BEGIN:VCALENDAR X-WR-CALNAME:OSCON 2008 VERSION:2.0 PRODID:Expectnation CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T120000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T083000 DTSTAMP:20080808T234656 LOCATION:Portland 251 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2488 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-08:30--2488 SUMMARY:Python in 3 Hours DESCRIPTION:Presented by Steve Holden (Holden Web LLC). This half-day tu torial presents enough of the Python language to allow you to read and u nderstand moderately complex programs. If you already know one or more p rogramming languages then this is a great way to prepare for the OSCON P ython track. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T170000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T133000 DTSTAMP:20080801T013551 LOCATION:Portland 251 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2640 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-13:30--2640 SUMMARY:Introduction to Django DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jacob Kaplan-Moss (Revolution Systems, LLC). Dj ango is a high-level web development framework designed for rapid develo pment of database-backed web sites. This tutorial is designed to introdu ce developers to Django. It will take attendees from a blank screen to a fully functional web application. Learn the basics you need to know to get started with Django. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T120000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T083000 DTSTAMP:20080801T004045 LOCATION:Portland 251 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3106 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-22-08:30--3106 SUMMARY:Secrets of JavaScript Libraries DESCRIPTION:Presented by John Resig (Mozilla Corporation). This talk wil l delve into the secret techniques used by JavaScript library authors to create comprehensive libraries that work seamlessly across browser envi ronments. We'll look at everything from fixes for strange browser quirks , tricks for gaining speed, to tips for writing an extensible architectu re in JavaScript. Everything discussed will be backed up with publicly a vailable, rock-solid, code. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T170000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T133000 DTSTAMP:20080729T165129 LOCATION:Portland 251 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2928 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-22-13:30--2928 SUMMARY:Creating Location-aware Web 2.0 Applications on an Open Source G eospatial Platform DESCRIPTION:Presented by Neal Niemiec (Autodesk, Inc), Dave McIlhagga ( DM Solutions Group), Geoff Zeiss (Autodesk, Inc.). An introduction to de veloping location-aware Web 2.0 applications on an open source platform, including both business and hands-on technical aspects of developing we b mapping applications. This is intended as an introduction to web mappi ng development on an open source geospatial platform for both neophytes and experienced developers. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T104500 DTSTAMP:20080801T151235 LOCATION:Portland 251 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2821 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-10:45--2821 SUMMARY:The Internet is an Ogre: Finding Art in the Software Architectur e DESCRIPTION:Presented by Terry Chay (Automattic, Inc. (WordPress)). Prio rities and pitfalls when building a large consumer-facing social network . END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T113500 DTSTAMP:20080725T233513 LOCATION:Portland 251 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3039 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-11:35--3039 SUMMARY:PHP Taint Tool: It Ain't a Parser DESCRIPTION:Presented by Luke Welling (PandaWhale). By looking at the op codes that a PHP script gets compiled into you can get a really detailed view of what your code is going to do—if you can read them, or have a t ool to help. This can help with benchmarking questions, and allow you to look for tainted variables that might have security implications withou t having to audit every line of source code. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T143000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T134500 DTSTAMP:20080801T080845 LOCATION:Portland 251 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3027 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-13:45--3027 SUMMARY:Write Beautiful Code (in PHP) DESCRIPTION:Presented by Laura Thomson (Mozilla Corporation). In this ta lk, Laura Thomson will present guidelines for writing, not just maintain able, but beautiful code. Code that is simple, robust and error resistan t, secure, scalable and performant, and easy to produce in a reasonable time frame. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T152000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T143500 DTSTAMP:20080805T181707 LOCATION:Portland 251 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2444 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-14:35--2444 SUMMARY:Caching and Performance: Lessons from Facebook DESCRIPTION:Presented by Lucas Nealan (Facebook). Learn to effectively u se caching to improve the performance of your PHP site. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T171500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T163000 DTSTAMP:20080804T163552 LOCATION:Portland 251 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2671 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-16:30--2671 SUMMARY:The Google Open Source Update DESCRIPTION:Presented by Chris DiBona (Google, Inc.), Leslie Hawthorn (A ppFog). In this talk, DiBona and Hawthorn will review last year's open s ource activities from Google. This will feature an in-depth look at this year's Summer of Code, with over 1000 students taking part, and their h igh school program. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T180500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T172000 DTSTAMP:20080729T165626 LOCATION:Portland 251 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2751 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-17:20--2751 SUMMARY:Give Your Site a Boost with memcached DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ben Ramsey (Moontoast). Today's high-traffic we b sites must implement measures to reduce load and increase speed of del ivery. One such method is the use of a cache and memcached provides one of the fastest and easiest-to-use caching servers. This talk will cover memcached from setting up a memcached server to using it to provide a va riety of caching solutions. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T104500 DTSTAMP:20080805T182046 LOCATION:Portland 251 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3011 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-10:45--3011 SUMMARY:Skimmable Code: Fast to Read, Safe to Change DESCRIPTION:Presented by Michael Schwern (eval Empire). Much of the prac tical reason for "best coding practices" is not to make code "pretty" bu t to allow code to be skimmed. We rarely read and understand an entire project, instead we read just enough to get something done. It allows o ne to work very efficiently on unfamiliar code. You will learn the art o f skimming and the role of best practices in writing skimmable code. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T113500 DTSTAMP:20080804T145722 LOCATION:Portland 251 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3050 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-11:35--3050 SUMMARY:Just Enough C for Open Source Projects DESCRIPTION:Presented by Andy Lester (petdance.com). Many open source pr ojects work at a low-level in C to take advantage of the power and speed of working close to the machine. Whether it's Perl, Postgres, or Linux, C is what makes these and other projects run. If you're experience in a high-level language like Perl, Ruby, or Java, you'll need to learn abou t the intricacies of C. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T143000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T134500 DTSTAMP:20080727T042016 LOCATION:Portland 251 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2969 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-13:45--2969 SUMMARY:Ruby 1.9: What to Expect DESCRIPTION:Presented by Sam Ruby (IBM). Ruby 1.9.0 came out in December , but it will be a while before it is stable and major packages have bee n ported to it. In addition to new features, there are a number of small backwards incompatible changes that have been made, but it generally is possible to create code that works on both 1.8 and 1.9. This talk will cover the changes that are most likely to impact you. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T152000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T143500 DTSTAMP:20080802T163013 LOCATION:Portland 251 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3112 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-14:35--3112 SUMMARY:Top 10 Scalability Mistakes DESCRIPTION:Presented by John Coggeshall (Automotive Computer Services). One thing is for certain -- there are a lot of developers, managers, an d architects out there who are making the same mistakes as everyone else . From growing your development team from 5 to 50, or your code base fro m 10,000 to a million, there are clear patterns and mistakes. Join Cogge shall as he investigates some of his favorites and how to both avoid and learn from the mistakes of others. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T171500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T163000 DTSTAMP:20080518T014242 LOCATION:Portland 251 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2853 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-16:30--2853 SUMMARY:IronRuby: The Road to 1.0 DESCRIPTION:Presented by John Lam (Microsoft). A year ago, we shipped th e first drop of the IronRuby source code at OSCON. In September, we rele ased our project on RubyForge and began accepting contributions. A few m onths after that, the OSI certified the Microsoft Public License as an o fficial open source license. Come to this talk to get an update on where we are today, and what we have to do to get to 1.0. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T180500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T172000 DTSTAMP:20080801T153006 LOCATION:Portland 251 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3087 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-17:20--3087 SUMMARY:Commanding Your SSH Universe with Capistrano DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ryan Briones (Obtiva). Using Capistrano to auto mate SSH tasks such as server administration and application deployment. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T104500 DTSTAMP:20080802T163156 LOCATION:Portland 251 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2618 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-10:45--2618 SUMMARY:Open Architecture at REST DESCRIPTION:Presented by Roy Fielding (Day Software). Open architecture is a property that can make or break an open source product. Eclipse, Ap ache, Linux (Unix), Firefox, and the World Wide Web are all examples of systems that distinguished themselves by enabling a platform for extensi bility instead of just a fixed set of features. How do we design for tha t? Principled design, as demonstrated by the REST architectural style an d other examples. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T113500 DTSTAMP:20080804T150112 LOCATION:Portland 251 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4400 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-11:35--4400 SUMMARY:Does Open Source Need to Be "Organic"? DESCRIPTION:Presented by Brian Aker (MySQL), Rob Lanphier (Wikimedia Fou ndation), Stephen O'Grady (Redmonk), Theodore Ts'o (Linux Foundation). A re software projects dominated by a single company still open source, or is an OSI-approved license good enough? Does a project need to be "org anic" to be truly open source? What does "organic" even mean in this co ntext? Panelists with a range of viewpoints will discuss these topics. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T200000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T190000 DTSTAMP:20080719T213310 LOCATION:Portland 251 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4909 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-19:00--4909 SUMMARY:Open Source in Churches and Missions DESCRIPTION:From content management systems for running web sites to the infrastructure that can support thousands of field workers around the w orld, open source software offers great value for church workers and mis sionaries. If you're involved in tech stuff at your church, a missions organization, or a company serving this industry, come meet other like-m inded people, and share what's working well for you. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T120000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T083000 DTSTAMP:20080925T182544 LOCATION:Portland 252 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2440 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-08:30--2440 SUMMARY:Programming Vim DESCRIPTION:Presented by Damian Conway (Thoughtstream). The Vim editor i ncorporates a full programming language, with which you can reconfigure just about any aspect of its interface and functionality. This half-day tutorial explores the core syntax and semantics of that scripting langua ge. If something about the way Vim works has annoyed or frustrated you, you'll leave this tutorial with the knowledge and understanding needed t o fix it. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T170000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T133000 DTSTAMP:20080808T013927 LOCATION:Portland 252 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4219 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-13:30--4219 SUMMARY:Practical Test-driven Development DESCRIPTION:Presented by Josh McAdams (Google). Test-driven development is becoming an accepted development methodology in the programming world . It is not a new topic; however, it is still a developing art and a ch allenging practice that requires not only an expertise at programming, b ut initially also requires a discipline that takes even seasoned program mers to task. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T120000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T083000 DTSTAMP:20080912T135501 LOCATION:Portland 252 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2443 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-22-08:30--2443 SUMMARY:Perl Worst Practices DESCRIPTION:Presented by Damian Conway (Thoughtstream). SelfGOL is a tra nsdimensional, self-aware, multipurpose, viral meta-quine written in und er 1000 bytes of standard Perl, without using a single control statement or module. By exploring the advanced programming techniques, and numero us lesser-known Perl constructs, that SelfGOL uses, this tutorial illust rates over a dozen vital Software Engineering principles...mainly by iro nic counter-example. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T170000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T133000 DTSTAMP:20080804T145034 LOCATION:Portland 252 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2199 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-22-13:30--2199 SUMMARY:TCP/IP Troubleshooting for System Administrators DESCRIPTION:Presented by Darren Hoch (StrongMail Systems). This tutorial trains how to solve complicated server networking issues using standard Linux tools. It breaks troubleshooting down by each protocol in the net work stack. The instructor will describe the important components of the protocol, how to use tools to monitor for errors, how to correlate the outputs, and appropriate corrective actions. All teaching is case study based from experience. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T104500 DTSTAMP:20080730T164331 LOCATION:Portland 252 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2299 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-10:45--2299 SUMMARY:Changing Education... Open Content, Open Hardware, Open Curricul a DESCRIPTION:Presented by Cliff Schmidt (Literacy Bridge), Danese Cooper (Wikimedia Foundation and Open Source Initiative), Mark R. Shuttleworth (Canonical Ltd.), Derek Keats (The University of the Western Cape), Bob bi Kurshan (Curriki), David Wiley (Brigham Young University), Brian Behl endorf (CollabNet, Mozilla Foundation). In the wake of the "Cape Town De claration," more and more open source people are thinking about applying open source principles to Education. This panel discussion will introdu ce exciting concepts and some of the thought leaders in the Open Educati onal Content movement. There will be opportunities to learn about gettin g involved. Come get inspired!! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T113500 DTSTAMP:20080726T195353 LOCATION:Portland 252 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2336 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-11:35--2336 SUMMARY:Metaprogramming in Ruby DESCRIPTION:Presented by Brian Sam-Bodden (Integrallis Software, LLC.). In this session we will explore some of the metaprogramming techniques t hat make Ruby the ideal language for framework development. Learn how fr ameworks like Ruby on Rails and others exploit metaprogramming to infuse that special magic that only open dynamic languages can produce. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T143000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T134500 DTSTAMP:20080805T181741 LOCATION:Portland 252 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2538 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-13:45--2538 SUMMARY:Code Reviews for Fun and Profit DESCRIPTION:Presented by Alex Martelli (Google). Code reviews are a well -known best practice in all SW development, and particularly crucial for open source SW. Systematic and optimally conducted reviews enhance your code quality and offer great ROI, but you need to pay attention to both the human/community and technical aspects of such pratice. Get some key "do"s and "don't"s about performing code reviews! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T152000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T143500 DTSTAMP:20080729T180041 LOCATION:Portland 252 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2226 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-14:35--2226 SUMMARY:A Critical View of OpenID DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jason Levitt (TIC), Simon Willison (Self employ ed), Chris Messina (Google), Scott Kveton (Urban Airship, Inc.), Allen T om (Yahoo! Inc. ). OpenID (openid.net) is a single sign-on solution that has gained a lot of traction in 2008. Putting a critical eye to openid' s many deployments, this panel will consider questions such as "how has openid succeeded/failed?," "how have end-users responded to openid?," "i s openid safer/more-dangerous than other approaches?" "what are some ope nid success stories?," and "how could openid be improved?" END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T171500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T163000 DTSTAMP:20080726T034310 LOCATION:Portland 252 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2682 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-16:30--2682 SUMMARY:Open Source Community Antipatterns DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ted Leung (The Walt Disney Company). Interested in starting or participating in an open source project? Here are some w ays to make sure that your project will fail or have an unhealthy commun ity. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T180500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T172000 DTSTAMP:20080728T215959 LOCATION:Portland 252 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3407 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-17:20--3407 SUMMARY:An Open Source Project Called "Failure:" Community Antipatterns to Know and Avoid DESCRIPTION:Presented by Josh Berkus (PostgreSQL Experts, Inc.), Shane W arden (O'Reilly Media), Ben Collins-Sussman (Google, Inc.), Brian Fitzpa trick (Google, Inc.), Karl Fogel (O'Reilly Media). This panel of career open source geeks has ample experience in open source community disaster s and failed projects, and how they happen. Join them for examples, stor ies, and Q&A around why projects fail and how you can identify bad trend s before your project crashes. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T104500 DTSTAMP:20080726T195802 LOCATION:Portland 252 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2236 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-10:45--2236 SUMMARY:State of Lightning Talks DESCRIPTION:Presented by Josh Berkus (PostgreSQL Experts, Inc.). Want a snapshot of the state of open source worldwide? Fourteen open source lu minaries will very briefly update you on some of their projects. Fast, fun, furious and full of information, the State of Lightning Talks have been a hit at OSCON since 2005. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T143000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T134500 DTSTAMP:20080725T000043 LOCATION:Portland 252 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3170 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-13:45--3170 SUMMARY:General Lightning Talks DESCRIPTION:Presented by Anthony Baxter (Google/Python Software Foundati on). General lightning talk session. Got some new nifty project you want to promote? Some small piece of technology that makes your life easier? Just a general rant and rave? Here's your chance at 5 minutes of fame. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T152000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T143500 DTSTAMP:20080317T203846 LOCATION:Portland 252 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2327 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-14:35--2327 SUMMARY:Art of Community Lightning Talks DESCRIPTION:Presented by Dawn Foster (Intel), Danese Cooper (Wikimedia F oundation and Open Source Initiative), Allison Randal (Canonical), Audre y Eschright (Elevated Code / Open Source Bridge), Sulamita Garcia (Intel ), Nnenna Nwakanma (NNENNA.ORG), Stormy Peters (GNOME Foundation), Silon a Bonewald (League Of Technical Voters), Erinn Clark (.), Zaheda Bhorat (Google Inc). Given the open source movement, the popularity of social n etworks, and new tools for collaboration, more people are looking for wa ys to build community. The Art of Community came about because we wanted to write a book about community using a wiki so that a community could grow around the book. A different author leads each chapter, and you wil l hear from many of them during these lightning talks. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T180500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T163000 DTSTAMP:20080801T152657 LOCATION:Portland 252 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2501 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-16:30--2501 SUMMARY:Perl Lightning Talks DESCRIPTION:Presented by R Geoffrey Avery (Platypi Ventures). A series o f 5-minute talks on anything related to Perl or people who use it. A cha nce to get one-third of your 15 minutes of fame. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T104500 DTSTAMP:20080729T211522 LOCATION:Portland 252 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3060 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-10:45--3060 SUMMARY:Security 2.0: Emerging Trends in Web Application Security DESCRIPTION:Presented by Chris Shiflett (Analog). Cross-site scripting ( XSS), cross-site request forgeries (CSRF), and Ajax are being combined i n creative new ways to launch sophisticated attacks that penetrate firew alls, target users, and spread like worms. This talk examines this new t hreat, dubbed Security 2.0, by demonstrating some hypothetical and real exploits as well as discussing methods of safeguard and prevention. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T113500 DTSTAMP:20080801T020356 LOCATION:Portland 252 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2614 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-11:35--2614 SUMMARY:Searching for Neutrinos Using Open Source at the Bottom of the W orld DESCRIPTION:Presented by Keith Beattie (Lawrence Berkeley National Labor atory), Dave Glowacki (UW-Madison), John Jacobsen (NPX Designs, Inc.). T he developers of the data acquisition component of the IceCube project p resent how they are using open source software to collect data from the world's largest neutrino detector buried across 1 cubic kilometer, 2 kil ometers down, in the ice under the South Pole. The astrophysical importa nce of the project and the experience of traveling to and living at the South Pole will also be discussed. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T200000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T181500 DTSTAMP:20080804T145954 LOCATION:Portland 252 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4871 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-18:15--4871 SUMMARY:State of the Onion Address & Perl Foundation Auction DESCRIPTION:The OSCON tradition continues as Larry Wall delivers the ann ual State of the Onion Address, followed by Jim Brandt's Perl Foundation report, and an auction to benefit the Perl Foundation. The State of the Onion starts at 6:15pm in Portland 252, immediately after the Perl Ligh tning Talks. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T120000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T083000 DTSTAMP:20080725T002641 LOCATION:Portland 255 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2625 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-08:30--2625 SUMMARY:GIMP Demystified DESCRIPTION:Presented by Akkana Peck (*). Akkana Peck, author of "Beginn ing GIMP: From Novice to Professional," will demonstrate how to use GIMP to improve your photographs or create digital art. You'll learn how dif ferent image formats compare, basic photo manipulation skills (crop, res cale, and brightness correction), several different selection techniques for cutting objects out of photos, and an assortment of other useful tr icks. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T170000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T133000 DTSTAMP:20080806T043838 LOCATION:Portland 255 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3049 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-13:30--3049 SUMMARY:Perl Security DESCRIPTION:Presented by Paul Fenwick (Perl Training Australia). Despite its ubiquitous presence, Perl possesses both unique security pitfalls a nd features. Join Paul Fenwick, director of Perl Training Australia, as he examines Perl's handling of files, complex data, permissions, databas es, taint mode, sandboxing, race conditions, compartmentalization, and m ore. Particular attention is paid when using Perl for system administrat ion and untrusted data. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T120000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T083000 DTSTAMP:20080730T020106 LOCATION:Portland 255 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2734 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-22-08:30--2734 SUMMARY:An Open Source Startup in Three Hours DESCRIPTION:Presented by Gavin Doughtie (Google), Andrew Hyde (TechStars ). Interested in doing your own startup company, or starting a new proje ct within your existing company? This 3-hour tutorial walks you through a compact version of the Startup Weekend experience, which has seen mult iple companies go from nothing to a running prototype in 54 hours. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T170000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T133000 DTSTAMP:20080804T233151 LOCATION:Portland 255 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3001 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-22-13:30--3001 SUMMARY:People for Geeks DESCRIPTION:Presented by Michael Schwern (eval Empire), Selena Deckelman n (Prime Radiant), Brian Fitzpatrick (Google, Inc.), Ben Collins-Sussman (Google, Inc.), Andy Lester (petdance.com), Kirrily Robert (Freebase.co m). Whether we like it or not, no matter how much you immerse yourself i nto technology, you have to deal with other people. Geeks tend to be bad at people, and there are few resources to learn from. This tutorial gat hers together lessons from some of the best geeks who have learned to de al with people to make yourself or your project run smoother and happier . END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T104500 DTSTAMP:20080723T183745 LOCATION:Portland 255 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2649 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-10:45--2649 SUMMARY:Hydra: A Wireless Multihop Networking Testbed DESCRIPTION:Presented by Hyrum Wright (WANdisco, Inc.), Robert Grant (Un iversity of Texas at Austin). Hydra is a wireless multithop networking t estbed, created completely from open source components. Designed to be modular and easily expandable, Hydra allows networking researchers and e nthusiasts to implement by physical layer and MAC protocols quickly, and cheaply, and test them over real wireless channels. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T113500 DTSTAMP:20080728T202117 LOCATION:Portland 255 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2897 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-11:35--2897 SUMMARY:Open Virtual Machine Tools DESCRIPTION:Presented by Adar Dembo (VMware Inc.). The Open Virtual Mach ine Tools project provides a variety of tools and utilities that improve the performance and user experience of guest operating systems without requiring modifications to the kernel. This talk will describe the ways that the open-vm-tools project provides these improvements. The talk wil l be of particular interest to those working in the virtual appliance sp ace. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T143000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T134500 DTSTAMP:20080804T163508 LOCATION:Portland 255 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2891 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-13:45--2891 SUMMARY:Subversion Worst Practices DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ben Collins-Sussman (Google, Inc.), Brian Fitzp atrick (Google, Inc.). 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 h ook scripts, file locking, too much access control, confused merges, ver sioning derived objects, mixing locales, and other painful mistakes. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T152000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T143500 DTSTAMP:20080726T235458 LOCATION:Portland 255 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2937 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-14:35--2937 SUMMARY:Measuring and Trends in Linux Kernel Quality DESCRIPTION:Presented by Arjan van de Ven (Intel). There has been much f uss about the supposedly decreasing quality of the Linux kernel. This pr esentation talks about some efforts to counter that, and shows measureme nts of what is really going on. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T171500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T163000 DTSTAMP:20080805T181932 LOCATION:Portland 255 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2785 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-16:30--2785 SUMMARY:Open Source Virtualization for People Who Feel Guilty About Usin g VMware So Much DESCRIPTION:Presented by Andy de la Lucha (Mentor Graphics). VMware has a place at the top of the virtualization industry, but is not open sourc e, gets expensive, and can feel claustrophobic as VMware "makes a tool f or every job." This talk will go over open source equivalents to the mos t prominent VMware products, existing high-profile uses, and how existin g VMware deployments can co-exist with open source virtualization. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T180500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T172000 DTSTAMP:20080805T182021 LOCATION:Portland 255 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2340 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-17:20--2340 SUMMARY:Shell Scripting Craftsmanship DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ray Smith (Portland General Electric). Shell sc ripts automate routine and repetitive tasks in Linux/Unix. Adding craft smanship and style to your scripts will improve their usefulness and rel iability. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T104500 DTSTAMP:20080728T220450 LOCATION:Portland 255 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4448 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-10:45--4448 SUMMARY:The Evolution of Community DESCRIPTION:Presented by Joe Brockmeier (Linux.com), Ross Turk (SourceFo rge, Inc.), Jono Bacon (Canonical Ltd), John Mark Walker (Gluster), Jere my Hogan (Hyperic, Inc.). 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 throug h 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? END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T113500 DTSTAMP:20080727T040345 LOCATION:Portland 255 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3102 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-11:35--3102 SUMMARY:Open Source / Open World DESCRIPTION:Presented by Danese Cooper (Wikimedia Foundation and Open So urce Initiative), Rishab Aiyer Ghosh (UNU-MERIT), Harshad Gune (Symbiosi s International University), Martin Michlmayr (Hewlett Packard), Nnenna Nwakanma (NNENNA.ORG), Bruno Souza (SouJava), Alolita Sharma (Technetra, Open Source Initiatve (OSI)). It's been 10 years since the term open so urce was coined in the U.S., and in that time transparent commons-based software development has changed the face of the U.S. software industry. But what impact has open source had outside of the U.S.? This panel wi ll introduce you to five people who report on the reach and impact of op en source worldwide. Learn how we're changing the world!! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T143000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T134500 DTSTAMP:20080804T145812 LOCATION:Portland 255 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2887 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-13:45--2887 SUMMARY:Do You Believe in the Users? DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ben Collins-Sussman (Google, Inc.), Brian Fitzp atrick (Google, Inc.). All software has users, though most developers ha ve forgotten how to respect them, trust them, or "sell" their software t o them in an exciting (but honest!) manner. This talk will focus on ane cdotes and strategies for keeping software design uncomplicated, making software fast, and putting usability above programming convenience. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T152000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T143500 DTSTAMP:20080801T001913 LOCATION:Portland 255 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2799 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-14:35--2799 SUMMARY:Open Source as Liberal Art DESCRIPTION:Presented by Robert "r0ml" Lefkowitz (Self). Before open sou rce, software was technology. Open source changed that. Now, software is a liberal art. That's the real revolution. A talk on the place of open source software in the 2500 year history of the liberal arts. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T171500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T163000 DTSTAMP:20080728T212050 LOCATION:Portland 255 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2867 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-16:30--2867 SUMMARY:Machine Learning for Knowledge Extraction from Wikipedia & Other Semantically Weak Sources DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jamie Taylor (Metaweb), Colin Evans (Metaweb), Toby Segaran (Google). Wikipedia is a significant source of raw material for the machine learning and knowledge extraction community, but workin g with Wikipedia's export and markup structures is a cumbersome task eve ryone who wants to work with this data must endure. This session introd uces the open data community to WEX, a pre-parsed, annotated, relational data set that facilitates easy-access to Wikipedia data. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T180500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T172000 DTSTAMP:20080804T202118 LOCATION:Portland 255 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3131 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-17:20--3131 SUMMARY:Code is Easy, People are Hard: Developing Meebo’s Interview Proc ess DESCRIPTION:Presented by Elaine Wherry (meebo). From our recruiter movin g to Mexico, to hitting a candidate in the eye with a fingerblaster rock et, Meebo has encountered every imaginable hiring obstacle. From Meebo's hiring history, you will learn our best interview techniques, how we ev aluate candidates, and how our engineering team developed a hiring proce ss that allows us to maintain a high bar while still allowing time to wr ite code. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T104500 DTSTAMP:20080727T000731 LOCATION:Portland 255 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4727 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-10:45--4727 SUMMARY:The Future of Linux is Software Appliances DESCRIPTION:Presented by Nat Friedman (Novell, Inc.). Today the Linux wo rld is dominated by one-size-fits-all Linux distributions that include t housands of packages and that can be two or three gigabytes fully instal led. In this presentation, Nat will introduce the benefits of streamline d, customized, single-purpose software appliances based on Linux -- in t he form of virtual machine images, bootable and installable media, or li ve USB keys. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T113500 DTSTAMP:20080725T225727 LOCATION:Portland 255 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3230 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-11:35--3230 SUMMARY:Voting Machinery for the Masses DESCRIPTION:Presented by Benjamin Mako Hill (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). This talk will present work on RubyVote and Selectricity -- voting technology designed for quotidian elections. It will describe wh y focusing on everything but government- and state-based elections may b e the open voting technology community's best tactic and and why free so ftware and open source tools are an essential piece of that puzzle. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T200000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T190000 DTSTAMP:20080716T012004 LOCATION:Portland 255 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4829 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-19:00--4829 SUMMARY:MySQL and Bazaar DESCRIPTION:MySQL, has moved version control systems to Bazaar, from Bit Keeper. Find out how we're coping with a new VCS, how moving to Bazaar h elps open MySQL to community contributions, and how you can host your pr oject on Launchpad, and build off MySQL END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T120000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T083000 DTSTAMP:20080801T013427 LOCATION:Portland 256 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3151 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-08:30--3151 SUMMARY:Pro PostgreSQL DESCRIPTION:Presented by Robert Treat (OmniTI). PostgreSQL is quietly ta king over the world. Or at least your data center. Get up to speed on wh at you need to know to administer the world's most advanced open source database, including installation, configuration, tuning, and how best to use PostgreSQL's community resources. We'll also discuss how PostgreSQL 's newest release, PostgreSQL 8.3, will make your life easier. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T170000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T133000 DTSTAMP:20080804T144834 LOCATION:Portland 256 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3101 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-13:30--3101 SUMMARY:Memcached and MySQL: Everything You Need to Know DESCRIPTION:Presented by Alan Kasindorf (Six Apart), Brian Aker (MySQL). Large MySQL deployments and Memcached go hand and hand. This tutorial d etails how to get started, the ins and outs of deploying Memcached as a key caching layer in your applications, and how to keep scaling. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T120000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T083000 DTSTAMP:20080805T181459 LOCATION:Portland 256 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3133 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-22-08:30--3133 SUMMARY:PHP: Architecture, Scalability, and Security DESCRIPTION:Presented by Rasmus Lerdorf (Unaffiliated). Get the architec ture right and modern web apps are easy to write. The Web lends itself w ell to a modular distributed architecture allowing you to split even lar ge complex applications into a series of smaller manageable applications . This tutorial aims to show web developers at all levels how to build a modern web application with PHP. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T170000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T133000 DTSTAMP:20080726T195015 LOCATION:Portland 256 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3373 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-22-13:30--3373 SUMMARY:Practical Erlang Programming DESCRIPTION:Presented by Francesco Cesarini (Erlang Solutions Ltd). This tutorial covers the basic, sequential, and concurrent aspects of the Er lang programming language. You will learn the basics of how to read, wri te, and structure Erlang programs. The target audience are software deve lopers and engineers with an interest in server-side applications and ma ssively concurrent systems. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T104500 DTSTAMP:20080729T175656 LOCATION:Portland 256 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2769 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-10:45--2769 SUMMARY:Strawberry Perl: Achieving Win32 Platform Equality DESCRIPTION:Presented by Adam Kennedy (Corporate Express Australia). Per l 5.10.0 marks the first production release of Strawberry Perl, a 100% o pen source and CPAN-compatible Perl distribution for Windows that works "exactly the same as Perl everywhere else." Discover the history, presen t and future of the community-driven Perl distribution, and learn how to use the Perl::Dist toolkit to "roll your own" Perl. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T113500 DTSTAMP:20080804T163423 LOCATION:Portland 256 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2178 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-11:35--2178 SUMMARY:Perl 5.10 for People Who Are Not (Totally) Insane DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ricardo Signes (Pobox.com). Perl 5.10 is the fi rst major release of Perl in five years, and brings dozens of new featur es and significant improvements. This talk provides a guided tour of fe atures that can benefit everyday users of Perl, not just the frightening C programmers who make Perl itself go. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T143000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T134500 DTSTAMP:20080806T044136 LOCATION:Portland 256 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2437 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-13:45--2437 SUMMARY:Perl 6 Update DESCRIPTION:Presented by Damian Conway (Thoughtstream), Larry Wall (Netl ogic Microsystems). Larry Wall and Damian Conway will present the latest features of Perl 6, and discuss the transition from design phase to ful l implementation of the new Perl. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T152000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T143500 DTSTAMP:20080806T044234 LOCATION:Portland 256 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3074 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-14:35--3074 SUMMARY:Rakudo: Perl 6 on Parrot DESCRIPTION:Presented by Patrick Michaud (pmichaud.com), Jerry Gay (Raku do Consulting Group). This talk will report on the overall status and im plementation of the Rakudo Perl compiler targetting the Parrot virtual m achine. The talk will also cover the design of the compiler itself, focu sing on the overall architecture, the structure of the Perl 6 test suite , and provide details that will enable others to become involved and to directly contribute to the remaining work of building Rakudo. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T171500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T163000 DTSTAMP:20080806T044318 LOCATION:Portland 256 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2469 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-16:30--2469 SUMMARY:Moose: A Postmodern Object System for Perl 5 DESCRIPTION:Presented by Stevan Little (Infinity Interactive). Moose is a new postmodern object system for Perl 5 that is gaining traction withi n the community, it is based on Perl 6 and borrows from such diverse sou rces as CLOS (LISP), Smalltalk, Ruby, BETA, O'Caml, and more. This talk will provide a conceptual overview of the major parts of Moose, includin g roles, type constraints, metaclasses, and more. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T180500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T172000 DTSTAMP:20080727T192848 LOCATION:Portland 256 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2704 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-17:20--2704 SUMMARY:Barely Legal XXX Perl DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jos Boumans (Krux Digital). "Barely Legal XXX P erl" shows several features of Perl you might not have known that existe d, that are being (ab)used to run a program that was designed never to b e able to run in the first place... It's a high paced, humourous, and en tertaining look at Perl's slightly less obvious features. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T104500 DTSTAMP:20080727T035506 LOCATION:Portland 256 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2580 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-10:45--2580 SUMMARY:The Effects of Stress on Programmers' and Groups' Performance DESCRIPTION:Presented by Alan Carter (Consultant). Open source projects have much lower management and process overhead than commercial efforts. When commercial teams "gell" they can achieve huge productivity gains a cross the product lifecycle. Recent neuroscience shows that stress impai rs cognition in ways that fit precisely with practical experience. By re ducing stress and building self-confidence we can improve productivity. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T113500 DTSTAMP:20080726T163841 LOCATION:Portland 256 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2712 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-11:35--2712 SUMMARY:Software Delivery & Continuous Integration in Python Using Eggs and zc.buildout DESCRIPTION:Presented by Tarek Ziadé (Ingeniweb). zc.buildout provides a n environment and a framework to test, build, and deploy any egg-based P ython software. This presentation shows the life cycle of a Plone applic ation, based on zc.buildout, and demonstrates how the software is contin uously integrated, built, and delivered with it. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T143000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T134500 DTSTAMP:20080804T233854 LOCATION:Portland 256 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2737 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-13:45--2737 SUMMARY:CSS for High Performance JavaScript UI DESCRIPTION:Presented by Gavin Doughtie (Google). Programmers like to pr ogram, but sometimes executing JavaScript code to create user interface is far less efficient than having the browser render what you want at na tive speeds via CSS declarations. This session shows CSS techniques that every Javascript developer should be aware of, including browser limita tions and cutting-edge features like WebKit animations. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T152000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T143500 DTSTAMP:20080805T182216 LOCATION:Portland 256 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2841 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-14:35--2841 SUMMARY:Even Faster Web Sites DESCRIPTION:Presented by Steve Souders (Google). Steve Souders' book "Hi gh Performance Web Sites" describes the 14 best practices he developed w hile working as the Chief Performance Yahoo!. YSlow, the Firebug extensi on he created, codified those best practices. Now working at Google, Sou ders discusses the next set of best practices he's discovered, including the impact of iframes and where to place (and where not to place) inlin e script blocks. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T171500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T163000 DTSTAMP:20080801T015511 LOCATION:Portland 256 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2874 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-16:30--2874 SUMMARY:Effective Software Development with Python, C++, and SWIG DESCRIPTION:Presented by Robin Dunn (wxPROs/UNMC). Different programming languages have different strengths and weaknesses. This presentation wi ll help programmers understand how to combine the strengths of C++ and P ython, and minimize their weaknesses at the same time, using a tool call ed SWIG. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T180500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T172000 DTSTAMP:20080728T212105 LOCATION:Portland 256 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2810 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-17:20--2810 SUMMARY:(The Lack of) Design Patterns in Python DESCRIPTION:Presented by Joe Gregorio (Google). In many dynamic language communities such as Python, there is a distinct lack of Design Patterns . Are the communities ignorant of Design Patterns or is there something else going on here? END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T104500 DTSTAMP:20080801T170753 LOCATION:Portland 256 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3242 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-10:45--3242 SUMMARY:Perl and Parrot: Baseless Myths and Startling Realities DESCRIPTION:Presented by Tim Bunce (TigerLead). Discover the vibrant gro wth of the perl community, the CPAN codebase, and the perl jobs market. Discover tools to ease perl code maintenance and testing. Discover how t he development of Perl 6 is helping the development of Perl 5. Discover the facts you need to bust perl myths. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T113500 DTSTAMP:20080801T170820 LOCATION:Portland 256 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2438 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-11:35--2438 SUMMARY:The Twilight Perl DESCRIPTION:Presented by Damian Conway (Thoughtstream). You unlock this door with the key of a hash. Beyond it is another dimension—a dimension of strange constructs, a dimension of improbable behavior. You're moving into a land of both weird syntax and unlikely semantics, of unintended features and unexpected beauty. You've just crossed over into...The Twil ight Perl. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T200000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T190000 DTSTAMP:20080722T202736 LOCATION:Portland 256 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4910 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-19:00--4910 SUMMARY:Getting Started with Google Android DESCRIPTION:This BOF is for developers who want to learn about Google's Android platform. We'll discuss the Android toolset and platform API's. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T104500 DTSTAMP:20080729T165311 LOCATION:D133 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2745 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-10:45--2745 SUMMARY:How to be Normal: A Guide for Developers DESCRIPTION:Presented by Mike Hillyer (Message Systems). At some point in every software project involving a database it becomes necessary for the developers who created (or inherited) the project to step back and t ake a look at their database. Many projects have a database schema that has evolved over time, with columns added here and tables added there, i ncreasing complexity and often adding redundancy. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T113500 DTSTAMP:20080801T165928 LOCATION:D133 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2231 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-11:35--2231 SUMMARY:Lock Up Your Data DESCRIPTION:Presented by Josh Berkus (PostgreSQL Experts, Inc.). Data = money. Yet most web applications do little or nothing to secure their d ata against thieves. Learn some easy methods to lock up yours. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T143000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T134500 DTSTAMP:20080627T184428 LOCATION:D133 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3148 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-13:45--3148 SUMMARY:The Australian Open Source Industry & Community Census Report DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jeff Waugh (Waugh Partners), Pia Waugh (Waugh P artners). What have they put in the water Down Under? Australia punches far above its weight in the open source community, producing some of its most prolific and innovative developers from one of the largest pools o f contributors per-capita... Find out why Aussies rock open source from the world's first nation-wide industry and community survey. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T152000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T143500 DTSTAMP:20080724T210416 LOCATION:D133 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2475 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-14:35--2475 SUMMARY:Hypertable: An Open Source, High Performance, Scalable Database DESCRIPTION:Presented by Doug Judd (Zvents, Inc.). Hypertable is an open source, high performance, distributed database modeled after Google's B igtable. The current scalable database solutions are somewhat ad hoc and leave much to be desired, until now. Hypertable brings scalable storag e technology to the masses. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T171500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T163000 DTSTAMP:20080529T115728 LOCATION:D133 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2781 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-16:30--2781 SUMMARY:Introduction to LucidDB DESCRIPTION:Presented by John Sichi (LucidEra). LucidDB is a new open so urce RDBMS purpose-built entirely for data warehousing and business inte lligence. This talk will cover the project's architectural features and how they can be applied to achieve superior performance and ease of admi nistration in this specialized domain. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T180500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T172000 DTSTAMP:20080728T203513 LOCATION:D133 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2700 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-17:20--2700 SUMMARY:Muldis D: Portable Databases at Full Power DESCRIPTION:Presented by Darren Duncan (Muldis Data Systems). How would you like to have a full-featured object-relational DBMS integrated right into your development environment? One that understands OOP, implements all of the relational operators, and greatly shortens development time? That gets you away from the tyranny of SQL so you can focus on what you really know? Introducing Muldis D, an industrial-strength language with fully integrated ORDBMS. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T104500 DTSTAMP:20080728T211544 LOCATION:D133 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3026 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-10:45--3026 SUMMARY:PLUTO: PL/SQL Unit Testing for Oracle DESCRIPTION:Presented by Josh McAdams (Google). More and more enterprise code is being created inside the database. Often this code slips by wit h few if any automated tests. It is as if there is some exception for da tabase code that frees it from having to be properly wrapped in tests. T he PL/SQL Unit Testing for Oracle (PLUTO) framework was built to provide a JUnit-like interface for PL/SQL programmers to properly test their co de. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T113500 DTSTAMP:20080729T165754 LOCATION:D133 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2964 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-11:35--2964 SUMMARY:This is Your PostgreSQL on Drugs DESCRIPTION:Presented by Aaron Thul (Electronic Medical Office Logistic s). Do you have a large amount of data that needs to be searchable, aggr egated, and extremely secure at the same time? See many of the creative solutions that have been deployed to help facilitate how we put PostgreS QL to the task of drugs. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T143000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T134500 DTSTAMP:20080801T005537 LOCATION:D133 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2619 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-13:45--2619 SUMMARY:Architecture of Maria, the New Transactional Storage Engine for MySQL DESCRIPTION:Presented by Michael Widenius (Monty Program Ab). The talk w ill describe the goals and design of Maria, the new transactional storag e engine for MySQL. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T152000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T143500 DTSTAMP:20080801T005418 LOCATION:D133 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2915 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-14:35--2915 SUMMARY:MySQL Proxy: from Architecture to Implementation DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ronald Bradford (EffectiveMySQL), Giuseppe Max ia (Continuent). MySQL Proxy is a new exciting product offering from MyS QL AB that solves classical server and application problems without chan ging your server or your application code. Features include connection m anagement, load balancing, failover, and better instrumentation. The pre sentation will include an overview of the architecture of features, and actual customer implementations with MySQL Proxy. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T171500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T163000 DTSTAMP:20080802T163029 LOCATION:D133 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2827 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-16:30--2827 SUMMARY:Wonderful World of MySQL Storage Engines DESCRIPTION:Presented by Peter Zaitsev (Percona Inc). With plugable stor age engines as of MySQL 5.1 there are numerous open source storage both by MySQL and third parties. In this talk we're comparing properties of o pen source storage engines to see what kind of application they would su it as well as benchmark them. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T180500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T172000 DTSTAMP:20080725T004823 LOCATION:D133 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2658 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-17:20--2658 SUMMARY:Organizing & Collecting Donations the Right Way: Corporate Struc ture for FOSS Projects DESCRIPTION:Presented by Karen Sandler (GNOME Foundation). The discussio n will provide a background in nonprofit corporate and tax information, streamlined for helping developers evaluate how best to form and manage their organizations and activities. Different forms of organization will be discussed, including incorporated nonprofits, umbrella organizations , and developers acting without legal form. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T104500 DTSTAMP:20080805T182535 LOCATION:D133 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2780 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-10:45--2780 SUMMARY:Load Testing Using Perl DESCRIPTION:Presented by Homer Hummel (Computer Sciences Corporation). P erl is utilitarian. A flexible, scalable, cost-effective framework for load testing application servers has been developed using Perl scripts. This framework is ideal for load testing servers for which a commercial test tool is either unavailable or prohibitively expensive. Load scrip ts may be easily written using a Perl script template and functions of o ne of the many clients on CPAN. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T113500 DTSTAMP:20080519T072959 LOCATION:D133 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2592 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-11:35--2592 SUMMARY:How Not to Build a Service DESCRIPTION:Presented by Mike Perham (FiveRuns). FiveRuns launched the R M-Manage monitoring service targeting the Ruby on Rails market in 2007, but not without making plenty of mistakes in the process. This talk will discuss the social, technical, and business lessons learned over the la st year. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T120000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T083000 DTSTAMP:20080804T144800 LOCATION:D136 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3910 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-08:30--3910 SUMMARY:Mastering Perl DESCRIPTION:Presented by brian d foy (The Perl Review, LLC). Go beyond t he syntax and idioms of Perl to manage your code base so it doesn't mana ge you. Show your Perl code who is in charge through benchmarking and pr ofiling, configuration, logging, and fixing third party modules. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T170000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T133000 DTSTAMP:20080727T192035 LOCATION:D136 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2605 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-13:30--2605 SUMMARY:Effective A/B Testing DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ben Tilly (Pictage). A/B tests can tell you whi ch changes to your web site worked, and how much of a difference they ma de. This tutorial will teach you how to set up and run A/B tests. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T120000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T083000 DTSTAMP:20080724T161308 LOCATION:D136 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2667 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-22-08:30--2667 SUMMARY:Ubiquitous Multithreading for a Multicore World DESCRIPTION:Presented by Arch Robison (Intel), Robert Reed (Intel). This tutorial explains the complexities of concurrency and how open source t ools can simplify threading for performance and scalability. Illustrativ e examples will show how to design once and reap the benefits in current and future hardware architectures. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T170000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T133000 DTSTAMP:20080805T181532 LOCATION:D136 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2949 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-22-13:30--2949 SUMMARY:Hack This App! PHP Security Workshop DESCRIPTION:Presented by Damien Seguy (Nexen Services). Come and give a try at this PHP application and see how you can exploit seemingly innoce nt PHP code to run XSS, injections, and CSRF. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T104500 DTSTAMP:20080804T163257 LOCATION:D136 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2330 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-10:45--2330 SUMMARY:Rebuilding Linux for the Desktop DESCRIPTION:Presented by Keith Packard (Intel). Over the last several ye ars, architectural changes within the Linux environment have promised ne w 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. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T113500 DTSTAMP:20080802T162553 LOCATION:D136 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2993 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-11:35--2993 SUMMARY:What Makes a Modern Linux Desktop, and Why Do You Care? DESCRIPTION:Presented by Matthew Garrett (Red Hat). The Linux desktop ha s moved far beyond the point where it consisted of a kernel, an X server , and the xclock command. A bewildering array of layers exist to move in formation around, abstract unnecessary complexities, and perform various practical functions. This presentation seeks to remove some of the myst ery of the modern desktop. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T143000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T134500 DTSTAMP:20080729T015325 LOCATION:D136 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3361 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-13:45--3361 SUMMARY:Flying Linux DESCRIPTION:Presented by Daniel V. Klein (Self-employed). I flew across the Atlantic on an Airbus -- that was fly by wire. No cables in the cont rol system, just a computer controlling everything. Would you fly if Win dows was the controlling software? How about Linux? Think again! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T152000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T143500 DTSTAMP:20080801T170048 LOCATION:D136 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2509 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-14:35--2509 SUMMARY:Linux on the Corporate Desktop: We Did It, and You Can Too DESCRIPTION:Presented by John Goerzen (Hustler Turf Equipment). A mid-si zed manufacturing company has successfully switched the majority of its employees to Linux on the desktop. This talk will cover why this was do ne, how it was accomplished, and the lessons learned during the deployme nt. It will cover both technical and business/political aspects of maki ng such a switch, and give you pointers on making a similar switch in yo ur organization. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T171500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T163000 DTSTAMP:20080724T202153 LOCATION:D136 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3037 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-16:30--3037 SUMMARY:Moblin.org: The Community for Linux on Mobile Internet Devices ( MID), netbooks, nettops and More… DESCRIPTION:Presented by Dirk Hohndel (Intel Corporation). A new class o f devices is emerging that enables full Internet access while on the go. These internet-centric devices known as Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), netbooks, nettops combine the software compatibility of the PC with an easy to use, consumer friendly user interface. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T180500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T172000 DTSTAMP:20080801T080800 LOCATION:D136 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2494 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-17:20--2494 SUMMARY:Open Source Virtualization Hacks DESCRIPTION:Presented by Niel Bornstein (Novell, Inc.). Everyone's using virtualization, from proprietary systems like VMware to open source one s like Xen and KVM. The smart money has the virtualization itself becom ing a commodity, so the fun begins when you try to manage your VMs using open source tools. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T104500 DTSTAMP:20080724T190419 LOCATION:D136 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2291 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-10:45--2291 SUMMARY:MondoRescue: the GPL Disaster Recovery Solution DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bruno Cornec (Hewlett-Packard). MondoRescue is a GPL Disaster Recovery Solution. It exists since 2000. and has now matu red to a global solution used both to restore systems in case of emergen cy as well as to deploy dozens of systems having the same or nearly the same configuration. The main web site is at http://www.mondorescue.org w here all the detailed information is contained. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T113500 DTSTAMP:20080801T080951 LOCATION:D136 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3098 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-11:35--3098 SUMMARY:Prophet, your path out of the cloud DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jesse Vincent (Best Practical). Prophet is a ne w peer to peer distributed database designed to help ease the transition to post-web-2.0 applications. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T143000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T134500 DTSTAMP:20080725T190350 LOCATION:D136 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2505 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-13:45--2505 SUMMARY:Pushmi: Subversion Replication System DESCRIPTION:Presented by Chia-liang Kao (Best Practical Solutions). Push mi allows you to create slave replicas of a master Subversion repository . The slaves are writable by regular Subversion clients, making the repl ication mostly seamless to the users. Come learn how Pushmi can help dev elopers, especially when there's an earthquake and no network. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T152000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T143500 DTSTAMP:20080801T152606 LOCATION:D136 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2607 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-14:35--2607 SUMMARY:Using Puppet: Real World Configuration Management DESCRIPTION:Presented by James Turnbull (Puppet Labs), Luke Kanies (Redu ctive Labs). Configuration management is the oft-misunderstood (and poss ibly black) art of managing your IT environment. Puppet is part of the b right future of configuration management for heterogeneous Unix systems. This session explains how to combine the practice and the tool to reduc e errors, outages, and operational costs. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T171500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T163000 DTSTAMP:20080725T185358 LOCATION:D136 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3063 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-16:30--3063 SUMMARY:Supervisor as a Platform DESCRIPTION:Presented by Mike Naberezny (Maintainable Software). Supervi sor is a tool for managing Unix server processes. Other programs exist t hat do this, but what sets Supervisor apart is that it is built with ext ension points that can be leveraged by developers. In this talk, we'll l ook at Supervisor as a platform, and how programs written to run under S upervisor can use its unique capabilities. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T180500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T172000 DTSTAMP:20080727T005559 LOCATION:D136 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2638 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-17:20--2638 SUMMARY:NetDB: Stanford's Network Administration Tool DESCRIPTION:Presented by Sunia Yang (Stanford University), Rob Riepel (S tanford University). As the key network management tool at Stanford Univ ersity, NetDB enables 900+ users to manage DNS names/aliases/MXes, DHCP (static, dynamic, options), make/model, location, and administrators of 100,000+ hosts through Web, CLI, Whois, and Java RMI Interfaces. Network ing staff use NetDB for address space management (600+ networks, 1500+ a ddress spaces), reporting, and configuration. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T104500 DTSTAMP:20080804T234349 LOCATION:D136 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2383 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-10:45--2383 SUMMARY:Clutter: Breathing Life into User Interfaces DESCRIPTION:Presented by Tomas Frydrych (Openedhand Ltd), Paul Cooper (I ntel). Clutter is an OpenGL-based toolkit by OpenedHand that facilitates the creation of visually rich, dynamic user interfaces. Its simple and clear API, tailored toward minimal effort manipulation of 2D objects in 3D space and time, allows the application designer to concentrate on th e UI. Want to see iPhone-like interfaces done with a few lines of code u sing Free Software? This is the talk to be at! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T113500 DTSTAMP:20080726T172538 LOCATION:D136 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4772 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-11:35--4772 SUMMARY:OOXML and ODF and the politics of technology as FOSS comes of ag e on the desktop DESCRIPTION:Presented by Louis Suarez-Potts (Oracle / OpenOffice.org). I examine the debate concerning the ISO office suite formats, the OpenDoc ument and yet-to-be-published Office Open XML, and the more general poli tics of free and open source software now that it has become a significa nt player on the desktop and the focus of government attention worldwide . END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T203000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T193000 DTSTAMP:20080603T034850 LOCATION:D136 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4320 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-19:30--4320 SUMMARY:OpenOffice.org - Code, Community DESCRIPTION:An informal workshop on OpenOffice.org architecture, code, a nd community, with a special emphasis on building extensions. There will be a hands-on demonstration. The level is for all, including those inte rested 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. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T200000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T190000 DTSTAMP:20080601T183536 LOCATION:D136 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4503 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-19:00--4503 SUMMARY:MySQL Proxy Wizardry DESCRIPTION:Open the database development horizons with MySQL Proxy. Enh ance server features, create new commands, make your server jump, speak your language, and make coffee! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T210000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T200000 DTSTAMP:20080825T164636 LOCATION:D136 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4504 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-20:00--4504 SUMMARY:MySQL Sandbox, or How to Do Custom Installs in Seconds DESCRIPTION:MySQL Sandbox is a tool to install a side server or a replic ation system in "seconds," in complete isolation, without need to rememb er complex sequence of commands. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T200000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T190000 DTSTAMP:20080711T020428 LOCATION:D136 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4747 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-19:00--4747 SUMMARY:WAS Community Edition 2.1 DESCRIPTION:This BoF will review and demonstrate the new (and existing) features of the WAS Community Edition 2.1 server. We will also discuss n ew features being developed in the Apache Geronimo community. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T213000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T203000 DTSTAMP:20080721T155538 LOCATION:D136 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4882 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-20:30--4882 SUMMARY:So You'd Like to Write for O'Reilly DESCRIPTION:You've found a great technology, but it needs some explanati on. Users are looking for a better, faster way to make it work. You're c onvinced that those users are excited enough that they'd visit an articl e or even pay for the privilege of reading a great book - is it time to consider writing? END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T120000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T083000 DTSTAMP:20080805T181430 LOCATION:D135 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2189 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-08:30--2189 SUMMARY:Testing with PHPUnit and Selenium DESCRIPTION:Presented by Sebastian Bergmann (thePHP.cc). PHPUnit is an o pen source framework for test-driven development in any PHP-based code t hat automates unit testing and reduces the effort required to frequently test code while developing it. Held by the tool's creator, attendees of this tutorial will learn how to test both the backend and frontend of t heir web applications with PHPUnit and Selenium. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T170000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T133000 DTSTAMP:20080805T181437 LOCATION:D135 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2722 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-13:30--2722 SUMMARY:PHP Extension Writing DESCRIPTION:Presented by Marcus Boerger (Google), Wez Furlong (Message S ystems, Inc.). PHP has become an extremely powerful web development plat form. PHP furthermore allows easy integration with legacy applications b y developing dedicated extensions. In this tutorial, two of the most act ive core developers of PHP will share their knowledge and get you starte d coding right away. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T120000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T083000 DTSTAMP:20080724T235124 LOCATION:D135 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2881 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-22-08:30--2881 SUMMARY:Eclipse and the Parallel Tools Platform DESCRIPTION:Presented by Beth Tibbitts (IBM ), Greg Watson (IBM Research ). Eclipse is an open source integrated development environment (IDE) th at has available extensions for a variety of languages and tools. We dis cuss the Parallel Tools Platform (PTP) which adds support for parallel p rogramming development and analysis (including MPI and OpenMP) and runti me and debug support for a variety of target architectures including bot h local and remote control of the target. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T170000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T133000 DTSTAMP:20080801T014050 LOCATION:D135 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3146 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-22-13:30--3146 SUMMARY:Porting to Python 3.0 DESCRIPTION:Presented by Anthony Baxter (Google/Python Software Foundati on). Python 3.0 (currently in development) contains a large number of ba ckwards incompatible changes to the language. This tutorial will walk th rough the changes in 3.0 and also cover the tools available to help you port your code. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T104500 DTSTAMP:20080730T181428 LOCATION:D135 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2579 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-10:45--2579 SUMMARY:LTS Tutorials: Using Ubuntu in the Enterprise DESCRIPTION:Presented by Christer Edwards (Guru Labs, LC). 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 S ervers (NFS, SMB, FTP, SFTP), repository mirroring, and internal secure IM with Jabber. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T113500 DTSTAMP:20080730T182055 LOCATION:D135 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2996 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-11:35--2996 SUMMARY:How to Achieve Secure Integration of Ubuntu and MS Active Direct ory Without Breaking the Bank DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jerry Carter (Likewise Software). Here's an ind ustrial-strength way to address the issue of connecting to a directory i n a mixed environment. Instead of grappling with homegrown directory sol utions, now there's an open source way to leverage your company's invest ment in Active Directory. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T143000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T134500 DTSTAMP:20080730T181612 LOCATION:D135 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3460 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-13:45--3460 SUMMARY:Ubuntu Server Technologies DESCRIPTION:Presented by Nick Barcet (Canonical UK Ltd), Rick Clark (Cis co Systems). Peek under the hood of the Ubuntu Server. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T152000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T143500 DTSTAMP:20080804T164802 LOCATION:D135 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2898 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-14:35--2898 SUMMARY:Ubuntu Deployment for Your Enterprise DESCRIPTION:Presented by Fredrik Jonsson (ASCI Sweden AB). A presentatio n about how Ubuntu Deployment mechanisms can be used for multiple, zero touch installations in your enterprise network as well as how custom-mad e network install CDs can provide remote disaster recovery of a machine for a user that is even off site (only internet connection required). END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T171500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T163000 DTSTAMP:20080727T042116 LOCATION:D135 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3461 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-16:30--3461 SUMMARY:Landscape: Managing Ubuntu Deployments DESCRIPTION:Presented by Steve George (Canonical UK Ltd). Landscape is a system management service that allows you to manage multiple Ubuntu mac hines as easily as one. Learn how you can manage many machines in a comp lex environment through a single web-based interface. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T180500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T172000 DTSTAMP:20080730T181553 LOCATION:D135 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3463 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-17:20--3463 SUMMARY:The Ubuntu Community DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jono Bacon (Canonical Ltd). The Ubuntu communit y is where the spirit of Ubuntu comes to life. Learn how it all works, and how you can get involved. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T104500 DTSTAMP:20080802T162915 LOCATION:D135 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2447 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-10:45--2447 SUMMARY:Ubuntu Desktop Technologies DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ted Gould (Canonical). A tour of the technologi es that provide the foundation for the Ubuntu Desktop. What's in; what' s out; and why each technology is important to providing an incredible d esktop experience. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T113500 DTSTAMP:20080804T233738 LOCATION:D135 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3456 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-11:35--3456 SUMMARY:Practical Open Source Collaboration with Launchpad DESCRIPTION:Presented by Kiko Reis (Canonical Ltd), Joey Stanford (Canon ical Ltd). Launchpad is often referred to as Ubuntu's "secret sauce." L earn how it can add flavor to your development efforts. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T143000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T134500 DTSTAMP:20080730T182246 LOCATION:D135 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2493 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-13:45--2493 SUMMARY:Exhibiting Software DESCRIPTION:Presented by Hunter Cross (Ponticlaro Inc.). An overview of experiences and best practices for how to use Ubuntu as an economically viable platform for installation art, collaborative art projects, and ar t exhibition kiosks and for the presentation of software-based art proje ct proposals in contemporary art spaces. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T152000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T143500 DTSTAMP:20080725T043803 LOCATION:D135 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3462 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-14:35--3462 SUMMARY:Ubuntu on the Go: Subnotebook and MID Technologies DESCRIPTION:Presented by Peter Goodall (Canonical Ltd.). See the latest Ubuntu on ultra-mobile devices such as subnotebooks and MIDs. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T171500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T163000 DTSTAMP:20080804T055813 LOCATION:D135 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2674 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-16:30--2674 SUMMARY:Teenbuntu: Reaching Out to Teens DESCRIPTION:Presented by Andrew Harris (Teens on Linux.org). A talk give n 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 sugg estion on creating yet another Ubuntu-based distribution, but rather an insight on marketing Ubuntu and FOSS in general to teens. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T180500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T172000 DTSTAMP:20080610T144751 LOCATION:D135 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2522 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-17:20--2522 SUMMARY:Bulletproof Ubuntu for Remote Installations, like Timbuktu DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jeffrey L. Wishnie (Inveneo, Inc.). Students g et their first introduction to life-changing technology tapping on your keyboard. Your systems track patient health for an entire district. Reli ef 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 Ub untu. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T104500 DTSTAMP:20080801T081317 LOCATION:D135 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3608 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-10:45--3608 SUMMARY:Virtualization in Ubuntu DESCRIPTION:Presented by Nick Barcet (Canonical UK Ltd). Technology and use cases for virtualization in Ubuntu. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T113500 DTSTAMP:20080801T081349 LOCATION:D135 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2783 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-11:35--2783 SUMMARY:Using Ubuntu, Virtualization, and Automation to Improve Your Web Development Workflow DESCRIPTION:Presented by David Brewer (Second Story Interactive Studios) . Large-scale web projects use sophisticated staged deployment systems, but the prospect of setting these up can be daunting. Using Ubuntu, virt ualization, and automated configuration puts the benefits within easy re ach even for small projects. David Brewer explains how Second Story uses Ubuntu, VMware Server, and AutomateIt to grease the wheels of developme nt on their museum-sector projects. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T203000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T193000 DTSTAMP:20080601T041527 LOCATION:D135 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4249 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-19:30--4249 SUMMARY:MythTV and Video on Linux BOF DESCRIPTION:Primary focus will be on MythTV, but open to discussions on other uses of Linux in the Video space, especially around tools and code cs END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T213000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T203000 DTSTAMP:20080804T233427 LOCATION:D135 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4383 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-20:30--4383 SUMMARY:Static Analysis of Open-Source Code DESCRIPTION:Mozilla is developing a set of open-source static analysis t ools to assist with analyzing and refactoring its large C++ codebase. Co me see a demonstration of these tools and discuss how these same tools c an be used to help improve other open-source projects. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T200000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T190000 DTSTAMP:20080714T201229 LOCATION:D135 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4883 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-19:00--4883 SUMMARY:GPG/PGP Keysigning Party DESCRIPTION: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. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T120000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T083000 DTSTAMP:20080721T234503 LOCATION:D137/138 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2321 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-08:30--2321 SUMMARY:Extending Rails: Understanding and Building Plugins DESCRIPTION:Presented by Clinton R. Nixon (Relevance, Inc.). Ruby on Rai ls has made web development easier than ever, but there is a hurdle that comes with that convenience. When you want Rails to work differently, w hat do you change? We'll walk through the architecture of Rails, the top plugins already in existence, and learn how to radically change the beh avior of Rails and of others' plugins. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T120000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T083000 DTSTAMP:20080801T013706 LOCATION:D137/138 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2871 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-22-08:30--2871 SUMMARY:Advanced wxPython Nuts and Bolts DESCRIPTION:Presented by Robin Dunn (wxPROs/UNMC). wxPython is a huge to olchest with lots of great and useful tools within it. To be a master c raftsman you have to know your tools. This tutorial will help the attend ees to become more familiar with the wxPython tool, and gain better unde rstanding of how to use the more advanced widgets. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T170000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T133000 DTSTAMP:20080806T044100 LOCATION:D137/138 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2804 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-22-13:30--2804 SUMMARY:Catalyst: 21st Century Perl Web Development DESCRIPTION:Presented by Matt Trout (Shadowcat Systems Limited). An intr oduction to web development using the Catalyst MVC framework covering ap plication scaffolding, database design, authentication, authorization an d extensible form handling best practices. From concept to deployment, y ou'll learn everything you need to get started building MVC web applicat ions with modern Perl tools. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T200000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T190000 DTSTAMP:20080825T164940 LOCATION:D137/138 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4327 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-19:00--4327 SUMMARY:Perl Trainers DESCRIPTION:For Perl trainers to swap war stories, anecdotes, tips, tric ks, and questions. Share what you've found to work, and ask others how they handle the tough stuff. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T104500 DTSTAMP:20080725T000016 LOCATION:D137 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2889 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-10:45--2889 SUMMARY:Laika: Testing Electronic Health Record Interoperability DESCRIPTION:Presented by Andy Gregorowicz (MITRE). Laika is an open sour ce testing framework that is changing the certification process for elec tronic health records (EHR) in the U.S. Hear about EHR data standards, t he testing process, how to test an EHR, how to get involved, and the imp act of FOSS on Health IT. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T113500 DTSTAMP:20080727T183107 LOCATION:D137 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3144 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-11:35--3144 SUMMARY:Heroes: Women in FOSS DESCRIPTION:Presented by Pia Waugh (Waugh Partners). All over the world women are discovering that they have special abilities, and that they ar e not alone. Come on a journey to hear about some of the amazing women i n FOSS, their achievements, how you can get involved, and how to get mor e women involved both in FOSS and ICT. Waugh also draws from her experie nce talking to thousands of school girls about ICT careers. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T143000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T134500 DTSTAMP:20080529T115002 LOCATION:D137 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2320 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-13:45--2320 SUMMARY:Creating & Supporting Free Software in Africa: the African Virtu al Open Initiatives & Resources (AVOIR) experience DESCRIPTION:Presented by Derek Keats (The University of the Western Cape ). Free and Open Source software is often seen as a largely Western and predominantly male phenomenon. This talk explores experiences of FOSS de velopment in an Africa-led project to build capacity, and extends our un derstanding of FOSS to other cultures and societies, and shows how colla boration around FOSS can foster innovation and contribute to development in Africa. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T152000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T143500 DTSTAMP:20080729T000649 LOCATION:D137 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2596 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-14:35--2596 SUMMARY:How Open Source Software & Wireless Networks are Transforming Tw o Cultures: An Investigation in Urban North America & Rural Africa DESCRIPTION:Presented by Thomas McGonagle (Bentley College/CSC Inc. ). I n one year we have seen the release of the XO laptop, Asus's EEE PC, and Nokia's third generation Internet tablet. Open source software and wire less technology provide a tremendous opportunity for low cost Internet a ccess infrastructure and end user access in Urban North America and Rura l Africa. Research on this topic will be presented. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T171500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T163000 DTSTAMP:20080804T145418 LOCATION:D137 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3172 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-16:30--3172 SUMMARY:Eat My Data: How Everybody Gets File IO Wrong DESCRIPTION:Presented by Stewart Smith (Percona). 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. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T180500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T172000 DTSTAMP:20080729T014307 LOCATION:D137 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2947 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-17:20--2947 SUMMARY:Mashing Up Voice and the Web Through Open Source and XML DESCRIPTION:Presented by Dan York (Voxeo Corporation). As "mashups" beco me a key way to access information on the Internet, the question is: how can you add voice into the picture? Given the ubiquity of the phone, ho w can you make it easy for people to call and interact with your applica tions? Join this session to learn about how you can use the power of XML , open source, and open standards to add voice to your web applications. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T104500 DTSTAMP:20080724T210630 LOCATION:D137 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2885 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-10:45--2885 SUMMARY:Automating Open Source Governance Using Free Tools and Data DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ragavan Srinivasan (Mozilla Inc). Open source g overnance is an emerging discipline that refers to the policies, process es, and tools that help organizations manage their use and contribution to FOSS. This talk will concentrate on the tools that can make open sour ce governance easier and more automated and the data implications. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T113500 DTSTAMP:20080725T223427 LOCATION:D137 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2705 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-11:35--2705 SUMMARY:Maximizing the Double Bottom Line: Open Source for Microfinance DESCRIPTION:Presented by George Conard (Mifos Initiative at Grameen Fou ndation). As microfinance seeks to grow and better serve the poor, the M ifos open source technology platform will enable greater efficiency and effectiveness and will remove serious current barriers to microfinance’s growth. We will explore the challenges in implementing a business model that drives our global ecosystem in the development and delivery of a s tandard solution for the industry. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T143000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T134500 DTSTAMP:20080726T135410 LOCATION:D137 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2924 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-13:45--2924 SUMMARY:Open Source’s (VoIP) Call for Change DESCRIPTION:Presented by Mark Spencer (Digium). Asterisk founder Mark Sp encer discusses open source's role in creating VoIP and unified communic ations solutions that are changing the way we live and do business. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T152000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T143500 DTSTAMP:20080725T133934 LOCATION:D137 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3458 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-14:35--3458 SUMMARY:Beyond Agile: Enabling the Next Wave of Software Development Met hods DESCRIPTION:Presented by Mark R. Shuttleworth (Canonical Ltd.). Develop ment methodologies are morphing from "pure" Agile to incorporate best pr actices from Lean and the open source world. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T171500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T163000 DTSTAMP:20080725T002419 LOCATION:D137 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2436 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-16:30--2436 SUMMARY:OSS Census: Make Open Source Count! DESCRIPTION:Presented by Stormy Peters (GNOME Foundation). The Open Sour ce Census is a global, collaborative project to collect and share quanti tative data on the use of open source software in the enterprise. In sho rt that means we want to count how many enterprise installations there a re in the world for each open source software package in order to encour age its use. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T180500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T172000 DTSTAMP:20080726T200048 LOCATION:D137 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4315 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-17:20--4315 SUMMARY:Print Your Own Hardware DESCRIPTION:Presented by Vik Olliver (The RepRap Project). The RepRap Pr oject has developed an open source design for a 3D fabricator that can p rint all its own custom components as well as utilitarian objects. It is cross-platform and uses a completely open source toolchain. It wants to evolve into an even more useful device, but needs to acquire a vital co mponent -- you. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T203000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T193000 DTSTAMP:20080710T023250 LOCATION:D137 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4645 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-19:30--4645 SUMMARY:Tools and Other Resources for Mozilla Extension Development DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in learning more about developing extensi ons or applications using Mozilla technology? Join us to discuss what's going on with Mozilla and Firefox that affects developers, stop by to de mo your latest creation, or get helpful information about resources in t he community that can help you with your project. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T200000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T190000 DTSTAMP:20080731T053454 LOCATION:D137 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4555 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-19:00--4555 SUMMARY:Open Source in Education DESCRIPTION:This is a BOF for developers, users, and instructors to disc uss the latest trends and issues in Open Source usage and advocacy in ed ucation. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T104500 DTSTAMP:20080726T172024 LOCATION:D137 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2286 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-10:45--2286 SUMMARY:Open Source and Standards DESCRIPTION:Presented by Joe Gregorio (Google), Zaheda Bhorat (Google In c). The mantra at the IETF is rough consensus and running code. But how much does that running code, particularly open source running code, cont ribute to a good standard? END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T113500 DTSTAMP:20080725T203745 LOCATION:D137 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2777 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-11:35--2777 SUMMARY:Creating Open Source Electronic Hardware with Open Source Softwa re DESCRIPTION:Presented by Tom Anderson (Agilent Technologies). Satisfy yo ur urge to create a clever new gadget or circuit! Use open source CAD to ols to reduce the cost of creating open source hardware. See working exa mples of open source hardware, and understand how it is designed, simula ted, fabricated, and distributed. Learn how to solve the challenges of l ow-volume manufacturing and distribution. Satisfy niche markets with you r own invention. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T210000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T200000 DTSTAMP:20080714T162156 LOCATION:D137 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4787 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-20:00--4787 SUMMARY:Open Sourcing Video and Rich Media DESCRIPTION:This session will be a deep dive discussion into the evoluti on of open source online video. Through a case study of an existing ope n source video platform, we will explore the challenges of opensourcing rich-media - licenses, format conversion, hosting, etc - and the huge op portunity that online video playing and editing pose. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T213000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T203000 DTSTAMP:20080720T155425 LOCATION:D137 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4884 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-20:30--4884 SUMMARY:LINA - Your Linux Applications Everywhere DESCRIPTION:In this session, we will show developers how to get their Li nux 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 recomp ile. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T104500 DTSTAMP:20080728T201747 LOCATION:D138 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2547 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-10:45--2547 SUMMARY:Going Open Source: The 20 Most Important Things To Do DESCRIPTION:Presented by Martin Aschoff (AGNITAS AG). When going open so urce with your software there are 20 important things you definitely hav e to do to be successful. Join this session and hear tips and examples f rom someone who had to learn some of this stuff the hard way. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T113500 DTSTAMP:20080728T183818 LOCATION:D138 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2386 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-11:35--2386 SUMMARY:Setting Up a Decent Developer Box for OSS and Linux Community De velopment DESCRIPTION:Presented by Mark Gross (Intel). Mark Gross will discuss tak ing a new Ubuntu derivative installation on a laptop and making it a dec ent developer box for OSS community work. The tools and methods covered will include IRC, procmail, mutt, ctags, build tools, python, pylynt, qu ilt, git, svn, Email and gmail use for busy mailing lists, checkpatch, d ebugfs, VIM, and others. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T143000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T134500 DTSTAMP:20080802T162639 LOCATION:D138 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2997 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-13:45--2997 SUMMARY:How I Learned to Love Revision Control DESCRIPTION:Presented by David Gray (OmniTI). "Revision control? What's that?" Knowing what I know now, it's scary to look back and ask what mig ht have happened if one hard drive had failed at the wrong time. After r eviewing some revision control concepts, we will look at several project s to see how they could have leveraged revision control and what the ben efits would have been. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T152000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T143500 DTSTAMP:20080804T145315 LOCATION:D138 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2757 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-14:35--2757 SUMMARY:Running a Successful User Group DESCRIPTION:Presented by Selena Deckelmann (Prime Radiant), Gabrielle Ro th (XO Communications). 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 s uccessful user groups in the Portland area and will share their tips wit h you. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T171500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T163000 DTSTAMP:20080725T190851 LOCATION:D138 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2313 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-16:30--2313 SUMMARY:Open Source Software Economics, Standards, and IP in One Lesson DESCRIPTION:Presented by Stephen Walli (CodePlex Foundation). Free and o pen source software use has grown tremendously both in IT and in softwar e businesses. There is still confusion around what this means for softw are intellectual property, or how it relates to industry standards. The talk provides context and history to show how the subjects relate to su pport better business decisions. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T180500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T172000 DTSTAMP:20080804T163654 LOCATION:D138 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2686 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-17:20--2686 SUMMARY:Trac: Project and Process Management for Developers and Sys Admi ns DESCRIPTION:Presented by Steven Ellis (Red Hat New Zealand). Real world use of Trac, moving beyond software development and into process and wor k flow management. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T104500 DTSTAMP:20080724T180924 LOCATION:D138 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4857 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-10:45--4857 SUMMARY:Open Source Microblogging DESCRIPTION:Presented by Evan Prodromou (StatusNet Inc). Identi.ca is an open source microblogging platform built to embrace open standards. It' s a Twitter you can fix. Hear the story from its creator and find out ho w Identi.ca changed the microblogging game overnight. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T113500 DTSTAMP:20080725T162038 LOCATION:D138 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2655 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-11:35--2655 SUMMARY:Perl for Political Campaigns DESCRIPTION:Presented by Chris Nandor (Slashdot). When in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to use advanced techno logy to manage the Political Campaigns that are waged to win elections, they should declare the methods used. We hold these Truths to be self-ev ident: that not all tools are created equal, that we are endowed with ce rtain useful tools, that among these are Perl, MySQL, and Mac OS X. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T143000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T134500 DTSTAMP:20080727T000837 LOCATION:D138 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2817 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-13:45--2817 SUMMARY:Open Source in China DESCRIPTION:Presented by J Aaron Farr (JadeTower). Learn about open sour ce efforts in China. Every culture and economy provides unique opportuni ties and challenges to open source software adoption and China is no exc eption. In this session we'll investigate what particular progress has b een made, what difficulties remain, and what may lie ahead. A short over view of the China software industry will also be presented. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T152000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T143500 DTSTAMP:20080726T164320 LOCATION:D138 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3071 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-14:35--3071 SUMMARY:Open Source and the Education Community: A Report, and Some Sugg estions DESCRIPTION:Presented by James Stanger (VCampus Corporation ). Although many universities support open source projects, few actually teach them as primary business and IT tools. Why? This report discusses why schools from Beijing to Glasgow still consider open source a (lesser) alternati ve. We'll also consider steps the open source community can take to conv ert universities—the primary recruiting ground for web and software deve lopers—to open source. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T171500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T163000 DTSTAMP:20080725T164945 LOCATION:D138 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3019 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-16:30--3019 SUMMARY:Legal Rules for the New Open Source Project DESCRIPTION:Presented by Van Lindberg (Haynes and Boone). New open sourc e projects are starting each day. Maybe your code will redefine computin g—if you can avoid a few simple mistakes that would keep your project on the sidelines. This session will cover ten simple things that you shoul d do every time you start a new open source project and help you avoid a mountain of trouble later. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T180500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T172000 DTSTAMP:20080725T005134 LOCATION:D138 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3366 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-17:20--3366 SUMMARY:NPR: API and Open Source DESCRIPTION:Presented by Daniel Jacobson (Netflix). NPR has built a comp rehensive, robust and flexible API using open source technologies. The API has been driving NPR.org since December 2007 and allows for great fl exibility in working with partners, member stations and other users of t he API. Come learn more about the API, the frameworks and technologies that drive it, and what NPR plans to do with it in the future. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T203000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T193000 DTSTAMP:20080602T125140 LOCATION:D138 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4366 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-19:30--4366 SUMMARY:Best Practices for Sysadmins and Database Admins DESCRIPTION:Everyone has their own "best practices" -- let's get togethe r 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 debuggi ng, documentation, and the ever-popular how to do the best job you can w hen management wants unreasonable outcomes. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T113500 DTSTAMP:20080727T041623 LOCATION:D138 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2348 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-11:35--2348 SUMMARY:Apprenticeships on Open Source DESCRIPTION:Presented by Dave Hoover (Obtiva), Brian Tatnall (Stark Inve stments). Apprenticeship programs offer opportunities to learn and innov ate in the context of real-world projects under the supervision of exper ienced journeymen. We will review the aspects of Open Source Software (O SS) that helped jump-start Obtiva's apprenticeship program, such as mark et demand, active communities, low cost, hackable source, and opportunit ies for public contribution. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T200000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T190000 DTSTAMP:20080720T155633 LOCATION:D138 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4774 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-19:00--4774 SUMMARY:Commercial Open Source: Deceitful Capitalists, Pioneers of a New Frontier, or Both? DESCRIPTION:This Bof is for anyone interested in business model used by commercial open source companies that create software (MySQL, JBoss, Pen taho, Alfresco etc). We will describe how these companies work and the o pportunities and challenges they face. Lively debate will ensue on wheth er these companies are really open source and how they could improve the ir relationships with developers and users. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T210000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T200000 DTSTAMP:20080719T000958 LOCATION:D138 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4775 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-20:00--4775 SUMMARY:Open Source Development Using Agile Methodologies DESCRIPTION: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 misalignmen t between the two. Come along to hear about Open Scrum and to share your experiences of using development methodologies used for open source pro jects. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T213000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T203000 DTSTAMP:20080720T155411 LOCATION:D138 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4891 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-20:30--4891 SUMMARY:Subversion Repo Layouts for Multiple Projects with Cross Platfor m Shared Code DESCRIPTION:If you're not using a version control system, you should be, and Subversion is an excellent candidate for large and diverse groups o f projects. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T120000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T083000 DTSTAMP:20080806T043606 LOCATION:D139/140 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2819 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-08:30--2819 SUMMARY:Introduction to mod_perl 2 DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jim Brandt (Synacor, Inc.). This tutorial will introduce people to mod_perl 2 and demonstrate the different ways it can be used as an effective Apache server tool. The tutorial is divided ito three sections: using mod_perl 2 for fast content serving, using mod_pe rl 2 to enhance and extend Apache 2, and converting mod_perl 1 code to m od_perl 2. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T170000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T133000 DTSTAMP:20080728T171929 LOCATION:D139/140 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4216 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-13:30--4216 SUMMARY:Introduction to Seaside: Powerful Web Application Development in Smalltalk DESCRIPTION:Presented by Randal L. Schwartz (Stonehenge Consulting Servi ces, Inc.), Tom Phoenix (Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc.). Introduc tion to the Smalltalk Seaside web application framework: an open-source (but vendor supported) challenge to the classic web design strategies, u sing test-driven development, continuations for easy workflow abstractio n, and view components for consistency and reuse. Includes introduction to Squeak Smalltalk, but general OO principles won't be covered. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T120000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T083000 DTSTAMP:20080804T162843 LOCATION:D139/140 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2909 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-22-08:30--2909 SUMMARY:How to Improve Quality and Security Automatically in Your Open S ource Projects with Static Analysis DESCRIPTION:Presented by David Maxwell (Coverity, Inc.). Since it began in March 2006 as a result of a contract with the Department of Homeland Security, the Coverity scan site has identified and helped open source d evelopers eliminate defects in projects like PHP, Linux Kernel, and Mozi lla. This tutorial will provide information needed to use Coverity’s ope n source static analysis scan project. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T170000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T133000 DTSTAMP:20080808T014721 LOCATION:D139/140 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2989 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-22-13:30--2989 SUMMARY:An Introduction to Actors for Performance, Scalability, and Resi lience DESCRIPTION:Presented by Steven Parkes (smparkes.net llc). In this tutor ial, we introduce actors and show how they can be used to implement syst ems that can utilize multiple cores for performance, distribute across m ultiple machines for scale, and survive various kinds of failures for re siliency. We follow a demonstration application and implement it in Erla ng and Dramatis, an actor library for dynamic languages. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T104500 DTSTAMP:20080728T184436 LOCATION:D139/140 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3082 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-10:45--3082 SUMMARY:Building Compilers with the Parrot Compiler Toolkit DESCRIPTION:Presented by Patrick Michaud (pmichaud.com). Parrot is the v irtual machine intended to run Perl 6 and other dynamic languages effici ently and effectively. Parrot tools used to build "Rakudo" (Perl 6 on Pa rrot) are powerful and general enough to host other languages. This talk explains how they work and demonstrates how to start running your own l anguage on Parrot--and to use other code targeting Parrot without writin g it yourself. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T113500 DTSTAMP:20080801T212223 LOCATION:D139/140 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3065 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-11:35--3065 SUMMARY:Beautiful Concurrency with Erlang DESCRIPTION:Presented by Kevin Scaldeferri (Yahoo!). An introduction to the concurrency features of Erlang, showing how to build reliable, scala ble applications without getting lost in the plumbing. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T143000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T134500 DTSTAMP:20080801T143918 LOCATION:D139/140 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2681 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-13:45--2681 SUMMARY:The Age of Literate Machines DESCRIPTION:Presented by Zak Greant (LexPublica). Free Software and Open Source are understood to be reshaping technology. What is less understo od is how critical FOSS is to the future of free societies. During this session, we'll examine the past, present and future of our freedoms, sto pping along the way to visit ancient god-kings, hacker heretics, long-de ad muftis, and our first computers. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T152000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T143500 DTSTAMP:20080802T162709 LOCATION:D139/140 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2903 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-14:35--2903 SUMMARY:Full-stack Introspection Crash Course DESCRIPTION:Presented by Theo Schlossnagle (OmniTI). My system is slow! My app is slow! What in tarnation is going on? Using powerful tools we w ill finally answer the question: what is my system doing? END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T171500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T163000 DTSTAMP:20080801T152029 LOCATION:D139/140 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2663 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-16:30--2663 SUMMARY:Encapsulation & Its Discontents: Applying Normal Accident Theory to Software Design DESCRIPTION:Presented by George Belotsky (CinematX Digital Inc.), Heath Johns (CinematX Digital Inc.). Normal Accident Theory (NAT) describes th e potential for failure in many diverse systems, from nuclear reactors t o marine shipping. It also predicts many classical techniques that good programmers have come to rely on. A NAT-based approach provides a unifyi ng view that helps you avoid the hidden dangers of otherwise useful cons tructs, and improves the reliability of the software you build. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T180500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T172000 DTSTAMP:20080802T162749 LOCATION:D139/140 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3072 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-17:20--3072 SUMMARY:An Illustrated History of Failure DESCRIPTION:Presented by Paul Fenwick (Perl Training Australia). The ave rage individual is given little scope for failure, at least not the type that really matters. However in recent times we have developed a profe ssion who have the opportunity to fail like never before. The few, the p roud, 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. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T104500 DTSTAMP:20080724T192534 LOCATION:D139/140 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2537 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-10:45--2537 SUMMARY:mod_parrot: One Apache Module for Many Languages DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jeff Horwitz (Petfinder). mod_parrot embeds the Parrot VM in the Apache web server, giving Parrot and its languages acc ess to the Apache API without the overhead of writing a module for each language. This talk will explore the goals of mod_parrot, its architect ure, why it is important at this point in time, and the ease with which new languages can be integrated. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T143000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T134500 DTSTAMP:20080729T182510 LOCATION:D139/140 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2347 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-13:45--2347 SUMMARY:Making Ubuntu Happen: Community Under The Microscope DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jono Bacon (Canonical Ltd). In this brand new p resentation, Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager at Canonical, talks ab out the history of the Ubuntu community, the challenges it has faced, an d where it is moving forward in his dream to build the "reference implem entation of Free Software community, done right," all wrapped up in the amusing, anecdotal style he is known for. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T152000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T143500 DTSTAMP:20080801T170516 LOCATION:D139/140 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3107 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-14:35--3107 SUMMARY:Hacking Wetware for Fun and Profit DESCRIPTION:Presented by Paul Fenwick (Perl Training Australia). As tech nical professionals we excel at understanding protocols, standards, file -formats, and APIs. Whenever there is a doubt, one merely needs to read the fine manual or source code. Unfortunately the reference manual for h umans was lost a long time ago, and the source code is poorly documented . We've been struggling with inter-human communication ever since. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T180500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T172000 DTSTAMP:20080808T013238 LOCATION:D139/140 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2491 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-17:20--2491 SUMMARY:Form an Orderly Queue, Ladies DESCRIPTION:Presented by Emma Jane Hogbin (HICK Tech). A slightly raucou s but very fun look at female participation in open source computing. Th is presentation includes a subversive tour of the well-known articles an d statistics about women in open source and finishes with tangible solut ions that really do get more women engaged in technology. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T104500 DTSTAMP:20080801T020213 LOCATION:D139/140 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2560 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-10:45--2560 SUMMARY:Toward a Stronger Open Source Ecosystem DESCRIPTION:Presented by Sara Ford (Microsoft Corporation). Today’s deve loper ecosystem is fragmented based on business models, developer tools, and technologies. Imagine an ecosystem for all developers to collabora te, regardless of technology or platform. This talk outlines a roadmap towards this stronger open source ecosystem through infrastructure, proj ect incubation and sponsorship, and support for open source as a collabo rative development model. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T113500 DTSTAMP:20080729T211857 LOCATION:D139/140 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4746 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-11:35--4746 SUMMARY:Securing Java Applications with OWASP's Enterprise Security API DESCRIPTION:Presented by Kevin Kenan (Lunar Logic). Learn how OWASP's En terprise Security API (ESAPI) can help you build security into your Java application. Rather than building and maintaing a library of security m echanisms, OWASP's ESAPI offers a free and open solution that can be eas ily incorporated in many applications. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T200000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T190000 DTSTAMP:20080804T231309 LOCATION:D139/140 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4742 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-19:00--4742 SUMMARY:emPHPower DESCRIPTION:As the PHP community grows however, it becomes harder and ha rder for people to come together from the various corners of the communi ty. The emPHPower initiative wants to address these issues. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T203000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T193000 DTSTAMP:20080711T204904 LOCATION:D139/140 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4833 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-19:30--4833 SUMMARY:Be Quality Material: Hang Out with Mozilla QA DESCRIPTION:Kick back a couple of brews with several members of the Mozi lla QA team. We'll talk about QA for giant open source projects, gettin g involved, manual testing, and test automation. A good time will be ha d by all! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T200000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T190000 DTSTAMP:20080711T020551 LOCATION:D139/140 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4853 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-19:00--4853 SUMMARY:Discuss APIs and The New York Times DESCRIPTION:Come join the developers behind The New York Times for a dis cussion about NYTimes.com as a news and information platform, and learn about our plans for web-based APIs. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T213000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T203000 DTSTAMP:20080720T155341 LOCATION:D139/140 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4895 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-20:30--4895 SUMMARY:Open Source Physical Security: Can We Have Both Privacy and Safe ty? DESCRIPTION:This BOF will follow up on the keynote on this topic given e arlier that day, enabling participants to critique the proposal, improve it, and possibly move forward to help make it a reality. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T203000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T193000 DTSTAMP:20080602T165838 LOCATION:E141 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4538 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-19:30--4538 SUMMARY:Open Source Community Development in the Public Sector DESCRIPTION:This session is an interactive roundtable discussion on the issues relating to open-source application development in the public sec tor. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T213000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T203000 DTSTAMP:20080726T162953 LOCATION:E141 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4540 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-20:30--4540 SUMMARY:Standards and Open Source DESCRIPTION: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, stan dards should be applied to Open Source development. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T104500 DTSTAMP:20080716T175957 LOCATION:E141 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4758 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-10:45--4758 SUMMARY:Manageability: Standards and Open Source DESCRIPTION:Presented by Rodolfo Kohn (Intel Corporation). This session shows how managing open-source operating systems on Intel hardware got e asier using open-source implementations of industry standards and demons trates interoperability between Linux and Windows and Intel AMT using th e WS-Management protocol. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T113500 DTSTAMP:20080724T144520 LOCATION:E141 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4764 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-11:35--4764 SUMMARY:OSSL at Microsoft DESCRIPTION:Presented by Hank Janssen (Microsoft). Microsoft and Open So urce? Oil and water? This session will talk about the efforts of the Mic rosoft Open Source and Novell Interoperability Labs. Learn about efforts to-date, and what our roadmap into the future looks like. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T152000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T143500 DTSTAMP:20080725T231835 LOCATION:E141 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4741 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-14:35--4741 SUMMARY:The Methodology of Sustainable Computing DESCRIPTION:Presented by David Bryan (Silicon Mechanics). The U.S. data center industry is in a major growth period fueled by demand for data pr ocessing and storage. As demand increases, the industry is looking for ways to increase efficiency. There is significant potential for improve ments in servers and in data centers using methods and technologies curr ently available. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T171500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T163000 DTSTAMP:20080725T000057 LOCATION:E141 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4760 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-16:30--4760 SUMMARY:The Business Case for PostgreSQL and Postgres Plus DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jim Mlodgenski (EnterpriseDB Corporation). Mark et studies show that commercial adoption and deployment of Postgres is a ccelerating. This talk explores the business reasons behind this increas ing popularity, and makes the case that Postgres Plus — the leading comm ercial Postgres distribution — will cause adoption to accelerate even fu rther, END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T180500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T172000 DTSTAMP:20080610T123430 LOCATION:E141 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4711 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-17:20--4711 SUMMARY:Secure Mashups with OpenAjax Hub 1.1 and OpenAjax Widget Metadat a DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jon Ferraiolo (IBM and OpenAjax Alliance). Mash ups have the potential for revolutionizing the way Web applications are developed, but there are interoperability and security challenges. This session will describe current work at OpenAjax Alliance on open source a nd standards, particularly its secure mashup runtime (OpenAjax Hub 1.1) and its mashup widgets standard (OpenAjax Metadata for Widgets). END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T143000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T134500 DTSTAMP:20080728T203913 LOCATION:E141 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4712 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-13:45--4712 SUMMARY:The New Architecture of Collaboration DESCRIPTION:Presented by Brent McConnell (Novell), David LaPalomento (IC Ecore). This session will focus on the new "Architecture of Collaboratio n" implemented in the ICEcore project. See how the ICEcore platform all ows you to build applications that solve business problems while encoura ging collaboration among your team members. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T104500 DTSTAMP:20080727T042450 LOCATION:E141 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4759 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-10:45--4759 SUMMARY:OpenSolaris & Intel – Greybeards No More DESCRIPTION:Presented by Dave Stewart (Intel). “Solaris” conjures up no tions of grey-bearded UNIX gurus. Intel is helping to make OpenSolaris c ool through excellent support for power savings, graphics and wireless. Beardies beware! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T113500 DTSTAMP:20080728T220531 LOCATION:E141 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4797 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-11:35--4797 SUMMARY:Open Source Collaboration and Integration with MindTouch Deki DESCRIPTION:Presented by Aaron Fulkerson (MindTouch, Inc. ). Learn how M indTouch Deki connects people, enterprise systems, web-services and Web 2.0 applications and enables users to mashup and surface data from these disparate systems in an easy to use wiki interface. All with IT governa nce and without requiring a programmer. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T152000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T143500 DTSTAMP:20080701T151955 LOCATION:E141 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4736 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-14:35--4736 SUMMARY:Delivering a Next-Generation Community Platform DESCRIPTION:Presented by Nick Halsey (SugarCRM), Gopinath Ganapathy (Es sentia), Tim Cloonan (Jaspersoft). Open source communities are no longer focused on just infrastructure development, but involve application-foc used development, user and business communities. Today open source commu nity tools must support higher levels of business and technical collabor ation. We unveil a platform that meets these challenges: The first next- generation environment for commercial open source communities. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T171500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T163000 DTSTAMP:20080801T170614 LOCATION:E141 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4855 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-16:30--4855 SUMMARY:Fixing Hard Problems Through Iterative QA and Development DESCRIPTION:Presented by Clint Talbert (Mozilla), Carsten Book (Mozilla Corporation). QA and Development historically enjoy an antagonistic rela tionship. However, it's necessary to come together to solve difficult p roblems. Using our experience fighting memory leaks in Firefox 3 as a c ase study, we will show strategies for other QA teams to find common gro und with developers to solve truly complex problems. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T180500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T172000 DTSTAMP:20080801T170700 LOCATION:E141 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4834 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-17:20--4834 SUMMARY:How to Build and Launch a Successful Globalized App from Day One (or All the Crap You Forget to Do) DESCRIPTION:Presented by Andy Clark (Zimbra, a Yahoo! company). Learn f rom Zimbra's experiences with ZCS and Zimbra Desktop (an offline-capable AJAX email application) including a checklist of do's and don'ts and a deep dive into: i18n and l10n, 508 compliance (Americans with Disabiliti es Act), skinning, templates, time-date formatting and more. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T104500 DTSTAMP:20080801T041636 LOCATION:E141 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4790 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-10:45--4790 SUMMARY:Scale into the Cloud with Open Source DESCRIPTION:Presented by Thorsten von Eicken (RightScale, Inc). Cloud Co mputing is becoming synonymous with open source: almost all production d eployments into the cloud are based on OSS stacks and the flexibility of open source is essential in enabling new scalable deployments. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T200000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T190000 DTSTAMP:20080713T204022 LOCATION:E141 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4806 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-19:00--4806 SUMMARY:Leveraging the Power of Virtual Machines for Distributing Linux and Open Source Software DESCRIPTION:In this session, John Whaley, CTO of MokaFive, will talk abo ut how virtual image compression technologies and freely available virtu al appliance tools can help open source enthusiasts build and distribute effective virtual machines to a wide audience. Whaley will cover sandbo xing, anti-malware, central updates, and cross-platform delivery as made possible via desktop virtualization. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T210000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T200000 DTSTAMP:20080725T102337 LOCATION:E141 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4894 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-20:00--4894 SUMMARY:Embedded Programming with FOSS Tools DESCRIPTION:A gathering of developers to talk about writing embedded sof tware 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. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T203000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T193000 DTSTAMP:20080801T153548 LOCATION:E142 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4554 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-19:30--4554 SUMMARY:PostgreSQL DESCRIPTION:Want a database with blazing performance, features that woul d make a database professor blush and a super army of database geeks mak ing it better every day? Try PostgreSQL. Come to our BoF where you'll m eet a dozen or more PostgreSQL experts, learn about what's coming in ver sion 8.4 and where you can find other folks who like and use PostgreSQL every day. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T104500 DTSTAMP:20080725T233006 LOCATION:E142 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4808 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-10:45--4808 SUMMARY:Creating Data Services Mashups for SOA & Web 2.0 DESCRIPTION:Presented by Kirstan Vandersluis (XAware, Inc.). Mixing and mashing multiple data sources, all of different formats, into something that makes sense is a headache for many software architects. Data servic es mashups – the pulling of data from multiple sources into a logical un it – would be easy if enterprise information came in well-formatted XML. But that’s not reality. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T113500 DTSTAMP:20080728T172546 LOCATION:E142 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4875 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-11:35--4875 SUMMARY:From Laptop to Cloud with AMP and OpenSolaris DESCRIPTION:Presented by Tim Bray (Google, Inc.), Wen Huang (Sun Microsy stems, Inc.). Developers are looking for simple, standardized ways to de velop enterprise social / mashup applications that can be easily ported (and scaled) from from their laptops to the Cloud. Join this session to learn how to rapidly create and deploy web applications using Sun's upd ated AMP stack on OpenSolaris and the NetBeans IDE. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T143000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T134500 DTSTAMP:20080725T161036 LOCATION:E142 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4735 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-13:45--4735 SUMMARY:The Open-Source Identity Revolution DESCRIPTION:Presented by David O'Flynn (Atlassian). Who you are on the i nternet has gotten a lot more complicated over the last ten years. You'r e on Flickr, Google, Facebook, and more. Tying all these together is an open-source job. For the first time everyone has realized you have to be open - even Microsoft is playing ball. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T152000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T143500 DTSTAMP:20080725T190351 LOCATION:E142 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4788 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-14:35--4788 SUMMARY:Think Outside the Box: The End of Standalone SaaS DESCRIPTION:Presented by Richard Dym (OpSource, Inc.). The days of build ing SaaS applications that function in silos has ended. At this session you will earn how platform choices and Web services can save SaaS develo pment cost, expand markets and overcome enterprise objections to SaaS ad option due to lack of integration behind the corporate fire wall. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T171500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T163000 DTSTAMP:20080724T031504 LOCATION:E142 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4744 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-16:30--4744 SUMMARY:Everything You Wanted to Know About openSUSE DESCRIPTION:Presented by Joe Brockmeier (Linux.com). Brockmeier will cov er the openSUSE community, what's new in the openSUSE distribution, the openSUSE Build Service, and how to get involved with the project. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T180500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T172000 DTSTAMP:20080619T172249 LOCATION:E142 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4801 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-17:20--4801 SUMMARY:Discover OBM, The Enterprise-Class Email and Groupware Solution DESCRIPTION:Presented by Pierre Baudracco (Linagora). OBM is recognized as THE GPL enterprise-class email and groupware solution. OBM is a unifi ed platform that allows small to large businesses to gain efficiency whi le reducing cost of ownership and administration complexity. It is built on the most mature open source components with a modular architecture : OBM is used by over 600,000 users worldwide. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T143000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T134500 DTSTAMP:20080725T011338 LOCATION:E142 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4843 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-13:45--4843 SUMMARY:The Future of Open Source Database DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bill Maimone (Ingres), Jan Lehnardt (CouchDB), Geoff Zeiss (Autodesk, Inc.), Bruce Momjian (EnterpriseDB). Industry ana lysts predict the open source database market to grow to $4.5 Billion by 2010. Don’t miss the boat! Come discuss the great innovations in open s ource database technology with representatives from leading open source databases such as Autodesk, Couch DB, Enterprise DB and Ingres. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T104500 DTSTAMP:20080725T153724 LOCATION:E142 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4783 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-10:45--4783 SUMMARY:Open Invention Network: Enabling a Thriving Open Source Ecosyst em Around Linux and Fueling Innovation DESCRIPTION:Presented by Keith Bergelt (Open Invention Network). The tal k will introduce the audience to OIN and outline its role and goals in r elation to Linux and the broader open source community of which it is a part. OIN will be discussed in the context of community wide initiative s at the Linux Foundation and the Software Freedom Law Center regarding limiting the impact of patent assertion and litigation against members o f the Linux Community. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T113500 DTSTAMP:20080729T143438 LOCATION:E142 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4782 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-11:35--4782 SUMMARY:Open Standards-based Cloud Computing DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ahmad Baitalmal (Etelos). Open standards-based application development platforms are the way to go. Etelos is enabling application distribution while giving Web application developers flexibi lity in their frameworks, programming languages and development environm ents. In this session, we will show how we've architected an innovative open standards platform all the way through a marketplace that helps you make money. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T152000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T143500 DTSTAMP:20090508T185137 LOCATION:E142 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4757 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-14:35--4757 SUMMARY:Embrace and Extend: Making Open Technologies Displace Incumbents in the Enterprise DESCRIPTION:Presented by Kevin Henrikson (Zimbra). Open source and web t echnologies promise to dispatch older proprietary peers with the power o f community and innovation that deliver superior features plus better ec onomics. However, having the most innovative product won’t help if your application doesn’t also embrace incumbents and offer better overall pe rformance too. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T171500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T163000 DTSTAMP:20080727T193915 LOCATION:E142 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4737 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-16:30--4737 SUMMARY:Open Source Innovation in the Enterprise DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jeremy Ruston (BT Design). Osmosoft is the open source innovation arm of BT. In this session, Jeremy Ruston will descri be how Osmosoft has been set up with the deliberate aim of exploring how innovation happens at the edge of the network, and the roles which larg e organisations can play to encourage and promote these practices. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T180500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T172000 DTSTAMP:20080626T192736 LOCATION:E142 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4763 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-17:20--4763 SUMMARY:Building an Open Source Unified Communications Solution - The Dr uid Project DESCRIPTION:Presented by Navin Kumar (Voiceroute). Unified communication s (UC) aims to reduce human latency in business processes by linking dif ferent technologies (CRM, IM, mobile, and others) together to provide ne w services. In this session, we will discuss Druid, designed from the gr ound up to be UC software platform that organizations can easily deploy and use for their communications. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T200000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T190000 DTSTAMP:20080714T172138 LOCATION:E142 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4826 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-19:00--4826 SUMMARY:Legal Help and a Non-profit Home for Your FOSS Project DESCRIPTION:FOSS projects often need more than coding: help with organiz ational infrastructure and legal issues. Come learn about the Software Freedom Conservancy and the Software Freedom Law Center, two organizatio ns that help with these issues. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T213000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T203000 DTSTAMP:20080804T231849 LOCATION:E142 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4912 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-20:30--4912 SUMMARY:Using Patents to Protect a Data GPL DESCRIPTION:Can we protect our data by patenting the use of OS software in regards to ethical data usage? END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T120000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T083000 DTSTAMP:20080725T192838 LOCATION:E143/144 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2900 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-22-08:30--2900 SUMMARY:Hacking the Neuros Set-Top Box DESCRIPTION:Presented by Joe Born (Neuros Technology Intl, LLC). Neuros, in partnership with Texas Instruments, has developed an open multimedia set-top box platform (and device) using contributions from many communi ty projects. This tutorial will discuss the platform and give an introd uction on the many ways you can participate in developing for this platf orm. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T170000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T133000 DTSTAMP:20080723T154813 LOCATION:E143/144 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3038 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-22-13:30--3038 SUMMARY:Real Time 3D on the Web with Open Source DESCRIPTION:Presented by Matthew Edwards (Entrepreneur). The leading ope n source projects for facilitating web real time 3D on the Flash platfor m will be examined, and a focus on establishing an open source pipeline with available tools will empower content creators to start developing 3 D experiences on the Web today. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T120000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T083000 DTSTAMP:20080912T125020 LOCATION:E143/144 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2195 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-08:30--2195 SUMMARY:Advanced ActiveRecord DESCRIPTION:Presented by Gregg Pollack (Envy Labs), Jason Seifer (Twiste dmind Inc). ActiveRecord, the glue between the database and Rails, is ce rtainly one of the bigger reasons Rails has impressed so many people. We will walk through some advanced uses of the ActiveRecord Gem, including polymorphism, association proxies, the law of demeter, conductors, and creating plugins. Even if you're not a Ruby or Rails programmer, you'll find some useful design patterns hidden in this Gem. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T170000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T133000 DTSTAMP:20080726T194738 LOCATION:E143/144 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4493 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-13:30--4493 SUMMARY:Making Things Blink: An Introduction to Arduino DESCRIPTION:Presented by Michael Dory (Socialbomb), Adam Simon (Socialbo mb), Scott Varland (NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP)). A rduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexi ble, easy-to-use hardware and software. This session will feature an in troduction to physical computing and interfacing with microcontrollers, as well as the basics of Arduino (hardware and software) and using it wi th the Processing programming environment. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T170000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T090000 DTSTAMP:20080724T162032 LOCATION:E143/144 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4939 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-09:00--4939 SUMMARY:OSCamp 2008 DESCRIPTION:OSCamp 2008 hosts FOSSCoach, a community organized event des igned to share and improve the essential skills required to participate in collaborative, free and open online projects. OSCamp attendance is fr ee with an Expo Hall pass. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T180000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T090000 DTSTAMP:20080725T103326 LOCATION:E143/144 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3707 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-09:00--3707 SUMMARY:OSCamp 2008 DESCRIPTION:OSCamp 2008 hosts FOSSCoach, a community organized event des igned to share and improve the essential skills required to participate in collaborative, free and open online projects. OSCamp attendance is fr ee with an Expo Hall pass. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T200000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T190000 DTSTAMP:20080725T174539 LOCATION:E143/144 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4911 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-19:00--4911 SUMMARY:A Walk Through of Concrete5 - The Open Source, Edit-in-place Con tent Management System Made DESCRIPTION:An introduction, demonstration, and under the hood peek at t his newly popular CMS. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T104500 DTSTAMP:20080729T015124 LOCATION:E145 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2886 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-10:45--2886 SUMMARY:Open Source Rich Internet Applications with Silverlight & Moonli ght DESCRIPTION:Presented by Joseph Hill (Novell). In this session you will learn how to use Moonlight, the latest open source web development tool to emerge from the Mono project. Moonlight enables the creation and deli very of rich Internet applications on Linux using Microsoft's Silverligh t technology. Participants will learn how to install, develop, and deplo y Silverlight and Moonlight applications, from the server to the desktop . END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T113500 DTSTAMP:20080801T144042 LOCATION:E145 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2771 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-11:35--2771 SUMMARY:Web Graphics & Animations Without Flash (or GFX Deliciousness wi th Dojo) DESCRIPTION:Presented by Matthew Russell (Digital Reasoning Systems). An in-depth presentation on Dojo's graphics project (GFX), which provides an SVG-centric JavaScript API for creating, manipulating, and even anim ating graphics in the browser. Dojo'x GFX project is cross-platform and capable of supporting multiple back-ends including SVG, VML, and Sliverl ight. Learn how to create stunning graphics, animate them, and even do s ome 3D rendering--all without Flash! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T143000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T134500 DTSTAMP:20080801T005943 LOCATION:E145 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3501 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-13:45--3501 SUMMARY:Google XML Pages (GXP) DESCRIPTION:Presented by Laurence Gonsalves (Google), Harry Heymann (Goo gle). GXP is a templating system used to output XML/SGML markup (most of ten HTML). Used internally at Google for many years, we are now open sou rcing this tool for community use and development. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T152000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T143500 DTSTAMP:20080801T151842 LOCATION:E145 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3048 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-14:35--3048 SUMMARY:Orbited: Enabling Comet for the Masses DESCRIPTION:Presented by Michael Carter (Orbited), Jacob Rus (Orbited). HTTP push-style web interaction, known as Comet, is a cutting-edge techn ique for creating truly interactive, real-time web applications. This ta lk will teach developers to painlessly incorporate Comet into their new and existing web applications using Orbited, the cross-platform, cross-b rowser, and cross-language Comet server. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T171500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T163000 DTSTAMP:20080802T162733 LOCATION:E145 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2651 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-16:30--2651 SUMMARY:Web Frameworks of the Future: Flex, GWT, Grail, and Rails DESCRIPTION:Presented by Matt Raible (Raible Designs, Inc.). What if the choices in web framework were reduced to 4. If RIA are the way of the f uture, it's possible that these 4 frameworks are the best choices for th is development paradigm. This session will explore these frameworks, as well as entertain other opinions on the future of web development. Open minds are most welcome. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T180500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T172000 DTSTAMP:20080724T215533 LOCATION:E145 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2955 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-17:20--2955 SUMMARY:XMPP/Open Source Components for Cloud Services DESCRIPTION:Presented by Matt Tucker (Jive Software). There's a new fir estorm brewing in web services architectures. Cloud services are being t alked up as a fundamental shift in web architecture that promises to mov e us from interconnected silos to a collaborative network of services wh ose sum is greater than its parts. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T104500 DTSTAMP:20080726T011130 LOCATION:E145 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3064 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-10:45--3064 SUMMARY:Experience-driven Development: Designers and Developers Working in Harmony DESCRIPTION:Presented by Chris Shiflett (Analog), Jon Tan (OmniTI). Trad itionally, developers and designers work independently, and this causes huge problems because their work is tightly integrated; each inherits th e bad decisions of the other. In this talk, we show how to make such par tnerships work with stories about how successful collaborations between designers and developers lead to a vastly improved user experience. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T113500 DTSTAMP:20080731T194125 LOCATION:E145 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4725 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-11:35--4725 SUMMARY:Open Source in the Enterprise DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bernard Golden (Navica). Anecdotes about open s ource use by enterprises range from "we don't use it at all" to "it's a fundamental part of our IT strategy." Unfortunately, there's no real dat a to back up the anecdotes -- until now END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T143000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T134500 DTSTAMP:20080725T234224 LOCATION:E145 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3217 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-13:45--3217 SUMMARY:Hidden Treasures of the Zope 3 Community DESCRIPTION:Presented by Michael Bernstein (N/A). The Zope 3 component a rchitecture is focused on creating reusable components for applications. Most of the components created so far are focused on extending the Zope web application stack, but there are a number of libraries that can be useful to Python developers in general. Bernstein will introduce a few a nd demonstrate their use. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T152000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T143500 DTSTAMP:20080801T144009 LOCATION:E145 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2646 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-14:35--2646 SUMMARY:Stupid Django Tricks DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jacob Kaplan-Moss (Revolution Systems, LLC). Dj ango is a high-level web development framework designed for rapid develo pment of database-backed web sites. Like any tool, though, Django's only as smart as the person using it. Come see five Django tricks so stupid they'll actually make you smarter! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T171500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T163000 DTSTAMP:20080725T122055 LOCATION:E145 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2419 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-16:30--2419 SUMMARY:Searching and Visualizing Open Source Email List Traffic DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jason Hunter (Mark Logic), Ryan Grimm (Mark Log ic). Open source mailing lists are full of information—in the messages t hemselves and also in the emergent patterns you can discover when visual izing the email traffic. This talk, by the co-creators of MarkMail.org, introduces attendees to the site and demonstrates all the tricks you can use to make the most of open source email lists, and also shows a few f un visualizations we've discovered. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T180500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T172000 DTSTAMP:20080725T054854 LOCATION:E145 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2852 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-17:20--2852 SUMMARY:A Tasting Tour of Haskell DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bryan O'Sullivan (Serpentine Green Design). The Haskell programming language has grown rapidly in popularity over the l ast several years. In this tour, we'll introduce you to some of its mos t seductive aspects: expressiveness, elegance, and versatility. Just as vital is the community around the language: we'll show you the mix of p eople and ideas that make Haskell uniquely appealing. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T104500 DTSTAMP:20080727T041937 LOCATION:E145 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2875 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-10:45--2875 SUMMARY:Open Source Software in Satellite Science Data Processing at NAS A DESCRIPTION:Presented by Curt Tilmes (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center). This presentation will discuss science data processing of Earth climate data from two projects at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the ev olution from large scale proprietary Unix platforms and traditional comm ercial databases to open source solutions based on Linux, Apache, Postgr eSQL, and Perl. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T113500 DTSTAMP:20080708T225907 LOCATION:E145 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3168 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-11:35--3168 SUMMARY:Build Your Own Web Archive: archive.org's Open Source Tools to C rawl, Access & Search Web Captures DESCRIPTION:Presented by Gordon Mohr (Internet Archive, Web Group). The Internet Archive (archive.org) contributes to three open source projects for web archives: the Heritrix crawler, the Wayback browser, and Nutch for full-text search. This presentation offers an overview of these proj ects' applicability for building your own web archive -- plus a live dem onstration of their use. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T163000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T133000 DTSTAMP:20080724T222733 LOCATION:E145 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3724 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-13:30--3724 SUMMARY:Participate 08 DESCRIPTION:Participate 08, sponsored by Microsoft, on July 21, 2008. Th e afternoon session is from 1:30-4:30pm and is open to all OSCON attende es. It will be a panel discussion moderated by Karim Lakhani of Harvard Business School and include Allison Randal, O’Reilly Radar; Jon Wilbanks , Science Commons; Siobhan O’Mahony, UC Davis; and Bryan Kirschner, Micr osoft. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T170000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T090000 DTSTAMP:20080722T003845 LOCATION:E145 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3706 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-22-09:00--3706 SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Intel Open Moblin Developer Camp DESCRIPTION:Due to unforeseen circumstances, Intel's Open Moblin Develop er Camp has been postponed until a later date. We apologize for the inco nvenience. For an overview of Moblin technology, please plan to attend, "Moblin.org: The Community for Linux on Mobile Internet Devices (MID), n etbooks, nettops and more," happening Wednesday, July 23 at 4:30 p.m., r oom D136. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T203000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T193000 DTSTAMP:20080717T171418 LOCATION:E145 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4771 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-19:30--4771 SUMMARY:So You Want to Start a User Group? DESCRIPTION: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 grou p. 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. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T193000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T190000 DTSTAMP:20080711T001010 LOCATION:E145 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4861 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-19:00--4861 SUMMARY:Microblogging DESCRIPTION:the openmicroblogging.org format has ignited the space of fe derated, interoperable microblog platforms. including laconi.ca (which r uns identi.ca). END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T104500 DTSTAMP:20080725T173453 LOCATION:F150 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2929 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-10:45--2929 SUMMARY:Better Living Through OpenJDK: IcedTea, BrandWeg, and SoyLatte DESCRIPTION:Presented by Dalibor Topic (Sun Microsystems GmbH). More tha n a year after OpenJDK has been liberated, it's time for an overview of the ports and projects that have been created around it, why they exist, how they work, and how they interact with the upstream. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T113500 DTSTAMP:20080725T195728 LOCATION:F150 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2725 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-11:35--2725 SUMMARY:CouchDB from 10,000 ft DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jan Lehnardt (CouchDB). This presentation takes a look at CouchDB from 10,000 ft. We try not to lose you in technical d etails and paint the big picture that you need to understand CouchDB's s trengths and weaknesses. CouchDB is a _document oriented database_. It does not adhere to the relational principles of traditional databases. Y ou will learn what that means for your application design. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T143000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T134500 DTSTAMP:20080725T194134 LOCATION:F150 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2410 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-13:45--2410 SUMMARY:Groovy vs. JRuby DESCRIPTION:Presented by Rod Cope (OpenLogic, Inc.). Groovy and JRuby ar e both dynamic, object-oriented scripting languages for the JVM. They b oth support tight, bi-directional integration with existing Java code an d can compile to .class files that reside in jars. So, which is best fo r you? Which to learn if you only have time for one? Come see recommen dations from someone who has put thousands of lines of each into product ion environments. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T152000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T143500 DTSTAMP:20080317T211906 LOCATION:F150 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3046 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-14:35--3046 SUMMARY:Extending, Expanding, and Porting Mobile & Embedded Community Pr ojects DESCRIPTION:Presented by Phil Bartholo (Sun Microsystems). Since the ope ning of Mobile & Embedded Community projects in November of 2006, commun ity members have been extending, porting, and expanding projects in the community well beyond their original targets. This talks centers on the many extensions that have already occurred and encourages additional ope n source efforts of Mobile & Embedded projects. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T171500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T163000 DTSTAMP:20080725T224442 LOCATION:F150 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3128 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-16:30--3128 SUMMARY:Developers vs Designers: Expanding the Java Platform Beyond Prog rammers DESCRIPTION:Presented by Joshua Marinacci (Palm Inc.). In the past the J ava platform has been unfriendly to designers, just as the development o f user-focused software is shifting greatly in favor of designers. This session covers how the development of software has changed over the past 20 years and the many developments in the Java ecosystem that promise t o open the platform to non-programmers. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T180500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T172000 DTSTAMP:20080726T195633 LOCATION:F150 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3245 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-17:20--3245 SUMMARY:An Introduction to Open Source Animation DESCRIPTION:Presented by Elizabeth Garbee (none). For the graphically mi nded members of the Linux community, this talk explains and demonstrates how high-quality animation can be achieved using purely open source too ls. We'll explore different physical media and open source tools for gen erating individual images, then learn how to turn those images into one- of-a-kind, completely open animation. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T104500 DTSTAMP:20080804T145638 LOCATION:F150 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2748 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-10:45--2748 SUMMARY:Stick a fork() in It: Parallel and Distributed Perl DESCRIPTION:Presented by Eric Wilhelm (Scratch Computing). Tools and app roaches for multithreaded, parallel, and distributed Perl programming. Learn how to redefine your programs to leverage multiple cores and nodes without going insane. Includes analysis of traditionally sequential pr oblems and their parallel implementations. Presents strategies for simp le bolt-on clustering and managing parallel tasks. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T113500 DTSTAMP:20080801T152405 LOCATION:F150 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2684 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-11:35--2684 SUMMARY:Scaling Databases with DBIx::Router DESCRIPTION:Presented by Perrin Harkins (We Also Walk Dogs). Making data bases scale on commodity hardware requires tricks: writing to multiple s ervers, splitting large tables into "shards" across servers, diverting r eads to a local copy, etc. DBIx::Router provides a general solution to t his problem using the new DBI::Gofer system. Queries can be routed based on examination of the SQL and even the data for shards. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T143000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T134500 DTSTAMP:20080801T170444 LOCATION:F150 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2960 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-13:45--2960 SUMMARY:Ultimate Perl Code Profiling DESCRIPTION:Presented by Tim Bunce (TigerLead). Come and see the amazin g new NYTProf v2 profiler in action. Profiling your Perl source code has never been so accurate, so detailed, so insightful, or so pretty! Afte r optimising your code, instrument it with DashProfiler to monitor how c ritical sections perform in production. Two talks in one! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T152000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T143500 DTSTAMP:20080728T204023 LOCATION:F150 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2470 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-14:35--2470 SUMMARY:Log4perl: the Only Logging System You'll Ever Need DESCRIPTION:Presented by Mike Schilli (Linux Magazine). This talk by Yah oo! Perl Architect and Log4perl author Mike Schilli shows how you can im plement a consistent logging strategy by using the slam-dunk solution fo r all Perl logging needs: Log4perl, which addresses everything from thro waway scripts to highly scalable architectures. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T171500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T163000 DTSTAMP:20080725T001922 LOCATION:F150 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2857 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-16:30--2857 SUMMARY:Rights on the Desktop with liblicense DESCRIPTION:Presented by Nathan Yergler (Creative Commons), Asheesh Laro ia (Creative Commons). liblicense provides a small, lightweight library for implementing the Creative Commons Rights Expression Language (ccREL) in applications. This talk will provide an overview of ccREL, liblicen se, and how it is being used to integrate with Ubuntu applications. Embe dded license metadata support for applications such as Eye of Gnome and Rhythmbox will be demonstrated, with source code. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T104500 DTSTAMP:20080729T170218 LOCATION:F150 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2511 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-10:45--2511 SUMMARY:Spring 2.5: Spring Without XML DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ken Sipe (Perficient). Spring 2.5 is brand span king new, with a number of fantastic features. With growth of large and complex Spring applications that struggle with XML manageability and wit h the added pressure of Guice and SEAM there is a push for less XML, wit h a solution leaning towards annotations. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T113500 DTSTAMP:20080518T172937 LOCATION:F150 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2629 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-11:35--2629 SUMMARY:SimpleJDBC Development with Spring 2.5 and MySQL DESCRIPTION:Presented by Thomas Risberg (VMware). Simplify your JDBC cod ing with new SimpleJDBC features introduced in Spring 2.5. See how Sprin g's resource and transaction management will take care of the cumbersome and error-prone parts of using the JDBC API, leaving your data access c ode cleaner and simpler. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T203000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T193000 DTSTAMP:20080710T200809 LOCATION:F150 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4803 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-19:30--4803 SUMMARY:Life Extension for Geeks DESCRIPTION:We'll be discussing traditional and non-traditional techniqu es — everything from supplements to testing to extreme strategies. The focus will be on what we can do today as individuals to extend lifespan. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T200000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T190000 DTSTAMP:20080711T185430 LOCATION:F150 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4862 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-19:00--4862 SUMMARY:Hacking the Legislature with BytesFree.org DESCRIPTION: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 t his BOF, the ByteFree community will meet to discuss and develop tools f or creating open source voter information resources. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T104500 DTSTAMP:20080801T165852 LOCATION:F151 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3054 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-10:45--3054 SUMMARY:An Introduction to Ruby Web Frameworks DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ryan Briones (Obtiva). An overview of a few Rub y Web Frameworks, including basic usage and how to pragmatically choose which one to use, and how Ruby makes them special. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T113500 DTSTAMP:20080727T183016 LOCATION:F151 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3021 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-11:35--3021 SUMMARY:What Has Ruby Done for You Lately? DESCRIPTION:Presented by Adam Keys (The Real Adam). Ruby has lots of nea t features for writing small, beautiful programs. But, borrowing feature s from other languages makes it even better! Learn how continuations, pa ttern matching, and actor-based concurrency can help you write Ruby prog rams that do more with less code. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T143000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T134500 DTSTAMP:20080727T183536 LOCATION:F151 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2512 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-13:45--2512 SUMMARY:Controlling Electronics with Ruby DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ben Bleything (Bit Poetry, LLC). It used to be that in order to program a microcontroller, you had to get down and dirt y with assembly or, if you were really lucky, C. No longer. I'll show a number of ways that you can control embedded devices from your beloved Ruby. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T152000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T143500 DTSTAMP:20080801T014220 LOCATION:F151 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2471 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-14:35--2471 SUMMARY:Real-time Computer Vision with Ruby DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jan Wedekind (Sheffield Hallam University). Com puter vision software requires image- and video-file-I/O as well as came ra access and fast video display. Ruby and existing open source software allowed us to develop a machine vision library combining performance an d flexibility in an unprecedented way. Native array operations are used to implement a variety of machine vision algorithms. This research was f unded by the Nanorobotics grant. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T171500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T163000 DTSTAMP:20080725T021804 LOCATION:F151 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3237 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-16:30--3237 SUMMARY:VoIP Doesn't Suck Anymore -- Meet Adhearsion DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jay Phillips (Codemecca LLC). The Adhearsion fr amework, written in Ruby, takes a new approach to building VoIP applicat ions: it’s an abstraction layer that both manages the underlying complex ity and empowers VoIP applications with an unprecedented ease of integra tion. In this tutorial, learn from Adhearsion’s creator how to use VoIP for your new product, service, or hacker project. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T104500 DTSTAMP:20080729T165722 LOCATION:F151 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2679 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-10:45--2679 SUMMARY:Unlocking the APC Code DESCRIPTION:Presented by Gopal Vijayaraghavan (Zynga Game Network, India ). Over the last year, APC (Alternative PHP Cache) has moved on from mer ere benchmarks to actually absorb user feedback and align efforts toward s the most popular use cases. This talk concerns itself with the signifi cant changes made under the hood, especially in reducing the lock conten tion and memory profile of APC. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T113500 DTSTAMP:20080725T235235 LOCATION:F151 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3076 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-11:35--3076 SUMMARY:Integration Testing PHP Applications DESCRIPTION:Presented by Mike Naberezny (Maintainable Software). While m ore PHP developers are accepting the importance and benefits of unit tes ting, the uptake of PHP developers using automated integration testing i s relatively slow. Integration testing is equally crucial to maintaining the integrity of applications. This talk introduces the benefits and pr actices of automated integration testing for PHP applications. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T143000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T134500 DTSTAMP:20080805T182123 LOCATION:F151 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2829 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-13:45--2829 SUMMARY:Securing the PHP Environment with PHPSecInfo DESCRIPTION:Presented by Edward Finkler (FictiveKin). PHPSecInfo is an e asy to use security auditing tool for the PHP environment. We'll discuss how to use PHPSecInfo as part of your web app security toolkit, and how to customize and extend it for your specific needs, including using the Zend_Environment_Security module from the Zend Framework. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T152000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T143500 DTSTAMP:20080726T195947 LOCATION:F151 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2333 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-14:35--2333 SUMMARY:Who Wants a Faster Ruby? DESCRIPTION:Presented by Brian Ford (Engine Yard). Ruby is an excellent object-oriented programming language that is gaining in popularity. Whil e programmer productivity in Ruby is often touted, the performance of Ru by is often disappointing relative to other languages. This talk will ex amine the performance characteristics of Rubinius, one of the newest and most popular alternative Ruby implementations, using the terrific DTrac e utility. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T171500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T163000 DTSTAMP:20080805T182224 LOCATION:F151 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2990 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-16:30--2990 SUMMARY:PDO: PHP Data Objects DESCRIPTION:Presented by Wez Furlong (Message Systems, Inc.). PHP 5 feat ures a new data access layer called PDO that provides a clear, simple an d powerful unified API for working with all our favourite databases. Jo in Wes Furlong to learn more about the future of database access in PHP. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T180500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T172000 DTSTAMP:20080725T145746 LOCATION:F151 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2735 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-17:20--2735 SUMMARY:intl Me This, intl Me That DESCRIPTION:Presented by Andrei Zmievski (Analog). What are the best app roaches to translating your web site or application into other languages ? This session shows several that are possible with PHP and various tool s and extensions. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T104500 DTSTAMP:20080729T021101 LOCATION:F151 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2218 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-10:45--2218 SUMMARY:Flex: the Open Source SDK for RIAs DESCRIPTION:Presented by Duane Nickull (Adobe Systems), James Ward (Hero ku). Adobe has released the Flex SDK open source under Mozilla Public Li cense (MPL). This includes the source to the ActionScript components fro m the Flex SDK, the Java source code for the compilers, the debugger, an d the core libraries. Flex can run in any browser—on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, and AIR. This session will introduce people to Flex, provide code samples, use cases and a roadmap. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T203000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T193000 DTSTAMP:20080710T213618 LOCATION:F151 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4872 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-19:30--4872 SUMMARY:Concurrent Programming with Actors DESCRIPTION:Discussion and sharing about concurrent system development b ased on open-source actor/actor-like languages and libraries. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T200000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T190000 DTSTAMP:20080724T224911 LOCATION:F151 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4898 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-19:00--4898 SUMMARY:Conversation about Supporting the Open Web DESCRIPTION:A follow up to the morning's plenary session by David Record on. While the term "Open Web" was largely popularized by Mozilla a few y ears ago, it has evolved to stand for an entire group of community devel oped open specifications. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T104500 DTSTAMP:20080724T210839 LOCATION:E146 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2933 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-10:45--2933 SUMMARY:Cloud Computing with bigdata DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bryan Thompson (SYSTAP, LLC). bigdata is a scal e-out database and computing platform designed for commodity hardware. The presentation will cover scale-out indices, map/reduce computing, and how we have applied these techniques to develop a high-performance scal e-out semantic web database. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T113500 DTSTAMP:20080801T080428 LOCATION:E146 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4359 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-11:35--4359 SUMMARY:Beyond REST? Building Data Services with XMPP PubSub DESCRIPTION:Presented by Rabble Evan Henshaw-Plath (cuboxsa.com), Kellan Elliott-McCrea (Etsy). How do we make our web services scale in an era of decentralization, increased participation, real-time expectations, an d polling-based architectures? Using Jabber/XMPP's PubSub extension and OAuth is one model. This talk covers examples including Flickr and Fire Eagle and how to build data services with XMPP PubSub. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T143000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T134500 DTSTAMP:20080801T165948 LOCATION:E146 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2680 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-13:45--2680 SUMMARY:Thunderbird 3 DESCRIPTION:Presented by David Ascher (Mozilla Messaging), Dan Mosedale (Mozilla). An update on Mozilla's new efforts in messaging and email, in cluding a status report on Thunderbird 3, the next generation of the ema il client built on the same platform as Firefox. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T152000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T143500 DTSTAMP:20080725T224312 LOCATION:E146 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3197 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-14:35--3197 SUMMARY:Firefox Delivered: OSS Infrastructure for the Masses DESCRIPTION:Presented by Justin Fitzhugh (Mozilla). Learn how the Mozill a IT team scales its update and software delivery systems to support the over 150 million Firefox users. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T171500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T163000 DTSTAMP:20080725T144300 LOCATION:E146 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2995 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-16:30--2995 SUMMARY:Hot Chocolate: Creating Cocoa Apps with PHP DESCRIPTION:Presented by Wez Furlong (Message Systems, Inc.). Ever wante d to throw together a GUI app for the Mac but felt intimidated at the pr ospect of learning Objective-C? Ever wished there was a Mac native versi on of PHP-GTK? This session will give you a peek at building native Mac apps using PHP. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T180500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T172000 DTSTAMP:20080725T043559 LOCATION:E146 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2850 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-17:20--2850 SUMMARY:Tools for Local Communities DESCRIPTION:Presented by Audrey Eschright (Elevated Code / Open Source B ridge), Selena Deckelmann (Prime Radiant), Michael Dexter (The BSD Fund) , Sulamita Garcia (Intel). The open source movement is global, but inter esting and exciting things happen at the local scale too. In this panel, community organizers will talk about the social and technological tools they use to to gather, collaborate, and learn. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T104500 DTSTAMP:20080801T220017 LOCATION:E146 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2544 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-10:45--2544 SUMMARY:Processing Large Data with Hadoop and EC2 DESCRIPTION:Presented by Derek Gottfrid (The New York Times). Processing terabytes of data can be daunting but with open source software in form of Hadoop and on-demand computing power via Amazon's EC2 service—it bec omes pure fun. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T122000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T113500 DTSTAMP:20080729T015954 LOCATION:E146 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3150 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-11:35--3150 SUMMARY:HDFS Under the Hood DESCRIPTION:Presented by Sanjay Radia (Yahoo! Inc.). The Hadoop Distribu ted Filesystem (HDFS) provides scalable, fault-tolerant, and high perfor mance data storage and retrieval for Internet scale data applications. This talk presents an overview of HDFS and then dives under the hood to look at its implementation, performance characteristics, and planned enh ancements. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T143000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T134500 DTSTAMP:20080729T143615 LOCATION:E146 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3174 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-13:45--3174 SUMMARY:Cloud Computing with Persistent Data: Pushing the Envelope of Am azon Web Services DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jean-Paul Bauer (KnowledgeTree). KnowledgeTreeL ive is an on-demand service provided by KnowledgeTree. A key constraint of the system is to provide a SaaS solution without incurring the overhe ad of establishing a traditional data center. This is where Amazon's Ela stic Compute Cloud, in combination with their Simple Storage Service, pr ovides an alternative. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T152000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T143500 DTSTAMP:20080518T172547 LOCATION:E146 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2634 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-14:35--2634 SUMMARY:Integrating Media & Web Experiences with Songbird DESCRIPTION:Presented by Stephen Lau (Songbird). Got a web site? Want ri cher media-interaction experiences with your end users? Or do you just w ant to create the next cool media web mashup? Songbird, a desktop media player powered by Mozilla's XULRunner platform, makes connecting any dev ice to any web site as simple as HTML and JavaScript. Develop either ser ver-side webapps, or client-side extensions (like Firefox!) to create me dia web mashups. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T171500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T163000 DTSTAMP:20080725T134100 LOCATION:E146 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4362 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-16:30--4362 SUMMARY:What’s New in Threading Building Blocks? DESCRIPTION:Presented by Michael Voss (Intel). Learn about new features in Intel® Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB), an open-source C++ lib rary that simplifies parallel programming for multi-core. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T180500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T172000 DTSTAMP:20080725T043640 LOCATION:E146 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2872 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-17:20--2872 SUMMARY:Designing Political Web Apps for MoveOn.org DESCRIPTION:Presented by Randall Farmer (We Also Walk Dogs). Whether you agree with MoveOn.org's politics or not, they've clearly been a force i n internet democracy, with over 3 million members, tens of millions of d ollars raised, and over 7 million phone calls made in get-out-the-vote o perations. This talk examines how they do it, with a focus on web applic ation design and the special needs of political organizations. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T104500 DTSTAMP:20080801T005129 LOCATION:E146 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/2910 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-10:45--2910 SUMMARY:Greening the Conference Circuit DESCRIPTION:Presented by Zak Greant (LexPublica). Hackers and makers, in ventors and innovators, evangelists and activists, CXOs and entrepreneur s: each year thousands of us make our rounds on the FOSS conference circ uit. Arriving through environment-punishing air travel, we descend into a banality of over-packaged shwag, glossy brochures, disposable cups, an d hotel stays. We're a principled, smart and innovative lot—we can do so much better. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T203000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T193000 DTSTAMP:20080715T165218 LOCATION:E146 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4878 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-19:30--4878 SUMMARY:Understanding MySQL Internals: Getting Started Contributing to t he MySQL Server DESCRIPTION:Jay Pipes and other MySQLers will go over setting up an idea l development environment for building, testing, and contributing to MyS QL, along with a rundown of the important subsystems and where to find t he relevant source code for each. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T083500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T083000 DTSTAMP:20080727T232802 LOCATION:F150/151 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4285 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-08:30--4285 SUMMARY:Welcome DESCRIPTION:Presented by Surj Patel (GigaOM), Raven Zachary (Small Socie ty). This opening talk frames the opportunities, challenges, and unexpec ted directions mobile is going--and where it's taking us as a society. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T093000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T090000 DTSTAMP:20080723T180618 LOCATION:F150/151 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4842 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-09:00--4842 SUMMARY:New Networks, New Usability and Low cost devices:The Mobile Web Explosion DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jason Grigsby (Cloud Four). More often than not FOSS software is used to create code for commercial projects. Gaining r ecognition as a ground breaking and eye opening analyst, Jason talks abo ut the new explosion of opportunity in the "Mobile Web" and how FOSS adv ocates out here can help to support and profit from them new boom. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T110000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T103000 DTSTAMP:20080723T180635 LOCATION:F150/151 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4287 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-10:30--4287 SUMMARY:Handwave to Hardware: A Product Story Bit by Bit DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jennifer Minor (Vernier Software & Technology). Jenny Minor takes through a case study of developing a mobile data prod uct from concept, to initial hardware and tool chains to final product. The pain points, the learnings and the outcomes are all explained for yo ur learning and future application. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T140000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T133000 DTSTAMP:20080723T164111 LOCATION:F150/151 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4840 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-13:30--4840 SUMMARY:Mobile Linux, QT and the Desktop DESCRIPTION:Presented by Benoit Schillings (Trolltech, a Nokia Company). Nokia acquired mobile linux pioneer Trolltech. Benoit a founder and CTO of Trolltech talks about the future of Mobile Linux and more importantl y Nokia's plans for QT , the desktop , the mobile and how you can access the tools and code to start your own projects. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T143000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T140000 DTSTAMP:20080820T101630 LOCATION:F150/151 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4839 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-14:00--4839 SUMMARY:The Browser is the New Open Mobile Platform DESCRIPTION:Presented by Chris Blizzard (Mozilla Foundation). With the b oom in mobile internet, the new Mobile Platform may be the mobile browse r. Mobile Browser expert and developer Chris Blizzard takes us on a jour ney through the mobile browser landscape, covering all major players and focusing a few more details on Mozilla and their proposition within the mobile landscape. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T163000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T160000 DTSTAMP:20080725T002729 LOCATION:F150/151 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4841 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-16:00--4841 SUMMARY:Voice Services and Mobility Through Asterisk DESCRIPTION:Presented by John Todd (Digium Inc. ). Many of the open plat forms for mobile are making a serious ommission. The Voice Channel. The phone is very good at handling voice and users are comfortable with it a s a communication channel. In this Session John Todd, the lead tech evan gelist for Asterisk looks at how you can develop for voice services off the handset and on the network using Asterisk and similar platforms. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T090000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T083500 DTSTAMP:20080820T094722 LOCATION:F150/151 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4847 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-08:35--4847 SUMMARY:Open is the Present and the Future DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jim Zemlin (The Linux Foundation). Jim Zemlin t he chair of the Linux Foundation shares some insight on the future of th e open mobile platform and its benefits to business and the FOSS communi ty. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T100000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T093000 DTSTAMP:20080820T101511 LOCATION:F150/151 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4845 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-09:30--4845 SUMMARY:Leveraging Mobile Open Source for New Wireless Apps and Services DESCRIPTION:Presented by Stefano Maffulli (Funambol). This presentation discusses how we have entered a new golden era of mobile apps and how m obile open source enables developers to rapidly deliver compelling new m obile services for the mass market. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T113000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T110000 DTSTAMP:20080820T101549 LOCATION:F150/151 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4838 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-11:00--4838 SUMMARY:Zembly: An Open Platform for iPhone and Mobile Browser Widgets DESCRIPTION:Presented by Prakash Narayan (Sun Microsystems). Zembly is a hosted platform with which you can quickly author widgets, iPhone apps, Facebook apps, etc. from your browser. Learn how zembly is revolutioniz ing the authoring of social applications by introducing a paradigm of pa rticipation around live, editable code. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T120000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T113000 DTSTAMP:20080722T032046 LOCATION:F150/151 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4844 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-11:30--4844 SUMMARY:Architectural Principles and Overview of the LiMo Platform DESCRIPTION:Presented by David "Lefty" Schlesinger (ACCESS Co. Ltd. ). T his session will provide attendees with a comprehensive overview of the architectural principals and components of the LiMo Platform. The LiMo F oundation embraces a “collaborative source” development model whereby it s platform reflects a combination of frameworks developed and contribute d by LiMo member companies as well as by the Open Source community. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T150000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T143000 DTSTAMP:20080722T215028 LOCATION:F150/151 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4288 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-14:30--4288 SUMMARY:Platform Showdown DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ben Leslie (Open Kernel Labs). From Android, GN OME Mobile (and friends such as Maemo, Moblin, OpenMoko), and OKL4 (incl uding Linux on L4) to ACCESS Linux Platform and LiMo, expert practitione rs will take the stage to compare and contrast the growing number of pla tforms crowding the mobile field. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T153000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080721T150000 DTSTAMP:20080820T101650 LOCATION:F150/151 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4886 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-21-15:00--4886 SUMMARY:The World's Most Popular Smartphone OS Goes Open DESCRIPTION:Presented by John Forsyth (Symbian Software Ltd.). What happ ens 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 wo rld. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T090000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T084500 DTSTAMP:20080804T163126 LOCATION:Portland Ballroom URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4451 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-08:45--4451 SUMMARY:Welcome DESCRIPTION:Presented by Allison Randal (Canonical), Edd Dumbill (O'Reil ly Media, Inc. ). Opening remarks. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T091500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T090000 DTSTAMP:20090701T200045 LOCATION:Portland Ballroom URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4408 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-09:00--4408 SUMMARY:Open Source on the O'Reilly Radar DESCRIPTION:Presented by Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.). Coming soo n. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T093000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T091500 DTSTAMP:20080808T015140 LOCATION:Portland Ballroom URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4406 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-09:15--4406 SUMMARY:Open Source Physical Security: Can We Have Both Privacy and Safe ty? DESCRIPTION:Presented by Christine Peterson (Foresight Institute). In to day's post-9/11 world, it is increasingly assumed that security from ter rorism and other attacks will require the loss of privacy by individuals and private organizations. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T094500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T093000 DTSTAMP:20080822T163859 LOCATION:Portland Ballroom URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4719 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-09:30--4719 SUMMARY:Moblin, Linux for Next Generation Mobile Internet DESCRIPTION:Presented by Dirk Hohndel (Intel Corporation). Dirk Hohndel will present the technology vision and direction for Moblin.org, The op en source community for developing the next generation internet and medi a experience on a new category of internet-centric devices such as Mobil e Internet Devices, netbooks, nettops and Automotive In-Vehicle Infotain ment Systems. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T100000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T094500 DTSTAMP:20080804T163328 LOCATION:Portland Ballroom URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4407 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-09:45--4407 SUMMARY:Tim O'Reilly Interviews Monty Widenius & Brian Aker DESCRIPTION:Presented by Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.), Michael Wi denius (Monty Program Ab), Brian Aker (MySQL). Coming soon. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T101500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T100000 DTSTAMP:20080804T164714 LOCATION:Portland Ballroom URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4798 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-10:00--4798 SUMMARY:Q & A DESCRIPTION:An open microphone question and answer session with the morn ing's keynote speakers. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T090000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T084500 DTSTAMP:20080804T165650 LOCATION:Portland Ballroom URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4789 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-08:45--4789 SUMMARY:Open Invention Network and Its Role in Open Source and Linux DESCRIPTION:Presented by Keith Bergelt (Open Invention Network). The Key note will outline the role of Open Invention Network in Open Source and describe the ways in which Capital, Leadership and Strategy are being le veraged to ensure the onward organic growth and development of Linux. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T091500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T090000 DTSTAMP:20080804T233515 LOCATION:Portland Ballroom URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4547 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-09:00--4547 SUMMARY:Anniversaries DESCRIPTION:Presented by Peter H. Salus (Anniversaries). Coming soon. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T093000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T091500 DTSTAMP:20091208T003934 LOCATION:Portland Ballroom URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4918 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-09:15--4918 SUMMARY:Supporting the Open Web DESCRIPTION:Presented by David Recordon (Facebook). 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 h ave an easy way to ensure that everything they create is freely implemen table by everyone. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T094500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T093000 DTSTAMP:20080804T233604 LOCATION:Portland Ballroom URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4490 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-09:30--4490 SUMMARY:Why Whinging Doesn't Work DESCRIPTION:Presented by Danese Cooper (Wikimedia Foundation and Open So urce Initiative). Coming soon. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T100000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T094500 DTSTAMP:20080804T233638 LOCATION:Portland Ballroom URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4721 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-09:45--4721 SUMMARY:fork() && exec(): Spawning the Next Generation of Hackers DESCRIPTION:Presented by Nathan Torkington (He Hononga Software, Limited ). More information coming soon END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T101500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T100000 DTSTAMP:20080804T165507 LOCATION:Portland Ballroom URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4799 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-10:00--4799 SUMMARY:Q & A DESCRIPTION:An open microphone question and answer session with the morn ing's keynote speakers. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T090000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T084500 DTSTAMP:20080804T150037 LOCATION:Portland Ballroom URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4449 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-08:45--4449 SUMMARY:Advocating Software Freedom by Revealing Errors DESCRIPTION:Presented by Benjamin Mako Hill (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Coming soon. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T091500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T090000 DTSTAMP:20080802T163106 LOCATION:Portland Ballroom URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4546 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-09:00--4546 SUMMARY:Three Challenges DESCRIPTION:Presented by Dawn Nafus (Intel). Technical challenges are bi g—but so are social ones. Here I present three major areas of rapid soci al change, each of which poses its own set of challenges and opportuniti es. These are areas where robust social and institutional creativity are necessary alongside technological ingenuity. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T093000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T091500 DTSTAMP:20080804T234156 LOCATION:Portland Ballroom URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4779 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-09:15--4779 SUMMARY:history.forward() DESCRIPTION:Presented by Sam Ramji (Microsoft). Over the past ten years, open source has fundamentally changed the way developers learn, communi cate and code together. Over the past three years, Microsoft has made si gnificant strides towards more fully participating in open source commun ities. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T094500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T093000 DTSTAMP:20080804T234300 LOCATION:Portland Ballroom URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4317 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-09:30--4317 SUMMARY:Language Inflection Point DESCRIPTION:Presented by Tim Bray (Google, Inc.). It would be nice to kn ow 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 wo rry 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. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T100000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T094500 DTSTAMP:20080804T144659 LOCATION:Portland Ballroom URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4780 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-09:45--4780 SUMMARY:Learning from Airports DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jeremy Ruston (BT Design). Coming soon. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T101500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T100000 DTSTAMP:20080729T212245 LOCATION:Portland Ballroom URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4800 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-10:00--4800 SUMMARY:Q & A DESCRIPTION:An open microphone question and answer session with the morn ing's keynote speakers. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T195500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T193000 DTSTAMP:20080804T143918 LOCATION:Portland Ballroom URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4716 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-22-19:30--4716 SUMMARY:Keynote DESCRIPTION:Presented by Mark R. Shuttleworth (Canonical Ltd.). More in formation coming soon END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T202000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T200500 DTSTAMP:20080728T164415 LOCATION:Portland Ballroom URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3705 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-22-20:05--3705 SUMMARY:Google O'Reilly Open Source Awards DESCRIPTION:Winners of the Google O'Reilly Open Source Award will be ann ounced during this fun evening event. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T205000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T202000 DTSTAMP:20080806T044416 LOCATION:Portland Ballroom URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4717 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-22-20:20--4717 SUMMARY:Exceptional Software Explained: Embrace Error DESCRIPTION:Presented by Robert "r0ml" Lefkowitz (Self). More informatio n coming soon END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T210000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T205000 DTSTAMP:20080728T164900 LOCATION:Portland Ballroom URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4718 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-22-20:50--4718 SUMMARY:White Camel Awards DESCRIPTION:More information coming soon END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T220000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T210000 DTSTAMP:20080808T015129 LOCATION:Portland Ballroom URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4549 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-22-21:00--4549 SUMMARY:Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming In Multi ple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic Parallel Timespaces...M ade Easy! DESCRIPTION:Presented by Damian Conway (Thoughtstream). Coming soon. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T130000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T123000 DTSTAMP:20080805T182403 LOCATION:Portland Ballroom URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4409 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-12:30--4409 SUMMARY:Open Voices DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jim Zemlin (The Linux Foundation), Keith Bergel t (Open Invention Network), Karen Sandler (GNOME Foundation), Phil Robb (Hewlett Packard). Coming soon. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T140000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T133500 DTSTAMP:20080726T045702 LOCATION:Portland Ballroom URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4722 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-13:35--4722 SUMMARY:Closing Get Together DESCRIPTION:Snacks and Conversation END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T223000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T193000 DTSTAMP:20080727T194548 LOCATION:Portland Ballroom URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4835 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-19:30--4835 SUMMARY:Good Company Soul and Blues Review DESCRIPTION:The Good Company Crew is pulling in the favors for great pla yers to come work it out and have some fun. Come on by and sit in. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T200500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080722T195500 DTSTAMP:20080802T162143 LOCATION:Portland Ballroom URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4921 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-22-19:55--4921 SUMMARY:Python Foundation Presents the Annual Frank Willison Award DESCRIPTION:The Python Foundation presents the Frank Willison Award annu ally at OSCON, recognizing outstanding contributions to the Python commu nity. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T133500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T133000 DTSTAMP:20080804T234633 LOCATION:Portland Ballroom URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4926 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-13:30--4926 SUMMARY:OSCON 2008 Photo Contest DESCRIPTION:Calling all OSCON 2008 participants: Submit your photos from OSCONs past to this year's photo contest! You may win a photo printer f rom HP, a 1TB external hard drive from Novell, or swag from O'Reilly. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T133000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T130000 DTSTAMP:20080805T182445 LOCATION:Portland Ballroom URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4940 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-13:00--4940 SUMMARY:An Illustrated History of Failure DESCRIPTION:Presented by Paul Fenwick (Perl Training Australia). The ave rage individual is given little scope for failure, at least not the type that really matters. However in recent times we have developed a profes sion who have the opportunity to fail like never before. The few, the pr oud, the Software Developers. Join us for a voyage of discovery, as we t ravel back through history to some of the most monumental failures the w orld has ever seen. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T193000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080723T180000 DTSTAMP:20080804T163734 LOCATION:Expo Hall URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4025 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-23-18:00--4025 SUMMARY:Expo Hall Reception DESCRIPTION:Have a drink and mingle with other OSCON participants, and s ee the latest products, projects, services, and gadgets from sponsors an d exhibitors in the Expo Hall. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T150000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T140000 DTSTAMP:20080721T210205 LOCATION:Expo Hall Foyer URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4046 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-14:00--4046 SUMMARY:Free Geek Tour DESCRIPTION:Free Geek has equipped thousands of low-income families with Linux computers. Starting at 2:00pm, Keith Lofstrom will lead a tour f rom the Convention Center to the Free Geek facility at 1731 SE 10th Aven ue, Portland. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T140000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T135500 DTSTAMP:20080724T234901 LOCATION:Expo Hall Foyer URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4941 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-13:55--4941 SUMMARY:Walking tour of CubeSpace DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special, unique experience as we get an inside rs view of CubeSpace. CubeSpace is a locally owned co-working space a nd a hub of Portland's open source community. We host many of the local user groups as well as the Calagator crew. Come check out our space, m eet some of our resident coders END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T150000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080725T140000 DTSTAMP:20080721T210141 LOCATION:Registration Area URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4206 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-25-14:00--4206 SUMMARY:Best of Portland Walking Tour DESCRIPTION:For OSCON conference attendees only! This award-winning guid ed tour clarifies why Portland is regularly recognized as one of the bes t places to live. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T220000 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T180000 DTSTAMP:20080710T182756 LOCATION:Jupiter Hotel URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4218 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-18:00--4218 SUMMARY:SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards DESCRIPTION:The SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards is an opportunit y to recognize projects that stand taller than the rest. The winning pro jects, each with superlative quality, productivity, and ingenuity, repre sent the cream of the crop in the open source world. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T134500 DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20080724T122000 DTSTAMP:20080723T235655 LOCATION:F152 URL:http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4933 UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon--s2008-07-24-12:20--4933 SUMMARY:OSI Public Meeting DESCRIPTION:"Founded by Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens in 1998, for 10 ye ars the OSI has maintained the Open Source Definition and applied to lic enses it certifies as "OSI Approved". Around the world the OSI Approved License trademark is recognized as the test that defines whether a proje ct can call itself open source, but until recently OSI itself was run by 10 self-appointed people. END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR