• The Go Open 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 developer track is planned in close cooperation with among others the Norwegian Unix User Group and Oslo Perl Mongers.

• 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.

• The Norwegian National Innovation Center for Open Source is very pleased to have the opportunity to join forces with the Norwegian open source community as well as with the industry. This is expected to become a successful professional platform for both government, businesses and communities regardless of area of interest in open source. The involvement of good relations among the participants from the different communities is of great importance to the center as well.