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Ben Gerst
(The New York Times),
Vadim Jelezniakov
(The New York Times)
Average rating:
(3.40, 5 ratings)
User-generated content has become an integral part of NYTimes.com. And where there's a community, there are scaling issues. At The Times, we recently moved our entire community platform from our own internal hardware to the Amazon EC2 infrastructure. Join us as we discuss our adventures in the cloud so far. Topics will include cloud management, auto-scaling and deployment on the cloud.
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Brian LeRoux
(Nitobi Inc.),
Filip Maj
(Nitobi)
Average rating:
(3.62, 8 ratings)
Find out what the buzz is all about! Learn how to use PhoneGap to build platform-neutral mobile apps with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Now's your chance to find out if the PhoneGap open source framework is the right technology choice for your mobile development projects.
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Diane Peters
(Creative Commons)
Average rating:
(3.00, 3 ratings)
OCSON attendees are intimately familiar with the decisions surrounding software licensing: copyleft, attribution, and non-endorsement all mean something when discussing source licenses. With the rise of data as an asset, developers are turning their attention to data, often with the assumption that the same ideas apply. This talk will discuss why that's not the case and what to do about it.
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Dries Buytaert
(Acquia)
Average rating:
(4.00, 5 ratings)
In this session, Drupal project lead and Acquia co-founder and CTO Dries Buytaert will share his secrets for building and participating in a thriving open source community and how collaboration amongst communities and non-developer adopters is critical to a healthy and sustainable project.
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Karl Fogel
(Open Tech Strategies, LLC)
Average rating:
(4.67, 6 ratings)
In 2009, QuestionCopyright.org helped filmmaker Nina Paley release her award-winning feature film "Sita Sings the Blues" under a free license & an open source economic model. The film is now an audience hit, and the free license has resulted in more money for Paley than any traditional distributor could offer. This talk is an in-depth look at how open source is not just for software anymore.
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Evan Prodromou
(StatusNet Inc)
Average rating:
(5.00, 2 ratings)
Email had Sendmail; the Web had Apache; blogging had WordPress. What software projects are driving the development of a federated social Web? Evan Prodromou, founder and CEO of StatusNet Inc., will give an overview of the protocols for social federation and what Open Source projects are doing to support them.
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Florian Cramer
(Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy),
Michael Murtaugh
(Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy),
Aymeric Mansoux
(Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy)
Average rating:
(3.00, 2 ratings)
Open Source plays an increasingly important role in arts and design through Web applications and open licenses. The Networked Media design programme of the Piet Zwart Institute has, for years, employed Open Source more radically for all course work, on servers and clients, with a focus on the command line, coding and FLOSS philosophy to foster rethinking of media instead of off-the-shelf design.
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Joshua Marinacci
(Nokia)
Average rating:
(4.00, 4 ratings)
So you've just launched your open source project. But now what? You need users. You need contributors. You need people to know you exist. And you have no budget! This session will show you the lessons I've learned from many open source projects I've worked on over the years. It will teach you how to build buzz and help people find you, all without exceeding your time and budget constraints.
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Adam Feuer
(Grameen Foundation),
Adam Monsen
(Grameen Foundation USA),
Van Mittal-Henkle
(Grameen Foundation)
Average rating:
(4.00, 6 ratings)
Open source software is a key ingredient in solving some of the worlds' most difficult problems. This is particularly true with the problem of poverty. Join us to dive into the problem of poverty, find out why it demands both open source software and Agile methods, and explore lessons learned from an existing project in this area, the Grameen Foundation's Mifos Initiative.
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Kevin Shockey
(Mis Tribus)
Average rating:
(2.50, 4 ratings)
With tectonic changes taking place in the print publishing industry, we will soon see a redefinition of what the terms "publish" and "book" mean. Aimed at product managers of open source projects, this session will teach anyone how to "publish" a "book" using open source tools. Participants will gain practical formatting and distribution knowledge necessary to publish their own ebooks.
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Keith Lofstrom
(SiidTech)
Average rating:
(3.67, 3 ratings)
Data center power usage is skyrocketing, generation is not. Large arrays of ultralight satellites will someday convert sunlight into computation and global internet communication without the economic and environmental costs of ground-based data centers. World-changing open source and open hardware technology.
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