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The Toronto stock market advanced in early trading Thursday morning as bank stocks benefited from a positive earnings report from American bank JPMorgan Chase.

The O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) is an annual convention for the discussion of open source software, such as Linux, MySQL, Perl and Python. It is organized (sitemap) by the publisher O’Reilly Media and is held each summer in Portland, Oregon.

Here’s their Schedule grid, Tutorials, Keynotes, and Events like the Open Mobile Exchange.

The Expo Hall opens Wednesday and Thursday with dozens of exhibitors. Here’s more News coverage and Blogging.

Rick Turoczy’s Silicon Florist covers all the action around Portland and has an activity guide for Oscon attendees including; A primer on the Rose City, Portland’s top 30 Twitter-ers and Hacking PDX (a geek’s guide to Portland International Airport). Matt King has some good suggestions, too.

Upcoming Events can be found at Beer and Blog, Legion of Tech, AboutUs, Oregon Startups and a variety of Meetups.

Upcoming Events include:

• OSCAMP 2008 is an un-conference — happening Wednesday-Friday from 9:00am-6:00pm daily. The program is completely up to you and the other participants.
• Mark Shuttleworth on Ubuntu & Space Travel - Mark is founder of the Ubuntu Project and became the first African in space. Monday, July 21, 2008, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, McMenamins Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan Street
• Ubuntu Live - gathering of IT professionals, government and business users. Monday, July 21, 2008 - Tuesday, July 22, 2008
  12:00 AM - 12:00 AM, Oregon Convention Center.
• The XMPP Standards Foundation “XMPP Summit” A hard-code technical get-together with hackfests, interop testing, brainstorming sessions, lightning talks, etc. Monday, July 21, 2008 - Tuesday, July 22, 2008, Oregon Convention Center
• Open Street Map Mapping Party - Do some mapping and get the data in to openstreetmap. Tuesday, July 22, 2008, TBA
• Django/Python Drinkup - Join local and visiting Pythonistas and Djangonauts for a casual meetup on the rooftop patio. Tuesday, July 22, 7:00 PM, Jax Bar, 826 SW 2nd Avenue
• Google O’Reilly Open Source Awards - Tuesday, July 22, 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, Oregon Convention Center
• OpenSolaris-mySQL-Zend OSCon Bash - Celebrate with OSCon luminaries and friends as OpenSolaris, mySQL and Zend throw OSCon’s hottest party, Wednesday July 23 from 8pm to midnight at the DoubleTree Hotel (Lloyd Center), 1000 NE Multnomah St.
• FOSCON 2008: Cooking with Ruby - A free evening of Ruby-related lightning talks, concocted by the Portland Ruby Brigade user group. Wednesday, July 23, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM, CubeSpace, 622 SE Grand Ave
• Oscamp 2008 - The program is completely up to you and the other participants. Wednesday-Friday from 9:00am-6:00pm daily, Oregon Convention Center
• Amazon networking party- Wednesday night, 8-9pm at Jimmy Mak’s, 300 Nw 10th Ave
• TiddlyRose informal meet-up - Wednesday, July 23, 7:00 PM, Jax Bar, 826 SW 2nd Avenue
• Beerforge III - OSCON after party hosted by Jive Software, Mozilla, OpenSourcery, OSL, Songbird, and Vidoop. Thursday, July 24, 2008, 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM, Bossanova, 722 E Burnside St.
• Cre8Camp - A BarCamp-like unconference for creative professionals. No charge to attend, but participants can opt to pay for a $10 box lunch. Saturday, July 26, 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM, 322 NW 6th Avenue, suite 200
• Mobile Portland - Raven Zachary, founder of iPhoneDevCamp, will talk about the iPhone App Store. Location TBD.

Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation will talk about “The State of Mobile Linux” on July 21. Major cellular operators are now backing LiMo (Linux Mobile) and Android from Google and the Open Handset Alliance.

A proposal for a wireless broadband tower in Harrisburg may bring wireless Internet into the homes of the town's residents and make it available on their commutes.

Community libraries are undergoing a metamorphosis from an earlier, perhaps dowdier image as hushed repositories for the printed word.

The world's largest semiconductor and computer microprocessor manufacturer Intel Tuesday launched worldwide its latest processors for notebook computers on its Centrino platform.

Lenovo on Tuesday unveiled six new ThinkPad laptops and three ThinkPad SL-series laptops.