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Chris Blizzard (Mozilla Foundation)
Moderated by: Chris Blizzard
With the boom in mobile internet, the new Mobile Platform may be the mobile browser. Mobile Browser expert and developer Chris Blizzard takes us on a journey through the mobile browser landscape, covering all major players and focusing a few more details on Mozilla and their proposition within the mobile landscape.
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Gavin Doughtie (Google),
Andrew Hyde (TechStars)
Moderated by: Gavin Doughtie
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.
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Francesco Cesarini (Erlang Training and Consulting Ltd)
Moderated by: Francesco Cesarini
This tutorial covers the basic, sequential, and concurrent aspects of the Erlang programming language. You will learn the basics of how to read, write, and structure Erlang programs. The target audience are software developers and engineers with an interest in server-side applications and massively concurrent systems.
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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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Terry Chay (Tagged, Inc.)
Moderated by: Terry Chay
Priorities and pitfalls when building a large consumer-facing social network.
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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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Laurence Gonsalves (Google),
Harry Heymann (Google)
Moderated by: Chris DiBona
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.
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Jason Levitt (Amalgamated Shoulderpads),
Simon Willison (Self employed),
Chris Messina (OpenID Foundation),
Scott Kveton (Vidoop),
Allen Tom (Yahoo! Inc. )
Moderated by: Jason Levitt
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?"
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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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Niel Bornstein (Novell, Inc.)
Moderated by: Niel Bornstein
Everyone's using virtualization, from proprietary systems like VMware to open source ones like Xen and KVM. The smart money has the virtualization itself becoming a commodity, so the fun begins when you try to manage your VMs using open source tools.
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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
Coming soon.
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Danese Cooper (Open Source Initiative and REvolution Computing)
Moderated by: Danese Cooper
Coming soon.
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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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Evan Prodromou (Control Yourself, Inc.)
Moderated by: Evan Prodromou
Identi.ca is an open source microblogging platform built to embrace open standards. It's a Twitter you can fix. Hear the story from its creator and find out how Identi.ca changed the microblogging game overnight.
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Jesse Vincent (Best Practical)
Moderated by: Jesse Vincent
Prophet is a new peer to peer distributed database designed to help ease the transition to post-web-2.0 applications.
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Gavin Doughtie (Google)
Moderated by: Gavin Doughtie
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.
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James Turnbull (National Australia Bank),
Luke Kanies (Reductive Labs)
Moderated by: James Turnbull
Configuration management is the oft-misunderstood (and possibly black) art of managing your IT environment. Puppet is part of the bright future of configuration management for heterogeneous Unix systems. This session explains how to combine the practice and the tool to reduce errors, outages, and operational costs.
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John Lam (Microsoft)
Moderated by: John Lam
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.
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Emma Jane Hogbin (HICK Tech)
Moderated by: Emma Jane Hogbin
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.
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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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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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Nat Friedman (Novell, Inc.)
Moderated by: Nat Friedman
Today the Linux world is dominated by one-size-fits-all Linux distributions that include thousands of packages and that can be two or three gigabytes fully installed.
In this presentation, Nat will introduce the benefits of streamlined, customized, single-purpose software appliances based on Linux -- in the form of virtual machine images, bootable and installable media, or live USB keys.
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Tomas Frydrych (Openedhand Ltd),
Paul Cooper (Intel)
Moderated by: Tomas Frydrych
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!
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Gordon Mohr (Internet Archive, Web Group)
Moderated by: Gordon Mohr
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.
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Moderated by: Vee McMillen
Snacks and Conversation
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