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Presentations
Joe Gregorio (Google)
In many dynamic language communities such as Python, there is a distinct lack of Design Patterns. Are the communities ignorant of Design Patterns or is there something else going on here?
Jason Levitt (Amalgamated Shoulderpads),
Dick Hardt (Sxip Identity Corporation),
Simon Willison (Self employed),
George Fletcher (AOL LLC),
David Recordon (Six Apart),
Allen Tom (Yahoo! Inc. )
OpenID (openid.net) is a single sign-on solution that has gained a lot of traction in 2008. Putting a critical eye to openid's many deployments, this panel will consider questions such as "how has openid succeeded/failed?," "how have end-users responded to openid?," "is openid safer/more-dangerous than other approaches?" "what are some openid success stories?," and "how could openid be improved?"
Bryan O'Sullivan (Serpentine Green Design)
The Haskell programming language has grown rapidly in popularity over the last several years. In this tour, we'll introduce you to some of its most seductive aspects: expressiveness, elegance, and versatility. Just as vital is the community around the language: we'll show you the mix of people and ideas that make Haskell uniquely appealing.
Gregg Pollack (Rails Envy),
Jason Seifer (Rails Envy)
ActiveRecord, the glue between the database and Rails, is certainly one of the bigger reasons Rails has impressed so many people. We will walk through some advanced uses of the ActiveRecord Gem, including polymorphism, association proxies, the law of demeter, conductors, and creating plugins. Even if you're not a Ruby or Rails programmer, you'll find some useful design patterns hidden in this Gem.
Tammer Saleh (Thoughtbot Inc.)
Ruby's main strength as a language lies in its incredible metaprogramming powers. Follow along as we explore these facilities and the patterns you can distill from them.
Robin Dunn (wxPROs/UNMC)
wxPython is a huge toolchest with lots of great and useful tools
within it. To be a master craftsman you have to know your tools. This tutorial will help the attendees to become more familiar with the wxPython tool, and gain better understanding of how to use the more advanced widgets.
Benjamin Mako Hill (MIT Center for Future Civic Media)
Coming soon.
Paul Fenwick (Perl Training Australia)
The average individual is given little scope for failure, at least not the type that really matters. However in recent times we have developed a profession who have the opportunity to fail like never before. The few, the proud, the Software Developers.
Join us for a voyage of discovery, as we travel back through history to some of the most monumental failures the world has ever seen.
Steven Parkes (smparkes.net llc)
In this tutorial, we introduce actors and show how they can be used to implement systems that can utilize multiple cores for performance, distribute across multiple machines for scale, and survive various kinds of failures for resiliency. We follow a demonstration application and implement it in Erlang and Dramatis, an actor library for dynamic languages.
Elizabeth Garbee (none)
For the graphically minded members of the Linux community, this talk explains and demonstrates how high-quality animation can be achieved using purely open source tools. We'll explore different physical media and open source tools for generating individual images, then learn how to turn those images into one-of-a-kind, completely open animation.
Ryan Briones (The Edgecase)
An overview of a few Ruby Web Frameworks, including basic usage and how to pragmatically choose which one to use, and how Ruby makes them special.
Josh Berkus (PostgreSQL Project)
This panel of career open source geeks has ample experience in open source community disasters and failed projects, and how they happen. Join them for examples, stories, and Q&A around why projects fail and how you can identify bad trends before your project crashes.
Gavin Doughtie (Google),
Andrew Hyde (TechStars)
Interested in doing your own startup company, or starting a new
project within your existing company? This 3-hour tutorial walks you
through a compact version of the Startup Weekend experience, which has
seen multiple companies go from nothing to a running prototype in 54 hours.
Dave Hoover (Obtiva),
Brian Tatnall (Stark Investments)
Apprenticeship programs offer opportunities to learn and innovate in
the context of real-world projects under the supervision of
experienced journeymen. We will review the aspects of Open Source
Software (OSS) that helped jump-start Obtiva's apprenticeship program,
such as market demand, active communities, low cost, hackable source,
and opportunities for public contribution.
Michael Widenius (MySQL)
The talk will describe the goals and design of Maria, the new transactional storage engine for MySQL.
Dawn Foster (Jive Software),
Danese Cooper (Open Source Initiative and Intel Corporation)
Given the open source movement, the popularity of social networks, and new tools for collaboration, more people are looking for ways to build community. The Art of Community came about because we wanted to write a book about community using a wiki so that a community could grow around the book. A different author leads each chapter, and you will hear from many of them during these lightning talks.
Ragavan Srinivasan (VMware Inc.)
Open source governance is an emerging discipline that refers to the policies, processes, and tools that help organizations manage their use and contribution to FOSS. This talk will concentrate on the tools that can make open source governance easier and more automated and the data implications.
Jos Boumans (RIPE NCC)
"Barely Legal XXX Perl" shows several features of Perl you might not have known that existed, that are being (ab)used to run a program that was designed never to be able to run in the first place... It's a high paced, humourous, and entertaining look at Perl's slightly less obvious features.
Kevin Scaldeferri (Yahoo!)
An introduction to the concurrency features of Erlang,
showing how to build reliable, scalable applications without getting
lost in the plumbing.
For OSCON conference attendees only! This award-winning guided tour clarifies why Portland is regularly recognized as one of the best places to live.
Everyone has their own "best practices" -- let's get together and share which tools, policies and procedures have worked best for us in our environments. Topics to discuss include: Monitoring, alerting and graphing tools, log management, time management, testing and debugging, documentation, and the ever-popular how to do the best job you can when management wants unreasonable outcomes.
Dalibor Topic (Sun Microsystems GmbH)
More than a year after OpenJDK has been liberated, it's time for an overview of the ports and projects that have been created around it, why they exist, how they work, and how they interact with the upstream.
Development methodologies are morphing from "pure" Agile to
incorporate best practices from Lean and the open source world.
Evan 'Rabble' Henshaw-Plath (independent),
Kellan Elliott-McCrea (Flickr)
How do we make our web services scale in an era of decentralization, increased participation, real-time expectations, and polling-based architectures? Using Jabber/XMPP's PubSub extension and OAuth is one model. This talk covers examples including Flickr and Fire Eagle and how to build data services with XMPP PubSub.
Following the planned sessions during the day, it's time for OSCON attendees to take the floor. BoFs are informal conversations that you and other participants plan. Visit the BoF page for more details and to sign up to lead a BoF of your own.
Gordon Mohr (Internet Archive, Web Group)
The Internet Archive (archive.org) contributes to three open source projects for web archives: the Heritrix crawler, the Wayback browser, and Nutch for full-text search. This presentation offers an overview of these projects' applicability for building your own web archive -- plus a live demonstration of their use.
Giles Bowkett (at large)
At the LA Times we're currently building a Bayesian RSS aggregator that allows users to classify individual blog posts as interesting or not interesting and tunes its presentation of posts from users' classification and the Bayes nets' corresponding prediction of interestingness. Learn both technical details of the Ruby implementation and strategies for bringing machine learning to consumer apps.
Navin Kumar (Voiceroute)
Unified communications (UC) aims to reduce human latency in business processes by linking different technologies (CRM, IM, mobile, and others) together to provide new services. In this session, we will discuss Druid, designed from the ground up to be UC software platform that organizations can easily deploy and use for their communications.
Patrick Michaud (pmichaud.com)
Parrot is the virtual machine intended to run Perl 6 and other dynamic languages efficiently and effectively. Parrot tools used to build "Rakudo" (Perl 6 on Parrot) are powerful and general enough to host other languages. This talk explains how they work and demonstrates how to start running your own language on Parrot--and to use other code targeting Parrot without writing it yourself.
Jeffrey L. Wishnie (Inveneo, Inc.)
Students get their first introduction to life-changing technology tapping on your keyboard. Your systems track patient health for an entire district. Relief workers coordinate their efforts on your terminals.
Your offices are 10,000 miles away, your technicians 8hrs by bus, your network: 16kpbs on a good day. How do keep it running?
Zero-maintenance bullet-proof Ubuntu.
Lucas Nealan (Facebook)
Learn to effectively use caching to improve the performance of your PHP site.
Matt Trout (Shadowcat Systems Limited)
An introduction to web development using the Catalyst MVC framework covering application scaffolding, database design, authentication, authorization and extensible form handling best practices. From concept to deployment, you'll learn everything you need to get started building MVC web applications with modern Perl tools.
Cliff Schmidt (Literacy Bridge),
Danese Cooper (Open Source Initiative and Intel Corporation)
In the wake of the "Cape Town Declaration," more and more open source people are thinking about applying open source principles to Education. This panel discussion will introduce exciting concepts and some of the thought leaders in the Open Educational Content movement. There will be opportunities to learn about getting involved. Come get inspired!!
Bryan Thompson (SYSTAP, LLC)
bigdata is a scale-out database and computing platform designed for commodity hardware. The presentation will cover scale-out indices, map/reduce computing, and how we have applied these techniques to develop a high-performance scale-out semantic web database.
Jean-Paul Bauer (KnowledgeTree)
KnowledgeTreeLive is an on-demand service provided by KnowledgeTree. A key constraint of the system is to provide a SaaS solution without incurring the overhead of establishing a traditional data center. This is where Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, in combination with their Simple Storage Service, provides an alternative.
Tomas Frydrych (Openedhand Ltd),
Paul Cooper (OpenedHand)
Clutter is an OpenGL-based toolkit by OpenedHand that facilitates the creation of visually rich, dynamic user interfaces. Its simple and clear API, tailored toward minimal effort manipulation of 2D objects in 3D space and time, allows the application designer to concentrate on the UI. Want to see iPhone-like interfaces done with a few lines of code using Free Software? This is the talk to be at!
Elaine Wherry (meebo)
From our recruiter moving to Mexico, to hitting a candidate in the eye with a fingerblaster rocket, Meebo has encountered every imaginable hiring obstacle. From Meebo's hiring history, you will learn our best interview techniques, how we evaluate candidates, and how our engineering team developed a hiring process that allows us to maintain a high bar while still allowing time to write code.
Alex Martelli (Google)
Code reviews are a well-known best practice in all SW development, and particularly crucial for open source SW. Systematic and optimally conducted reviews enhance your code quality and offer great ROI, but you need to pay attention to both the human/community and technical aspects of such pratice. Get some key "do"s and "don't"s about performing code reviews!
Ryan Briones (The Edgecase)
Using Capistrano to automate SSH tasks such as server administration and application deployment.
Ben Bleything (-)
It used to be that in order to program a microcontroller,
you had to get down and dirty with assembly or, if you were really
lucky, C. No longer. I'll show a number of ways that you can control
embedded devices from your beloved Ruby.
Jan Lehnardt (Freisatz)
This presentation takes a look at CouchDB from 10,000 ft. We try not to lose you in technical details and paint the big picture that you need to understand CouchDB's strengths and weaknesses.
CouchDB is a _document oriented database_. It does not adhere to the relational principles of traditional databases. You will learn what that means for your application design.
Derek Keats (The University of the Western Cape)
Free and Open Source software is often seen as a largely Western and predominantly male phenomenon. This talk explores experiences of FOSS development in an Africa-led project to build capacity, and extends our understanding of FOSS to other cultures and societies, and shows how collaboration around FOSS can foster innovation and contribute to development in Africa.
Kirstan Vandersluis (XAware, Inc.)
Mixing and mashing multiple data sources, all of different formats, into something that makes sense is a headache for many software architects. Data services mashups – the pulling of data from multiple sources into a logical unit – would be easy if enterprise information came in well-formatted XML. But that’s not reality.
An introduction to developing location-aware Web 2.0 applications on an open source platform, including both business and hands-on technical aspects of developing web mapping applications. This is intended as an introduction to web mapping development on an open source geospatial platform for both neophytes and experienced developers.
Tom Anderson (Agilent Technologies)
Satisfy your urge to create a clever new gadget or circuit! Use open source CAD tools to reduce the cost of creating open source hardware. See working examples of open source hardware, and understand how it is designed, simulated, fabricated, and distributed. Learn how to solve the challenges of low-volume manufacturing and distribution. Satisfy niche markets with your own invention.
Gavin Doughtie (Google)
Programmers like to program, but sometimes executing JavaScript code to create user interface is far less efficient than having the browser render what you want at native speeds via CSS declarations.
This session shows CSS techniques that every Javascript developer should be aware of, including browser limitations and cutting-edge features like WebKit animations.
Tim Bunce (Shopzilla)
Add performance timing to critical sections of your applications and objects with a single line of code. Designed for use in hot production code, it's ultra-lightweight in memory and CPU cost.
Open source communities are no longer focused on just infrastructure development, but involve application-focused development, user and business communities. Today open source community tools must support higher levels of business and technical collaboration. We unveil a platform that meets these challenges: The first next-generation environment for commercial open source communities.
Randall Farmer (We Also Walk Dogs)
Whether you agree with MoveOn.org's politics or not, they've clearly been a force in internet democracy, with over 3 million members, tens of millions of dollars raised, and over 7 million phone calls made in get-out-the-vote operations. This talk examines how they do it, with a focus on web application design and the special needs of political organizations.
Joshua Marinacci (Sun Microsystems)
In the past the Java platform has been unfriendly to designers, just as the development of user-focused software is shifting greatly in favor of designers. This session covers how the development of software has changed over the past 20 years and the many developments in the Java ecosystem that promise to open the platform to non-programmers.
Pierre Baudracco (Linagora)
OBM is recognized as THE GPL enterprise-class email and groupware solution. OBM is a unified platform that allows small to large businesses to gain efficiency while reducing cost of ownership and administration complexity. It is built on the most mature open source components with a modular architecture : OBM is used by over 600,000 users worldwide.
Ben Collins-Sussman (Google Inc.),
Brian Fitzpatrick (Google)
All software has users, though most developers have forgotten how to respect them, trust them, or "sell" their software to them in an exciting (but honest!) manner. This talk will focus on anecdotes and strategies for keeping software design uncomplicated, making software fast, and putting usability above programming convenience.
Brian Aker (MySQL),
Rob Lanphier (Linden Lab),
Stephen O'Grady (Redmonk),
Theodore Ts'o (Linux Foundation)
Are software projects dominated by a single company still open source, or is an OSI-approved license good enough? Does a project need to be "organic" to be truly open source? What does "organic" even mean in this context? Panelists with a range of viewpoints will discuss these topics.
Stewart Smith (Sun Microsystems)
Odds are you get an F in using the POSIX file IO APIs. Even better, you probably don't know it. Oh, and operating systems can hate you. As a user, you'll leave crying. As a developer, you'll leave knowing you have bugs to fix.
Beth Tibbitts (IBM Research),
Greg Watson (IBM Research)
Eclipse is an open source integrated development environment (IDE) that has available extensions for a variety of languages and tools. We discuss the Parallel Tools Platform (PTP) which adds support for parallel programming development and analysis (including MPI and OpenMP) and runtime and debug support for a variety of target architectures including both local and remote control of the target.
Ben Tilly (Pictage)
A/B tests can tell you which changes to your web site worked, and how much of a difference they made. This tutorial will teach you how to set up and run A/B tests.
Robin Dunn (wxPROs/UNMC)
Different programming languages have different strengths and weaknesses. This presentation will help programmers understand how to combine the strengths of C++ and Python, and minimize their weaknesses at the same time, using a tool called SWIG.
Kevin Henrikson (Zimbra)
Open source and web technologies promise to dispatch older proprietary peers with the power of community and innovation that deliver superior features plus better economics. However, having the most innovative product won’t help if your application doesn’t also embrace incumbents and offer better overall performance too.
George Belotsky (CinematX Digital Inc.),
Heath Johns (CinematX Digital Inc.)
Normal Accident Theory (NAT) describes the potential for failure in many diverse systems, from nuclear reactors to marine shipping. It also predicts many classical techniques that good programmers have come to rely on. A NAT-based approach provides a unifying view that helps you avoid the hidden dangers of otherwise useful constructs, and improves the reliability of the software you build.
Steve Souders (Google)
Steve Souders' book "High Performance Web Sites" describes the 14 best practices he developed while working as the Chief Performance Yahoo!. YSlow, the Firebug extension he created, codified those best practices. Now working at Google, Souders discusses the next set of best practices he's discovered, including the impact of iframes and where to place (and where not to place) inline script blocks.
Joe Brockmeier (Novell)
Brockmeier will cover the openSUSE community, what's new in the openSUSE distribution, the openSUSE Build Service, and how to get involved with the project.
Robert "r0ml" Lefkowitz (Asurion)
More information coming soon
Hunter Cross (Ponticlaro Inc.)
An overview of experiences and best practices for how to use Ubuntu as an economically viable platform for installation art, collaborative art projects, and art exhibition kiosks and for the presentation of software-based art project proposals in contemporary art spaces.
Chris Shiflett (OmniTI),
Jon Tan (Grow Collective)
Traditionally, developers and designers work independently, and this causes huge problems because their work is tightly integrated; each inherits the bad decisions of the other. In this talk, we show how to make such partnerships work with stories about how successful collaborations between designers and developers lead to a vastly improved user experience.
Have a drink and mingle with other OSCON participants, and see the latest products, projects, services, and gadgets from sponsors and exhibitors in the Expo Hall.
Clinton R. Nixon (Viget Labs)
Ruby on Rails has made web development easier than ever, but there is a hurdle that comes with that convenience. When you want Rails to work differently, what do you change? We'll walk through the architecture of Rails, the top plugins already in existence, and learn how to radically change the behavior of Rails and of others' plugins.
Phil Bartholo (Sun Microsystems)
Since the opening of Mobile & Embedded Community projects in November of 2006, community members have been extending, porting, and expanding projects in the community well beyond their original targets. This talks centers on the many extensions that have already occurred and encourages additional open source efforts of Mobile & Embedded projects.
Justin Fitzhugh (Mozilla)
Learn how the Mozilla IT team scales its update and software delivery systems to support the over 150 million Firefox users.
Duane Nickull (Adobe Systems),
James Ward (Adobe)
Adobe has released the Flex SDK open source under Mozilla Public License (MPL). This includes the source to the ActionScript components from the Flex SDK, the Java source code for the compilers, the debugger, and the core libraries. Flex can run in any browser—on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, and AIR.
This session will introduce people to Flex, provide code samples, use cases and a roadmap.
Daniel V. Klein (Consultant)
I flew across the Atlantic on an Airbus -- that was fly by wire. No cables in the control system, just a computer controlling everything. Would you fly if Windows was the controlling software? How about Linux? Think again!
Nathan Torkington (He Hononga Software, Limited)
More information coming soon
Emma Jane Hogbin (HICK Tech)
A slightly raucous but very fun look at female participation in open source computing. This presentation includes a subversive tour of the well-known articles and statistics about women in open source and finishes with tangible solutions that really do get more women engaged in technology.
The Hamcrest Project illustrates that good things happen when the developers of (unit) testing frameworks and tools for different programming languages talk to each other.
This Birds of a Feather Session should serve as a meeting point for the developers of JUnit, TestNG, PHPUnit, PyTest, RSpec, <your favourite framework> for <your favourite language>.
Free Geek has equipped thousands
of low-income families with Linux computers. Starting at 2:00pm,
Keith Lofstrom will lead a tour from the Convention Center
to the Free Geek facility at 1731 SE 10th Avenue, Portland.
Theo Schlossnagle (OmniTI)
My system is slow! My app is slow! What in tarnation is going on? Using powerful tools we will finally answer the question: what is my system doing?
Anthony Baxter (Google/Python Software Foundation)
General lightning talk session. Got some new nifty project you want to promote? Some small piece of technology that makes your life easier? Just a general rant and rave? Here's your chance at 5 minutes of fame.
Akkana Peck (*)
Akkana Peck, author of "Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional," will demonstrate how to use GIMP to improve your photographs or create digital art. You'll learn how different image formats compare, basic photo manipulation skills (crop, rescale, and brightness correction), several different selection techniques for cutting objects out of photos, and an assortment of other useful tricks.
Ben Ramsey (Schematic)
Today's high-traffic web sites must implement measures to reduce load and increase speed of delivery. One such method is the use of a cache and memcached provides one of the fastest and easiest-to-use caching servers. This talk will cover memcached from setting up a memcached server to using it to provide a variety of caching solutions.
Martin Aschoff (AGNITAS AG)
When going open source with your software there are 20 important things you definitely have to do to be successful. Join this session and hear tips and examples from someone who had to learn some of this stuff the hard way.
Winners of the Google O'Reilly Open Source Award will be announced during this fun evening event.
Laurence Gonsalves (Google),
Harry Heymann (Google)
GXP is a templating system used to output XML/SGML markup (most often HTML). Used internally at Google for many years, we are now open sourcing this tool for community use and development.
Zak Greant (Foo Associates)
Hackers and makers, inventors and innovators, evangelists and activists, CXOs and entrepreneurs: each year thousands of us make our rounds on the FOSS conference circuit. Arriving through environment-punishing air travel, we descend into a banality of over-packaged shwag, glossy brochures, disposable cups, and hotel stays. We're a principled, smart and innovative lot—we can do so much better.
Rod Cope (OpenLogic, inc.)
Groovy and JRuby are both dynamic, object-oriented scripting languages for the JVM. They both support tight, bi-directional integration with existing Java code and can compile to .class files that reside in jars. So, which is best for you? Which to learn if you only have time for one? Come see recommendations from someone who has put thousands of lines of each into production environments.
Damien Seguy (Nexen Services)
Come and give a try at this PHP application and see how you can exploit seemingly innocent PHP code to run XSS, injections, and CSRF.
Joe Born (Neuros Technology Intl, LLC)
Neuros, in partnership with Texas Instruments, has developed an open multimedia set-top box platform (and device) using contributions from many community projects. This tutorial will discuss the platform and give an introduction on the many ways you can participate in developing for this platform.
Paul Fenwick (Perl Training Australia)
As technical professionals we excel at understanding protocols, standards, file-formats, and APIs. Whenever there is a doubt, one merely needs to read the fine manual or source code. Unfortunately the reference manual for humans was lost a long time ago, and the source code is poorly documented. We've been struggling with inter-human communication ever since.
The Hamcrest Project provides a library of matcher objects (also known as constraints or predicates) allowing "match" rules to be defined declaratively in Java, PHP, Python, and Objective-C, to be used in other frameworks. Typical scenarios include testing frameworks, mocking libraries and UI validation rules.
Jennifer Minor (Vernier Software & Technology)
Jenny Minor takes through a case study of developing a mobile data product from concept, to initial hardware and tool chains to final product. The pain points, the learnings and the outcomes are all explained for your learning and future application.
Sanjay Radia (Yahoo! Inc.)
The Hadoop Distributed Filesystem (HDFS) provides scalable, fault-tolerant, and high performance data storage and retrieval for Internet scale data applications. This talk presents an overview of HDFS and then dives under the hood to look at its implementation, performance characteristics, and planned enhancements.
Pia Waugh (Waugh Partners)
All over the world women are discovering that they have special abilities, and that they are not alone. Come on a journey to hear about some of the amazing women in FOSS, their achievements, how you can get involved, and how to get more women involved both in FOSS and ICT. Waugh also draws from her experience talking to thousands of school girls about ICT careers.
Michael Bernstein (Rogue Mountain)
The Zope 3 component architecture is focused on creating reusable components for applications. Most of the components created so far are focused on extending the Zope web application stack, but there are a number of libraries that can be useful to Python developers in general. Bernstein will introduce a few and demonstrate their use.
Wez Furlong (Message Systems)
Ever wanted to throw together a GUI app for the Mac but felt intimidated at the prospect of learning Objective-C? Ever wished there was a Mac native version of PHP-GTK? This session will give you a peek at building native Mac apps using PHP.
David Gray (OmniTI)
"Revision control? What's that?" Knowing what I know now, it's scary to look back and ask what might have happened if one hard drive had failed at the wrong time. After reviewing some revision control concepts, we will look at several projects to see how they could have leveraged revision control and what the benefits would have been.
Mike Perham (FiveRuns)
FiveRuns launched the RM-Manage monitoring service targeting the Ruby on Rails market in 2007, but not without making plenty of mistakes in the process. This talk will discuss the social, technical, and business lessons learned over the last year.
Thomas McGonagle (Bentley College/CSC Inc. )
In one year we have seen the release of the XO laptop, Asus's EEE PC, and Nokia's third generation Internet tablet. Open source software and wireless technology provide a tremendous opportunity for low cost Internet access infrastructure and end user access in Urban North America and Rural Africa. Research on this topic will be presented.
Jerry Carter (Likewise Software)
Here's an industrial-strength way to address the issue of connecting to a directory in a mixed environment. Instead of grappling with homegrown directory solutions, now there's an open source way to leverage your company's investment in Active Directory.
Mike Hillyer (Message Systems)
At some point in every software project involving a database it becomes necessary for the developers who created (or inherited) the project to step back and take a look at their database. Many projects have a database schema that has evolved over time, with columns added here and tables added there, increasing complexity and often adding redundancy.
Andy Clark (Zimbra)
Learn from Zimbra's experiences with ZCS and Zimbra Desktop (an offline-capable AJAX email application) including a checklist of do's and don'ts and a deep dive into: i18n and l10n, 508 compliance (Americans with Disabilities Act), skinning, templates, time-date formatting and more.
David Maxwell (Coverity, Inc.)
Since it began in March 2006 as a result of a contract with the Department of Homeland Security, the Coverity scan site has identified and helped open source developers eliminate defects in projects like PHP, Linux Kernel, and Mozilla. This tutorial will provide information needed to use Coverity’s open source static analysis scan project.
Hyrum Wright (University of Texas at Austin),
Robert Grant (University of Texas at Austin)
Hydra is a wireless multithop networking testbed, created completely from open source components. Designed to be modular and easily expandable, Hydra allows networking researchers and enthusiasts to implement by physical layer and MAC protocols quickly, and cheaply, and test them over real wireless channels.
Doug Judd (Zvents, Inc.)
Hypertable is an open source, high performance, distributed database modeled after Google's Bigtable. The current scalable database solutions are somewhat ad hoc and leave much to be desired, until now. Hypertable brings scalable storage technology to the masses.
Stephen Lau (Songbird)
Got a web site? Want richer media-interaction experiences with your end users? Or do you just want to create the next cool media web mashup? Songbird, a desktop media player powered by Mozilla's XULRunner platform, makes connecting any device to any web site as simple as HTML and JavaScript. Develop either server-side webapps, or client-side extensions (like Firefox!) to create media web mashups.
Mike Naberezny (Maintainable Software, LLC.)
While more PHP developers are accepting the importance and benefits of unit testing, the uptake of PHP developers using automated integration testing is relatively slow. Integration testing is equally crucial to maintaining the integrity of applications. This talk introduces the benefits and practices of automated integration testing for PHP applications.
What are some of the most popular and promising applications making the migration to mobile? We'll examine topics such as geospatial, beautiful web GUIs, web toolkits, services such as Mowser, and integrating mobile with web features and information.
Join the Moblin Camp, sponsored by Intel, at OSCON on Tuesday, July 22, 9:00am – 5:00pm, for the latest on what’s happening in this rapidly growing open source area.
Andrei Zmievski (Outspark)
What are the best approaches to translating your web site or application into other languages? This session shows several that are possible with PHP and various tools and extensions.
Jacob Kaplan-Moss (Django)
Django is a high-level web development framework designed for rapid development of database-backed web sites. This tutorial is designed to introduce developers to Django. It will take attendees from a blank screen to a fully functional web application. Learn the basics you need to know to get started with Django.
John Sichi (LucidEra)
LucidDB is a new open source RDBMS purpose-built entirely for data warehousing and business intelligence. This talk will cover the project's architectural features and how they can be applied to achieve superior performance and ease of administration in this specialized domain.
Jim Brandt (SUNY at Buffalo)
This tutorial will introduce people to mod_perl 2 and demonstrate the different ways it can be used as an effective Apache server tool. The tutorial is divided ito three sections: using mod_perl 2 for fast content serving, using mod_perl 2 to enhance and extend Apache 2, and converting mod_perl 1 code to mod_perl 2.
Randal L. Schwartz (Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc.),
Tom Phoenix (Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc.)
Introduction to the Smalltalk Seaside web application framework: an open-source (but vendor supported) challenge to the classic web design strategies, using test-driven development, continuations for easy workflow abstraction, and view components for consistency and reuse. Includes introduction to Squeak Smalltalk, but general OO principles won't be covered.
John Lam (Microsoft)
A year ago, we shipped the first drop of the IronRuby source code at OSCON. In September, we released our project on RubyForge and began accepting contributions. A few months after that, the OSI certified the Microsoft Public License as an official open source license. Come to this talk to get an update on where we are today, and what we have to do to get to 1.0.
Andy Lester (Perlbuzz.com)
Many open source projects work at a low-level in C to take advantage of the power and speed of working close to the machine. Whether it's Perl, Postgres, or Linux, C is what makes these and other projects run. If you're experience in a high-level language like Perl, Ruby, or Java, you'll need to learn about the intricacies of C.
Leaders in the commercial open source mobile arena and community innovators present their vision of how mobile is evolving, both as an industry and how it's shaping a new generation of users and their expectations for an "always on" lifestyle.
Andy Gregorowicz (MITRE)
Laika is an open source testing framework that is changing the certification process for electronic health records (EHR) in the U.S. Hear about EHR data standards, the testing process, how to test an EHR, how to get involved, and the impact of FOSS on Health IT.
Steve George (Canonical Ltd)
Landscape is a system management service that allows you to manage multiple Ubuntu machines as easily as one. Learn how you can manage many machines in a complex environment through a single web-based interface.
Tim Bray (Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
It would be nice to know which programming languages we're all going to be programming in ten years from now. I really have no more idea than you, but I am paid to worry about this kind of thing. So I'm going to worry out loud about this for fifteen minutes, highlight some trends and influences, and probably leave you with more questions than answers.
Van Lindberg (Haynes and Boone)
New open source projects are starting each day. Maybe your code will redefine computing—if you can avoid a few simple mistakes that would keep your project on the sidelines. This session will cover ten simple things that you should do every time you start a new open source project and help you avoid a mountain of trouble later.
This presentation discusses how we have entered a new golden era
of mobile apps and how mobile open source enables developers to rapidly
deliver compelling new mobile services for the mass market.
David "Lefty" Schlesinger (ACCESS Co. Ltd. )
LiMo announced they are joining forces with LiPs to create a global body to promote Linux. Very often these groups overlook the practicalities and realities of programming the platforms. Not this time. Renowned Open Mobile developer "Lefty" Schlesinger will go through a practical session on developing for platforms that adhere to the LiMo and LiPs specification.
John Goerzen (Hustler Turf Equipment)
A mid-sized manufacturing company has successfully switched the majority of its employees to Linux on the desktop. This talk will cover why this was done, how it was accomplished, and the lessons learned during the deployment. It will cover both technical and business/political aspects of making such a switch, and give you pointers on making a similar switch in your organization.
Homer Hummel (Computer Sciences Corporation)
Perl is utilitarian. A flexible, scalable, cost-effective framework for load testing application servers has been developed using Perl scripts. This framework is ideal for load testing servers for which a commercial test tool is either unavailable or prohibitively expensive. Load scripts may be easily written using a Perl script template and functions of one of the many clients on CPAN.
Josh Berkus (PostgreSQL Project)
Data = money. Yet most web applications do little or nothing to secure their data against thieves. Learn some easy methods to lock up yours.
Mike Schilli (Yahoo!, Inc. )
This talk by Yahoo! Perl Architect and Log4perl author Mike Schilli shows how you can implement a consistent logging strategy by using the slam-dunk solution for all Perl logging needs: Log4perl, which addresses everything from throwaway scripts to highly scalable architectures.
Christer Edwards (Guru Labs, LC)
LTS Tutorials demonstrates how to use Ubuntu in an Enterprise setting in a number of ways. From how to setup LAMP, mass hands-off network deployment, File Servers (NFS, SMB, FTP, SFTP), repository mirroring, and internal secure IM with Jabber.
Wikipedia is a significant source of raw material for the machine learning and knowledge extraction community, but working with Wikipedia's export and markup structures is a cumbersome task everyone who wants to work with this data must endure. This session introduces the open data community to WEX, a pre-parsed, annotated, relational data set that facilitates easy-access to Wikipedia data.
Michael Dory (Socialbomb),
Adam Simon (Socialbomb),
Scott Varland (NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP))
Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. This session will feature an introduction to physical computing and interfacing with microcontrollers, as well as the basics of Arduino (hardware and software) and using it with the Processing programming environment.
Jono Bacon (Canonical Ltd)
In this brand new presentation, Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager at Canonical, talks about the history of the Ubuntu community, the challenges it has faced, and where it is moving forward in his dream to build the "reference implementation of Free Software community, done right," all wrapped up in the amusing, anecdotal style he is known for.
Anas Nashif (Intel)
This session shows how managing open-source operating systems on Intel hardware got easier using open-source implementations of industry standards and demonstrates interoperability between Linux and Windows and Intel AMT using the WS-Management protocol.
Dan York (Voxeo Corporation)
As "mashups" become a key way to access information on the Internet, the question is: how can you add voice into the picture? Given the ubiquity of the phone, how can you make it easy for people to call and interact with your applications? Join this session to learn about how you can use the power of XML, open source, and open standards to add voice to your web applications.
brian d foy (Stonehenge Consulting Services)
Go beyond the syntax and idioms of Perl to manage your code base so it doesn't manage you. Show your Perl code who is in charge through benchmarking and profiling, configuration, logging, and fixing third party modules.
George Conard (Mifos Initiative at Grameen Foundation)
As microfinance seeks to grow and better serve the poor, the Mifos open source technology platform will enable greater efficiency and effectiveness and will remove serious current barriers to microfinance’s growth. We will explore the challenges in implementing a business model that drives our global ecosystem in the development and delivery of a standard solution for the industry.
Arjan van de Ven (Intel)
There has been much fuss about the supposedly decreasing quality of the Linux kernel. This presentation talks about some efforts to counter that, and shows measurements of what is really going on.
Alan Kasindorf (Six Apart),
Brian Aker (MySQL)
Large MySQL deployments and Memcached go hand and hand. This tutorial details how to get started, the ins and outs of deploying Memcached as a key caching layer in your applications, and how to keep scaling.
Brian Sam-Bodden (Integrallis Software, LLC.)
In this session we will explore some of the metaprogramming techniques that make Ruby the ideal language for framework development. Learn how frameworks like Ruby on Rails and others exploit metaprogramming to infuse that special magic that only open dynamic languages can produce.
Chris Blizzard (Mozilla Foundation)
We'll focus some sharp minds on WebKit, Mozilla, Opera, Netfront, mobile UI features, device services, and more--then get "the rest of the story" when we open the floor to questions.
What's flying under the radar, emerging from skunkworks, coming out of third world necessity, a pet project that's destined to change a life for the better? In this hour, we'll see a dozen or so awesome, not-quite-baked gadget and web site demos that will have you questioning your mobile assumptions.
Benoit Schillings (Trolltech, a Nokia Company)
Nokia acquired mobile linux pioneer Trolltech. Benoit a founder and CTO of Trolltech talks about the future of Mobile Linux and more importantly Nokia's plans for QT , the desktop , the mobile and how you can access the tools and code to start your own projects.
Imad Sousou (Intel Corporation)
Imad Sousou, Director of Intel Open Source Technology Center will present the technology vision and direction for Moblin.org,
The open source community for developing the next generation internet and media experience on a new category of internet-centric devices
such as Mobile Internet Devices, netbooks, nettops and Automotive In-Vehicle Infotainment Systems.
Derek Speed (Intel Corporation)
A new class of devices is emerging that enables full Internet access while on the go. These internet-centric devices known as Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), netbooks, nettops combine the software compatibility of the PC with an easy to use, consumer friendly user interface.
Jeff Horwitz (Petfinder)
mod_parrot embeds the Parrot VM in the Apache web server, giving Parrot and its languages access to the Apache API without the overhead of writing a module for each language. This talk will explore the goals of mod_parrot, its architecture, why it is important at this point in time, and the ease with which new languages can be integrated.
Bruno Cornec (Hewlett-Packard)
MondoRescue is a GPL Disaster Recovery Solution. It exists since 2000. and has now matured to a global solution used both to restore systems in case of emergency as well as to deploy dozens of systems having the same or nearly the same configuration. The main web site is at http://www.mondorescue.org where all the detailed information is contained.
Stevan Little (Infinity Interactive)
Moose is a new postmodern object system for Perl 5 that is gaining traction within the community, it is based on Perl 6 and borrows from such diverse sources as CLOS (LISP), Smalltalk, Ruby, BETA, O'Caml, and more. This talk will provide a conceptual overview of the major parts of Moose, including roles, type constraints, metaclasses, and more.
Darren Duncan (Muldis Data Systems)
How would you like to have a full-featured object-relational DBMS integrated right into your development environment? One that understands OOP, implements all of the relational operators, and greatly shortens development time? That gets you away from the tyranny of SQL so you can focus on what you really know? Introducing Muldis D, an industrial-strength language with fully integrated ORDBMS.
Open the database development horizons with MySQL Proxy. Enhance server features, create new commands, make your server jump, speak your language, and make coffee!
Ronald Bradford (Independent Industry Expert),
Giuseppe Maxia (Sun Microsystems Inc)
MySQL Proxy is a new exciting product offering from MySQL AB that solves classical server and application problems without changing your server or your application code. Features include connection management, load balancing, failover, and better instrumentation.
The presentation will include an overview of the architecture of
features, and actual customer implementations with MySQL Proxy.
MySQL Sandbox is a tool to install a side server or a replication system in "seconds," in complete isolation, without need to remember complex sequence of commands.
Primary focus will be on MythTV, but open to discussions on other uses of Linux in the Video space, especially around tools and codecs
Sunia Yang (Stanford University),
Rob Riepel (Stanford University)
As the key network management tool at Stanford University, NetDB enables 900+ users to manage DNS names/aliases/MXes, DHCP (static, dynamic, options), make/model, location, and administrators of 100,000+ hosts through Web, CLI, Whois, and Java RMI Interfaces. Networking staff use NetDB for address space management (600+ networks, 1500+ address spaces), reporting, and configuration.
Jason Grigsby (Cloud Four)
More often than not FOSS software is used to create code for commercial projects. Gaining recognition as a ground breaking and eye opening analyst, Jason talks about the new explosion of opportunity in the "Mobile Web" and how FOSS advocates out here can help to support and profit from them new boom.
Daniel Jacobson (National Public Radio)
NPR has built a comprehensive, robust and flexible API using open source technologies. The API has been driving NPR.org since December 2007 and allows for great flexibility in working with partners, member stations and other users of the API. Come learn more about the API, the frameworks and technologies that drive it, and what NPR plans to do with it in the future.
The first-ever Open Mobile Exchange is for everyone involved in building out the open source mobile space, including platforms, standards, applications, hardware, integration, browsers, location, and services.
Louis Suarez-Potts (OpenOffice.org)
I examine the debate concerning the ISO office suite formats, the OpenDocument and yet-to-be-published Office Open XML, and the more general politics of free and open source software now that it has become a significant player on the desktop and the focus of government attention worldwide.
Roy Fielding (Day Software)
Open architecture is a property that can make or break an open source product. Eclipse, Apache, Linux (Unix), Firefox, and the World Wide Web are all examples of systems that distinguished themselves by enabling a platform for extensibility instead of just a fixed set of features. How do we design for that? Principled design, as demonstrated by the REST architectural style and other examples.
Keith Bergelt (Open Invention Network)
The Keynote will outline the role of Open Invention Network in Open Source and describe the ways in which Capital, Leadership and Strategy are being leveraged to ensure the onward organic growth and development of Linux.
Keith Bergelt (Open Invention Network)
The talk will introduce the audience to OIN and outline its role and goals in relation to Linux and the broader open source community of which it is a part. OIN will be discussed in the context of community wide initiatives at the Linux Foundation and the Software Freedom Law Center regarding limiting the impact of patent assertion and litigation against members of the Linux Community.
Jim Zemlin (The Linux Foundation)
Jim Zemlin the chair of the Linux Foundation shares some insight on the future of the open mobile platform and its benefits to business and the FOSS community.
Danese Cooper (Open Source Initiative and Intel Corporation),
Nnenna Nwakanme,
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh,
Harshad Gune,
Alolita Sharma (Technetra),
Martin Michlmayr (Hewlett Packard),
Li Gong,
Sulamita Garcia (Intel)
It's been 10 years since the term open source was coined in the U.S., and in that time transparent commons-based software development has changed the face of the U.S. software industry. But what impact has open source had outside of the U.S.? This panel will introduce you to five people who report on the reach and impact of open source worldwide. Learn how we're changing the world!!
Joe Gregorio (Google)
The mantra at the IETF is rough consensus and running code. But how much does that running code, particularly open source running code, contribute to a good standard?
James Stanger (VCampus Corporation )
Although many universities support open source projects, few actually teach them as primary business and IT tools. Why?
This report discusses why schools from Beijing to Glasgow still consider open source a (lesser) alternative. We'll also consider steps the open source community can take to convert universities—the primary recruiting ground for web and software developers—to open source.
Robert "r0ml" Lefkowitz (Asurion)
Before open source, software was technology. Open source changed that. Now, software is a liberal art. That's the real revolution. A talk on the place of open source software in the 2500 year history of the liberal arts.
Aaron Fulkerson (MindTouch, Inc. )
Learn how MindTouch Deki connects people, enterprise systems, web-services and Web 2.0 applications and enables users to mashup and surface data from these disparate systems in an easy to use wiki interface. All with IT governance and without requiring a programmer.
Ted Leung (Sun Microsystems)
Interested in starting or participating in an open source project? Here are some ways to make sure that your project will fail or have an unhealthy community.
This session is an interactive roundtable discussion on the issues relating to open-source application development in the public sector.
Sam Ramji (Microsoft)
Over the past ten years, open source has fundamentally changed the way developers learn, communicate and code together. Over the past three years, Microsoft has made significant strides towards more fully participating in open source communities.
J Aaron Farr (JadeTower)
Learn about open source efforts in China. Every culture and economy provides unique opportunities and challenges to open source software adoption and China is no exception. In this session we'll investigate what particular progress has been made, what difficulties remain, and what may lie ahead. A short overview of the China software industry will also be presented.
This is a BOF for developers, users, and instructors to discuss the latest trends and issues in Open Source usage and advocacy in education.
Bernard Golden (Navica)
Anecdotes about open source use by enterprises range from "we don't use it at all" to "it's a fundamental part of our IT strategy." Unfortunately, there's no real data to back up the anecdotes -- until now