Large Open Source Conference in Downtown Atlanta

Hey everyone i wanted to share information about an open source software
conference, Great Wide Open, that is going on in Atlanta on April 2/3 2014.
I went to the Raleigh event they put on last year, All things Open, and it
was awesome.... Thought there might be some interest from all you FOSS guys
out there....


The Early Bird registration is now open for now open for Great Wide Open (
http://greatwideopen.org/), a world-class open source conference taking
place in 200 Peachtree in downtown Atlanta on April 2 & 3, 2014. We are
working very hard to make this a world-class conference for those with an
interest in Open Source, Open Tech, and the Open Web.

The goal of the event is to provide world-class education from some of the
most well known experts in the country, at a cost that provides a
tremendous ROI.  Whether you're a developer, programmer, scientist, data or
system administrator, CIO, CTO, IT manager, or just someone interested in
what's coming next, you will find sessions for you.  We sincerely hope you
can make it.

Why Should You Attend (show this to your boss or friends/colleagues):
http://greatwideopen.org/why-you-should-attend.php

Register Here (Early Bird tickets are on sale now!):
http://greatwideopen.org/register.php

Just a few of the confirmed speakers include:

Chris Aniszczyk - Twitter - Head of Open Source / Eclipse Foundation Board
member
Clay Johnson - Blue State Digital - Co-Founder / Author of The Information
Diet
Andy Hunt - The Pragmatic Programmer - Author
Ross Mason - Mulesoft - Founder & VP Product Strategy
Joel Esler - Cisco - Intelligence Lead / Open Source Manager
Trek Glowacki - Ember.js - Core Team Member
Ines Sombra - Engine Yard - Lead Data Engineer
David Meyer - OpenDaylight Project - Chair
Christopher Clark - Sparkfun Electronics - Director of IT
Ryan Berg - Sonatype - Chief Security Officer / Author
Steve Klabnik - Balanced - Developer / Author
Lynn Root - Spotify - Developer / Author
Leigh Heyman - Exec Office of the President - Dir. of New Media Technologies
Joe Stagner - Zend Technologies - Director of Developer Strategy
Jonathan LeBlanc - PayPal - Emmy Award Winning Engineer
Jim Jagielski - Outercurve Foundation - President
Jason Hibbets - Opensource.com - Director

The most important companies in the open source space will attend and
participate:

Red Hat
GitHub
Mozilla
Oracle
Acquia
Twitter
PayPal
Engine Yard
Apache Software Foundation
Hewlett Packard
Shadow Soft
Cloudera
Sparkfun Electronics
Groupon
SkySQL
SugarCRM
Open Software Integrators
Eucalyptus Systems
Mulesoft
Zend Technologies
Heroku
OpenSource.com
Spotify
CISCO
Brocade
Blackduck Software

Early Bird tickets are just $99 per day and $149 for both. The ROI with
this event is a no-brainer. We challenge you to find more value in a
conference anywhere. To purchase tickets, go to
http://greatwideopen.org/register.php

For the latest updates:

Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GWOcon
Track us on Lanyrd: http://lanyrd.com/2014/great-wide-open/

Thanks,
Danny Perez-Caballero
Organizer for Great Wide Open
danny-+KdUMDfHRYr3Da9YtNEcs9i2O/[email protected]

Cheers
Vincent

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