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Gavin Doughtie (Google),
Andrew Hyde (TechStars)
Interested in doing your own startup company, or starting a new
project within your existing company? This 3-hour tutorial walks you
through a compact version of the Startup Weekend experience, which has
seen multiple companies go from nothing to a running prototype in 54 hours.
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Bryan Thompson (SYSTAP, LLC)
bigdata is a scale-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 scale-out semantic web database.
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Jan Lehnardt (CouchDB)
This presentation takes a look at CouchDB from 10,000 ft. We try not to lose you in technical details and paint the big picture that you need to understand CouchDB's strengths and weaknesses.
CouchDB is a _document oriented database_. It does not adhere to the relational principles of traditional databases. You will learn what that means for your application design.
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David Gray (OmniTI)
"Revision control? What's that?" Knowing what I know now, it's scary to look back and ask what might have happened if one hard drive had failed at the wrong time. After reviewing some revision control concepts, we will look at several projects to see how they could have leveraged revision control and what the benefits would have been.
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David Bryan (Silicon Mechanics)
The U.S. data center industry is in a major growth period fueled by demand for data processing and storage. As demand increases, the industry is looking for ways to increase efficiency. There is significant potential for improvements in servers and in data centers using methods and technologies currently available.
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Andy de la Lucha (Mentor Graphics)
VMware has a place at the top of the virtualization industry, but is not open source, gets expensive, and can feel claustrophobic as VMware "makes a tool for every job." This talk will go over open source equivalents to the most prominent VMware products, existing high-profile uses, and how existing VMware deployments can co-exist with open source virtualization.
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Steve George (Canonical UK Ltd)
Landscape is a system management service that allows you to manage multiple Ubuntu machines as easily as one. Learn how you can manage many machines in a complex environment through a single web-based interface.
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Matt Tucker (Jive Software)
There's a new firestorm brewing in web services architectures. Cloud services are being talked up as a fundamental shift in web architecture that promises to move us from interconnected silos to a collaborative network of services whose sum is greater than its parts.
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Keith Bergelt (Open Invention Network)
The Keynote will outline the role of Open Invention Network in Open Source and describe the ways in which Capital, Leadership and Strategy are being leveraged to ensure the onward organic growth and development of Linux.
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Peter H. Salus (Anniversaries)
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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 have an easy way to ensure that everything they create is freely implementable by everyone.
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Danese Cooper (Wikimedia Foundation and Open Source Initiative)
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Nathan Torkington (He Hononga Software, Limited)
More information coming soon
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An open microphone question and answer session with the morning's keynote speakers.
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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 becomes pure fun.
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Jesse Vincent (Best Practical)
Prophet is a new peer to peer distributed database designed to help ease the transition to post-web-2.0 applications.
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Jean-Paul Bauer (KnowledgeTree)
KnowledgeTreeLive is an on-demand service provided by KnowledgeTree. A key constraint of the system is to provide a SaaS solution without incurring the overhead of establishing a traditional data center. This is where Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, in combination with their Simple Storage Service, provides an alternative.
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Ronald Bradford (EffectiveMySQL),
Giuseppe Maxia (Continuent)
MySQL Proxy is a new exciting product offering from MySQL AB that solves classical server and application problems without changing your server or your application code. Features include connection management, load balancing, failover, and better instrumentation.
The presentation will include an overview of the architecture of
features, and actual customer implementations with MySQL Proxy.
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James Turnbull (Puppet Labs),
Luke Kanies (Reductive Labs)
Configuration management is the oft-misunderstood (and possibly black) art of managing your IT environment. Puppet is part of the bright future of configuration management for heterogeneous Unix systems. This session explains how to combine the practice and the tool to reduce errors, outages, and operational costs.
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Sunia Yang (Stanford University),
Rob Riepel (Stanford University)
As the key network management tool at Stanford University, 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. Networking staff use NetDB for address space management (600+ networks, 1500+ address spaces), reporting, and configuration.
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The OSCON tradition continues as Larry Wall delivers the annual 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 Lightning Talks.
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Benjamin Mako Hill (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Dawn Nafus (Intel)
Technical challenges are big—but so are social ones. Here I present three major areas of rapid social change, each of which poses its own set of challenges and opportunities. These are areas where robust social and institutional creativity are necessary alongside technological ingenuity.
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Tim Bray (Google, Inc.)
It would be nice to know which programming languages we're all going to be programming in ten years from now. I really have no more idea than you, but I am paid to worry about this kind of thing. So I'm going to worry out loud about this for fifteen minutes, highlight some trends and influences, and probably leave you with more questions than answers.
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Jeremy Ruston (BT Design)
Coming soon.
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An open microphone question and answer session with the morning's keynote speakers.
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Thorsten von Eicken (RightScale, Inc)
Cloud Computing is becoming synonymous with open source: almost all production deployments into the cloud are based on OSS stacks and the flexibility of open source is essential in enabling new scalable deployments.
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Mike Perham (FiveRuns)
FiveRuns launched the RM-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 last year.
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Jim Zemlin (The Linux Foundation),
Keith Bergelt (Open Invention Network),
Karen Sandler (GNOME Foundation),
Phil Robb (Hewlett Packard)
Coming soon.
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Snacks and Conversation
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Free Geek has equipped thousands
of low-income families with Linux computers. Starting at 2:00pm,
Keith Lofstrom will lead a tour from the Convention Center
to the Free Geek facility at 1731 SE 10th Avenue, Portland.
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For OSCON conference attendees only! This award-winning guided tour clarifies why Portland is regularly recognized as one of the best places to live.
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