Sponsors

Diamond Sponsors

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  • Microsoft

Platinum Sponsors

  • Google
  • Sun Microsystems

Gold Sponsors

  • BT
  • IBM
  • Yahoo! Inc.
  • Zimbra

Silver Sponsors

  • Atlassian Software Systems
  • Disney
  • EnterpriseDB
  • Etelos
  • Ingres
  • JasperSoft
  • Kablink
  • Linagora
  • MindTouch
  • Mozilla Corporation
  • Novell, Inc.
  • Open Invention Network
  • OpSource
  • RightScale
  • Silicon Mechanics
  • Tenth Planet
  • Ticketmaster
  • Voiceroute
  • White Oak Technologies, Inc.
  • XAware

Premier Media Partner

  • ZDNet

Sponsorship Opportunities

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Schedule: Fundamentals sessions

Equip yourself with all the “need to know” information about working in open source, from choice of programming environment through to managing an open source project

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8:30am Monday, 07/21/2008
GIMP Demystified
Location: Portland 255
Akkana Peck (*) Moderated by: Akkana Peck
Akkana Peck, author of "Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional," will demonstrate how to use GIMP to improve your photographs or create digital art. You'll learn how different image formats compare, basic photo manipulation skills (crop, rescale, and brightness correction), several different selection techniques for cutting objects out of photos, and an assortment of other useful tricks. Read more.
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10:45am Wednesday, 07/23/2008
Going Open Source: The 20 Most Important Things To Do
Location: D138
Martin Aschoff (AGNITAS AG) Moderated by: Martin Aschoff
When going open source with your software there are 20 important things you definitely have to do to be successful. Join this session and hear tips and examples from someone who had to learn some of this stuff the hard way. Read more.
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11:35am Wednesday, 07/23/2008
Setting Up a Decent Developer Box for OSS and Linux Community Development
Location: D138
Mark Gross (Intel) Moderated by: Mark Gross
Mark Gross will discuss taking a new Ubuntu derivative installation on a laptop and making it a decent developer box for OSS community work. The tools and methods covered will include IRC, procmail, mutt, ctags, build tools, python, pylynt, quilt, git, svn, Email and gmail use for busy mailing lists, checkpatch, debugfs, VIM, and others. Read more.
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1:45pm Wednesday, 07/23/2008
How I Learned to Love Revision Control
Location: D138
David Gray (OmniTI) Moderated by: David Gray
"Revision control? What's that?" Knowing what I know now, it's scary to look back and ask what might have happened if one hard drive had failed at the wrong time. After reviewing some revision control concepts, we will look at several projects to see how they could have leveraged revision control and what the benefits would have been. Read more.
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2:35pm Wednesday, 07/23/2008
Running a Successful User Group
Location: D138
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. Read more.
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4:30pm Wednesday, 07/23/2008
Open Source Software Economics, Standards, and IP in One Lesson
Location: D138
Stephen Walli (Independent) Moderated by: Stephen Walli
Free and open source software use has grown tremendously both in IT and in software businesses. There is still confusion around what this means for software intellectual property, or how it relates to industry standards. The talk provides context and history to show how the subjects relate to support better business decisions. Read more.
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5:20pm Wednesday, 07/23/2008
Trac: Project and Process Management for Developers and Sys Admins
Location: D138
Steven Ellis (OpenMedia Limited) Moderated by: Steven Ellis
Real world use of Trac, moving beyond software development and into process and work flow management. Read more.
OSCON 2008