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The O'Reilly School of Technology was built as a place to give aspiring programmers and administrators a ladder into the Information Technology and Systems industry. With unique, online, hands-on courses leading to certification from the world-famous University of Illinois, OST will help you gain an edge in your career -- on your own time, at your own pace. When you have completed our courses, you will not only have certification, but you will also have a portfolio of completed projects to show for your effort.

The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation, by Jono Bacon, is a new source of knowledge about building strong, cohesive community. It could be the catalyst for many effective communities. In this book, author Jono Bacon offers a collection of experiences, observations, and thoughts from his decade-long involvement in building and managing communities for open source software. Currently, he's the Community Manager for Ubuntu, arguably the largest community in the open source software arena. His relationships with other community managers, along with his own experience, provide a rich and deep well of expertise.

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Happening June 9–11, 2009 Burlingame, CA, at the San Francisco Airport Marriott, Found 2009 will change how developers create web applications so that search connects their sites to their potential customers. The way to online success is through being easily found in search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Live Search. While developers have historically thought of search as a marketing activity, technical architecture has now become critical for search success. Found is the authoritative place to discover best practices for this industry and gain a thorough understanding of why search-friendly architecture is absolutely mission-critical to businesses of all sizes. No spammy tricks.

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OSCON 2009 is happening July 20-24, 2009 in San Jose, CA. It is at the crossroads of all things open source, a deeply technical conference that brings community ideals face-to-face with business practicality. Come together with 3,000 of the best, brightest, and most interesting people to explore what's new and to help define, maintain, and extend the identity of what it means to be open source. OSCON is the place to be inspired and challenged, renew bonds to community, make new connections, and discover the most relevant projects and products to help you do your best. The 2009 edition of OSCON will be in San Jose, California. We look forward to engaging in new activities, and to welcoming the participation of new projects and local open source communities that the new location will bring.

RailsConf 2009 will take place May 4-7, 2009 at the Las Vegas Hilton. RailsConf is the official event for the growing Rails community. In addition to moving RailsConf to the Las Vegas Hilton—with restaurants, shows, casinos, shopping and more—we're making a couple more changes designed to enrich your conference experience. RailsConf 2009 will take place entirely during the work week. We recognize that most of you are professionals as well as fans, so this should make it easier for more of you to attend without giving up your weekend.

Where 2.0 Conference 2009 will take place May 19-21, 2009 in San Jose, California. The third annual O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference brings together the people, projects, and issues building the new technological foundations and creating value in the location industry. There's no better place to meet the people behind the mash-ups and platforms, and the folks looking ahead to the future of geospace. Where 2.0 is the one place where corporate decision-makers can meet the people building the next wave of location- and mapping-enabled technology; where CTOs swap ideas with grassroots developers building mash-ups; where community activists network with venture capitalists looking for the next investment opportunity.

MySQL Conference & Expo 2009, co-presented by O'Reilly Media and MySQL, will be held April 20-23, 2009 in Santa Clara, CA. The largest gathering of MySQL developers, users, and DBAs worldwide, the event reflects MySQL's wide-ranging appeal and capabilities. The open atmosphere of the MySQL Conference & Expo helps IT professionals and community members to create the best database applications, tools, and software through expert instruction, hands-on tutorials, readily available MySQL developers, and guru business advice. Users gain the knowledge they need to rapidly build solid applications with MySQL that scale with the enterprise.