Sessions tagged with 'fun'

Choose Your Own OSCONventure
Adam Jacob (Opscode)
Presentations: external link,
Choose Your Own OSCONventure Presentation [PDF]
An interactive talk covering just the key points from 16 different topics, Infrastructure Automation, Cloud Computing, Configuration Management tools, the NoSQL movement, effective Monitoring, building Open Source Communities for Systems Administrators, Startup tips, and more. Come get your questions answered, hear the 5 minute version of the talk you missed - you choose your own adventure.
Plumbing: Parallel Programming for Artists and Makers
Matt Jadud (Allegheny College), Christian Jacobsen (University of Copenhagen)
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.
Repent!!! For the End of the Unix Epoch is Nigh!!!
Michael Schwern (eval Empire)
Presentation: Repent!!! For the End of the Unix Epoch is Nigh!!! Presentation [PDF]
SINNERS!! HEAR ME!! For too long have you lain contented and SLOTHFUL in the illusion that time is infinite! SOON the UNIX EPOCH will END and numbers will OVERFLOW their confines CLEANSING all in a flood the likes we have not seen since 1901!!! The SINS of your 32 BITS will chase your children and your children's children unless you REPENT NOW and cleanse your code of the 2038 BUG!!
The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Presenters
Presented by: Josh Berkus
You've seen them: the speakers who really know how to suck on stage. Don't you which you could be as bad as they are? Josh Berkus, vetran presenter, will teach you the Seven Habits so that you can be extremely mediocre too!
Your Work in Open Source, 3 years of Incremental Change
Chris DiBona (Google, Inc.)
In this short, weensy eensy, talk, Chris will give an update on how open source has changed over the last three years. Is Ruby growing ? Actionscript? Or is it all PHP all the way down? How's gplv3 doing? Agpl? MIT? Will the Nasa open source license domainte? Come and find out!
  • Intel
  • Microsoft
  • Google
  • Facebook
  • Rackspace Hosting
  • (mt) Media Temple, Inc.
  • ActiveState
  • CommonPlaces
  • DB Relay
  • FireHost
  • GoDaddy
  • HP
  • HTSQL by Prometheus Research
  • Impetus Technologies Inc.
  • Infobright, Inc
  • JasperSoft
  • Kaltura
  • Marvell
  • Mashery
  • NorthScale, Inc.
  • Open Invention Network
  • OpSource
  • Oracle
  • Parallels
  • PayPal
  • Percona
  • Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
  • Rhomobile
  • Schooner Information Technology
  • Silicon Mechanics
  • SourceGear
  • Symbian
  • VoltDB
  • WSO2
  • Linux Pro Magazine

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