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! Read more.

10:45am Wednesday, 07/22/2009

Educating Students in 21st Century Skills via FOSS

People
Location: Meeting Room B2

Bryant Patten (National Center for Open Source and Education)

Average rating:

(4.50, 4 ratings)

The new U.S. technology standards for K-12 schools are all about 21st Century Skills - problem solving, collaboration, authentic work. This talk, targeted at FOSS project leaders and community managers, is about getting students to contribute to Open Source software projects and how FOSS projects can help with this effort. Read more.

10:45am Wednesday, 07/22/2009

With Software as a Service, Is Only the Network Luddite Free?

Emerging Topics
Location: Ballroom A4/A5

Bradley Kuhn (Software Freedom Conservancy), Benjamin Mako Hill (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Evan Prodromou (StatusNet Inc), Nathan Yergler (Creative Commons), Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)

Average rating:

(4.33, 3 ratings)

At OSCON 2008, Tim O'Reilly raised in his keynote a new challenge we face: Software as a Service. This panel discusses the work spawned by autonomo.us to inspire the Open Source and Software Freedom Movement to address the challenge. The talk will discuss the AGPL, a license designed to address these concerns, and the federated service model that must exist to succeed in addressing this problem. Read more.

11:35am Wednesday, 07/22/2009

A Guide to Free, Self-hosted Online Video Apps

Products and Services
Location: Meeting Room C2

Shay David (Kaltura)

Average rating:

(3.60, 5 ratings)

Video lovers of the world unite. Shay will present the world's first full open source video solution stack (used by Wikipedia and 27,000 other publishers), and demo several self-hosted video applications. He’ll walk through technicalities of setting up an online video platform, discuss pros and cons of self-hosted versus SaaS, and even dive into some code. Read more.

2:35pm Wednesday, 07/22/2009

Open Source / Open Government

Business, Emerging Topics, Government, People
Location: Exhibit Hall 3

Danese Cooper (Wikimedia Foundation and Open Source Initiative), Greg Elin (Sunlight Foundation), Brian Behlendorf ((self-employed)), Silona Bonewald (SLC), Michael Tiemann (Open Source Initiative)

Average rating:

(2.50, 2 ratings)

Panel of movers and shakers in the movement to open government using the principals of Open Source. Read more.

4:30pm Wednesday, 07/22/2009

Bureaucrats, Technocrats and Policy Cats: How the Government is turning to Open Source, and Why.

Business, Emerging Topics, Government, People
Location: Ballroom A1

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? Read more.

5:20pm Wednesday, 07/22/2009

Hacking the Open Government

Emerging Topics, Government
Location: Ballroom A1

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. Read more.

9:15am Thursday, 07/23/2009

Your Work in Open Source, the Numbers

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. Read more.

9:45am Thursday, 07/23/2009

Cloud Computing - Why IT Matters

Location: Exhibit Hall 3

Simon Wardley (Leading Edge Forum (CSC))

Average rating:

(4.60, 40 ratings)

Keynote by Simon Wardley, Canoncial Ltd. Read more.

10:45am Thursday, 07/23/2009

<video> and the Open Web

Desktop Applications, Mozilla, Programming
Location: Ballroom A1

Mark Surman (Mozilla Foundation), Asa Dotzler (Mozilla)

Average rating:

(4.20, 10 ratings)

Using the <video> tag in HTML5, developers can do all sorts of things that are hard or impossible with plugins. In this presentation, Mozilla's Mark Surman and Asa Dotzler paint a picture of the open video future and demo the cool stuff you can do with web video when it's properly integrated with a page. Read more.

1:45pm Thursday, 07/23/2009

Thunderbird 3: A user-centric platform for email, learning from the web

Desktop Applications, Mozilla
Location: Ballroom A1

David Ascher (Mozilla Messaging), Dan Mosedale (Mozilla)

Average rating:

(3.67, 9 ratings)

Thunderbird 3 is nearing release -- in this developer-oriented talk, David Ascher and Dan Mosedale will talk about what Thunderbird 3 will mean to people who want to take an active role in managing their email lives. Read more.

2:35pm Thursday, 07/23/2009

The Role of Users in Open Source Projects

Business, Design & Usability, People
Location: Meeting Room B1/B4

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. Read more.

9:30am Friday, 07/24/2009

The Rewilding: A Metaphor

Location: Exhibit Hall 3

Karl Schroeder

Average rating:

(2.55, 20 ratings)

Open source software. Ecosystem services, distributed "smart" electrical grids, and sustainable economics. Collective intelligence, the Science Commons, and Wikipedia. What do all these have in common? They seem to represent a new ethos of "letting go" of centralized control--in project management, industrial and economic infrastructure, and culture. Read more.

9:45am Friday, 07/24/2009

Where Next for Openness?

Location: Exhibit Hall 3

Mark Surman (Mozilla Foundation)

Average rating:

(3.67, 18 ratings)

Openness and participation are now a pervasive part of digital life. Firefox. Wikipedia. Apache. Linux. Millions of Creative Commons pictures on Flickr. We have moved mountains. The question is: what's next? Read more.

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