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Damian Conway (Thoughtstream)
Average rating:
(4.76, 21 ratings)
This half-day tutorial provides a comprehensive and practical introduction to the new language, specifically designed to get current Perl 5 programmers up to speed on the new and powerful features of Perl 6.
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Scott Chacon (GitHub)
Average rating:
(4.31, 13 ratings)
Git is a new distributed version control system that is fast, flexible, works offline and supports powerful local branching and easy merging that encourages non-linear workflows and makes developers far more productive and efficient.
This tutorial will introduce you to Git, rid you of your SVN sins, and teach you how to become more efficient and productive as a programmer.
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Location: Ballroom A3/A6
Moderated by: Addison Berry and Emma Jane Hogbin
Average rating:
(5.00, 1 rating)
Whether you're an aspiring technical author, or a raging DocBook fiend, you've probably noticed that a lot open source documentation needs help. Want to help (or need help)? Writing Open Source is a new cross-project initiative dedicated to making docs suck less.
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Damian Conway (Thoughtstream)
Average rating:
(4.34, 32 ratings)
This course presents a minimalist approach to interface design known as "S.A.T." Developed by Damian Conway over the past decade, this design philosophy can produce smaller, better focused, more usable module APIs.
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Tom Christiansen (TCPC)
Average rating:
(3.29, 7 ratings)
Now that everyone and their dog has some sort
of a digital camera, what are you supposed to
do with it, and how? What real solutions are
out there that aren't just for the subfenestrated?
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Average rating:
(4.50, 18 ratings)
If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Would you pitch a project? Launch a web site? Teach a hack? We’re going to find out when we try our first Ignite event at OSCON. Damian Conway is scheduled to end OSCON Ignite in style. Want to present at Ignite?
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Average rating:
(3.67, 12 ratings)
Winners of the Google O'Reilly Open Source Award will be announced during this fun evening event.
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Location: Exhibit Hall 3
Allison Randal (DrugDev, Inc.),
Edd Dumbill (O'Reilly Media, Inc. )
Average rating:
(3.55, 31 ratings)
Opening remarks by the OSCON program chairs, Allison Randal and Edd Dumbill.
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Location: Exhibit Hall 3
Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.24, 41 ratings)
Keynote by Tim O'Reilly.
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Location: Exhibit Hall 3
Dirk Hohndel (Intel Corporation)
Average rating:
(3.51, 37 ratings)
Imad Sousou, Director of Intel Open Source Technology Center will present the technology vision and direction for Intel’s overall Open Source efforts, including Mobility, Virtualization, Power, and Performance.
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Location: Exhibit Hall 3
Michael Lopp (Rands in Repose)
Average rating:
(3.83, 47 ratings)
In 15 minutes, discover 15 years of secrets behind building software faster, more efficiently, and using less floppy disks.
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Location: Exhibit Hall 3
Average rating:
(3.06, 17 ratings)
An open microphone question and answer session with the morning's keynote speakers.
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Jon Tan (OmniTI)
Average rating:
(3.59, 17 ratings)
Design is 80% science and 20% art. This talk dives straight into the science to give you the techniques to create your own interfaces and demystify design. From using the golden ratio in layout and Fibonacci numbers in typography, to brand design and art direction, it covers it all in simple, tasty, bite-size pieces.
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Hyrum Wright (WANdisco, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.17, 6 ratings)
To most users, unreleased software is non-existent software. Even when the source code is freely available, most users desire, or even require, releases which are provided and blessed by the project. In this talk, I'll discuss release management, who does it, how it's done, and what happens when things go wrong.
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Jono Bacon (Canonical Ltd)
Average rating:
(3.50, 2 ratings)
In his new talk Building Belonging, Jono Bacon explores the underlying recipe behind what makes great community and talks about many of the concepts that he and his team have used as part of the Ubuntu community. The presentation takes a fun, amusing and anecdote laden tour-de-force of community in a way that any community can implement. Be sure to be there!
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Jesse Vincent (Best Practical)
Average rating:
(4.50, 4 ratings)
SD is a disconnected, replicated bug tracking system designed to let developers track and resolve bugs without sacrificing the flexibility of the modern workflows that distributed version control systems have made possible. This talk will teach you how to start becoming more productive with SD without giving up your existing bug tracker.
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Larry Wall (The Wall Nuthouse),
Damian Conway (Thoughtstream)
Average rating:
(4.09, 22 ratings)
Larry Wall and Damian Conway will present the latest features of Perl 6, and discuss the on-going implementation of the new Perl.
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Patrick Michaud (pmichaud.com)
Average rating:
(4.33, 6 ratings)
This talk presents ways in which people can become active contributors to Perl 6 and Rakudo Perl. It presents the details needed to quickly become a Rakudo Perl and Perl 6 library developer.
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Rafael Almeria (Xerox)
Average rating:
(2.00, 6 ratings)
Do you have a website written in Perl that you need to migrate to UTF-8? Here are some important details that you need to know in order to achieve that goal.
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Tom Preston-Werner (GitHub)
Average rating:
(4.00, 6 ratings)
Git is a distributed version control system with easy branching that has forever changed the way that open source projects accept contributions. By embracing a pattern of casual forking, the barrier to submit patches and track upstream changes is reduced, resulting in an explosion of contributors and patches. This talk will use case studies to illustrate how your project can enjoy these benefits.
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Deborah Bryant (Deb Bryant & Associates),
Bjorn Freeman-Benson (New Relic),
Greg Lund-Chaix (Oregon State University Open Source Lab),
Clay Johnson (InformationDiet.com),
Aleksandar Totic (Open Source Digital Voting Foundation)
Average rating:
(4.00, 1 rating)
Open source shares critical values with government and public education that make them function in the ideal; meritocracy of ideas, transparency, collaboration. But where is the sweet spot in the confluence of these social, technical, and public policy ideals? And where is the opportunity for the citizen developer to get involved?
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Akkana Peck (*)
Average rating:
(4.00, 9 ratings)
This talk will cover ways of configuring a Linux distribution to run
efficiently on slow CPU, low memory machines. You can get big
performance gains from areas such as:
* speeding up the boot process
* options for lightweight window managers
* performance tools that can help you find bottlenecks
* tuning your kernel
* Finding lightweight alternatives to big applications
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Adina Levin (Socialtext),
Debra Bowen (State of California),
Silona Bonewald (SLC),
Ilan Rabinovitch (Ooyala),
Kevin Marks (TummelVision.tv)
Average rating:
(4.50, 2 ratings)
This panel will discuss accessing open government initiatives and creating new services around existing government data on the internet. The idea is to get a point of view from each step of the process for open government initiatives, from producer and publisher, to standards advocate, to consumer and user, and to elected representative.
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Location: Exhibit Hall 3
Moderated by: James Turner
Average rating:
(4.00, 3 ratings)
Join us for a live web-casted roundtable discussion with some of the leading figures in open source languages such as Ruby, Perl, Python and PHP, hosted by O'Reilly Media. We'll debate and discuss the strengths and weaknesses, and what the sweet spots are in the application space for each language.
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Location: Exhibit Hall 3
Kirrily Robert (Freebase.com)
Average rating:
(3.79, 43 ratings)
What's it like to be a woman in an open source project that's 99% men? What's it like to be a woman in a project that's 75%... women? Kirrily Robert, who has worked on both kinds of projects, will talk about the differences, and what we can learn from majority-female open source projects.
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Location: Exhibit Hall 3
Chris DiBona (Google, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.52, 31 ratings)
Google crawls more than just web pages, we also crawl source code. Ever wondered just how much open source code is out there? What licenses is all that code under? Which projects are the most shared? We'll try to answer these questions in this talk.
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Location: Exhibit Hall 3
Tony Hey (Microsoft Corporation)
Average rating:
(2.19, 31 ratings)
Microsoft External Research builds bridges between academia, industry, and government to advance computer science, education, and scientific research. Modern science and academic research increasingly relies on integrated information technologies and computation to collect, process, and analyze complex data.
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Location: Exhibit Hall 3
Simon Wardley (Leading Edge Forum (CSC))
Average rating:
(4.60, 40 ratings)
Keynote by Simon Wardley, Canoncial Ltd.
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Location: Exhibit Hall 3
Clay Johnson (InformationDiet.com)
Average rating:
(3.45, 31 ratings)
New Technology is crashing the gates of Washington, DC as a new administration begins to find its legs. Open Source developers are the key to making a lot of this change happen and we've got to move fast and work together in order to do it right. This talk is about strategy-- how can open source developers change their government?
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Patrick Michaud (pmichaud.com)
Average rating:
(4.67, 3 ratings)
This talk provides a tutorial on creating compilers in Parrot using the Parrot Compiler Toolkit. It walks through the process of creating a parser, building an abstract syntax tree, and generating executable output.
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Stormy Peters (GNOME Foundation)
Average rating:
(3.50, 2 ratings)
While consumers and the open source community don't interact often, users are important to projects because users test software, spread the word, motivate developers, lend credibility, contribute financially and participate in users groups. Come learn why users are important to an open source project and how they can be more involved.
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Michael Schwern (eval Empire)
Average rating:
(3.69, 13 ratings)
Geeks have a special relationship with The Truth. Nothing is more important than correcting a falsehood, no matter how small, and nothing is more odious than not telling The Truth. Unfortunately the meaning is often mangled and the end result is the opposite, a lie. This leads to misunderstanding, mangled interfaces and the myth of the stupid user.
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R Geoffrey Avery (Platypi Ventures)
Average rating:
(3.75, 12 ratings)
A series of 5-minute talks on anything related to Perl or people who use it. A chance to get one-third of your 15 minutes of fame.
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Addison Berry (Lullabot)
Average rating:
(4.67, 6 ratings)
Many people view Open Source documentation as something they have to suffer if they want to use a free product. As Open Source code spreads faster and further in the great, wide world, we need to up the ante on documentation as well to keep fanning the flames. We'll take a look at how one community, the Drupal project, is trying to raise the bar and how others can learn from their ups and downs.
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Andy Lester (petdance.com)
Average rating:
(4.75, 8 ratings)
An engaging, frank discussion of the job interview, its failings,
and how to make it work for all involved. Effective interviewing
reframes the interview as what it really is: The candidate's first
day on the job. This session, aimed at the specific needs of the
technical professional, shows how manager and candidate must work
together for their common benefit.
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Esther Schindler (It Expert Voice),
Steven Vaughan-Nichols (It Expert Voice),
Joe Brockmeier (Citrix),
James Turner (O'Reilly Media),
Jennifer Cloer (Page One PR)
Average rating:
(4.50, 2 ratings)
Plenty of FOSS projects yearn for visibility, within the tech press or
in the larger world. But few know how to respond when a journalist
indicates interest. These experienced writers and editors will explain
how your project can get attention and present itself in the best
possible light.
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Average rating:
(2.50, 10 ratings)
In the lands where the camel roams, the white (albino) camel is a rare and revered individual. The White Camel Awards recognize the many significant contributions made by the unsung heros of the Perl community. The efforts of these volunteers collectively make the Perl language and the Perl community better for all of us.
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Larry Wall (The Wall Nuthouse)
Average rating:
(3.82, 17 ratings)
The OSCON tradition continues as Larry Wall delivers the annual State of the Onion Address.
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Douglas Crockford (Yahoo! Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.88, 8 ratings)
How JSON overcame intolerance, inurement, and death threats to become the preferred data interchange format.
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Average rating:
(4.67, 3 ratings)
The term "Folk Computing" was coined 20+ years ago to describe how people learn to program by copying and experimentation. Learn how open source licenses, hosted development environments, and other folk programming concepts lower barriers to entry and help people get up to speed as coders. We'll also be showing off some modern folk programming platforms, from Yahoo Pipes to the OLPC and beyond.
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Paul Fenwick (Perl Training Australia)
Average rating:
(4.90, 10 ratings)
A good programmer needs many qualities: intelligence, foresight, dedication, and the ability to fight off a hundred angry targh armed only with your bat'leth. On Qo'noS, software developers undertake an intensive course in combat programming before they are cleared for active duty.
Join Paul Fenwick as he examines how Perl's new autodie pragma can bring you the very best of Klingon programming.
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Damian Conway (Thoughtstream)
Average rating:
(4.47, 19 ratings)
The usual smorgasbord of new and improbably useful modules beamed straight into your mind from the secret island hideaway of Perl's own Dr Evil.
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Adam Martin (NPR)
Average rating:
(3.00, 3 ratings)
It has been a year since NPR's public API launched (announced at OSCON 2008). This session will explore how the marketplace has changed for media organizations over the last year, how API's have played a role in that change, and what the future looks like for NPR, its API, and other media organizations.
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