Editing O'Reilly Open Source Convention

{{short description|1999–2019 American annual free and open-source software convention}}
{{Infobox convention
| name       = O'Reilly Open Source Convention
| logo       =
| image      = [[File:OSCON 2010.jpg|200px|alt=OSCON flag]]
| caption    = OSCON flag
| status     = Inactive
| genre      = Open Source (mainly software)
| venue      = 
| location   = Portland, Oregon <small>(with exceptions)</small>
| country    = United States
| first      = {{Start date and age|1999}}
| last       = {{Start date and age|2019}}
| founder    =
| organizer  = [[O'Reilly Media]]
| filing     = 
| attendance = 
| website    = {{url|http://www.oscon.com}}
}}
[[File:Robin Hanson at OSCON 2007.jpg|thumbnail|220px|[[Robin Hanson]] at OSCON 2007]]
[[File:OSCON Ubuntu-US-CA 072309 01.ogv|thumbnail|220px|Overview of OSCON 2009]]
[[File:Michal Migurski, Tim O'Reilly and Jared Smith.jpg|thumbnail|220px|[[Michal Migurski]], [[Tim O'Reilly]], and Jared Smith at OSCON 2013]]

The '''O'Reilly Open Source Convention''' ('''OSCON''') was an American annual [[Convention (meeting)|convention]] for the discussion of [[free and open-source software]]. It was organized by publisher [[O'Reilly Media]] and was held each summer, mostly in [[Portland, Oregon]], from 1999 to 2019.

==History==
OSCON grew out of The [[Perl]] Conference, but the amount of Perl content continued to decline each year. The first Perl Conference took place in 1997. The first OSCON was held in 1999.<ref name="10thYear">{{cite web
| url = http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/pr/1956
| title = OSCON Celebrates 10th Year: Annual O'Reilly Open Source Convention Opens Registration and Announces Program
| date = 2008-04-15
| access-date = 2013-03-04}}</ref>
<ref name="yapc-oldevents">{{cite web
| url = http://www.yapc.org/old-events.html
| title = Perl Foundation Conferences
| publisher = [[Yet Another Perl Conference|YAPC]]}}</ref>

;Notable events
* The [[OpenOffice.org]] open source project was announced at the 2000 conference in Monterey.<ref>{{cite web|last=Phipps|first=Simon|title=Birthday Presents|url=https://blogs.oracle.com/webmink/entry/birthday_presents|work=Blogs.Sun.Com|publisher=Sun Microsystems|access-date=16 April 2014|date=18 October 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140417075645/https://blogs.oracle.com/webmink/entry/birthday_presents|archive-date=17 April 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> 
* The [[OpenStack]] open source project was launched at the 2010 conference.<ref>{{cite web|title=OpenStack Launch Bash|url=http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010/public/schedule/detail/15754|publisher=O'Reilly Media|access-date=16 April 2014|date=20 July 2010}}</ref> 
* OSCON has been the host to [[Larry Wall]]'s [[Perl#State of the Onion|State of the Onion]] keynotes.
* All O'Reilly events were cancelled in response to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], and the company closed the in-person conference portion of their business.<ref name="oreilly-events">{{cite web
| url = https://www.oreilly.com/conferences/from-laura-baldwin.html
| title = From O’Reilly President, Laura Baldwin: O’Reilly’s events business
| date = 2020-03-24
| access-date = 2020-03-24}}</ref>
* During the convention, O'Reilly Open Source Awards, previously called Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards, were presented to individuals who had made notable contributions to open source.<ref>https://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/oscon-or-2018/public/schedule/detail/71371.html</ref><ref>https://developers.google.com/open-source/osa</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of free-software events]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{official website|http://www.oscon.com}}, oscon.com

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