POSSCON 2015

A technical conference exploring open tech and the open web

Join the world’s top developers, technologists and decision makers as we explore open source, open tech and the open web. Two days of keynotes, talks, tutorials, workshops and networking opportunities in Columbia, SC.

Since 2007 POSSCON has consistently attracted the top technologists and decision makers in the U.S. Names like Scott McNealy, Matt Asay, Chris Wanstrath and Scott Chacon of GitHub, Larry Augustin, Lee Congdon, Leslie Hawthorn many others.

Taking place at it-ology and other locations in the heart of downtown Columbia. Columbia was recently ranked 2nd and 4th in high tech job growth nationally, is the state capital, and has one of the best quality of life ratings in the U.S.

TRACKS

• Open 101-A track for anyone wanting to know more about open source technology.
• Back End Development-Will focus mostly on the technologies programmers use like PHP, Python, Ruby and the like.
• Front End Development-The tools and techniques required to create “the front end”. Includes HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, etc.
• Security-Learn how to protect your projects with Open Source Software.
• DevOps/Cloud-Rapidly evolving concepts and technologies designed to quickly produce software products and services.
• Operations-Will focus on technologies enabling and impacting system operation and configuration.

POSSCON 2015 is taking place just before ConvergeSE, one of the top design conferences in the world, and the Indie Grits Film Festival, a festival MovieMaker Mag called “One of the 25 coolest in the world”