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Steve Holden (Holden Web LLC)
Moderated by: Steve Holden
This half-day tutorial presents enough of the Python language to allow you to read and understand moderately complex programs. If you already know one or more programming languages then this is a great way to prepare for the OSCON Python track.
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Jacob Kaplan-Moss (Django)
Moderated by: Jacob Kaplan-Moss
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.
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Moderated by: Stephen Simms
From content management systems for running web sites to the infrastructure that can support thousands of field workers around the world, open source software offers great value for church workers and missionaries. If you're involved in tech stuff at your church, a missions organization, or a company serving this industry, come meet other like-minded people, and share what's working well for you.
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John Resig (Mozilla Corporation)
Moderated by: John Resig
This talk will delve into the secret techniques used by JavaScript library authors to create comprehensive libraries that work seamlessly across browser environments. We'll look at everything from fixes for strange browser quirks, tricks for gaining speed, to tips for writing an extensible architecture in JavaScript. Everything discussed will be backed up with publicly available, rock-solid, code.
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Matt Trout (Shadowcat Systems Limited)
Moderated by: Matt Trout
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.
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Mark R. Shuttleworth (Canonical Ltd.)
Moderated by: Mark R. Shuttleworth
More information coming soon
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Moderated by: Matthew Johnson
Winners of the Google O'Reilly Open Source Award will be announced during this fun evening event.
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Robert "r0ml" Lefkowitz (Asurion)
Moderated by: Robert "r0ml" Lefkowitz
More information coming soon
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Moderated by: Allison Randal
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Damian Conway (Thoughtstream)
Moderated by: Damian Conway
Coming soon.
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Location: Portland Ballroom
Allison Randal (O'Reilly Media, Inc.),
Edd Dumbill (O'Reilly Media, Inc. )
Moderated by: Allison Randal
Opening remarks.
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Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
Moderated by: Allison Randal
Coming soon.
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Christine Peterson (Foresight Institute)
Moderated by: Christine Peterson
In today's post-9/11 world, it is increasingly assumed that security from terrorism and other attacks will require the loss of privacy by individuals and private organizations.
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Dirk Hohndel (Intel Corporation)
Moderated by: Imad Sousou
Dirk Hohndel 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.
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Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.),
Michael Widenius (Monty Program Ab),
Brian Aker (MySQL)
Moderated by: Allison Randal
Coming soon.
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Moderated by: Shirley Bailes
An open microphone question and answer session with the morning's keynote speakers.
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Dalibor Topic (Sun Microsystems GmbH)
Moderated by: Dalibor Topic
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.
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Matthew Garrett (Red Hat)
Moderated by: Matthew Garrett
The Linux desktop has moved far beyond the point where it consisted of a kernel, an X server, and the xclock command. A bewildering array of layers exist to move information around, abstract unnecessary complexities, and perform various practical functions. This presentation seeks to remove some of the mystery of the modern desktop.
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David Ascher (Mozilla Messaging),
Dan Mosedale (Mozilla)
Moderated by: David Ascher
An update on Mozilla's new efforts in messaging and email, including a status report on Thunderbird 3, the next generation of the email client built on the same platform as Firefox.
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Justin Fitzhugh (Mozilla)
Moderated by: Justin Fitzhugh
Learn how the Mozilla IT team scales its update and software delivery systems to support the over 150 million Firefox users.
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Theo Schlossnagle (OmniTI)
Moderated by: Theo Schlossnagle
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?
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Andy de la Lucha (Mentor Graphics)
Moderated by: Andy de la Lucha
VMware has a place at the top of the virtualization industry, but is not open source, gets expensive, and can feel claustrophobic as VMware "makes a tool for every job." This talk will go over open source equivalents to the most prominent VMware products, existing high-profile uses, and how existing VMware deployments can co-exist with open source virtualization.
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Chris DiBona (Google, Inc.),
Leslie Hawthorn (Google, Inc.)
Moderated by: Chris DiBona
In this talk, DiBona and Hawthorn will review last year's open source activities from Google. This will feature an in-depth look at this year's Summer of Code, with over 1000 students taking part, and their high school program.
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Paul Fenwick (Perl Training Australia)
Moderated by: Paul Fenwick
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.
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Josh Berkus (PostgreSQL Experts, Inc.),
Shane Warden (O'Reilly Media),
Ben Collins-Sussman (Google, Inc.),
Brian Fitzpatrick (Google, Inc.),
Karl Fogel (QuestionCopyright.org)
Moderated by: Josh Berkus
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.
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Keith Bergelt (Open Invention Network)
Moderated by: Keith Bergelt
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.
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Peter H. Salus (Anniversaries)
Moderated by: Peter H. Salus
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Danese Cooper (Open Source Initiative and REvolution Computing)
Moderated by: Danese Cooper
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Nathan Torkington (He Hononga Software, Limited)
Moderated by: Nathan Torkington
More information coming soon
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Moderated by: Shirley Bailes
An open microphone question and answer session with the morning's keynote speakers.
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Josh Berkus (PostgreSQL Experts, Inc.)
Moderated by: Josh Berkus
Want a snapshot of the state of open source worldwide? Fourteen open source luminaries will very briefly update you on some of their projects. Fast, fun, furious and full of information, the State of Lightning Talks have been a hit at OSCON since 2005.
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Michael Schwern (Lack Of Organization)
Moderated by: Michael Schwern
Much of the practical reason for "best coding practices" is not to make code "pretty" but to allow code to be skimmed. We rarely read and understand an entire project, instead we read just enough to get something done. It allows one to work very efficiently on unfamiliar code.
You will learn the art of skimming and the role of best practices in writing skimmable code.
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Jono Bacon (Canonical Ltd)
Moderated by: Jono Bacon
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.
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Peter Goodall (Canonical Ltd.)
Moderated by: Jane Silber
See the latest Ubuntu on ultra-mobile devices such as subnotebooks and MIDs.
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Robert "r0ml" Lefkowitz (Asurion)
Moderated by: Robert "r0ml" Lefkowitz
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.
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Van Lindberg (Haynes and Boone)
Moderated by: Van Lindberg
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.
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Vik Olliver (The RepRap Project)
Moderated by: Vik Olliver
The RepRap Project has developed an open source design for a 3D fabricator that can print all its own custom components as well as utilitarian objects. It is cross-platform and uses a completely open source toolchain. It wants to evolve into an even more useful device, but needs to acquire a vital component -- you.
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Moderated by: Matthew Johnson
The OSCON tradition continues as Larry Wall delivers the annual State of the Onion Address, followed by Jim Brandt's Perl Foundation report, and an auction to benefit the Perl Foundation. The State of the Onion starts at 6:15pm in Portland 252, immediately after the Perl Lightning Talks.
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Benjamin Mako Hill (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Moderated by: Benjamin Mako Hill
Coming soon.
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Dawn Nafus (Intel)
Moderated by: Dawn Nafus
Technical challenges are big—but so are social ones. Here I present three major areas of rapid social change, each of which poses its own set of challenges and opportunities. These are areas where robust social and institutional creativity are necessary alongside technological ingenuity.
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Sam Ramji (Microsoft)
Moderated by: Sam Ramji
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.
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Tim Bray (Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
Moderated by: Tim Bray
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.
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Jeremy Ruston (BT Design)
Moderated by: Jeremy Ruston
Coming soon.
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Moderated by: Chad Knueppe
An open microphone question and answer session with the morning's keynote speakers.
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Zak Greant (Foo Associates)
Moderated by: Zak Greant
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.
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Tom Anderson (Agilent Technologies)
Moderated by: Tom Anderson
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.
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Damian Conway (Thoughtstream)
Moderated by: Damian Conway
You unlock this door with the key of a hash. Beyond it is another dimension—a dimension of strange constructs, a dimension of improbable behavior. You're moving into a land of both weird syntax and unlikely semantics, of unintended features and unexpected beauty. You've just crossed over into...The Twilight Perl.
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Jim Zemlin (The Linux Foundation),
Keith Bergelt (Open Invention Network),
Karen Sandler (Software Freedom Law Center),
Phil Robb (Hewlett Packard)
Moderated by: Allison Randal
Coming soon.
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Moderated by: Vee McMillen
Snacks and Conversation
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