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Free One Day Developer Conference Focuses On Open Source and Web Technologies,Solutions and Business Models: Sun Microsystems, today sponsored its new CommunityOne event at Moscone Center in San Francisco. CommunityOne is a free, one-day event designed for open source and web developers to gain detailed technical information on free and open source projects. "More and more developers are participating in open source communities and software projects online. CommunityOne provides a unique opportunity for these developers to meet in person, share their ideas and opinions, learn about the latest technology components, and collaborate with their peers," said Julian Edwards, CommunityOne event manager at Sun. CommunityOne will begin with a general session by Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc. O'Reilly will share his insights into the origin and challenges of open source, as well as offer his opinions on some emerging trends to watch. O'Reilly will then be joined by Rich Green, executive vice president of Software at Sun, Ian Murdock, chief operating system platform strategist at Sun and Tim Bray, director of web technologies at Sun, for a discussion on the impact of participation and a question and answer session with CommunityOne attendees. For the rest of the day, CommunityOne attendees will have the opportunity to attend sessions in various tracks, including: NetBeans Software, OpenSolaris Project, GlassFish Project, OpenJDK and the Mobile & Embedded Community, as well as interact with other participants to exchange ideas and best practices. Organizations participating in CommunityOne include: Caucho Technology, CollabNet, Genuitec, Hyperic, ICEsoft, Intland Software, Interface21, jVantage, Laszlo Systems, Raining Data, TerraCotta, Thought Works, Vodafone, Webtide, Zimbra, YASU Technologies, and Xoetrope In addition, CommunityOne will have a Web 2.0 track, James Governor and Stephen O'Grady from the analyst firm RedMonk will moderate an unconference, Ian Murdock will host a session on Linux versus Solaris Operating System and Sun will host its second Sun Startup Camp event. Full program details and information can be found at: its Web site. Sun Startup Camp 2 involves leader-moderated sessions where all attendees are encouraged to contribute to the discussions. The event will also include a round of SpeedGeeking sessions where startup founders can compete in the Best Startup Contest and present a 5-minute pitch of their business to small groups of attendees. The participants who receive the most votes will win prizes such as a personal GPS system. To publish topic ideas for discussion sessions or view those that others are proposing, please visit the Discussion Ideas page at: its Web site. Sun StartUp Camp 2 co-hosts include: Google, JLA Ventures, Joyent, NaviSite, Microsoft , Safesforce.com, SDForum, Sapoteck, SoftTeck, Score, Yahoo!, and ZDNET.