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Schedule: Keynote sessions
Location: F150/151
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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Location: Portland Ballroom
Mark R. Shuttleworth (Canonical Ltd.)
Moderated by: Mark R. Shuttleworth
More information coming soon
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Location: Portland Ballroom
Moderated by: Matthew Johnson
Winners of the Google O'Reilly Open Source Award will be announced during this fun evening event.
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Location: Portland Ballroom
Robert "r0ml" Lefkowitz (Asurion)
Moderated by: Robert "r0ml" Lefkowitz
More information coming soon
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Location: Portland Ballroom
Damian Conway (Thoughtstream)
Moderated by: Damian Conway
Coming soon.
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Location: Portland Ballroom
Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
Moderated by: Allison Randal
Coming soon.
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Location: Portland Ballroom
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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Location: Portland Ballroom
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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Location: Portland Ballroom
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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Location: Portland Ballroom
Moderated by: Shirley Bailes
An open microphone question and answer session with the morning's keynote speakers.
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Location: Portland Ballroom
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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Location: Portland Ballroom
Peter H. Salus (Anniversaries)
Moderated by: Peter H. Salus
Coming soon.
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Location: Portland Ballroom
David Recordon (Facebook)
Moderated 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. These communities share many needs yet as an example don't currently have an easy way to ensure that everything they create is freely implementable by everyone.
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Location: Portland Ballroom
Danese Cooper (Open Source Initiative and REvolution Computing)
Moderated by: Danese Cooper
Coming soon.
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Location: Portland Ballroom
Nathan Torkington (He Hononga Software, Limited)
Moderated by: Nathan Torkington
More information coming soon
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Location: Portland Ballroom
Moderated by: Shirley Bailes
An open microphone question and answer session with the morning's keynote speakers.
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Location: Portland Ballroom
Benjamin Mako Hill (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Moderated by: Benjamin Mako Hill
Coming soon.
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Location: Portland Ballroom
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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Location: Portland Ballroom
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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Location: Portland Ballroom
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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Location: Portland Ballroom
Jeremy Ruston (BT Design)
Moderated by: Jeremy Ruston
Coming soon.
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Location: Portland Ballroom
Moderated by: Chad Knueppe
An open microphone question and answer session with the morning's keynote speakers.
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Location: Portland Ballroom
Jim Zemlin (The Linux Foundation),
Keith Bergelt (Open Invention Network),
Karen Sandler (Software Freedom Law Center),
Phil Robb (Hewlett Packard)
Moderated by: Allison Randal
Coming soon.
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Location: Portland Ballroom
Paul Fenwick (Perl Training Australia)
Moderated by: Paul Fenwick
The average individual is given little scope for failure, at least not the type that really matters. However in recent times we have developed a profession who have the opportunity to fail like never before. The few, the proud, the Software Developers. Join us for a voyage of discovery, as we travel back through history to some of the most monumental failures the world has ever seen.
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