BEGIN:VCALENDAR
X-WR-CALNAME:OSCON 2008
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:Expectnation
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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
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