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Schedule: Keynote sessions
Location: Portland Ballroom
Allison Randal
(Canonical),
Edd Dumbill
(O'Reilly Media, Inc. )
Opening remarks by the OSCON program chairs, Allison Randal and Edd Dumbill.
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Location: Portland Ballroom
Tim O'Reilly
(O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
Keynote by Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media.
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Location: Portland Ballroom
Bryan Sivak
(Government of the District of Columbia)
Keynote by Bryan Sivak, CTO, Government of the District of Columbia.
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Location: Portland Ballroom
Jennifer Pahlka
(Code for America)
The framework for our country is our laws and our principles. But
increasingly, as a nation, we can't express these principles or uphold
our laws without the right software in place to support them. A new
generation of civic heroes is needed to heed the call to service, and
the Open Source community should lead the way.
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Location: Portland Ballroom
Dirk Hohndel
(Intel Corporation)
Since the MeeGo project was launched in February of this year, we've made great progress with the launch of MeeGo 1.0, providing developers with a stable core foundation for application development and a rich user experience for Netbooks, and the opening of the handset user experience as part of the MeeGo 1.1 development tree.
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Location: Portland Ballroom
Stormy Peters
(GNOME Foundation)
We worried about making sure we had free and open source software to use, we worried about privacy, we worried about user rights. And then we handed the keys to our data to "free" web services. How can we ensure that our data is in the hands of web services that will respect our rights? How can free and open source software ideals be applied to web services?
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Location: Portland Ballroom
Mårten Mickos
(Eucalyptus Systems)
Keynote by Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems.
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Location: Portland Ballroom
David Recordon
(Facebook)
Keynote by David Recordon, Facebook.
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Location: Portland Ballroom
Jill Tarter
(SETI Institute)
For years you've been leaving your computers turned on in order to process data packets for UC Berkeley's SETI@home - that's great! Please keep it up!
Did you ever want to get more involved?
It's time to change the humanity's point of view of who we are (individually and collectively) to one that is more cosmic and inclusive.
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Location: Portland Ballroom
Jean Paoli
(Microsoft)
The cloud is all about more connectivity – and interoperability is at the heart of that. Organizations around the world are looking at opportunities to leverage a new wave of cloud technologies. New data sets. New computing power.
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Location: Portland Ballroom
Rob Pike
(Google, Inc.)
Object-oriented programming began, back in the 1960s with Simula, as a way to describe the behavior of interacting items - objects. It was purified through languages such as Smalltalk, in which everything is an object and every operation a message send, a clear and beautiful model. But then something went very wrong.
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Location: Portland Ballroom
Lew Moorman
(Rackspace.com)
Keynote by Lew Moorman, Chief Strategy Officer, Rackspace Cloud.
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Location: Portland Ballroom
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!
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Location: Portland Ballroom
Sam Adams
(City of Portland, Oregon)
Keynote by Sam Adams, Mayor of the City of Portland, Oregon.
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Location: Portland Ballroom
Simon Wardley
(Leading Edge Forum (CSC))
In today’s computing world, it can often feel like we are drowning in
wave after wave of new trends. This sea of concepts are simply the
evolution of our industry from a product to a service based economy.
This talk will examine the evolution of technology, the management
challenges this brings and the common myths that surround the concept of
cloud computing.
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Location: Portland Ballroom
Paul Fenwick
(Perl Training Australia)
Technology advances through the creation of new inventions. New creations and research increase the breadth of human knowledge, and make life easier for us all; at least in theory.
In reality, the advance of progress is littered with bad ideas. What's worse, we often build upon such twisted horrors in the creation of new technology.
A humouros look at some of the worst inventions ever made.
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