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Philip Lindsay
(rancidbacon.com),
Brian Jepson
(O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.64, 14 ratings)
The success of the Arduino physical computing toolkit has lead to a surge of interest in the world of hardware from both software and non-technical people. This workshop will provide an overview of what physical computing is, how Arduino works and how it can be used to add an interactive element to your projects. There will also be an opportunity to set up and use an Arduino board and software.
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Average rating:
(4.39, 31 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 conduct our second Ignite event at OSCON.
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Average rating:
(3.50, 18 ratings)
In the tradition of the Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards from years past, we will continue with the O'Reilly Open Source Awards. This honor will be presented to individuals for dedication, innovation, leadership and outstanding contribution to open source. Join us to recognize this year’s winners.
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Average rating:
(4.27, 22 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 conduct our second Ignite event at OSCON.
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Allison Randal
(DrugDev, Inc.),
Edd Dumbill
(O'Reilly Media, Inc. )
Average rating:
(3.56, 27 ratings)
Opening remarks by the OSCON program chairs, Allison Randal and Edd Dumbill.
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Tim O'Reilly
(O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.82, 44 ratings)
Keynote by Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media.
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Dan Morrill
(Google)
Average rating:
(3.44, 25 ratings)
Android is an open-source OS and software stack for mobile devices. Come join the Android Open-Source Lead for a discussion of the Android open source philosophy, and insight into how the project is run.
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Howard Lewis Ship
(TWD Consulting)
Average rating:
(3.83, 18 ratings)
Even if you are successful using open source sofware, there's something special about hardware: It's physical. You can touch it. You build it (not compile it). This is a talk about the Arduino open source physical computing platform; a cheap, useful, fun micro-controller ... and it's loads of fun, even if you break into a cold sweat at the thought of picking up a soldering iron.
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Jonathan Stark
(Jonathan Stark Consulting)
Average rating:
(4.54, 35 ratings)
Explore an alternative approach to native mobile app development that allows you to create smooth animation, operate in offline mode, and hook into advanced device features (accelerometer, camera, location, vibration, and sound) using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
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Mary Jane Kelly
(Casaba Security)
Average rating:
(4.00, 12 ratings)
What do you get when you mix fractals, 3D printers, robotics, open source, high-powered lasers, and non-orientable surfaces with wood, plastic, textiles, steel, cloth... and lots of coffee? A completely new range of geek fabricated items and appliances. It’s hacking in real life.
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David Elfi
(Intel Corporation),
Aaron Sloman
(speakTECH)
Average rating:
(1.33, 3 ratings)
Attend this session to learn more about MeeGo and AppUp's software developer kits for developing applications for netbooks.
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Jeffrey Osier-Mixon
(Intel Corporation)
Average rating:
(3.78, 9 ratings)
The Beagle Board is a tiny yet powerful self-contained system on a single board, three inches square, created as an open-source hardware board by Texas Instruments. This presentation demonstrates how to boot Linux on the Beagle. It also showcases several ongoing open-source projects, gives an overview of the process of designing your own, and introduces the Beagle Board community.
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Alasdair Allan
(Babilim Light Industries)
Average rating:
(3.40, 10 ratings)
The iPhone platform is surprisingly powerful, capable of performing fairly advanced feats of computer-vision in (near to) real-time. The talk walks attendees through the procedure of cross-compiling the OpenCV computer vision library for the iPhone Simulator and device hardware, and building a simple application to perform face recognition using the iPhone's camera.
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Matt Jadud
(Allegheny College),
Christian Jacobsen
(University of Copenhagen)
Average rating:
(4.67, 6 ratings)
This talk will introduce Plumbling, a set of tools to support artists and makers in the programming of low-cost, open-hardware platforms like the Arduino. Plumbing is a library of parallel components written in occam-pi, a small language with a long history.
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Chris DiBona
(Google, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.60, 15 ratings)
In this lively discussion we'll give an update on the Google activities over the last year, including an overview of Android, Chrome, ChromeOS, Go and other releases. We will also present a milestone report on the summer of code.
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Russell Nelson
(Open Source Initiative)
Average rating:
(3.12, 8 ratings)
Water parameters are hard to measure because water is, well, underwater. Using inexpensive sensors and an Arduino (compatible) we can measure water parameters such as temperature, turbidity, and salinity.
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Average rating:
(4.00, 23 ratings)
Have a drink and mingle with other OSCON participants, and see the latest products, projects, services, and gadgets from sponsors and exhibitors in the Expo Hall.
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Average rating:
(4.50, 40 ratings)
Join us at OSCON Android Hands-on, an intense, technical, and structured event led by Google Android experts. Co-presented by Google and O’Reilly, the Hands-on takes place after the Expo Hall reception on Wednesday, July 21 from 7:00-10:00 pm. Space is limited. Separate advance registration is required, and is open only to registered conference attendees and speakers.
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David Recordon
(Facebook)
Average rating:
(3.53, 38 ratings)
Keynote by David Recordon, Facebook.
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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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Paul Beusterien
(Symbian Foundation)
Average rating:
(1.67, 6 ratings)
Mobile devices are at the nexus of innovation of the desktop, the web, and embedded systems. Mobile developers need usable, functional tools to create compelling apps for mobile.
We'll explore how open source contributes to the value and capability of tools for mobile developers and how the transformational challenges have been overcome.
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Jesse Vincent
(Best Practical)
Average rating:
(4.00, 7 ratings)
K-9 Mail is an open source email client for Android. It began life as a single feature fork of Android 1.0's core email client. Since fall of 2008, K-9 has seen several dozen contributors and a few thousand commits.
Picking up Android from scratch can be somewhat daunting. This talk will give you a leg up as you start into your first Android application.
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Michael Meeks
(Novell, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.73, 11 ratings)
The MeeGo platform is an exciting new project, unifying the
best of the Moblin and Maemo projects. Come and see how it all stacks
up from Netbook to hand-set, and get excited about the wealth of
usability and possibility.
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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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Average rating:
(2.74, 38 ratings)
The OSCON tradition continues as Larry Wall delivers the annual State of the Onion Address.
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Average rating:
(3.00, 8 ratings)
Join us for API Hour at OSCON, happening Thursday, July 22, starting at 7pm at the The EastBurn, located in the East Burnside district. OSCON API Hour will feature local Portland favorite microbrews and appetizers, plus skeeball, vintage video games, pinball, and live music starting at 10:00PM.
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Federico Lucifredi
(Canonical USA)
Average rating:
(4.00, 6 ratings)
Using off the shelf hardware, we integrate small, network-capable single-purpose devices delivering a true time source (via GPS) and a generator of perfect randomness (via Geiger counter). An entertaining introduction to embedded systems delivered while creating actually useful tools. Targeted at budding embedded system Developers and Administrators interested in the gory low-end details.
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Bruce Momjian
(EnterpriseDB),
Matthew Momjian
(Student)
Average rating:
(3.25, 8 ratings)
Last year I presented a talk on home automation at OSCON, focusing on the hardware aspects. This year my home automation talk will cover
the software aspects of controlling home automation systems. Practical applications include turning off all the lights at night, summoning everyone for mealtime, and broadcasting caller-id
information to all computers.
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Kevin Hoyt
(Adobe Systems, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.33, 6 ratings)
Open source hardware has arrived, and it’s taking the market by storm. In this session get a gentle introduction to the world of electronics hardware featuring Arduino - an open source prototyping platform. We will collect sensor data for light, distance, temperature and humidity, send it wirelessly to the cloud, and then display all that beautiful data using the open source Adobe Flex SDK.
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Andy McKay
(Mozilla)
Average rating:
(4.50, 2 ratings)
RapidSMS is an open source project for messaging, data collection and co-ordination over SMS. It's used throughout the world for a variety of projects, from fighting child malnutrition and malaria to monitoring elections.
This talk introduces RapidSMS and covers some of the sample applications built with it.
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