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Schedule: Ubuntu sessions
building, using and exploring
Location: D135
Christer Edwards (Guru Labs, LC)
Moderated by: Christer Edwards
LTS Tutorials demonstrates how to use Ubuntu in an Enterprise setting in a number of ways. From how to setup LAMP, mass hands-off network deployment, File Servers (NFS, SMB, FTP, SFTP), repository mirroring, and internal secure IM with Jabber.
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Location: D135
Jerry Carter (Likewise Software)
Moderated by: Rosie Hausler
Here's an industrial-strength way to address the issue of connecting to a directory in a mixed environment. Instead of grappling with homegrown directory solutions, now there's an open source way to leverage your company's investment in Active Directory.
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Location: D135
Nick Barcet (Canonical UK Ltd),
Rick Clark (Canonical USA)
Moderated by: Jane Silber
Peek under the hood of the Ubuntu Server.
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Location: D135
Fredrik Jonsson (ASCI Sweden AB)
Moderated by: Fredrik Jonsson
A presentation about how Ubuntu Deployment mechanisms can be used for multiple, zero touch installations in your enterprise network as well as how custom-made network install CDs can provide remote disaster recovery of a machine for a user that is even off site (only internet connection required).
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Location: D135
Steve George (Canonical UK Ltd)
Moderated by: Jane Silber
Landscape is a system management service that allows you to manage multiple Ubuntu machines as easily as one. Learn how you can manage many machines in a complex environment through a single web-based interface.
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Location: D135
Jono Bacon (Canonical Ltd)
Moderated by: Jane Silber
The Ubuntu community is where the spirit of Ubuntu comes to life. Learn how it all works, and how you can get involved.
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Location: D135
Ted Gould (Canonical)
Moderated by: Ted Gould
A tour of the technologies that provide the foundation for the Ubuntu Desktop. What's in; what's out; and why each technology is important to providing an incredible desktop experience.
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Location: D135
Kiko Reis (Canonical Ltd),
Joey Stanford (Canonical Ltd)
Moderated by: Jane Silber
Launchpad is often referred to as Ubuntu's "secret sauce." Learn how it can add flavor to your development efforts.
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Location: D135
Hunter Cross (Ponticlaro Inc.)
Moderated by: Hunter Cross
An overview of experiences and best practices for how to use Ubuntu as an economically viable platform for installation art, collaborative art projects, and art exhibition kiosks and for the presentation of software-based art project proposals in contemporary art spaces.
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Location: D135
Peter Goodall (Canonical Ltd.)
Moderated by: Jane Silber
See the latest Ubuntu on ultra-mobile devices such as subnotebooks and MIDs.
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Location: D137
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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Location: D135
Andrew Harris (Teens on Linux.org)
Moderated by: Andrew Harris
A talk given by Andrew "Tuna" Harris, the 15-year-old founder of TeensOnLinux.org, and Samuel Baldwin, a 15-year-old hacker from Boston. This is not a suggestion on creating yet another Ubuntu-based distribution, but rather an insight on marketing Ubuntu and FOSS in general to teens.
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Location: D135
Jeffrey L. Wishnie (Inveneo, Inc.)
Moderated by: Jeffrey L. Wishnie
Students get their first introduction to life-changing technology tapping on your keyboard. Your systems track patient health for an entire district. Relief workers coordinate their efforts on your terminals.
Your offices are 10,000 miles away, your technicians 8hrs by bus, your network: 16kpbs on a good day. How do keep it running?
Zero-maintenance bullet-proof Ubuntu.
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Location: D135
Nick Barcet (Canonical UK Ltd)
Moderated by: Nick Barcet
Technology and use cases for virtualization in Ubuntu.
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Location: D135
David Brewer (Second Story Interactive Studios)
Moderated by: David Brewer
Large-scale web projects use sophisticated staged deployment systems, but the prospect of setting these up can be daunting. Using Ubuntu, virtualization, and automated configuration puts the benefits within easy reach even for small projects. David Brewer explains how Second Story uses Ubuntu, VMware Server, and AutomateIt to grease the wheels of development on their museum-sector projects.
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