Sponsors
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  • Microsoft
  • Google
  • Sun Microsystems
  • BT
  • IBM
  • Yahoo! Inc.
  • Zimbra
  • Atlassian Software Systems
  • Disney
  • EnterpriseDB
  • Etelos
  • Ingres
  • JasperSoft
  • Kablink
  • Linagora
  • MindTouch
  • Mozilla Corporation
  • Novell, Inc.
  • Open Invention Network
  • OpSource
  • RightScale
  • Silicon Mechanics
  • Tenth Planet
  • Ticketmaster
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  • White Oak Technologies, Inc.
  • XAware
  • ZDNet

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Joe Brockmeier

Joe Brockmeier
Open Source Cloud Computing Evangelist, Citrix

Website | @jzb

Joe Brockmeier is a open source evangelist for Citrix, working on the Apache CloudStack (incubating) project. Joe has a long history of involvement with open source, and has also worked for Novell as the openSUSE community manager. He has also spent many years working as a technology journalist, and has written for ReadWriteWeb, Linux.com, LWN, Linux Magazine, NetworkWorld, ZDNet, and many others

Sessions

4:30pm Wednesday, 07/23/2008
Everything You Wanted to Know About openSUSE
Products & Services
 Location: E142
Joe Brockmeier (Citrix)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 1 rating)
Brockmeier will cover the openSUSE community, what's new in the openSUSE distribution, the openSUSE Build Service, and how to get involved with the project. Read more.
10:45am Thursday, 07/24/2008
The Evolution of Community
Administration, Emerging Topics, Linux, Programming
 Location: Portland 255
Joe Brockmeier (Citrix), Ross Turk (SourceForge, Inc.), Jono Bacon (Canonical Ltd), John Mark Walker (Gluster), Jeremy Hogan (Hyperic, Inc.) Moderated by: Joe Brockmeier
Average rating: ****.
(4.20, 5 ratings)
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 through 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? Read more.
OSCON 2008