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Surj Patel (GigaOM),
Raven Zachary (The 451 Group)
Moderated by: Allison Randal
This opening talk frames the opportunities, challenges, and unexpected directions mobile is going--and where it's taking us as a society.
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Benoit Schillings (Trolltech, a Nokia Company)
Moderated by: Benoit Schillings
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.
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John Forsyth (Symbian Software Ltd.)
Moderated by: John Forsyth
What happens when the worlds most popular smartphone OS decides to go open source? John Forsyth from Symbian will outline the road ahead as the operating system on millions of handsets becomes open to developers around the world.
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Moderated by: Sean Sullivan
This BOF is for developers who want to learn about Google's Android platform. We'll discuss the Android toolset and platform API's.
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Arch Robison (Intel),
Robert Reed (Intel)
Moderated by: John McHugh
This tutorial explains the complexities of concurrency and how open source tools can simplify threading for performance and scalability. Illustrative examples will show how to design once and reap the benefits in current and future hardware architectures.
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Neal Niemiec (Autodesk, Inc),
Dave McIlhagga (DM Solutions Group),
Geoff Zeiss (Autodesk, Inc.)
Moderated by: Geoff Zeiss
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.
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Mark R. Shuttleworth (Canonical Ltd.)
Moderated by: Mark R. Shuttleworth
More information coming soon
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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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Keith Packard (Intel)
Moderated by: Keith Packard
Over the last several years, architectural changes within the Linux environment have promised new features and functionality for the desktop user, including transparent applications and multiuser displays. These have become demonstrable in limited environments for some time and work continues to bring them into wider use. This presentation will present the status and plans of these projects.
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Matthew Russell (Zaffra, LLC)
Moderated by: Matthew Russell
An in-depth presentation on Dojo's graphics project (GFX), which provides an SVG-centric JavaScript API for creating, manipulating, and even animating graphics in the browser. Dojo'x GFX project is cross-platform and capable of supporting multiple back-ends including SVG, VML, and Sliverlight. Learn how to create stunning graphics, animate them, and even do some 3D rendering--all without Flash!
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Ben Collins-Sussman (Google, Inc.),
Brian Fitzpatrick (Google, Inc.)
Moderated by: Ben Collins-Sussman
In past years we've talked about Subversion "best practices." In this talk we'll discuss the worst blunders to avoid when using Subversion in your open source project: bad layouts, ridiculous hook scripts, file locking, too much access control, confused merges, versioning derived objects, mixing locales, and other painful mistakes.
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Stewart Smith (Sun Microsystems)
Moderated by: Stewart Smith
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.
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Joe Brockmeier (Novell),
Ross Turk (SourceForge, Inc.),
Jono Bacon (Canonical Ltd),
John Mark Walker (Geek-PAC),
Jeremy Hogan (Hyperic, Inc.)
Moderated by: Joe Brockmeier
Over the past ten years nothing has impacted business more than community. Whether through the openness of software development spurred by Linux or the dismantling of media empires through blogging, the rise of communities has been the driving force in how we work and live today.
For open source developers, what has to happen to maintain and grow the communities they've built?
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Mark R. Shuttleworth (Canonical Ltd.)
Moderated by: Jane Silber
Development methodologies are morphing from "pure" Agile to
incorporate best practices from Lean and the open source world.
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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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Curt Tilmes (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Moderated by: Curt Tilmes
This presentation will discuss science data processing of Earth climate data from two projects at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the evolution from large scale proprietary Unix platforms and traditional commercial databases to open source solutions based on Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, and Perl.
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