Edd Dumbill
Program Chair, O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Edd Dumbill is a technologist, writer and programmer based in California. He is the program chair for the O’Reilly Strata and Open Source Convention Conferences, and Editor in Chief of the journal Big Data.

He was the founder and creator of the Expectnation conference management system, and a co-founder of the Pharmalicensing.com online intellectual property exchange.

A veteran of open source, Edd has contributed to various projects, such as Debian and GNOME, and created the DOAP Vocabulary for describing software projects.

Edd has written four books, including O’Reilly’s “Learning Rails”. He writes regularly on Google+ and on his blog at eddology.com.

Edd Dumbill's recent contacts

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VP, Conferences
O'Reilly Media, Inc.

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Web Producer
O'Reilly Media

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Manager, Events Operations & Services
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Media Relations Manager
O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Recent comments

posted almost 3 years ago:
People interested in this keynote should also check out the announcement from Rackspace about OpenStack.
posted almost 3 years ago:
Alisdair, yes, people who pay for tutorial days will have access to recordings from the corresponding days. We will be notifying attendees when these are available.
posted almost 3 years ago:
This session is a 3-hour tutorial. The other session you mention is a 40 minute talk.
posted almost 3 years ago:
@Bill, this presentation forms part of the regular conference sessions.
posted almost 3 years ago:
The Scala Summit is one of the things I'm most excited about this year. Can't wait to hear what Alex and Dean have to say!

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