We're all getting excited about OSCON in Portland later this month. If you'd like to meet us in the Expo Hall, use the code EXPOFREE to get a free pass. With a free Expo Hall pass, attendees can meet with dozens of exhibitors and get hands-on demos of their products.

The pass also will get you into Open Cloud Day, Birds of a Feather sessions, parties (including the OpenStack birthday party), and much more.

If you've also registered to attend the conference, here are a few talks to check out:

• Devoxx4Kids: So Your Kid Interested in Programming, Robotics, Engineering?: Arun Gupta, 11:30am Tuesday, 07/22/2014

• Forty New Features of Java EE 7 in 40 Minutes: Arun Gupta, 10:40am Tuesday, 07/22/2014

• How Does Raleigh Use Open Source?: Jason Hibbets (Red Hat), Gail Roper (City of Raleigh), 2:30pm Tuesday, 07/22/2014

• OpenStack :: Where Continuous Delivery and Distros Collide: Mark McLoughlin (Red Hat), Monty Taylor (HP) 1:40pm Tuesday, 07/22/2014

• Coder Decoder: Functional Programmer Lingo Explained, with Pictures: Katie Miller, 10:40am Tuesday, 07/22/2014

• Hacking Radio for Under $10: Bryan Smith, 4:10pm Tuesday, 07/22/2014

• Raspberry Pi Hacks: Ruth Suehle, 1:40pm Tuesday, 07/22/2014

• Open Source Tools for the Polyglot Developer: Langdon White, 2:30pm Tuesday, 07/22/2014

• What is Happening at the CentOS Project?: Karsten Wade (Red Hat/Fedora Project), Karanbir Singh (CentOS Project), Johnny Hughes (CentOS Project), Jim Perrin (CentOS Project) 5:00pm Wednesday, 07/23/2014

• Open Community Infrastructure How-to: Karsten Wade, 10:40am Wednesday, 07/23/2014

• Application Deployment and Auto-scaling On OpenStack using Heat: Diane Mueller, 11:30am Wednesday, 07/23/2014

• Leaflet, Node.JS, and MongoDB for an Easy and Fun Web Mapping Experience: Steven Pousty, 10:00am Thursday, 07/24/2014

See the OSCON site for the full conference schedule and a complete list of what's included with the free Expo Hall pass.

There's also still time to get a discounted regular session pass, using the REDHAT25 discount code to get a 25% discount on the 2-day or higher value passes.