Jeremy Johnstone

I apologize for the extremely late notice, but James Jones (also of Yahoo!) and I will be giving a talk at OSCON in Portland, OR which you might find interesting. Here is the relevant information:

Yahoo! Disaster Response: Being prepared for the next Katrina

After learning from the lessons of Hurricane Katrina last fall, Yahoo! saw a real void in disaster response which it felt sorely needed to be filled. This talk will outline the proposal of what Yahoo! plans to build which already has positive input from the American Red Cross, Department of Homeland Security, and other non-profit groups. We plan to capitalize on and promote existing open-source technologies, like Sahana, and new open data sharing standards to be better prepared for the next disaster. Come get a quick insight into the system and offer your feedback and comments.

Speakers:
James Jones, Technical Yahoo!
Jeremy Johnstone, Technical Yahoo!

Date/Time:
Friday, July 28th, 2006
11:35am - 12:20pm

Location:
OSCON 2006
Oregon Convention Center - room E141
Portland, OR

Please tell everyone you know who would be interested to come!

Update: room information posted

This year I will be speaking at a bit larger of a conference than last year. I was invited to speak at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland at the end of July. Looking at the topics list, it is sure to be a fantastic conference again this year. My talk is entitled “Writing Your Own PHP Extensions: How & Why from A-Z” and has the title would lead you to think, it’s all about PHP Extensions. In this talk I will give a beginners guide to writing PHP extensions explaining reasons for doing so, how to start, and where to go from there. Code examples will be abundant and won’t be your typical “Hello World!” type extensions either, so be ready for useable code which will let you hit the ground running. For updated scheduling information about when the talk will be, look no further than right here. For other great PHP talks, looks right here. As happened last year, look me up during the conference and I will try and hook you up with some free Yahoo! schwag. I look forward to seeing you all there!