Math is Pretty

Do you have the next great idea in search? Have you invented the next Ruby on Rails? Are you dreaming of turning the programing world upside down by releasing a programming language that anyone can use?

To change the world, it’s essential that Windows, Mac, and Linux users can easily install your software. Ordinary users won’t use software they can’t install and the 99% of users that are not programmers have no idea what to do with a source tarball.

Creating binaries for multiple platforms and graphical installers for those platforms is a full-time job in itself. It requires learning over half a dozen technologies -  NSIS, mingw, Cygwin, PackageMaker, Objective C, RPM, and DEB – and cross-compiling, debugging, and testing on over a dozen operating systems.

Sounds daunting? Need help? Come to my OSCON session. I’ll personally help you create a universal installer and binary for your dream project in under 45 minutes. It will install on Windows, Mac, and Linux and it will generate virtual appliances for Xen, VMware, VirtualBox, Qemu, Parallels, and Amazon’s EC2.

All you need to bring is yourself, a Debian package of your application, and a 128×128 PNG image of your logo.

We’re going to have fun. Even if you don’t have a project yet, you’ll gain practical knowledge attending and be able to witness first hand the mad genius of your fellow attendees as they work on their dream projects.