To Educate About the Importance of ODF and Open Standards
Document Freedom Day 2010 is March 31st and there will be events all over the world. Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for document liberation. It will be a day of grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of Open Document Formats (ODF) and Open Standards in general. Learn more about DFD and how to get involved by visiting the DFD\’s main page.
Upcoming Topics on OTN’s TechCast
The lineup for the next three shows of Oracle Technology Network\’s TechCast are as follows:
Tune in to The TechCast Show hosted by OTN Senior Director Justin Kestelyn at 10 a.m. Pacific Time on the dates listed above, and listen in live. Questions can also be posed via Twitter, Facebook, or the native chat offered.
Save Up to $250 by Registering Before March 19 
The MySQL Conference & Expo is set for April 12-15, 2010, in Santa Clara, Calif. Chief Corporate Architect at Oracle Edward Screven is set to speak along with Kaj Arno, VP of the MySQL Community; Johan Andersson, a senior manager with MySQL; and a number of other industry professionals. To save $250 off the conference plus tutorials price, register before March 15, 2010.
Presenters Have Until March 14 to Submit Proposals
March 14 is the deadline for those wanting to submit papers for the JavaOne 2010 conference. This year’s conference will be co-located with Oracle Develop during the week of Oracle OpenWorld. Set for Sept. 19-23 in San Francisco, JavaOne 2010 will be offering the following tracks, and proposals to speak are being accepted under them: Core Java Platform; Java SE and Desktop Java; Java EE and Java for Enterprise Applications; JavaFX and Rich User Experience; Java ME and Mobile; Java for Devices, Card, and TV; and The Java Frontier.
Save up to $700 for Full Conference Benefits
Get $700 off Oracle OpenWorld 2010’s full conference registration price by securing a spot before March 19. The conference is scheduled for Sept. 19-23, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. More than 1,800 sessions will be held along with 400 partner exhibits and hundreds of demos.
Learn the What, Why, and How of Cloud Computing
Oracle’s Cloud Computing Forum will kick-off its North American leg of the tour on Feb. 23, in L.A., while simultaneously continuing its Europe, Middle East, and Africa tour and Asia Pacific tour on the topic with events in London, Munich, and Seoul on the same day. The event stands in contrast to CEO Larry Ellison’s well-publicized mocking of cloud computing, which he has deemed a rebranding and conflation of existing technologies.
Registration for Special Welcome Event Currently Underway
If you’d like to hear directly from Oracle and Sun executives about the combination of the two companies’ technologies and what it might mean for you and your company, then consider attending a special Welcome Event being presented at select cities around the world. Designed as an informative session, this event will explore Oracle’s plans to engineer and deliver open and integrated systems - from applications to disk.
Also Posted Replays from December and January Webcasts
Registration is currently underway for Oracle Database February Webcasts. These live webcasts feature experts who will be covering various topics involving the database and security, upgrading, and consolidating. Also posted are past webcasts from December and January that are available for replay. Topics covered include clustering, data encryption, security and regulatory compliance, high availability best practices, and transaction processing and data warehousing.
An Intimate Conversation with Sun’s Datacenter Experts
A multi-city tour is planned to discuss datacenter design. The half-day event offers a presentation and panel discussion with information on Sun’s experiences in building some of the world’s greenest datacenters along with tips on building better datacenter efficiencies. Registration is currently underway.
April 14-16, Monterey Bay, Calif.
The Lustre User Group 2010 conference is set for April 14-16, in Aptos, Calif. on Monterey Bay. Registration for the event, which is ongoing, will be limited to 150 people to ensure the conference remains conversational and interactive. The first day of the conference will consist of a Lustre User Advanced Seminar and the following two days will cover a variety of topics, lead by both Sun experts and Lustre users.
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