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POSSCON 2012 Brings IT Legend Scott McNealy to Columbia, SC

March 1st, 2012 | Posted by Whitney Williams in Education | Grow IT | IT-oLogy Defined - (0 Comments)

The Palmetto Open Source Software Conference (POSSCON), presented by IT-oLogy, will bring together the biggest names and companies in the information technology (IT) industry to discuss the latest issues for developers, executives, government leaders and educators. World-class speakers like Scott McNealy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and one of the most influential people in the history of technology, will be featured along with many others. 

Top companies like Twitter, Red Hat, IBM, Oracle, HP, Google, Homeland Security, Apache, Rackspace, EMC and FireHost will also attend and participate.

POSSCON will be held at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center March 28-29, and will feature track sessions, hands-on training and social and networking events. Tracks will include Education, Technical, Big Picture and Demo/Training.

Other speakers include Dr. Douglas Maughan, Director, Department of Homeland Security, Cyber Security Division; Jim Jagielski, Co-Founder and President, Apache Software Foundation; Chris Aniszcyck, Open Source Manager, Twitter, Inc.; and many others.

Started in 2008, POSSCON is an annual gathering of industry experts, thought leaders, IT decision makers, software programmers and educators around the topic of open source.  The conference has steadily grown since it began, and in 2011 approximately 500 people from 24 states attended, 30 colleges and universities and more than 100 private and government organizations were represented.  Open source is a philosophy and methodology based on making source code available and redistributable. 

Major sponsors include IBM, IT-oLogy, OpenStack, Verizon Wireless, BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina and the City of Columbia. Others include Canonical, Chipco Computer Distributors, Inc., FireHost, GitHub, Google, Health Sciences South Carolina, Hewlett Packard Company, Linode, OpenSource.com, Oracle, Percona, Inc., Rackspace Hosting, Red Hat, SkySQL, SPARC, SUSE and TM Floyd & Company.

Developers, executives, government leaders and educators will all benefit from attending POSSCON. Registration is available at www.posscon.org.

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POSSCON 2012 Early, Early Bird Registration Closes January 31

January 20th, 2012 | Posted by Whitney Williams in Education | IT-oLogy Defined - (0 Comments)

POSSCON 2012The Early, Early Bird Registration rate of $99 will close on January 31st for the world-class Palmetto Open Source Software Conference, presented by IT-oLogy.

The Palmetto Open Source Software Conference will once again bring a world-class lineup of IT thought leaders to the Southeast for two days to discuss the latest issues for developers, executives, government leaders and educators.

We are extremely pleased to announce that Scott McNealy will headline POSSCON 2012. He is one of the most influential and widely quoted leaders in the history of IT. Whether co-founding Sun Microsystems at the age of 27, eventually selling Sun Microsystems to Oracle, overseeing the development of Java and the acquisition of MySQL, assuming the role of defender of the free computing world, originating the visionary phrase ‘the network is the computer,’ or starting the open source education nonprofit Curriki, McNealy has literally changed the course of technology and open source history.

POSSCON 2012 will be held at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center March 28-29, 2012, and will feature track sessions, hands-on training and social and networking events. Tracks will include Education, Technical, Big Picture and Demo/Training.

Other speakers include Dr. Douglas Maughan, Director, Department of Homeland Security, Cyber Security Division; Jim Jagielski, Co-Founder and President, Apache Software Foundation; Chris Aniszcyck, Open Source Manager, Twitter, Inc.; and many others.

In 2011, more than 500 people from 15 states, 30 colleges and universities and approximately 100 business and government organizations attended.

Early-early bird registration is now open at a discounted rate of $99. Registration is available at www.posscon.org.

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