The O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) was an American annual convention for the discussion of

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. It was organized by publisher

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and was held each summer, mostly in

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, from 1999 to 2019.

History

OSCON grew out of The

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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. ;Notable events * The

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open source project was announced at the 2000 conference in Monterey. * The

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open source project was launched at the 2010 conference. * OSCON has been the host to

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's State of the Onion keynotes. * All O'Reilly events were cancelled in response to the

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, and the company closed the in-person conference portion of their business. * 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.https://developers.google.com/open-source/osa

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