 The term was given a big boost at an event organized in April 1998 by technology publisher Tim O'Reilly.Originally titled the "Freeware Summit" and later named the "Open Source Summit", the event brought together the leaders of many of the most important free and open-source projects, including Linus Torvalds, Larry Wall, Brian Behlendorf, Eric Allman, Guido van Rossum, Michael Tiemann, Paul Vixie, Jamie Zawinski of Netscape, and Eric Raymond.At that meeting, the confusion caused by the name free software was brought up.