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Damian Conway (Thoughtstream),
Larry Wall (Netlogic Microsystems)
Moderated by: Damian Conway
Larry Wall and Damian Conway will present the latest features of Perl 6, and discuss the transition from design phase to full implementation of the new Perl.
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Selena Deckelmann (PostgreSQL Project),
Gabrielle Roth (XO Communications)
Moderated by: Gabrielle Roth
If you're interested in starting, currently lead, or are interested in helping with an existing local users group, this talk is for you! Selena Deckelmann and Gabrielle Roth have started two successful user groups in the Portland area and will share their tips with you.
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Stevan Little (Infinity Interactive)
Moderated by: Stevan Little
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.
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Jos Boumans (RIPE NCC)
Moderated by: Jos Boumans
"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.
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Dawn Foster (Fast Wonder Consulting),
Danese Cooper (Open Source Initiative and REvolution Computing),
Allison Randal (O'Reilly Media, Inc.),
Audrey Eschright (Elevated Rails),
Sulamita Garcia (Intel),
Nnenna Nwakanma (OSI, nnenna.org),
Stormy Peters (GNOME Foundation),
Silona Bonewald (League Of Technical Voters),
Erinn Clark (.),
Zaheda Bhorat (self)
Moderated by: Dawn Foster
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.
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R Geoffrey Avery (Marchex Voice Services)
Moderated by: R Geoffrey Avery
A series of 5-minute talks on anything related to Perl or people who use it. A chance to get one-third of your 15 minutes of fame.
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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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Moderated by: Evan Prodromou
the openmicroblogging.org format has ignited the space of federated, interoperable microblog platforms. including laconi.ca (which runs identi.ca).
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Moderated by: James Dixon
Many of the principles of Agile development align well with the principles of open source. This makes Agile methodologies a good fit for use on open source projects. However there are areas of misalignment between the two. Come along to hear about Open Scrum and to share your experiences of using development methodologies used for open source projects.
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Homer Hummel (Computer Sciences Corporation)
Moderated by: Homer Hummel
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.
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