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Josh Berkus (PostgreSQL Experts, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.23, 30 ratings)
In 10 years of fixing other people's SQL databases, I've noticed that the less the original developer knew, the more complex the databases are ... and the more complex the problems. Here I offer a refreshing approach for simple SQL database design.
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Duleepa Wijayawardhana (MySQL)
Average rating:
(3.50, 12 ratings)
Scaling is a perennial problem. One day you are happily serving 10,000 users and suddenly that pesky CNN picks you on you and you have to deal with a million users. It isn't all about putting the latest hardware, more disk or more RAM. Scaling is a subtle art of discovering pain points in the application and using various Open Source software and technologies to get you to where you want.
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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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Matthew Russell (Digital Reasoning Systems)
Average rating:
(2.93, 14 ratings)
Dojo is an industrial strength JavaScript toolkit that drastically simplifies the effort it takes to develop an application for the open web. This 3 hour tutorial provides an intense introduction to all of the "good parts" of the toolkit and includes a number of demonstrations built in real time (as opposed to primarily being a lecture) in the spirit of a "labs style" environment.
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James Walker (StatusNet Inc),
Addison Berry (Lullabot)
Average rating:
(4.64, 11 ratings)
Drupal is a highly modular, Open Source Content Management System with a wealth of powerful add-on modules. Learn to harness it all and build dynamic websites with Drupal from authors of the book, Using Drupal.
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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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Alex Martelli (Google)
Average rating:
(3.79, 14 ratings)
Abstraction is a powerful servant, but a dangerous master. We code, design, think, debug ... on a tower of abstractions. Spolsky's Law tells us that "All abstractions leak". This talk explores why they leak, why that's often a problem, what to do about it; I also cover why sometimes abstractions SHOULD "leak", and how best to produce and consume abstraction layers.
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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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Cat Allman (Google),
Leslie Hawthorn (Red Hat)
Average rating:
(3.14, 7 ratings)
Leslie Hawthorn and I co-present this talk for beginners who are interested to getting involved but don't know where or how to start. We cover the basics of:
-why you might want to get involved
-what you can get out of participating
-more than coding is needed
-how to chose a project
-how to get started
-etiquette of lists and other communication
-dos and don't of joining a community
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Eric Mandel (BlackMesh),
Jason Ford (BlackMesh)
Average rating:
(3.00, 4 ratings)
Quickly, accurately, and reliably deploying new systems, across the entire spectrum of production, test, and development systems, is a constant challenge for system administrators and developers. We leveraged Cobbler and Puppet to overcome these challenges and will show attendees how they can use Cobbler and Puppet to quickly, accurately, and reliably deploy new systems.
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Justin Erenkrantz (The Apache Software Foundation)
Average rating:
(3.00, 1 rating)
In most open-source projects, often left unsaid is how to effectively contribute within the accepted "societal norms" of a project. Do not become a poisonous person and instead learn how to constructively contribute to your favorite open source project!
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Yehuda Katz (Strobe, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.00, 5 ratings)
In December, Rails announced it would merge with Merb, and that they would be working together to bring many of the salient elements of Merb into the next version of Rails. Yehuda Katz, the maintainer of Merb (now on the Rails core team), will walk you through what's new, with a special focus on modularity, performance, and a clean plugin API, three new points of focus for the framework
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Sigurd Magnusson (SilverStripe)
Average rating:
(3.25, 16 ratings)
Web 2.0, Ajax, usability, and thoughtful graphic design are now commonplace, but open source web applications are lagging behind. Learn techniques that will make your project easier to use, more productive, less prone to user-frustration, and more successful.
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Ross Turk (SourceForge, Inc.)
Average rating:
(5.00, 1 rating)
Ross Turk, Director of Community at SourceForge, will provide information on the traffic statistics, recent developments, and future strategy of the open source code hosting service, paying special attention to the interests and needs of the open source community.
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Tim Bray (Google, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.00, 2 ratings)
The good news is that you can do what the title says, and pretty easily too. The even better news is that the platform and market are radically open. There are some warts and some bad news too; this talk is a personal narrative covering the lessons, pleasing and painful, learned in the course of my first hands-on Android project.
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Benjamin Mako Hill (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Average rating:
(4.00, 3 ratings)
This talk provides a humorous description of an argument in favor of free and open source software based on what I call "antifeatures:" functionality that technology developers charge users to not include. From DRM to crippled OSes to digital cameras, I will show off many of the most egregious antifeatures and describe how open source both makes them impossible and helps users work around them.
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Jeff Lawson (Twilio)
Average rating:
(3.00, 1 rating)
Open source-based businesses have successfully relied a small but reliable set of business models, including the support model and the freemium model. More recently, companies have discovered that the Cloud offers a new monetization model, focused on reliability, scalability and simplified configuration.
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Juhan Sonin (Involution Studios)
Average rating:
(3.86, 7 ratings)
Sex and Design Axioms describes the minimal rule set for designing interfaces: the foundational concepts that are required knowledge for designers and engineers to create usable and elegant interfaces.
It is the analog for The Elements of Style by Strunk and White on user interface that encompasses layout, interaction, visual design, and prototyping tenets.
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Patrick Collison (Stripe)
Average rating:
(4.00, 1 rating)
Released in early 2008 under the GPL, and downloaded over 100,000 times, the offline Wikipedia reader for the iPhone was one of the most popular pre-SDK apps. Now available in 17 languages for the iPhone/OLPC, it's the main means of browsing Wikipedia for those without internet access. This talk explains the techniques and challenges involved in efficiently storing Wikipedia on a mobile device.
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Bill Karwin (Karwin Software Solutions)
Average rating:
(4.33, 6 ratings)
SQL is from Mars, Objects are from Venus.
This talk is for software developers who know SQL but are stuck trying to implement common object-oriented structures in an SQL database. Mimicking polymorphism, extensibility, and hierarchical data in the relational database paradigm can be confusing and awkward, but they don't have to be.
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Average rating:
(4.00, 4 ratings)
Have a drink and mingle with other OSCON participants, and see the latest products, projects, services, and gadgets from sponsors and exhibitors during the Expo Hall Reception. The OSCON Author Meet and Greet will be held there as well at the same time.
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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: Ballroom A4/A5
Moderated by: Simon St.Laurent
Would you like to write for O'Reilly? Blog? Create podcasts or screencasts? Come find out what the possibilities include.
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Location: Ballroom A7
Moderated by: Peter Zaitsev
Average rating:
(5.00, 1 rating)
MySQL, Drizzle, MariaDB, XtraDB, Google Patches, Percona Patches, OurDelta... there is a lot of forks patches and branches around. Join us to learn about current state of affairs and share your vision and desires
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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
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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Louis Suarez-Potts (Oracle / OpenOffice.org)
Average rating:
(4.00, 1 rating)
OOo has succeeded in engaging thousands of contributors around the world. Many are not technical. How was this done? As well, governments are now adopting OpenOffice.org: Why? And, how do the local and localization communuties contribute to this adoption? Finally, what lessons can other Foss projects take from OpenOffice.org's accompishments?
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Andres Almiray (Canoo Engineering AG),
Ixchel Ruiz (CCA)
Average rating:
(5.00, 2 ratings)
Learn how the Groovy language can help you enhance your testing experience of Java applications.
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Chris DiBona (Google, Inc.),
Leslie Hawthorn (Red Hat)
Average rating:
(3.67, 9 ratings)
In this talk, Chris DiBona will bring the audience up to date on recent Google activities in open source. We will specifically cover advances in Android’s open source deployment infrastructure, including the Gerrit and Repo tools, and the directions those tools are taking.
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Bryan O'Sullivan (Serpentine Green Design)
Languages like Erlang, Haskell, Scala and Clojure have been gaining visibility rapidly over the past few years. Our panel will discuss the advantages and challenges of developing and deploying software using functional languages. How do coding, QA, and maintenance change in this world?
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Rich Wolski (University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB))
Average rating:
(4.00, 14 ratings)
We will present Eucalyptus -- Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for
Linking Your Programs to Useful Systems -- an open source software
infrastructure that implements IaaS-style cloud computing.
The goal of Eucalyptus is to allow sites with existing clusters and server
infrastructure to host an elastic computing service that
is interface-compatible with Amazon's AWS.
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Sebastian Bergmann (thePHP.cc)
Average rating:
(2.75, 4 ratings)
How do you write untestable code and anger an ancient goddess? These and other questions will guide us while we discuss testability, an often forgotten attribute of software design and quality. Starting from untestable code fragments, the audience will learn why the code is untestable and how it can be refactored for testability.
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Rod Johnson (SpringSource)
Average rating:
(3.86, 7 ratings)
The Spring Framework is the most popular application programming framework for Java/Java EE development, with widespread adoption across many industries. If you’re a Spring user, you should understand the Spring 3.0 features and how they may benefit you; if you are not yet a Spring user, you may find Spring significantly more compelling.
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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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Ted Leung (The Walt Disney Company)
Average rating:
(4.30, 10 ratings)
This talk will be a survey of concurrent programming constructs which are currently available in some programming language or library. We will look at programming model being presented, as well as examining some of the implementation challenges for the various models.
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Emil Eifrem (Neo Technology / Neo4j)
Average rating:
(4.00, 7 ratings)
A graph db stores data in a network structure rather than in relational tables. This model is well suited for many web use cases such as tagging, metadata annotations, social networks, wikis and other network-shaped or hierarchical data sets. This talk will introduce Neo4j: a high-performance, transactional open source graph db, which frequently outperforms RDBMSs with >1000x for such use cases.
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Howard Lewis Ship (Formos)
Average rating:
(3.50, 4 ratings)
Clojure is a functional programming language that runs on the JVM and features great performance and innovative concurrency support.
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David Fetter (PgExperts)
Average rating:
(2.64, 11 ratings)
PostgreSQL 8.4 is the first Open Source database management system to handle trees and lists using SQL:2008-compliant Common Table Expressions and Windowing functions. You'll learn how these work, see intriguing examples, and walk out ready to use them to your advantage.
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Jonathan Ellis (DataStax)
Average rating:
(4.00, 9 ratings)
Cassandra is a third-generation open source distributed database that
marries Bigtable's rich data model with Dynamo's aggressive simplicity
to produce a uniquely compelling alternative to traditional relational
databases.
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Matt Asay (10gen),
Zack Urlocker (MySQL),
Matt Deuel (Virgin Mobile),
Jeffrey Hammond (Forrester Research),
Barry Klawans (San Francisco International Airport, IT&T Department)
Average rating:
(2.00, 1 rating)
In a time of tight IT budgets, open source has attracted much attention due to its cost advantages. But what is hype and what is reality? Join industry veterans, analysts and end-users as the look at the true costs and cost savings of open source. Participants will discuss how smart open source implementation can save money and where investments need to be made.
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Jason Weathersby (Actuate Corporation)
Average rating:
(4.00, 5 ratings)
This session will detail using BIRT to create interactive content for your intranet and external web based applications.
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David Wheeler (PostgreSQL Experts, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.29, 14 ratings)
You unit test your application API. You unit test your presentation layer. You write integration and acceptance tests. But your database is tested only as a side-effect to testing everything else. That's a pretty important part of the stack to just leave to the assumption it works as expected!
Come to this talk to learn about the tools that enable integrated unit tests for your database.
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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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Peter Zaitsev (Percona Inc)
Average rating:
(1.00, 1 rating)
Besides MySQL release officially available from Sun there are multiple patches and extensions developed by community. In this Presentation we will look into them to see what extra features patches from Google, Percona and OurDelta offer and how can you use them to make your MySQL life more fun.
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Neal Ford (ThoughtWorks)
Average rating:
(4.11, 9 ratings)
Design patterns describe common problems in software development, but many people believe that the GoF book demonstrates the best ways to implement these patterns. Dynamic languages provide more facilities than C++ or Java; this session shows alternative implementations of design patterns using dynamic languages (Ruby and Groovy).
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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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Location: Ballroom A2
Moderated by: Dalibor Topic
With more then 30 new committers within a year, OpenJDK has been growing quickly, but that's just a start - if you are hacking on JDK 7 or using one of the OpenJDK subprojects like Da Vinci VM, or just want to get a taste for the direction in which JDK 7 is going, or want to explore what it would take to get your favorite programming language running well on the JVM - come and join us at the BoF.
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Location: Ballroom A7
Moderated by: Peter Zaitsev
MySQL, PostgreSQL. Hadoop, HypperTable, Memcache, Gearman - there are a lot of open source tools and technologies which help you to store, cache, process and manage the data.
Come to this BOF to share what open source technologies you use for your data management needs, what works well and what does not
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Location: Ballroom A2
Moderated by: Irfan Ahmed
WEB2.0 and RIA (Rich Internet Applications) are the new platforms of developing web applications. Join this discussion on how open source tools and frameworks were used to build the Web Stack Enterprise Manager, a monitoring and management web application based on Dojo, AJAX and REST.
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Location: Exhibit Hall 3
Gunnar Hellekson (Red Hat)
Average rating:
(3.77, 22 ratings)
The current Administration talks the talk in terms of its adoption of new technology solutions, access to information, and the call for transparency and increased citizen participation. But can it walk the walk? This keynote will address how open source advocates can help the Federal Government unlock the innovative potential of the open source development model.
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Location: Exhibit Hall 3
Erik Meijer (Microsoft)
Average rating:
(3.05, 20 ratings)
This talk argues that fundamentalist functional programming-that is, radically eliminating all side effects from programming languages, including strict evaluation-is what it takes to conquer the concurrency and parallelism dragon.
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Location: Exhibit Hall 3
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.
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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?
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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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Karen Sandler (GNOME Foundation),
Simon Phipps (Open Source Initiative),
Gervase Markham (Mozilla Foundation),
Larry Augustin (SugarCRM),
Chris Messina (Google)
Average rating:
(4.00, 3 ratings)
Trademark law is designed to prevent confusion in the market place but understanding how it can benefit the FOSS community can often be confusing. This panel will discuss whether it is useful to register a trademark and, if so, how to permit its use by others. Various policies and enforcement strategies will be evaluated from corporate and non-profit perspectives, often in strong disagreement.
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Bruce Lawson (Opera Software ASA)
Average rating:
(4.42, 12 ratings)
A pragmatic look at HTML 5 by experimenting with converting a real site to HTML 5 - how does it work? Where it useful and where is it annoying? How is support in current browsers?
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Jonathan Ellis (DataStax)
Average rating:
(3.85, 13 ratings)
Replication. Partitioning. Relational databases. Bigtable. Dynamo.
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to scaling your database, and the CAP theorem proved that there never will be. This talk will explain the advantages and limits of the approaches to scaling traditional relational databases, as well as the tradeoffs made by the designers of newer systems like Google's Bigtable.
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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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Location: Exhibit Hall 3
Jim Zemlin (The Linux Foundation)
Average rating:
(4.12, 16 ratings)
Join Jim Zemlin as he takes a look back at the big moves that drove Linux to dominate the server and super computing markets and how we are seeing similar trends start now in the desktop.
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We have set up a tour of the San Jose Tech Museum of Innovation:
The Tech Museum
Guided Tour with Our Open Source Curators
in Downtown San Jose, CA.
Two tours available Friday, July 24, 3pm and 4pm.
OSCON attendee special, 50% off Tour and Admission Special: only $8 in advance; $10 day of tour.
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