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Birds of a Feather Networking Sessions
Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions provide face to face exposure to those interested in the same projects and concepts. BoFs can be organized for individual projects or broader topics (best practices, open data, standards). BoFs are entirely up to you. We post your topic online and onsite and provide the space and time. You provide the engaging topic.
Moderated by: Peter Scott
For Perl trainers to swap war stories, anecdotes, tips, tricks, and questions. Share what you've found to work, and ask others how they handle the tough stuff.
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Moderated by: Sebastian Bergmann
As the PHP community grows however, it becomes harder and harder for people to come together from the various corners of the community. The emPHPower initiative wants to address these issues.
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Moderated by: Kevan Miller
This BoF will review and demonstrate the new (and existing) features of the WAS Community Edition 2.1 server. We will also discuss new features being developed in the Apache Geronimo community.
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Moderated by: Colin Charles
MySQL, has moved version control systems to Bazaar, from BitKeeper. Find out how we're coping with a new VCS, how moving to Bazaar helps open MySQL to community contributions, and how you can host your project on Launchpad, and build off MySQL
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Moderated by: Alan Olsen
A keysigning party for GPG/PGP keys. Get your key added to the web of trust and meet your fellow GPG/PGP users face to face.
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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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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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Moderated by: Franz Maruna and Andrew Embler
An introduction, demonstration, and under the hood peek at this newly popular CMS.
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Moderated by: Steven Ellis
Primary focus will be on MythTV, but open to discussions on other uses of Linux in the Video space, especially around tools and codecs
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Moderated by: Louis Suarez-Potts
An informal workshop on OpenOffice.org architecture, code, and community, with a special emphasis on building extensions. There will be a hands-on demonstration. The level is for all, including those interested in OpenOffice.org, the OpenDocument Format (ODF), and where it's all going, as well as those who want to just code and want pointers.
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Moderated by: Sheeri Kritzer Cabral
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.
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Moderated by: Christine Normile
This session is an interactive roundtable discussion on the issues relating to open-source application development in the public sector.
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Moderated by: Selena Deckelmann
Want a database with blazing performance, features that would make a database professor blush and a super army of database geeks making it better every day? Try PostgreSQL.
Come to our BoF where you'll meet a dozen or more PostgreSQL experts, learn about what's coming in version 8.4 and where you can find other folks who like and use PostgreSQL every day.
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Moderated by: David Boswell
Are you interested in learning more about developing extensions or applications using Mozilla technology? Join us to discuss what's going on with Mozilla and Firefox that affects developers, stop by to demo your latest creation, or get helpful information about resources in the community that can help you with your project.
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Moderated by: Selena Deckelmann
The duo behind "Running a Successful User Group" are hosting a round-table for people who run user groups or want to run a user group. They'll answer questions like, "What do I do when my speaker doesn't show up?" and "How do I convince people to come to my meeting about the price of tofu in China?" Come with questions, and meet people trying to do the same thing as you.
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Moderated by: Christine Peterson
We'll be discussing traditional and non-traditional techniques — everything from supplements to testing to extreme strategies. The focus will be on what we can do today as individuals to extend lifespan.
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Moderated by: Clint Talbert
Kick back a couple of brews with several members of the Mozilla QA team. We'll talk about QA for giant open source projects, getting involved, manual testing, and test automation. A good time will be had by all!
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Moderated by: John Good
The Good Company Crew is pulling in the favors for great players to come work it out and have some fun. Come on by and sit in.
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Moderated by: Steven Parkes
Discussion and sharing about concurrent system development based on open-source actor/actor-like languages and libraries.
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Moderated by: Jay Pipes
Jay Pipes and other MySQLers will go over setting up an ideal development environment for building, testing, and contributing to MySQL, along with a rundown of the important subsystems and where to find the relevant source code for each.
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Moderated by: Benjamin Smedberg
Mozilla is developing a set of open-source static analysis tools to assist with analyzing and refactoring its large C++ codebase. Come see a demonstration of these tools and discuss how these same tools can be used to help improve other open-source projects.
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Moderated by: Christine Normile
Significant debate abounds in the open source community with regards to standards compliance. This BOF is an interactive roundtable discussion on the needs for standards adherence and which, if any, standards should be applied to Open Source development.
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Moderated by: Simon St. Laurent
You've found a great technology, but it needs some explanation. Users are looking for a better, faster way to make it work. You're convinced that those users are excited enough that they'd visit an article or even pay for the privilege of reading a great book - is it time to consider writing?
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Moderated by: Nile Geisinger
In this session, we will show developers how to get their Linux applications to run on Windows, Mac OS X, UNIX, and several flavors of Linux as if it were a native application, without the need to recompile.
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Moderated by: Robert Emanuele
If you're not using a version control system, you should be, and Subversion is an excellent candidate for large and diverse groups of projects.
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Moderated by: Christine Peterson
This BOF will follow up on the keynote on this topic given earlier that day, enabling participants to critique the proposal, improve it, and possibly move forward to help make it a reality.
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Moderated by: Silona Bonewald
Can we protect our data by patenting the use of OS software in regards to ethical data usage?
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Moderated by: Giuseppe Maxia
Open the database development horizons with MySQL Proxy. Enhance server features, create new commands, make your server jump, speak your language, and make coffee!
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Moderated by: Michael Brewer
This is a BOF for developers, users, and instructors to discuss the latest trends and issues in Open Source usage and advocacy in education.
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Moderated by: James Dixon
This Bof is for anyone interested in business model used by commercial open source companies that create software (MySQL, JBoss, Pentaho, Alfresco etc).
We will describe how these companies work and the
opportunities and challenges they face. Lively debate will ensue on whether
these companies are really open source and how they could improve their relationships with
developers and users.
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Moderated by: John Whaley
In this session, John Whaley, CTO of MokaFive, will talk about how virtual image compression technologies and freely available virtual appliance tools can help open source enthusiasts build and distribute effective virtual machines to a wide audience. Whaley will cover sandboxing, anti-malware, central updates, and cross-platform delivery as made possible via desktop virtualization.
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Moderated by: Bradley M. Kuhn, Karen Sandler, Aaron Williamson
FOSS projects often need more than coding: help with organizational
infrastructure and legal issues. Come learn about the Software Freedom
Conservancy and the Software Freedom Law Center, two organizations that
help with these issues.
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Moderated by: Derek Gottfrid
Come join the developers behind The New York Times for a discussion about NYTimes.com as a news and information platform, and learn about our plans for web-based APIs.
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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: Ilan Rabinovitch / John Mark Walker
BytesFree is a group of concerned citizens dedicated to the principles of information rights and guided by the notion that everyone deserves the right to access information they legally possess. During this BOF, the ByteFree community will meet to discuss and develop tools for creating open source voter information resources.
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Moderated by: brady forrest, david recordon, scott kveton, Chris messina + others
A follow up to the morning's plenary session by David Recordon. While the term "Open Web" was largely popularized by Mozilla a few years ago, it has evolved to stand for an entire group of community developed open specifications.
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Moderated by: Giuseppe Maxia
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.
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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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Moderated by: Shay David or Michal Tsur
This session will be a deep dive discussion into the evolution of open source online video. Through a case study of an existing open source video platform, we will explore the challenges of opensourcing rich-media - licenses, format conversion, hosting, etc - and the huge opportunity that online video playing and editing pose.
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Moderated by: Robert Emanuele
A gathering of developers to talk about writing embedded software with
Open Source tools. This includes, but is not limited to, ARM and AVR
platforms and development tools such as binutils, GCC, newlib,
FreeRTOS, RedBoot, and SCons.
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