Take a look at the conference schedule. This year's conference promises to be very special, with a number of new activities and events, in addition to many returning favorites.

ApacheCon US 2008 features:

• Over a dozen Training Workshops from industry experts -- half-day, full-day and two-day classes are offered.
• More than 60 1-Hour Sessions on System Admin, Enterprise Web Services, Open Source & Business and more.
• For the first time, attendees may join Apache Committers at the Hackathon
• The Fast Feather Track returns, featuring short and to-the-point updates on the latest emerging technology from Apache
• The standing-room-only Business Panel returns to kick-off the Business Track
• Attendee-organized Birds of a Feather sessions bring together like-minded people
• An ApacheCon favorite, Lightning Talks are fast, furious, and fun!
• World-class Keynotes and vendor Expo

Check out what's new . . .

BarCampApache | OFBiz Symposium | Hadoop Camp

Don't miss out . . . Register today! 

A big "Thank You" to the great folks at Yahoo! and HotWax Media for providing scholarships towards the Hadoop Training, and the two OFBiz Trainings.

• To receive 50% off of the Hadoop Training, simply use the discount code <Hadoop50> on the payment page of your registration.
• To receive 50% off of the 1-day or 2-day OFBiz Trainings, use the discount code <HWM50> on the payment page.

New to Hadoop? Have some data you want to analyze? Have an idea to improve performance? Just want to play with TBs of data for its own sake? Cloudera is providing access to an Apache Hadoop cluster in the cloud and awarding prizes for the coolest hacks and applications.

Get details and register: cloudera.com

• David Recordon - "Learning from Apache to create Open Specifications"
• Shahani Markus Weerawarana, Ph.D. - "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants"
• Sam Ramji - "struct.new("future", :open, :microsoft)"
  

Join FUSE and Kevin Schurb of Special EFX-BodyArt LLC. Kevin is a retired Firefighter/EMT and a New Orleans local, who will be applying airbrush tattoos. Visit the FUSE booth in the Expo Hall for a TAT and show your Apache Pride. Kevin will be available:

• During the Welcome Reception, Wednesday 6:30-8:00 PM
• Thursday 11:00-11:30 AM and 12:30-2:00 PM

• My Schedule - click the green plus signs to show you're interested in attending different sessions
• Participate in the discussion about sessions and keynotes by commenting with other participants
• Browse Profiles - see who else is attending ApacheCon, click off on who you want-to-meet or are a fan of
• Fill in the details of your profile, and have your blog, photostream, or links appear in the external blogs and photos streams
• Find other attendees who are participating in the ASF, or are contributed to Hadoop, or who think OFBiz is their favorite project

Unable to attend ApacheCon?  No Problem!

Can't make ApacheCon this week in New Orleans? You can still watch live video streams of all the keynotes, Apache 101 sessions, and our system administration track.

Keynotes and our Apache 101 lunchtime sessions are free; the full sysadmin track #1, including httpd Performance on Wednesday, System Security on Thursday, and Server Stack Administration talks on Friday are available for a fee.  Paying users may replay video streams after the event unlimited times.

Keynotes include (all available for free)

• David Recordon, Six Apart (Wednesday 09:30)
  "Learning from Apache to create Open Specifications"
• - Shahani Markus Weerawarana, Ph.D. (Thursday 11:30)
  "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants"
• - Sam Ramji, Microsoft (Friday 11:30)
  "struct.new("future", :open, :microsoft)"

Reminder: New Orleans is CST or UTC/GMT -6 hours, and has already fallen back.

Register to watch our live video streams.

Just register for the live streaming and follow the event live from your own PC. After the live transmission, you can view repeats of the talks, whenever and as often as you like.

Click HERE to sign up.

Thank you to all of our speakers, attendees, and sponsors for helping to create an especially spectacular event. Be sure to check out (and post) photos on Flickr. An extra special thank you to the all of the wonderful volunteers who worked on Saturday to help reNew Orleans!

Next stops, Beijing and Amsterdam! 

• The first Apache Meet Up in China will be 5 December 2008 in Beijing, with BarCamp Beijing following on 6 December 2008.

• ApacheCon Europe 2009 will be 23-27 March in Amsterdam. Hope to see you there as we kick-off the celebration of 2009, the 10th year Anniversay of the ASF!