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Jim Brandt (Best Practical Solutions)
Average rating:
(3.54, 13 ratings)
In difficult financial times, all businesses are looking to do more with less. Automating repetitive tasks with computers is one way to do this. This tutorial will discuss how to use open source tools to implement workflow using real-world examples.
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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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Eric Day (Rackspace Cloud),
Brian Aker (HP)
Average rating:
(3.82, 11 ratings)
This tutorial will show you how to get started with Gearman, the flexible job queuing system used to power websites such as LiveJournal and Digg. We'll cover common architectures, installation, APIs, and deployment. A few use cases will be described and built, including a Map/Reduce cluster and database-driven URL mining application.
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Average rating:
(3.88, 8 ratings)
Semantic Technologies provide a simple, standardized methodology for representing, combing and sharing data and serve as the foundation for creating communities of open data. These technologies are both easy to learn and easy to use. This tutorial will introduce you to semantic programming using a variety of open source tools and programming techniques that you can use on your projects today.
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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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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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Howard Abrams (Joule Labs)
Average rating:
(3.50, 8 ratings)
Software programming has come a long way for students and younger children since the days of Logo. Syntax has been replaced with connecting blocks and the triangle turtle has been replaced with custom artwork children create themselves. Now, multi-threading and event processing are easier to teach children than functions, and this session discusses these ideas as well as so the edge of kid code.
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Robin Rowe (Linux Plus Magazine)
Average rating:
(1.86, 7 ratings)
In the Year 2020 the user interface will look completely different from today. What will that be and how can FOSS lead the way?
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Danny O'Brien (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
Average rating:
(4.25, 8 ratings)
Why do we trust our most personal diary entries with only our closest friends -- and distant machines of a faceless social networking service? Why do you hand over to Amazon files and passwords that you wouldn't tell your own mother? EFF's Danny O'Brien explains why innovation still comes from the edge of our networks -- and how the next generation of free software will help.
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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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Nick Diakopoulos (Georgia Tech),
Brad Stenger (Ars Technica)
Average rating:
(2.00, 1 rating)
The era of traditional journalism is giving way to something else. We think that something else is Computational Journalism. CJ recognizes the need for internal production and for public-facing news delivery innovations. What journalists provide in terms of services, interfaces, and business models are in flux. To settle things, smart experiments (often using Open Source APIs) are critical.
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Chris Wanstrath (GitHub)
Average rating:
(3.40, 5 ratings)
With all the hype surrounding multimillion dollar rounds of funding, it's easy forget there's another way to build a business: by being cheap and smart. By relying on open source, building in increments, and only buying what you need, it's possible to create a successful company on your own (or with a few co-founders). This talk will focus on just that: the frugal path to profitability.
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Josh Berkus (PostgreSQL Experts, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.00, 4 ratings)
Come see your favorite open source projects for updates on what they've been doing while you were out partying (or job-hunting) all year. What has Mozilla been up to? What's going on with the FreeBSD Kernel? Have MySQL and PostgreSQL finally killed each other off? Join us for a 1 1/2 hour session of 5-minute project updates, combined with both intentional and unintentional humor.
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Alex Polvi (Cloudkick)
Average rating:
(3.33, 3 ratings)
This talk will discuss the on going effort to standardize the interfaces into the cloud. Currently every cloud provider has a unique, proprietary, API for consuming the services they offer. The Cloud Computing Interoperability movement aims to provide standards that will overcome vendor lock-in, benefit the consumers, and allow the cloud ecosystem to grow transparently.
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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:
(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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K Lars Lohn (Mozilla Corporation),
Ted Mielczarek (Mozilla Corporation),
Austin King (Mozila Corporation)
Average rating:
(5.00, 3 ratings)
Mozilla's open source crash reporting system premiered in Firefox 3.0. Combining the Google Breakpad and Mozilla Socorro projects, Mozilla has created a system that allows millions of client applications to report crashes back to a central location for analysis. This talk is intended for people interested in how the new Firefox crash reporting works and how it is applicable to other projects.
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