The GoOpen conference in Oslo 16-17 April 2009 is a two-day event organized by the Norwegian Open Source Center. We expect to have 600 participants from all over Norway and a large number from the rest of the Nordic countries. (550 in 2008)
The target group for this event is decision makers from the public sector in Norway, IT-professionals, students and the press. It will take place at the old operahouse is in the city center of Oslo. The content of the conference consists of keynotes, tracks and break-out-sessions.
The aim of the conference and the Norwegian Competence Center for Open Source is to help and facilitate the use of open source in the public sector, to help and facilitate Norwegian and international vendors to use open source and open standards in their products and also to help and facilitate developers and investors to see business opportunities within open source.