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Hello, The call for participation for Velocity New York is now open. If you have insights, knowledge, or practical experience in any of the themes we'll explore at Velocity in New York this October—we want to hear from you. We're accepting proposals through April 29, 2013. For complete details, see the Velocity Call for Participation page. Some of the themes and memes we're interested in for the 2013 conference program include:
Cheers, —Marsee Henon and Jon Johns Available for ReviewThe UG team is looking for book reviewers for the following books. Consider posting your reviews on Amazon, Slashdot, oreilly.com, and/or your blog. It's easy for you to get books for your meeting or special events—just email userg...@oreilly.com and include the words "book request" in the subject line. Don't forget to include your deadline and shipping address. Prefer ebooks? We can send you a free ebook certificate to print out for raffles or book reviewers. New Releases
Big Data TechCon—$100 UG Discount (April 8-10—Boston, MA)BZ Media's inaugural Big Data TechCon will focus on the entire big data ecosystem and attract developers, IT managers, and practitioners. Big Data TechCon is technology-agnostic and will apply to organizations using relational databases, NoSQL databases, graph databases, unstructured data, flat files and data feeds. Receive a $100 discount off the 3-day pass by inserting the code OREILLY when prompted. Exhibits are free. Open Tech NYC 2013 (March 30—NYC)Open source is driving the NYC tech scene - from locally grown open source projects, to startups and big enterprises that run on open source, to new organizations and collaborative models that grew up in New York City. GOTO Conference (April 23-24—Chicago, IL)The first GOTO Chicago conference to take place this April in Downtown Chicago at the Drake Hotel. The GOTO Chicago program is created "by developers, for developers" where the emphasis is placed on presenting latest developments as they become relevant and interesting for the software development community. Some of the industry's best speakers, practitioners and trainers will be at GOTO Chicago to present and train on a variety of topic areas. Speakers include O'Reilly authors Dean Wampler and John Allspaw. Using Arduinos to make conferences betterGigaOM recently wrote about our Data Sensing Lab at the recent Strata Conference: "Can Arduino devices jam-packed with sensors help you plan your next conference better? That's what O'Reilly Media is trying to figure out....A small and simple open-source computer board that can connect to sensors, the Arduino was one of 50 such gadgets that O'Reilly Media, host of the Strata Conference, planted around the facility. Sensors attached to the Arduinos pick up humidity, motion, sound and temperature data which they collect and wirelessly send to a ZigBee device that uploads it all to an Amazon Web Services cloud for real-time visualization and analysis and future processing, said tech-book author Alasdair Allan, one of the people behind the project." Cross Platform App Development with Enyo
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