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I am proud to present a very respectful list of presenters and presentations we will be hosting at this year’s OPEN convention.

We are officially revealing two of the tracks, which are finalized, and in the next couple of days we will reveal a third, with 5 more lectures, which promises to be very interesting.

In light of the massive demand, we have moved the convention, for the third time, and it is now scheduled to take place at the Intercontinental Hotel in Tel Aviv, open source is definitely getting its dues.

The general assembly will be visited by minister Miki Eitan, the politician most associated with open source, and in particular with the computing transition processes the Israeli government is going through at the moment. Recently, minister Eitan was appointed chairman of steering committee of the “Mimshal Zamin” initiative, so the future of open source in the Israeli public realm will be very much affected by his future actions.

Following minister Eitan’s opening statements, we will host Benny Schneider, one of the founders of ComRant, who will present Red Hat’s new virtualization solution, based on ComRant technology. I know that nearly every single technology-oriented person arriving at the convention is interested in Schneider’s new RHEV solution.

We will also be holding a panel in the general assembly, in which computing managers, infrastructure managers, development managers and content providers will participate and we will focus on one of the most important issues for organizations which use open source in Israel – the question of support. Who in Israel provides support for open source products? Which products? What is the level of support one can get? And how each IT manager improvises a right solution for themselves.

Following the assembly we will split into three tracks, and I believe each of the conference attendees will be able to find the most interesting lecture for him or herself. We will have lectures on development for Android, Ruby on Rails, Django, Red Hat Optimization, working with noSQL, PostgreSQL, free firewall for MySQL, open source web-video solutions, legal issues with open source and even cloud-based open source solutions.

For those of you who are interested in the OPEN convention, I suggest you sign up to the convention’s RSS Feed, so you can hear the latest news, as they come in.

Translated by Itai Rosenbaum