com where you access the available PayPal technical product offerings, documentation, sample applications and code. See how developers are already creating new ways to pay and get paid with live applications in our app showcase. Join us as we redefine how people globally will pay for the things they want and need everyday.

PDXPHP
Our Mission: The Portland PHP Users Group is a community forum for people to share, meet and learn about PHP and Open Source technologies. The group strives to be a valuable resource for anyone interested in PHP regardless of their skill level or background. Through sharing and communication we believe we can foster a creative and successful community of PHP developers.

The Perl Foundation
Perl is a stable, cross-platform, open source programming language used for mission critical projects in the public and private sectors. The Perl Foundation is a non-profit corporation established to advance the use and development of the Perl programming language.

phpBB
phpBB is the world's leading Open Source forum software. Distributed under the GNU General Public License, phpBB is free software, developed by volunteers from around the world. phpBB is used on over 2.4 million commercial, non-profit, social networking and community websites in over sixty languages.

Plone
Plone is a Python-based, open-source content management system that allows non-technical end-users to manage content using only a browser. It has replaced commercial products like Sharepoint and Vignette for intranets, document management and public websites at major companies, universities and governments around the world. It is supported by a global community of developers and integrators.

Pogo Linux
Pogo Linux is an open source systems integrator based in Seattle, Washington. With in-house technical expertise and a multi-OS focus, Pogo Linux offers a wide range of workstations, servers and storage systems for every IT project or budget. The company specializes in providing affordable, reliable and energy-efficient Linux, Solaris and Windows-based systems. From a single database server to a complete data center deployment, each order includes the type of world-class support you would expect from a company that's served the Linux and open source communities for over a decade.

The Portland Drupal User Group
Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. The Portland Drupal User Group welcomes everyone, from people wanting to learn if Drupal is right for them to experienced developers.

Portland Girls in Tech
Girls in Tech, Portland Oregon is a non-profit social network enterprise focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of like-minded, professional, intelligent and influential women in technology. As young women with the capacity to inspire, we made it our personal desire and passion to create and sustain an organization that focuses on the collaboration, promotion, growth and success of women in the technology sector. Girls in Tech aims to offer a variety of resources and tools for women to supplement and further enhance their professional careers and aspirations in technology. Some of these resources include, educational workshops and lectures, networking functions, round table discussions, conferences, social engagements, and recruitment events.

The Portland Linux/Unix Group
The Portland Linux/Unix Group, also know as PLUG, is the oldest and largest Open Source group in Oregon. PLUG's goal is to provide educational, social, and career opportunities to the Open Source community in Oregon and Southwest Washington. PLUG organizes meetings and clinics several times a month and attracts the best speakers in the area. PLUG also has a vibrant online community and is the best place to start when discovering Portland's Open Source community or are ready to organize a new community group for your favorite project.

PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is the world's most advanced and rapidly evolving open source database, with more than 20 years of development by a community of hundreds of database developers from dozens of countries. Our long time support of an enterprise level feature set including transactions, SQL standards compliance, aggregation and subqueries makes PostgreSQL suitable for large enterprises and governments. Easy extensibility through stored procedures and custom data objects makes PostgreSQL exciting for developers. Try PostgreSQL for your next database application!

Powell's Books
Powell's Books has been an independent bookseller since 1971. Powell's serves the Portland, Oregon, area with four general bookstores and two specialty stores. Its flagship store takes up an entire city block, offering 68,000 sq. feet of used, new, rare, and out-of-print books. Online since 1994, Powells.com offers the combined inventory of its six retail locations and five warehouses - approximately four million books in all. The site features exclusive author interviews and essays, as well as a stable of internationally respected book reviewers and content partners. Forbes magazine crowned the site a Forbes Favorite, applauding its huge selection of new, used and rare books, all swathed in smart content.

Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. (QuIC) is a Qualcomm subsidiary, focused on enabling and optimizing open source software for use with wireless technology via technical innovations that leverage the advanced capabilities of today's mobile devices, with a particular eye on optimizing platforms and the applications that run on the OS through tight hardware integration. Key QuIC initiatives include optimally mobilizing Linux™ and WebKit™, and contributions to such OSes as Android™, Chrome™ and MeeGo™.

QualiPSo
QualiPSo is one of the largest R&D projects on open source publicly funded by the European Union. It is a unique alliance of European, Brazilian and Chinese ICT industry players, SMEs, governments and academics to help industries and governments to fuel innovation and competitiveness with Quality Free Open Source software.

Rackspace Hosting
Rackspace Hosting is the world's leading specialist in hosting and cloud computing. The San Antonio-based company provides Fanatical Support (r) to its customers, across a portfolio of IT services, including Managed Hosting and Cloud Computing. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com or call 1-800-961-4454.

Rhomobile
Rhomobile makes it easy to create cross-platform native applications for all major smartphones with Rhodes, the open-source smartphone app framework. Along with RhoHub, the hosted development as a service for mobile and RhoSync, a standalone server that keeps enterprise application data current and available on users' phones, Rhomobile's suite of products provide a complete mobility solution for enterprises of all sizes.

Schooner Information Technology
Schooner Information Technology provides smooth scaling for datacenters that use MySQL or memcached. Schooner makes plug-and-play appliances that deliver eight-to-one server consolidation in a flash, reduce power consumption, cut the total cost of ownership by 50%, and create new business opportunities by providing fast, reliable access to terabyte-scale data.

Silicon Mechanics
Silicon Mechanics is a leading manufacturer of rackmount servers, storage, and high-performance computing clusters. Our products are supported by the best warranty offerings available, and backed by experts dedicated to excellence. Our unique website allows customers to easily configure hardware and evaluate their options. Visit www.siliconmechanics.com to custom-configure your system.

The Software Association of Oregon
The Software Association of Oregon is the only Oregon-based trade association dedicated solely to supporting the success of our state's software and technology Industries. The SAO has helped connect leading industry innovators with people, ideas and networks, building a foundation that supports innovation and the entrepreneurial spirit.

Software Freedom Law Center
The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) provides pro-bono legal assistance and other law-related services to protect and advance Free and Open Source Software. Founded in 2005, the SFLC now represents many of the most important, well-established Free and Open Source Software projects and developers.

SourceGear
SourceGear's open source roots go back to 1998, when they launched the AbiWord project at this conference. They eventually became a successful developer of commercial products for users of Visual Studio. There is no apparent reason why an evil proprietary software vendor like SourceGear would want to be a sponsor of OSCON.

Symbian
Symbian is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to driving innovation in the mobile space. The company manages the open source Symbian platform, which has shipped in over 340 million smartphones around the world to-date. For more information please visit www.symbian.org and developer.symbian.org

TYPO3
TYPO3 is a powerful and scalable open-source enterprise content management system that is easy to use and maintain. Well-suited for complex web and intranet sites alike, it offers the advantage of a highly customizable modular plugin system for maximum flexibility and extensibility. Its loyal community and mature API make TYPO3 the time-tested choice in enterprise content management.

Ubuntu
Ubuntu is a community developed, GNU/Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. The distribution provides an up-to-date, stable experience for the average user, with a strong focus on usability and ease of installation. Ubuntu is Zulu for "Humanity to Others," and is embodied by its community.

WSO2
WSO2 delivers the only complete open source enterprise middleware platform - WSO2 Carbon, available as straightforward server downloads or through WSO2 Stratos as PaaS in private, public, or hybrid clouds. From inception through production WSO2 supports customers with architectural guidance, developer support, and long-term production support. We are a global company located in US, UK and Sri Lanka.

XBMC
XBMC is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub for digital media. XBMC is available for Linux, OSX, and Windows. Created in 2003 by a group of like minded programmers, XBMC is a non-profit project run and developed by volunteers located around the world. More than 50 software developers have contributed to XBMC, and 100-plus translators have worked to expand its reach, making it available in more than 30 languages.