Googlers on the road: OSCON 2016 in Austin

MAY 09, 2016

Originally posted on Google open source Blog

By Josh Simmons, Open Source Programs Office

Developers and open source enthusiasts converge on Austin, Texas in just under two weeks for O’Reilly Media’s annual open source conference, OSCON, and the Community Leadership Summit (CLS) that precedes it. CLS runs May 14-15 at the Austin Convention Center followed by OSCON from May 16-19.


OSCON 2014 program chairs including Googler Sarah Novotny.
Photo licensed by O'Reilly Media under CC-BY-NC 2.0.

This year we have 10 Googlers hosting sessions covering topics including web development, machine learning, devops, astronomy and open source. A list of all of the talks hosted by Googlers alongside related events can be found below.

If you’re a student, educator, mentor, past or present participant in Google Summer of Code or Google Code-in, or just interested in learning more about the two programs, make sure to join us Monday evening for our Birds of a Feather session.

Have questions about Kubernetes, Google Summer of Code, open source at Google or just want to meet some Googlers? Stop by booth #307 in the Expo Hall.


Thursday, May 12th - GDG Austin
7:00pm   Google Developers Group Austin Meetup


Sunday, May 15th - Community Leadership Summit
10:00am  Occupational Hazard by Josh Simmons


Monday, May 16th
9:00am   Kubernetes: From scratch to production in 2 days by Brian Dorsey and Jeff Mendoza
7:00pm   Google Summer of Code and Google Code-in Birds of a Feather


Tuesday, May 17th
9:00am   Kubernetes: From scratch to production in 2 days by Brian Dorsey and Jeff Mendoza
9:00am   Diving into machine learning through TensorFlow by Julia Ferraioli, Amy Unruh and Eli Bixby


Wednesday, May 18th
1:50pm    Open source lessons from the TODO Group by Chris DiBona, Chris Aniszczyk, Nithya Ruff, Jeff McAffer and Benjamin VanEvery
5:10pm    Scalable bidirectional communication over the Web by Wenbo Zhu


Thursday, May 19th
11:00am  Kubernetes hackathon at OSCON Contribute hosted by Brian Dorsey, Nikhil Jindal, Janet Kuo, Jeff Mendoza, John Mulhausen, Sarah Novotny, Terrence Ryan and Chao Xu
2:40pm    Blocks in containers: Lessons learned from containerizing Minecraft by Julia Ferraioli
5:10pm    PANOPTES: Open source planet discovery by Jennifer Tong and Wilfred Gee
5:10pm    Stop writing JavaScript frameworks by Joseph Gregorio


Haven’t registered for OSCON yet? You can knock 25% off the cost of registration by using discount code Google25, or attend parts of the event including our Birds of a Feather session for free by using discount code OSCON16XPO.

See you at OSCON!