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Monday, 07/25/2011
9:00am
Estelle Weyl (Standardista.com)
HTML5 and CSS3 are the new buzz words. Recruiters will soon be asking for 5 to 10 years of HTML5 experience. While we can't give that to you, we can help you stay ahead of the game! In this workshop you will learn what CSS3 and HTML5 features are implementable and how to implement them.
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Matt Harrison (FusionIO)
Python is used all over the place and gaining in popularity. This introduction to Python assumes you know how to program, but don't know Python. You'll learn the basics, write some code and hopefully leave being able to grok Python.
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Marko Gargenta (Marakana)
Learn to develop an Android application from start to finish. In this hands-on tutorial, you will learn design principles and we provided code snippets to put together an Android application. By end of this tutorial, you will understand main building blocks for Android application development.
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Randal L. Schwartz (Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc.),
Tom Phoenix (Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc.)
Randal Schwartz condenses the seminal Learning Perl ("the Llama book") into a high-energy 3-hour presentation.
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An in-depth tutorial on today's cutting edge PHP libraries including Symfony2, Doctrine2, Doctrine MongoDB ODM, Twig and Assetic. Get up to speed on PHP 5.3 in a hurry!
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Damian Conway (Thoughtstream)
The class examines (from a geek perspective) seven basic principles of good presentation, covering preparation, content selection, delivery techniques, and handling questions...or the lack thereof. It also explores a dozen simple and practical techniques for making your slides not suck.
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Garrett Honeycutt (Puppet Labs)
Puppet is an enterprise systems management platform that standardizes the way you deploy and manage infrastructure in the enterprise and the cloud.
By the end of the tutorial we’ll produce a simple Puppet architecture that can manage a few services and applications as well as discuss best practices and common design patterns.
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Gregg Pollack (Envy Labs),
Eric Allam (Envy Labs),
Tyler Hunt (Envy Labs),
Caike Souza (Envy Labs),
Jason VanLue (Envy Labs),
Nick Walsh (Envy Labs)
This is an introductory course which teaches the basics of web application development using the Ruby language with the most recent release of the Ruby on Rails framework. If you've never tried Rails or you've only "played with it" at home, then this tutorial is for you.
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Donna Benjamin (Creative Contingencies)
Inkscape is a cross platform, GPL, graphics editor. Its native file format, Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG) is a W3C open standard.
This tutorial guides participants through a series of tasks designed to introduce Inkscape's interface and tools, and build foundation skills for creating and modifying vector graphics.
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Remy Sharp (Left Logic)
Learn how to master the most popular and powerful JavaScript library by writing less and doing more.
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12:30pm
Monday, 07/25/2011
Location: Exhibit Hall E
Lunch
(1h)
1:30pm
Joshua Marinacci (Palm Inc.),
Robert Burdick (Palm)
The Canvas element is one of the most exciting features added to HTML since the marquee tag. You can draw 2D graphics, implement special effects, edit photos at the pixel level, and bring rich animation to both desktop and mobile browsers alike; no plugins required!
This workshop will cover Canvas in depth, from basic shapes to advanced pixel buffer effects, and even a few experimental APIs.
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Raymond Hettinger (Self-employed)
Have your Python skills have hit a plateau? Come learn from Python core developer and consultant Raymond Hettinger about how to move up to the next level. In this tutorial we focus on what you need to know to say that you’re truly mastering the language
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Keith Sutton (Adobe Systems Inc)
This hands on tutorial will lead attendees through the entire process of building their first mobile application using Adobe's Open Source Flex SDK ( http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/site/Home) and compiling it, packaging and installing it on Android and BlackBerry operating systems. Beginners are welcome!
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Ricardo Signes (Pobox.com)
Moose continues to emerge as the new standard for writing OO libraries in Perl. It provides a powerful, consistent API for building classes with a minimum of code. It can be customized with reusable components, making it easier to refactor your code as you go. This tutorial will explain what Moose is, how its parts work together, and how to start using Moose today to get more done with less.
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Sebastian Bergmann (thePHP.cc)
Packed with in-depth information and step-by-step guidance, this tutorial sets you on a path to create, maintain and extend sustainable software of high quality with PHP. You will learn how to plan, execute and automate tests for the different layers and tiers of a Web application.
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Wade Minter (TeamSnap),
Andrew Berkowitz (TeamSnap)
Getting everyone in your company or development team on the same page can be a challenge. This on-your-feet workshop will teach fast, fun improv techniques for helping your group to bond as a team. Learn the secrets of improv-based team building from two professionals who have decades of experience working in open source, Internet start-ups and corporate training.
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Joshua Timberman (Opscode, Inc.),
Aaron Peterson (Opscode, Inc.)
Chef is a powerful open source system integration framework, built to bring the benefits of configuration management to the entire infrastructure. This tutorial will cover key concepts and how to get started using Chef to manage systems and integrate them together to build fully automated infrastructure.
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Gregg Pollack (Envy Labs),
Eric Allam (Envy Labs),
Caike Souza (Envy Labs),
Tyler Hunt (Envy Labs),
Jason VanLue (Envy Labs),
Nick Walsh (Envy Labs)
As the Rails community has matured several conventions have emerged, in the form of best practices. In this 5 part lab, we will walk through the most common of these practices and get some hands on experience refactoring Rails.
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Philip Lindsay (rancidbacon.com)
Always wanted to create hardware devices that can interact with the real world? Heard about the Arduino electronics prototyping platform but not sure how to get started? When you attend this workshop you will: set up an Arduino board & software; learn how the Arduino fits into the field of physical computing; and make your Arduino respond to button presses and blink lights. Hardware is fun!
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Tom Hughes-Croucher (Jetpacks for Dinosaurs)
Learn how to build scalable Internet applications with Node.js, the event-driven server-side JavaScript framework. You'll see how Node.js solves many scaling and speed problems that weigh down other web application frameworks.
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5:00pm
Location: Gather (Double Tree Hotel bar)
Join other Android developers for happy hour at Gather in the Double Tree Hotel on Monday evening. Meet face-to-face and share experiences with other developers working on Android. The first 100 people there get a free drink ticket.
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7:00pm
Location: Oregon Ballroom
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 third Ignite event at OSCON.
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9:00pm
Location: See BoF Schedule for Locations
Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions provide face to face exposure to those interested in the same projects and concepts. BoFs can be organized for individual projects or broader topics (best practices, open data, standards). BoFs are entirely up to you. We post your topic online and onsite and provide the space and time. You provide the engaging topic.
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Tuesday, 07/26/2011
9:00am
Remy Sharp (Left Logic)
Clue: I won't say "no" and sit in silence for 3 hours. This workshop I will go through a number of HTML5 and (new) non-HTML5 technologies and show you, with working code, how these technologies can be used in production today.
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Tim Berglund (August Technology Group, LLC),
Matthew McCullough (GitHub, Inc.)
Matthew McCullough, trainer for GitHub.com, and Tim Berglund, co-presenter of the O'Reilly Git Master Class, will guide you through the fundamentals of Git in three hours of lecture, discussion, and hands-on exercises.
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Zhi-Da Zhong (Etsy)
We'll talk about the roles of A/B testing and similar techniques in web applications, examine an open-source A/B framework for PHP, and present general design ideas that can be applied to building similar systems using other technology stacks.
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Dean Wampler (Think Big Analytics)
You've heard that Functional programming (FP) is good for concurrency. Mastering FP will improve all the code you write.
FP changes practices like TDD; learn how design is more structured and tests are more precise. See why FP-style functions and data structures are actually more reusable than objects. Leave with new tools that eliminate bloat, improve code quality, and speed development.
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Tom Christiansen (TCPC)
Growing exponentially over the last decade, Unicode text now
comprises over 95% of the documents retrieved over the web, while in
other collections, it is often 100% Unicode. This tutorial shows
Perl programmers how to manage Unicode data.
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Christophe Pettus (PostgreSQL Experts, Inc.)
An application that works great in development and test can be crushed by real-life deployment. Don't let your project be one of them. In a hands-on workshop, fix a (realistically) broken Django example so that it can hold its head high under load.
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Andrew Gerrand (Google)
Go is a new, concurrent, garbage-collected programming language that aims to combine the speed and safety of a static language like C with the flexibility and agility of a dynamic language like Python or JavaScript. This hands-on tutorial will cover the essentials of Go, ranging from its basic syntax through to its type system and concurrency primitives. It is a huge amount of fun!
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Jesse Vincent (Best Practical)
Request Tracker (RT) is an enterprise-grade ticketing system designed to help your organization track what needs to get done and what still needs doing. From basic customer service to advanced back-office workflows, RT is flexible enough to keep your processes smooth and effective. This tutorial will cover deployment and day to day use of RT as well as basic customization.
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Maximiliano Firtman (ITMaster Professional Training)
Lots of mobile platforms and stores are available out there. How to create a mobile app for many mobile devices and platforms? How to deal with porting and compatibility problems? jQuery Mobile is a HTML5-powered framework, open sourced, that deals with these problem for us. Any web designer or web developer can create a mobile app in just minutes using standard HTML5 code.
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Essential experience and advice for anyone managing open source in a business.
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A day-long dive into Node, the scalable network application framework for JavaScript.
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Simon Wardley (Leading Edge Forum (CSC))
Vital strategic advice for anyone involved in running a tech business, big or small.
In today’s computing world, it can feel like we're drowning in wave after wave of new trends. This sea of concepts is simply the evolution of our industry from a product to a service based economy. Learn how to navigate this change to your advantage, and find a balance between the present and the future.
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9:05am
Tim Caswell (HP webOS)
Join Tim Caswell for an action packed session exploring the many capabilities
of this platform we call NodeJS. This won't be your average how to
write a websocket server for your HTML5 game talk. We will delve into
many facets of node including binary C++ addons and multiple
frontends.
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9:35am
11:00am
11:45am
1:30pm
Jason VanLue (Envy Labs)
We've all heard about HTML5 & CSS3, but do we know how to effectively apply all of the new properties and features to our websites? In this tutorial, practical application is the name of the game. We'll cut through the theory and show you how to design and build functional websites using the newest HTML5 tags and CSS3 properties.
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Damian Conway (Thoughtstream)
You use your editor all day, every day. But how much of that editor do you actually use? This tutorial explores many of the less widely known but more powerful features of the Vim editor, and explains how developers can greatly improve their productivity by optimizing, automating, or even eliminating the common coding tasks they perform every day.
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wesley chun (Google)
Google App Engine is an application development and cloud-hosting platform that lets users create apps to run Google's datacenters. In this 3-part tutorial, we'll give a 1-hour intro talk on cloud computing and App Engine, a 90-100 minute introductory codelab to get your feet wet with App Engine development, and finally conclude with about a half-hour intro to some of App Engine's newest features!
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brian d foy (The Perl Review, LLC)
In this tutorial, brian d foy will cover aspects of his book Mastering Perl, which is practical advice for working programmers on creating professional, enterprise-quality Perl programs. He will cover four major topics from the book: modules as programs, modifying and jury-rigging third party code, profiling Perl programs, and secure programming techniques.
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John Mertic (SugarCRM)
SugarCRM is designed as a Rapid Application Development platform. In this half day tutorial you'll learn how to build a business application on the Open Source SugarCRM platform.
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Erik Hatcher (Lucid Imagination)
Quick and effective jump start for using Apache Solr, the Lucene-based search server. Solr powers the search and discovery systems of sites such as Zappos, Smithsonian's collections, The Motley Fool, Orbitz, and many many others. This three hour session will give you the basics to immediately begin using Solr on your own data.
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Carlos de la Guardia (Jazkarta)
Pyramid is the web framework at the core of the Pylons Project. It's a "pay only for what you eat" framework. You can get started easily and learn new concepts as you go, and only if you need them. It's simple, well tested, well documented, and fast. This course will present Pyramid and lead you through the creation of a an application as the concepts from the framework are introduced.
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Francesco Cesarini (Erlang Solutions Ltd)
Erlang can be used to build fault tolerant systems with a fraction of the effort needed when using conventional languages. The trick is avoiding defensive programming while focusing on the correct case. This hands-on tutorial will go through the Erlang constructs and libraries that provide the building blocks used to develop reliable systems that never fail.
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Lance Albertson (Oregon State University Open Source Lab),
Peter Krenesky (Open Source Lab)
Ganeti is a cluster virtualization management software tool built on top of existing virtualization technologies such as Xen or KVM and other Open Source software. This hands-on tutorial will give an overview of Ganeti, how to install it, how to get started deploying VMs, & administrative guide to Ganeti. The tutorial will also cover installing & using Ganeti Web Manager as a web front-end.
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StatusNet (http://status.net/) best known as the Open Source microblogging platform, has a powerful plugin system for building new social networking applications. In this tutorial, the core developers of StatusNet show how to build server-side plugins, API clients, and custom themes to make your own social network tools.
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Paris Buttfield-Addison (Secret Lab Pty. Ltd.),
Christopher Neugebauer (Secret Lab Pty. Ltd.)
Learn why Android is awesome, and how you can build useful apps for the world’s most popular tiny computer even if you hate the idea of a telephone. Find out why a good UI and well thought-through interaction design are not optional components for mobile hackers, and build an actual app in 3 hours in this hands-on, fast paced tutorial. For existing programmers of any language at any level.
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Jeremy Pennycook (NPR)
Media organizations are using open source to stretch their budgets further. And as more content platforms continue to emerge, open source projects provide alternative modes of development. But what does this paradigm look like on the ground? The returns can be huge. But not everything is rose-colored. Through NPR's experiences with Android, Chrome, and more, we can chart some of these waters.
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Charlie Robbins (Level G LLC)
Where exactly are the pitfalls of running a pre 1.0 platform in production? How can your server program be optimized? What libraries are production-ready and how do you find them? These are some of the important questions that are revisited time and time again by developers new to node.js.
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2:15pm
Van Lindberg (Haynes and Boone)
We are more than a decade into the widespread use of open source in business, but there is too much focus on the compliance only, and the "risks" of using open source code. This talk is about moving beyond compliance and making the positive case for using open source in business based on reduced cost, improved time-to-market, and yes, freedom.
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Rik Arends (Cloud9 IDE)
Cloud9 is entirely built on Node.JS and can be used to debug and develop other Node.JS applications. This fun recursive fact we used to very quickly use the tool we built to refine and develop the tool we are building.
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2:30pm
Matt Ranney (Voxer)
The backend of Voxer is built entirely out of node.js. This architecture evolved over time through a couple of different language choices, including very serious grown-up languages like C++ and Python. In this talk, we'll find out how this somewhat reckless decision to use node has turned out to be a good one, and some important things we've discovered along the way.
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2:45pm
3:30pm
David Mirza (Subgraph)
Security and open source have a history that goes back to an era long before computers. The story begins with 19th century linguist Auguste Kerckhoffs and his principle that security isn't found in obscurity. We will cover the intertwined and lesser-known history of security and open source from then to now, with his big idea as a guiding principle, making a compelling argument for open source.
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Elijah Insua (None)
This talk covers a library that I've been working on called jsdom, which allows users of node.js to use jQuery for all sorts of interesting things. I will also be reasoning about why having a DOM on a platform such as node.js is so valuable. I'll show examples on how jsdom is in use today and examples for what it can be used for in the near future.
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4:15pm
Henrik Ingo (OpenLife.cc)
Studying our most popular open source projects we find that 9 are significantly larger, roughly 10x, than any of the other projects. These "XtraLarge" projects have some notable characteristics that are interesting to anyone wanting to grow his/her open source project to similar magnitude and importance. Ex: All are collaborative non-profit community projects, with modular software architectures.
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Ryan Dahl (Joyent),
Tom Hughes-Croucher (Jetpacks for Dinosaurs),
Paul Querna (Rackspace),
Matt Ranney (Voxer)
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4:40pm
This 20-minute segment will be broken down into four 5-minute demos. Come early to sign up to claim your spot!
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5:00pm
Location: Expo Hall
Grab a drink and kick off the 13th edition of OSCON by meeting and mingling with exhibitors and fellow attendees.
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6:00pm
Location: Hall B
Step right up and join us at the O'Reilly OSCON Carnival. There will be games, clowns, sumo wrestling, log rolling, tattoos, and lots more. There's free food, free wine, and free beer. You’ve never seen a carnival like this. Trust us.
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8:00pm
Location: 411 NW Park Ave.
Join Puppet Labs and SwellPath Interactive at their headquarters in the Pearl District. The party is free, as in free beer, food and fun. Two floors, two open bars, and more. Take the Green or Yellow line (free transit) west to Union Station and walk 2 blocks west to 411 NW Park Ave.
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Wednesday, 07/27/2011
9:00am
Location: Portland Ballroom
Keynotes today will be shared by OSCON, OSCON Data, and OSCON Java.
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9:05am
Location: Portland Ballroom
Jono Bacon (Canonical Ltd)
In this new keynote, Jono Bacon, author of The Art of Community (O'Reilly),
founder of the Community Leadership Summit and award-winning Community
Manager for the global Ubuntu community, talks about the new
opportunities and challenges we face in understanding the art and
science of community leadership.
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9:20am
9:25am
Location: Portland Ballroom
Gianugo Rabellino (Microsoft)
The world is changing, and so is Microsoft. We are continuing down the path of even greater openness and interoperability in new ways . . . not just in development, but rising to meet the challenges and opportunities of the cloud and becoming flexible and nimble in the world of mobile.
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9:40am
Location: Portland Ballroom
Ariel Waldman (Spacehack.org)
From launching robots into space to discovering distant galaxies: how people are creating open source space exploration and hacking science.
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10:40am
Maximiliano Firtman (ITMaster Professional Training)
Mobile development becomes a big problem for everyone trying to create mobile applications, games or experiences. Standards, such as HTML5-related APIs and open sourced projects, such as PhoneGap, WURFL, or cocos2d for iOS and Android are great examples of how to create multiplatform solutions for mobile devices.
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Rob Pike (Google, Inc.)
The Go programming language was designed to make programming productive and efficient. Go is a concurrent language that compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. This talk is an introduction to Go that focuses on how the design of the language helps it achieves those goals.
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Ricardo Signes (Pobox.com)
Not sure whether you want to run out and upgrade to Perl 5.14? Have your eyes glazed over trying to read the list of changes from previous versions? This talk walks through the most useful changes for day-to-day use, with practical examples of how to get the most out of Perl 5.14.
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Fabien Pinckaers (OpenERP)
In this talk, I will show how to develop a complete business application in a few minutes. The scenario will be based on a school management application need. The application will cover: planning of courses, management of students and teachers, different reports, workflow of courses, subscription and link to an internal documentation management system and a student portal.
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Darian Shimy (Attensity)
Hot Potato is an open source real-time processing framework written in Ruby. Originally designed to process the Twitter firehose at 3,000+ tweets per second, it has been extended to support any type of streaming data as input or output to the framework.
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Leif Hedstrom (GoDaddy.com)
Getting started with Apache Traffic Server can be a daunting task. There are a large number of configuration files and literally hundred of configuration options. This presentation will give the audience a thorough understanding how to setup and operate Traffic Server. We will pay extra attention to common use cases and scenarios, going into details for every use case.
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Luke Welling (PandaWhale)
There are few professions where laziness is as much of a virtue as it is in software development. Your average run of the mill - do the bare minimum so I can get back to watching TV - immediate gratification laziness won't do. Software demands hardcore, strategic laziness, striving not just to do less today, but to do less in the future too.
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Clinton R. Nixon (Relevance, Inc.)
8 years ago, I moved from my tuned Linux desktop to OS X. This closed-source platform has attracted many developers with its BSD underpinnings and excellent user interface. Can a developer pampered by sleek design ever go back? I'm going to show you how to break the closed-source habit and run a true open-source environment without sacrificing usability.
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Federico Lucifredi (Canonical USA)
This session aims to give you the tools to import the real world into the programming scope of your trusty $30 microcontroller, by covering the technology fundamentals and integration essentials of a wide variety of sensors and actuators, as well as providing a few alternative power schemes and even mobility options to increase the variety of choices in your design arsenal.
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Craig Kitterman (Microsoft)
In this session we will examine real examples of applications that have recently been ported to the Microsoft PaaS offering (Windows Azure) including how it was done. We will discuss the architectural principles, do’s and don’ts and examine what true scaling means from a developer point of view including database scalability, file I/O, session state management and more.
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Sastry Malladi (eBay Inc)
eBayOpenSource.org is an open source website hosting some of the best of breed technologies that were developed originally within eBay Inc, and Turmeric is one such project.
Turmeric is a comprehensive, policy-driven SOA platform can be used to develop, deploy, secure, run and monitor SOA services and consumers. This talk presents an overview of Turmeric and how developers can benefit from it
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Tucker Taft (SofCheck)
This talk will introduce the new programming language ParaSail which is focused on two themes: programming should be by default parallel, with programmers working harder to make things sequential if necessary, and second, all checks should be performed at compile-time, including checks for race-conditions, uninitialized variables, out-of-bounds array indices, null pointers, numeric overflow, etc.
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Daniel Jacobson (Netflix)
The Netflix API has been incredibly successful in getting your favorite movies and TV shows on to hundreds of devices. It is handling billions of requests and is the centerpiece of the Netflix distribution strategy. Given this tremendous success, why are we completely redesigning the API? Come and find out how we plan to make the API better, scale it in the cloud and improve our API's efficiency.
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David Riley (The Alembic Foundation)
The Alembic Foundation promotes the use of Open Source to address significant challenges in society. As its first project, Alembic launched the Aurion Project to build upon the work of the federal government through CONNECT. Aurion extends the value of CONNECT by creating a forum for public and private organizations to build standards-based, Open Source health information exchange software.
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Jono Bacon (Canonical Ltd)
In this new talk from Jono Bacon, the Ubuntu Community Manager, author of The Art Of Community, and founder of the Community Leadership Summit, he discusses the changing state of community management, and what opportunities and challenges lay ahead for this young science.
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Philipp Janert (Principal Value, LLC)
Data Analysis is often wrapped in a bit of mystery, with specialized tools, fancy terminology, and difficult techniques. This tutorial takes a different stance: we will review a set of basic methods and techniques, which are nevertheless essential if you want to think about and understand data. Particular emphasis is placed on ways to gain insight through graphical methods.
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Stoyan Stefanov (Facebook)
Doing more with less? How about learning one language and doing everything with it: client-side browser scripting, server-side programming with node.js, shell scripting, cross-OS desktop applications, browser extensions, photoshop scripting and even native phone apps. Come learn how to leverage "the world's most misunderstood language".
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11:30am
Paul Fremantle (WSO2)
Cloud is the biggest user of Open Source, but also a threat - people are building their apps on Cloud Platforms that are closed. Stratos is an Apache Licensed project for a Cloud Platform-as-a-Service. We will take a deep dive into this multi-tenant, elastic, metered cloud runtime that includes Tomcat, ESB, Registry and more. This will be a detailed session aimed at developers and infra experts.
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Becky Gibson (IBM),
Simon MacDonald (IBM)
PhoneGap is an open source Mobile framework for developing native applications for multiple devices. The developer programs using standard, well known Web technologies but gets access to device features using JavaScript apis. Build the app with web technologies, wrap it in the PhoneGap framework for device access, deploy on iOS, Android, Blackberry and more! One application, many platforms!
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Brian Fitzpatrick (Google, Inc.),
Ben Collins-Sussman (Google, Inc.)
Are languages, compilers, debuggers, and algorithms all you need to be a successful software engineer? In a perfect world, those who produce the best code should be the most successful. Unfortunately, we live in a world of imperfect people, and collaborating with others is at least as important as having great technical skills if you want to write great software.
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Jesse Vincent (Best Practical)
Come learn about the Perl community's plans for our 2012 release: Perl 5.16. We'll look at how we're refactoring the core language, the Perl distribution and the Perl development community.
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wesley chun (Google)
This talk is about the evolution of Python. We will discuss Python 2 and Python 3: what the compatibility issues are, what the main differences are, and also talk about migration, Python 2.6 & 2.7, and other transition tools.
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Kate Matsudaira (SEOmoz)
Ruby on Rails is a great framework for quickly building applications, but what happens when you are wildly successful and need to scale WAY up? This talk is a case study in the evolution of our Rails application from a monolithic "does everything" systems running on a hosted server to a service-oriented system running in the cloud.
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James Turnbull (Puppet Labs)
Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing virtualized development environments. It uses VirtualBox combined with configuration management to deliver fast and portable development and testing environments. I'll demonstrate how to use Vagrant and Puppet to easily build environments that you can deploy (and re-deploy) to developers and testers.
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Sebastian Bergmann (thePHP.cc)
Jenkins is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Thanks to its thriving plugin ecosystem, it supports building and testing virtually any project. This session will familiarize the audience with Jenkins and show how it can be leveraged for PHP projects.
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Ryo Chijiiwa (Laptop and a Rifle.com)
Ever wish you could live in a cabin in the woods? Geeks, with their high income, superior problem solving skills, and ability to work remotely, are often in a better position to realize such Thoreauvian dreams. Based on my own experiences of going from the cubicles of Silicon Valley to the backwoods of Northern California, the talk will cover the ins, outs, hows and whys of life in the woods.
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Colin Miller (Microsoft),
Chris Walker (Secret Labs, LLC)
The makers of two collaborating Open Source projects--the .NET Micro Framework and the Netduino electronics platform--talk about how you can easily create connected devices using a RESTful interface and standard Web technologies. Come see how you can try out your own connected device solutions for under a hundred dollars using the same tools and skills that are used on the desktop.
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Daniel Holmlund (Intel )
This presentation will introduce the MeeGo SDK to developers wishing to develop MeeGo applications.
We will present the different development options:
* Emulation on Windows or Linux platforms
* Deploy to device
* Develop and run directly on a Linux workstation in a MeeGo chroot environment
* Deploy to Qt Simulator
A simple QML sample app will be demonstrated.
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Rod Whitby (WebOS Internals)
In this session one of the most passionate and knowledgeable members of the homebrew community will provide an overview of the WebOS Internals open source homebrew development organization. Rod Whitby takes us on a tour of the architecture, operation, and ecosystem to show how to develop third-party webOS apps, patches, themes, and kernels.
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Derek Collison (VMware)
This talk will cover the design and building of the distributed architecture of Cloud Foundry.
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Brian Rice (Slate programming language)
Slate is a self-hosted dynamic language based on prototypes and
multi-dispatch. It melds the Smalltalk and Lisp traditions, while
attempting to incorporate ideas and idioms from a variety of sources.
Slate is being re-invented using Atomo as an incubator along with
direction from Newspeak and functional programming.
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Chris Smith (Portland Transport)
The Transit Appliance project uses real-time arrival web services, low-cost hardware like the Chumby, a light layer of open source JavaScript business logic and JSON data stores to put transit information in front of users in building lobbies, cafes and other public and private locations at disruptively low costs.
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Andy Gregorowicz (MITRE)
popHealth is an open source tool that allows healthcare providers to calculate quality measures. A quality measure is a calculation of the number of individuals in a population that meet a specific standard of care. This ONC sponsored effort integrates with electronic health record systems using standards based patient summary documents to calculate and report on quality measures.
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Andy Lester (petdance.com)
github.com has taken open source by storm, but it's more than just a code repository with the latest hot source control system. It's a new way of working with open source projects. This can create new human and technical challenges for existing projects. Learn how to take advantage of these new tools without getting overwhelmed.
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Nicholas Zakas (NCZConsulting)
There's a lot of information around about using different patterns in your JavaScript. This is only part of what you need to know to build a large-scale web application. Learn how to keep your JavaScript objects loosely coupled and build an architecture that can grow and change as your application does.
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12:10pm
Location: Exhibit Hall E
If you're a woman working in open source, come to this informal gathering to connect with new friends and colleagues. Look for designated tables in the main lunch room on Wednesday.
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1:40pm
Eric Day (Rackspace Cloud),
James Turnbull (Puppet Labs)
The OpenStack project was launched last summer during OSCON by Rackspace, NASA, and a number of other cloud technology leaders in an effort to build a fully-open cloud computing platform. It is a collection of scalable, secure, standards-based projects consisting of compute, storage, images, and more. This session will introduce the projects, the principles behind it, and how to get started.
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Yehuda Katz (Strobe, Inc.)
Just a few years ago, most people used just a single personal computer, and application developers only needed to worry about single-device applications. Today, people expect to use applications on their desktops and seamlessly switch to phones, tablets or even televisions. Instead of just building an iPhone app, companies should think about the multi-device trend when designing a mobile strategy.
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Richard Hipp (SQLite.org)
Geeks hate paperwork and protocol, which presents a challenge to
anyone trying to organize a quality-control system for an
open-source software project. This talk describes and demonstrates how
simple, unintrusive checklists that can reduce development time and
improve software quality without provoking a mutiny.
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Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (DotCloud)
Plack and PSGI have opened a new landscape of developing Perl web frameworks and servers. Now that most web frameworks have adopted PSGI support, this talk will focus on the other side of the ecosystem: how to deploy Plack based web applications.
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Brian Quinlan (Google Australia)
A blatant rip-off of Josh Bloch's "Java Puzzlers: Traps, Pitfalls, and Corner Cases", Python Puzzlers reveals some of Python's productivity-threatening oddities by showing several short code examples and asking the audience to explain their behavior.
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Clinton R. Nixon (Relevance, Inc.)
Smart developers have been using Ruby on Rails to build web applications for over 5 years. Cutting-edge projects have aged into legacy apps. Rails 3 and Ruby 1.9 offer new features that are guaranteed to take the squeak out of that old wheel and grease the tracks of new development. We're going to walk through upgrading real projects and work together to solve issues the audience has found.
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Selena Deckelmann (Prime Radiant)
Ever have a code release go horribly wrong? Have a routine system upgrade turn into 12 hours of downtime? Had to field angry phone calls from engineers, customers and your boss? Sometimes things go horribly wrong. This talk will teach you how to plan for the worst, minimize risk and recover gracefully from failure.
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Sebastian Bergmann (thePHP.cc)
A code review can help detect bugs and keep the code maintainable. In this session, Sebastian Bergmann, a pioneer in the field of quality assurance in PHP projects and creator of various development tools, will introduce the audience to the best practices and available tools to perform code reviews of PHP-based software projects.
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Sarah Sharp (Intel)
Open source folks are naturally lazy. Anything mundane task they can automate, they will. So what does an open source developer do when faced with planning, planting, and tediously watering a garden? Automate!
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Hunyue Yau (HY Research, LLC)
Prototyping a Mobile Linux device around off the shelf hardware has been easier then ever.Low power mobile processor boards such as the Beagle board can provide the core of a Mobile Linux Devicel A basic UI can be rapidly implemented by Android, QT, etc. This session will look at the process of getting a basic Android mobile device prototype built.
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Asanka Abeysinghe (WSO2, Inc.)
Lean and pragmatic approach to build enterprise solutions using WSO2 middleware platform.
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John Newton (Alfresco Software),
Jeff Potts (Alfresco)
This informative and interactive session will explore the open source alternative to Microsoft Sharepoint.
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Joe Pamer (Microsoft)
Programming today exhibits a voracious appetite for information, and one of the most important trends in languages today is to make access to data and services fluent and seamless. Come and see the latest from the F# team, and learn how we are extending F# to embed the analytical programmer instantly in a world of typed data and services, whether they be web, enterprise, client or local.
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Jeremie Miller (Singly)
The most important data is yours, and it's spread everywhere on your devices and on the services you use. Learn about the Locker Project and how to get your own locker up and running with all of your personal data. Then explore the many things you can do with it all in one place, including personal analytics, data-mining, trending, and a rich set of sharing and privacy tools.
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Alison Muckle (NORC at the University of Chicago),
Jason Goldwater (NORC at the University of Chicago)
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) commissioned a Study and Report on Open Source Health Information Technology (health IT) as part of its obligation under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH). This represented the first time the Federal Government has ever invested resources into a study of open source EHRs
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Kim Weins (OpenLogic)
Most mobile apps incorporate open source software, yet many of these apps may not be complying with open source licenses. The Free Software Foundation position is that iTunes and GPL are incompatible. This session will present research by OpenLogic on the use of open source software in mobile apps and the level of compliance with open source licenses.
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Estelle Weyl (Standardista.com)
Web forms have been the bane of web developers existence for years. HTML5 Web Forms make forms (almost) fun. In this workshop, we'll cover the new HTML5 forms types and attributes, and show how web form building, UI and validation can actually be easy.
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2:30pm
Amir Michael (Facebook)
A behind the scenes view as to why and how Facebook implemented the Open Compute Project, an open community focused on data center design, and the resulting radical reduction in data center power consumption the project offers.
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Arno Puder (http://www.heise.de/)
In this presentation we demonstrate how an Android application can be cross-compiled to other smartphones such as the iPhone or Windows Phone 7. We will give a technical overview of the cross-compilation process based on the Open Source project XMLVM.
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Paul Jones (http://paul-m-jones.com/)
This talk examines the importance of careful benchmarking and how it can help with predicting resource usage.
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Mark Allen (Mark Allen)
Dancer is a lightweight web framework for Perl inspired by Sinatra. Using simple URL routes and handlers to take action when routes are matched, it is possible to quickly build interesting and useful web applications with very little boilerplate code. This talk will cover the basics, as well advanced routing, plugins and showcase a tutorial application.
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Jacob Kaplan-Moss (Revolution Systems, LLC)
Django's creator surveys some of the highs and lows of Django implementations.
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David Copeland (LivingSocial)
From a quick automation script to a more involved command-line based system, it's hard to make a polished and maintainable command line application. With Ruby, and a handful of open-source libraries, it's actually pretty easy.
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Brian Martin (Martin Consulting Services, Inc.)
So you've written a disaster recovery plan for your data center, and you've tested it until it works ... what could go wrong? Brian Martin describes his experience is a real, full scale "abandon the building" disaster, what went wrong, and draws lessons for taking a plan to the next level of reliability.
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Kevin Schroeder (Zend Technologies)
Identifying code bottlenecks is a relatively simple endeavor. However, in this presentation we will look at identifying and fixing performance issues that are related to infrastructure/operational issues as well as looking at code, along with providing some best practices that can help ensure that your PHP application is running along at an optimal speed.
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Ben Collins-Sussman (Google, Inc.)
Think Zork is dead? Wrong! Come see what 30 years of evolution has done to the fascinating intersection of creative writing and programming. Witness the amazing open source tools that have made it possible: virtual machines, domain-specific programming languages, and IDEs. Learn about the intense indie community that develops these works, and how you can get involved as either a player or writer.
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Philip Lindsay (rancidbacon.com)
The Android Open Accessory Protocol makes it possible for you to
create custom Arduino-based accessories for your Android phone or
tablet.
Attend this session to learn how to get started, the hardware &
software required and how Handbag makes development easier.
Content will be useful whether you have previous Android or Arduino
experience or neither.
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Garrett Serack (Microsoft)
The CoApp project is bringing real open-source style package management to Windows; this session covers the architecture and the basics of creating and consuming CoApp packages.
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Phil Jackson (SoftLayer)
An extensive API is quickly becoming a necessity for all service providers. However, simply having one is not enough. In this talk, Phil reveals some of the pitfalls experienced while becoming the new Developer Advocate for SoftLayer, and how he has tried to climb out of them while balancing customer needs and Drupal development.
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Marcello Lioy (Qualcomm Innovation Center Inc.)
Peer-to-peer technology is at a crossroads, and Qualcomm’s AllJoyn initiative is taking it to the next level by enabling ad hoc, proximity-based, device-to-device messaging and gaming – without discriminating between OS or hardware. You’ll leave this presentation feeling energized about the increasingly diverse nature by which open source technology allows us to develop and communicate.
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Ola Bini (ThoughtWorks)
Seph is a new experimental language. It is based on pure differential prototype based object orientation, with immutability and polymorphic dispatch built in deep. Seph uses the new features in Java 7 to full effect, by compiling highly dynamic code to use method handles and invoke dynamic. It's got light weight threads and the mature concurrency primitives from Clojure.
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Joseph Smarr (Google)
OpenID, OAuth, and other efforts to open up the social web are a dizzying mix of successes and setbacks. Are they being widely adopted, or eclipsed by proprietary alternatives? Are they good enough for mainstream users, or still too geeky? And have their fiercest proponents “sold out” by taking jobs at Google and Facebook, or are they continuing the fight from within? Come hear the inside story.
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Daniel Haas (Children's Hospital Boston)
Indivo (http://indivohealth.org) is an open-source health record
platform, developed by the Children's Hospital Informatics Program in Boston, that empowers patients to take control of their personal health record. It is the "secure Facebook platform for personal health," enabling the development of substitutable personal health applications through which patients view and annotate their data.
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Robert "r0ml" Lefkowitz (Self)
In "topics we're looking for", the call for papers has the phrase "open, open, open". And the word "open" appears eleven times. The word "source" appears thrice. This talk is about "source, source, source." It is the intelligibility, the accessibility, the understandability of the *source* code and data which creates community and collaboration. Presenting source patterns and anti-patterns.
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Scott Davis (ThirstyHead.com)
Two major new features of HTML5 - application cache and local storage - allow you to bring the web experience to your users, even when the web isn't there. Application cache allows you to write fully functional web applications that work offline as well as online. Local storage allows you to store megabytes of data locally without having to install a separate database.
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4:10pm
Wade Minter (TeamSnap),
Michael Mayo (Rackspace)
OpenStack is an effort to build a completely open, community driven, enterprise-level cloud computing and storage platform. Not only is the technology open, but the APIs are as well. This session will show how to leverage the power of the current compute and storage APIs, as well as look down the road to future releases.
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Patrick Mueller (IBM, Apache)
Weinre is a debugger for mobile web apps. It reuses the user interface of WebKit's Web Inspector debugger to allow you to debug your web applications running on a device or emulator from your desktop.
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Bryan Call (Yahoo!)
Techniques and tools to used to profile software applications. Examples and usage of OProfile, Google Profiler, Valgrind's Callgrind, and strace, geared towards profiling C/C++ applications. People should come away with the knowledge of what tools are available and how to diagnose performance issues in software.
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Damian Conway (Thoughtstream)
Over the past eighteen months Damian has revisited some of his most popular Perl 5 modules and reimplemented them in "native" Perl 6.
In this talk he will walk through the changes needed to port several of those modules, a journey that gives a surprisingly thorough overview of how the two languages differ, as well as insights into the relative strengths of each.
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Charles Bell (Oracle),
Mats Kindahl (Oracle)
Managing a MySQL database server can become a full time job. What we need are tools that bundle a set of related tasks into a common utility. While there are several such utility libraries to choose, it is often the case that you need to customize them to your needs. The MySQL Utilities library is the answer to that need. It is open source so you can modify and expand it as you see fit.
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Brian Moore (Rhomobile)
We will demonstrate writing a native Android app with the open source framework Rhodes, which includes the first Android Ruby implementation, written in the NDK to bypass Java entirely. We also show writing an app with Ruboto, which runs on the Android Java stack. We will also discuss how the Embedded Ruby project may affect future Android Ruby development with both of these options.
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Lance Albertson (Oregon State University Open Source Lab),
Peter Krenesky (Open Source Lab)
Looking for an easy, scalable way to manage your Ganeti-based clusters? Ganeti Web Manager provides admins an easy to deploy, Django based GUI that effectively manages private clusters & works equally well for providing customers access. With a caching system designed to scale to thousands of virtual machines without decreasing performance, Ganeti Web Manager makes cluster management truly simple.
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Johannes Schlueter (Oracle)
PHP's MySQL support recently received many changes under the hood: PHP 5.3 introduced mysqlnd - the MySQL native driver which is a replacement for libmysql deeply bound into PHP. mysqlnd for instance allows developers to hook into its inner workings which allows a transparent client side query cache or a transparent read-write splitting.
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Elizabeth Flanagan (Intel),
Jeffrey Osier-Mixon (Intel Corporation)
See how the Yocto Project is able to deliver quality builds for embedded
Linux with buildbot, automated sanity testing, license collection and
auditing, and build statistics and history tracking.
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John Dickinson (Rackspace)
In this workshop, attendees should expect to gain a clear understanding of OpenStack, its capabilities and use cases, learn best practices for deploying and administering OpenStack, and experience a live demo.
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Adam Abramski (RIM),
Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart (RIM)
In this session, we'll cover what is the BlackBerry WebWorks platform, why should you care and is it really open sourced? We'll also cover Research In Motions (RIM) embracing of open source technology, participation in open source technology and where is RIM going with open source.
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Daniel Spiewak (Novell)
Object-functional languages have a number of desirable properties and have proven very useful in practice. Unfortunately, the merger brings with it a raft of complexities, being the root of nearly all of Scala's infamous complexity. This talk will present a new framework for resolving these issue, based around the notion of statically-typed functional object prototypes.
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Ethan Phelps-Goodman (Sunlight Foundation)
The Sunlight Foundation and its partner organizations make a variety of data on the influence of money in politics and the operation of government easily available to application developers. This talk will give a broad overview of the data sets and APIs available and the applications that have been built with them, including stand alone sites, browser extensions and mobile apps.
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Charlie Quinn (Benaroya Research Institute)
Case study in using open data and open source systems to enable research in personalized medicine. Will show how we leverage publicly available data along with clinical and experimental data from collaborators in 5 different countries to advance disease detection and personalized medicine.
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Scott Mattocks (GSN Digital)
This talk looks at the advantages and disadvantages of different techniques for dynamic content updates: short polling, long polling, and WebSockets. These techniques allow web developers to provide users with a fluid experience that keeps pace with their expectations. The talk concludes with a deep dive into both the WebSocket API and protocol.
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5:00pm
Wesley Beary (Heroku)
Cloud computing scared the crap out of me - the quirks and nightmares of provisioning cloud computing, dns, storage, etc on AWS, Terremark, Rackspace, etc - until I took the bull by the horns. Come see me demonstrate tools and examples that will allow you to skip the headaches and cut straight to the cloud.
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Joe Bowser (Adobe)
A cautionary tale of all the documented and undocumented quirks involved with developing applications with web technologies on Android. This will cover the fundamentals, as well as the obscure facts about developing Android Web Applications in the real world.
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Mike Amundsen (amundsen.com, inc.)
One of the key properties of RESTful Web applications is the ability to evolve over time. Too many Web APIs don’t evolve; they just get old, and useless; they rot. Why? Because they are little more than URI-based RPC calls returning serialized objects. Instead, Web APIs should rely on well-crafted media-type messages driven by links; they should be more RESTful.
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Eric Wilhelm (Scratch Computing)
Code execution speed affects development time, hardware, scalability, and the bottom line less than you would think and never where you expect it. Are your optimizations overpriced?
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Matthew Momjian (Student)
Blender has a powerful Python engine for automation and game creation. This talk will cover the basics of Blender python syntax and allow users to get started making their own 3D programs. Case study involving 3D countdown.
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Chris Helm (GeoIQ)
Both location based technology and Ruby have become extremely popular in recent years. There are many libraries and tools that are available for Rubyists to geospatially enable their applications. In this workshop you will learn both what these tools are and how to use them.
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Terry Chay (Automattic, Inc. (WordPress))
The weird thing about cloud computing is the programmer becomes the system administrator. What is involved in doing this if you are a LAMP person?
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Scott Davis (ThirstyHead.com)
JavaScript is the language everyone loves to hate. From its
pathological global-fetish to its weird take on object-orientation (prototypes? really?), it's hard to believe that JavaScript has not
only survived for the past 15 years, but continues to thrive.
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Michael Brewer (UGA: Franklin College OIT)
For the past two Open Source Bridge conferences, we've had Geek Choir sessions; in this presentation, we discuss lessons learned from the Geek Choir experience, advantages and disadvantages to mixing music and mathematically-inclined people, the benefits of singing, open source tools to assist in the process, and online open music resources. There also might be applied examples (aka singing).
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Avni Khatri (Massachusetts General Hospital)
Ever dreamed of traveling to remote places and foreign countries and using your technology skills to improve the world? Come learn how you can join us (or perhaps learn to avoid some of our more dangerous exploits) and make the world a better place by teaching kids about technology and free and open source software.
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Jason Cannavale (Rackspace)
In this workshop, attendees should expect to gain a clear understanding of OpenStack, its capabilities and use cases, learn best practices for deploying and administering OpenStack, and experience a live demo.
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Chris Kemp (Nebula),
Frankovsky Frank (Facebook),
Benjamin Golub (Facebook),
Cole Crawford (4PDEV),
Jonathan Bryce (The Rackspace Cloud)
The panel will discuss how Big Data and Cloud are disrupting traditional computing and how the commoditization of servers is fueling a new ecosystem of open source hardware and software designed to fail, and designed to scale.
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Richard Tibbetts (StreamBase Systems)
StreamSQL EventFlow is a Complex Event Processing language for building real-time applications. EventFlow is unique in that it is primarily a visual language. This talk will focus on the StreamBase Event Processing Platform, the design of visual representations for language features and the co-development of an Eclipse-based IDE along with a new programming language.
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Paul Scott (DSTV Online)
With the passing of the FIFA Soccer World Cup in 2010, Africa, especially South Africa, now has much better infrastructure availble for Open data access. Utilising African projects such as Chisimba, which allows for easy API creation, the time is now ripe to create semantically connected data stores for government, education and business
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Dave Neary (Neary Consulting),
Dawn Foster (Intel)
Every community manager knows that community metrics are important. But they all have their own set of hacky scripts for extracting data from various tools.
Building on the work of Pentaho, Talend, MLStats, gitdm and a host of others, we built a generic community dashboard for the MeeGo project. This presentation will cover the data we extracted, how we did it, and how you can do it too.
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Bradley Holt (Found Line)
CouchApps are web applications built using CouchDB, JavaScript, and HTML5. CouchDB is a document-oriented database that stores JSON documents, has a RESTful HTTP API, and is queried using map/reduce views. This talk will answer your basic questions about CouchDB, but will focus on building CouchApps and related tools.
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5:40pm
Location: Expo Hall
Quench your thirst with vendor-hosted libations and snacks while you check out all the cool stuff in the expo hall.
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7:00pm
Location: D135
Moderated by: Brian Aker
BoF for those wanting to discuss the Drizzle Database Server, where it fits it, what it can do, it’s current status etc. There will be many people of the Drizzle community present, so it’s an excellent time to chat!
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Location: D136
Moderated by: Diane Mueller
Come discuss about building and deploying Python & Perl application on ActiveState's cloud platform - Stackato; Diane Mueller (ActiveState) will give a brief overview, discuss lessons learned & best practices along with some of the challenges faced building on the Cloud Foundry Open Source project. Connect with other Stackato community members,discuss pros & cons, give feedback
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Location: D137
Moderated by: Sam Thompson
Several phpBB team members and I will be giving mini-talks on what it takes to run an online community and how to make it successful. We will be opening the floor for a meet-and-greet style Q&A for the last half of the session.
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Location: D138
Moderated by: Sastry Malladi
Turmeric is a new comprehensive open source SOA platform, originally developed internally by eBay and open sourced for general community usage. This session is intended to introduce Turmeric, what's so special about it, and engage in a discussion on how you can benefit and contribute.
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Location: D139/140
Moderated by: Curtis Lee Fulton
Client-siders: learn how to reuse your company's existing Java code base by using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) Java-to-JavaScript cross-compiler and special “shaded” versions of Maven artifacts.
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Location: E141
Moderated by: Arvind Jayaprakash
How do you collect, aggregate and disaggregate business/product metrics as and when it happens at scale? Do just rely on hbase/cassandra counters? Or perhaps a CEP based solution? Maybe just mysql works for you?
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Location: E142
Moderated by: Jeff Osier-Mixon
2nd Annual embedded Linux BoF covering news, tools, and techniques related to embedded Linux, particularly BitBake, OpenEmbedded, and the Yocto Project.
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Location: E143
Moderated by: Sheeri Cabral
Working on open source is a virtual craft....do you also have a physical craft? Whether you knit, spin, crochet, weave, build robots, sculpt clay, paint with watercolors, scrapbook, do beadwork, arrange flowers, bedazzle clothing or have some other craft, join us and spend an hour working on your craft in a crafty environment.
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Location: E145/146
Moderated by: Dan DeBrito
Share/exchange/learn customization of the vim text editor.
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Location: See BoF Schedule for Locations
Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions provide face to face exposure to those interested in the same projects and concepts. BoFs can be organized for individual projects or broader topics (best practices, open data, standards). BoFs are entirely up to you. We post your topic and provide the space and time. You provide the engaging topic.
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Location: Spirit of 77 (500 MLK Jr. Blvd.)
Come join us to toast OpenStack's One-Year Anniversary!
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8:00pm
Location: D135
Moderated by: Reid Carlberg
The Force.com platform from salesforce.com helps enterprises around the world rapidly develop, deploy, and scale applications. We'll do a quick review of the platform and then take a tour through some of the most popular Open Source apps available as part of salesforce.com's leading PaaS offering.
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9:00pm
Location: Left Bank Annex (101 N Weidler St.)
More information coming soon
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Thursday, 07/28/2011
9:00am
Location: Portland Ballroom
Jim Zemlin (The Linux Foundation)
On the eve of Linux’ 20th anniversary, Jim Zemlin invites the OSCON audience into his "Bizarro World” of 2011. The world of computing has been turned upside down. Microsoft’s stock is down. They now are filing anti-trust suits, not being the subject of them. Heck, Microsoft is even contributing code to Linux. And for good reason.
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9:15am
Location: Portland Ballroom
Fred Trotter (Cautious Patient Foundation)
Open Source software will power a new Internet layer, the
Health Internet, which will finally make healthcare data liquid. The
Health Internet will finally change healthcare the same way the
Internet changed everything else; better, faster, cheaper.
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9:20am
Location: Portland Ballroom
Eri Gentry (BioCurious)
Join Eri Gentry, founder of BioCurious, the world’s first “hackerspace for biology” on a journey from garage biology to community lab.
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9:35am
Location: Portland Ballroom
John Graham-Cumming (CloudFlare)
This talk tells the behind-the-scenes story of the apology campaign complete with source code, tips on dealing with the old-school media, how Twitter helped and didn't, and a call for people who want to change the world to be "reasonably unreasonable" because nothing ever gets done by the reasonable.
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9:45am
Location: Portland Ballroom
Gabe Zichermann (Gamification.Co & Gamification Summit)
Creating engaging user experiences in software have become the mantra of businesses big and small - but what about open source? Do we do enough user-centric design and are we creating the kind of long-term user engagement we want? What are the challenges for open source advocates and developers to building truly engaging experiences and how can gamification make open-everywhere a reality?
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10:00am
Location: Portland Ballroom
The 7th Annual O’Reilly Open Source Award winners will be announced.
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10:40am
Brian Gerkey (Willow Garage)
ROS, or Robot Operating System, was designed as the ideal open source (BSD) platform for personal robotics because a common software platform is the best way for roboticists, from university researchers to hobbyists, to share their best work and to grow the industry faster. In this session, Brian Gerkey of Willow Garage will provide an introduction to this rapidly-growing OS.
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Paris Buttfield-Addison (Secret Lab Pty. Ltd.),
Christopher Neugebauer (Secret Lab Pty. Ltd.),
Jonathon Manning (Secret Lab Pty. Ltd.)
Learn how to remain true to your open source ideals, as well as the open source community at large, when developing and designing software for Apple’s iOS. This talk covers the ins and outs of open source iOS frameworks and libraries as well as licensing pitfalls and tips.
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Tim Anglade (Apigee)
A look at the state of data storage, management & analysis, from SQL
to NOSQL, “NewSQL” and beyond. I will explain why the core premises of
data management have changed; tell some of the tales of success and failure I have collected on the topic; share some
counterintuitive rules-of-thumb about the sometimes mind-blowing,
sometimes nerve-wrecking reality of life with an alternative
datastore.
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Damian Conway (Thoughtstream)
Once again, Perl's own Dr. Evil emerges from his secret lair on a remote Pacific island to beam a devastating onslaught of dangerously useful software ideas directly into your unsuspecting frontal lobes.
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Joshua Boverhof (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab),
Shreyas Cholia (NERSC)
RESTful HTTP web services have many advantages over the "big" web services paradigm of SOAP/WSDL/XML Schema. RESTful services are simpler to create, use, and test. REST/HTTP is native to the web, thus it's easy to digest these services from Javascript or a backend. NEWT is a RESTful web API to NERSC HPC resources, used by other scientific portals.
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Gerardo Narvaja (OpenMarket Inc.)
Briefly review how to use mysql-agent w/ OpenNMS. Present an alternative using SNMP's pass_persist protocol. Walk through an example on how to add a new variable and it's corresponding chart in OpenNMS
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Greg Biggers (Genomera),
Raymond McCauley (Genomera)
How one person’s desire to know if his vitamins really worked became a set of tools for doing open, crowd-sourced health experiments. By combining data and analysis from engaged individuals, we can answer big questions traditionally asked exclusively by pharma companies and research institutions. And for less than 1/1000 of the cost.
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Johannes Schlueter (Oracle)
Did you ever wonder how arrays in PHP actually work? and what about references? - In this presentation you will learn these and other things in order to help you to produce more effective code.
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Rabble Evan Henshaw-Plath (cuboxsa.com)
What does it take to build a hacker culture? This talk will cover activities in creating a hacker society in Uruguay. The small south american country has engaged in the massive task of raising a generation of hackers. Every school child gets an XO laptop and every landline comes with DSL. While most of the world is trying to replicate silicon valley, Uruguay's building something quite different.
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Francois Marier (Catalyst IT)
An approach to building freedom-respecting online services and a presentation of Libravatar, a federated clone of the Gravatar profile image hosting service.
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Joseph George (Dell, Inc.),
Rob Hirschfeld (Dell, Inc.)
In Prying Open the Cloud with Dell Crowbar and OpenStack, attendees will: find out about one of the fastest ways to stand up an OpenStack cloud, learn about the development, implementation and operation of Dell Crowbar, and hear how one company planned and implemented an OpenStack cloud for its business
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Mingsheng Hong (Vertica, An HP Company)
When working with structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, there is often a tendency to try and force one tool - either Hadoop or a traditional DBMS - to do all the work. But, there are reasons to use Hadoop for some analytics projects, and a purpose-built analytics platform for others. The magic comes in knowing when to use which and how these two tools can work together.
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Karl Naden (Carnegie Mellon University),
Jonathan Aldrich (Carnegie Mellon University)
Plaid is a new programming language with native support for typestate and permissions. Typestate captures the changing states an object can be in, allowing the object's interface, representation, and behavior to change. A gradual (optional) type system tracks the typestate of objects, using permissions like "unique" to reason in the presence of aliasing. The PL's power is demonstrated by examples.
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Guy Martin (CollabNet),
Aaron Lippold (Forge.mil)
Since its inception in 2009, Forge.mil, the Department of Defense’s groundbreaking collaborative software development platform, has improved the ability of agencies to rapidly deliver dependable software. This session will provide insight into the continued progress of Forge.mil, which has quickly garnered over 8000 members and over 400 projects.
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David Uhlman (clearhealth inc.)
The federal government created Meaningful Use certification to help promote the widespread adoption of Electronic Health Records. The first and only open source system to receive the certification is ClearHealth under the GPL. We'll take a crash course in Meaningful Use and what it takes to get compliant using open source systems.
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Arthur Richards (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
A reflection on how the Wikimedia Foundation raised $16 million using all open-source software for the annual fundraiser in 2010. Nearly all of the money raised came from small, online donations from users of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. This talk will explore the components of the system, development methodology, challenges faced and challenges we face for next year.
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Wade Minter (TeamSnap),
Andrew Berkowitz (TeamSnap)
You’re great with programming. You can code circles around the competition. People dig your technology. But will they love your company? In this session, two geeky individuals show you how their startup has managed to build a devoted following among a customer base that’s more Peyton Manning than Perl Monger, while winning praise from people like Robert Scoble and Jeanne Bliss.
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Gabe Zichermann (Gamification.Co & Gamification Summit)
Gamification is a critical trend, affecting industries from finance to fashion and beyond. But how does gamification affect open source, software development and community? How can we leverage the techniques of engagement to build better software and connect with end users. And, how do we make our lives more fun in the process?
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11:30am
Federico Lucifredi (Canonical USA)
You can now easily place a trivially sized computing device anywhere a power plug is present. This fast paced session will provide a complete, hands-on review of the currently available Plug format devices, their capabilities, advantages and pitfalls. We will demonstrate development and debugging on the most recent Sheevaplug-class device as a hands-on introduction to embedded Linux environments.
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Roger Bodamer (10gen),
Peter Neubauer (Neo Technology),
Matt Pfeil (DataStax),
Tim Anglade (Apigee),
Antony Falco (Basho Technologies)
This panel discussion features the key innovators in the NoSQL space.
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Jacinta Richardson (Perl Training Australia)
Perl has come a very long way even in the last 6 years since Dr Conway's Perl Best Practices book was published. This talk will provide a lightning tour of the current status of Perl's best practices using many of the ideas from Modern Perl.
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Tornado is a scalable, non-blocking web server and web application framework written in Python. It is also light-weight to deploy, fun to write for, and incredibly powerful. So why aren't you using it?
This presentation will cover the basics of the framework, as well as some best practices and real-life use cases.
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Sheeri K. Cabral (Mozilla Foundation)
Congratulations! You have done well having been promoted to managing your team....but how do you do that? Sheeri Cabral, DB Operations Lead at PalominoDB, takes her experience managing geeks and shows how to deal with tough geek management issues -- from how to deal with problem employees to the dreaded "how do you tell an employee they have body odor?"
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Vin Sharma (Intel)
Equipped with little more than a burning desire to succeed and a river of open source software, learn how you can build a test bed for developing and testing machine learning algorithms on a scale-out infrastructure on a shoestring budget.
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Damien Seguy (Expert Services Consultant)
PHP code is still audited manually. This is boring! Let's have PHP itself check its own dog food, and audit statically applications for security, code quality. It'll be faster, and more exhaustive than human, as long as we provide him with directions: here comes the cornac!
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Johnny Diggz (Geeks Without Bounds)
An overview of the current state of tools, groups, and collaborative efforts used to mitigate crisis situations that overwhelm local, state and federal response efforts. Looking at software tools from Ushahidi, Sahana, OpenStreetMap as well as Inveneo, OpenBTS, and more.
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Patrick Lightbody (Neustar Web Performance)
Launched in December 2008, BrowserMob set out to change the way load testing is done - all using the cloud and open source. Learn from the founder how he built a high performance testing product, and how the operational support the cloud provided and speed to market of open source enabled the company to not only profit from day one, but to be acquired within a year and a half of it's launch.
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James Falkner (liferay.com)
Recently, the hype around NoSQL DB design has reached fever pitch. At the same time, the hype around dynamic data modeling, web based form design, and dynamic schema design (a.k.a. "creating stuff online and dynamically with no coding") has been increasing as well. In this session, see how Liferay Portal uses MongoDB to implement highly scalable dynamic data for collaboration and social features.
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Steve Watt (Hewlett-Packard),
Glenn Gebhart (Hewlett-Packard)
This session will introduce Apache Hadoop and Vertica and the opportunities around integrated unstructured and structured text analytics at scale.
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Eric Sink (SourceGear)
Veracity is an open source Distributed Version Control System. This session will provide an overview and explain how Veracity is different from similar tools like Mercurial and Git.
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Matt Youell (New Monic Labs)
Imagine a language with no objects, functions, or variables. Wheeler intersects relational, declarative, reactive, and aspect-oriented programming approaches to create a surprisingly simple language that you can learn in about 10 minutes. (Assuming you are willing to bend your brain into the proper pretzel shape.)
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Benjamin Schooley, MBA, Ph.D. (Claremont Graduate University),
Sue Feldman, RN, MEd, PhD (The Kay Center for E Health, Claremont Graduate University),
Vineet Agrawal (OSSCube)
This section will focus on a case study where SugarCRM is used as platform to build a large scale Federal level application that will be implemented in all states to manage potentially 10 million beneficiaries. We will be covering how SugarCRM and best of breed open source solutions like BIRT, security solutions, workflow solutions come together to build a very complex workflow application.
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Shahid Shah (Netspective)
Most medical devices today use proprietary/custom software platforms (operating systems, messaging framework, alarms, etc.). This talk will present the Shahid's recent work using FOSS to build safety-critical medical devices and the challenges associated with such solutions. Shahid will present architectures considered, the benefits and detriments, and findings of real-world FOSS implementations.
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Meghan Gill (10gen)
This session talk about strategies for building community around open source software through a case study of the MongoDB project.
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Most open source start-ups have some sort of lock on the code - dual licensing, contributor agreements, "open core" add-ons and more. But is it possible to start a profitable company without any of those - with just skilled people delivering expert service and developing new code in the community? I don't just think it's possible - I'm doing it!
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Christopher Schmitt (Heat Vision)
Mastering CSS3 Animations is a hands-on walkthrough of practical of adding dynamic CSS3 visuals to Web sites.
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1:40pm
Brian Capouch (Saint Josephs College)
The first generation of telephones were off-grid, using local batteries and crank generators. The MAG*NET project at Saint Joseph's College developed a method of allowing historic telephones to be used, without modification, to operate on the modern telephone network. Asterisk, openWRT and heyu are Open Source tools under the hood.
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Chris DiBona (Google, Inc.),
Carol Smith (Google, Inc.)
In this talk we'll talk about the years events in open source at Google, including a breakdown of the Google code-in project and an update on the Summer of Code.
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Piers Cawley (Headforwards)
Languages with first class functions are different. Callbacks and `each' are just the start - the fun really begins when you start learning from the Lisp guys and writing code that writes code that writes code. Think differently about your Javascript and do more with less code
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Chris Prather (Tamarou LLC)
Perl's Post Modern Object System, Moose, provides an excellent way to simplify Object Oriented Design. Learn, or re-learn, the basics of Object Oriented Programming's design principles in this talk that focuses on the four fundamentals of a good object system: Abstraction, Encapsulation, Polymorphism, and Introspection.
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Eric Holscher (Urban Airship)
Read the Docs is a documentation hosting site for the community. It was built in 48 hours in the 2010 Django Dash. In January 2010 it had 100,000 page views, and increases daily. I will talk about all of the code to deploy and run a sizable Django site. We will go through the highlights and interesting parts of the code, as well as some of the lessons learned from the site being open source.
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Shyam Mani (Mozilla Corporation)
The story about deploying DNSSEC at Mozilla (for mozilla.org), the issues we faced & the mistakes we made.
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The Explorable Microscopy project is creating open source devices to capture multi gigapixel images of small things: from frames from a bee hive down to individual diatoms.
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Christie Koehler (Mozilla / Open Source Bridge)
An introduction to a handful of useful and easy-to-use code analysis tools for PHP.
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Giving a presentation is a scary experience for most developers. Yet, worrisome as they are, they are a great way to influence technical decisions. They aid informed choices through the distribution of pertinent knowledge. Our highly actionable "Gang of Four" style patterns illustrate tried-and-true ways to build technical presentations that inform, convince and inspire.
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James Loope (Janrain)
This session will demonstrate an example scenario from Janrain and discuss the implications, benefits, and pitfalls of moving to a utility cloud computing architecture from a traditional co-located hosting environment.
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Jonathan Bryce (The Rackspace Cloud),
Ben Cherian (DreamHost)
Learn how Dreamhost, creators of the open source Ceph storage system, added support for Ceph to OpenStack Compute (Nova), including more detail around the community process, capabilities of the Ceph integration and a deeper dive into the OpenStack architecture.
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Esen Sagynov (NHN Business Platform)
The session will be primarily about CUBRID's enterpise-ready High-Availability feature. Who should come? If you run a service which makes money, you should come and listen. Because you care about 100% up-time and distributed load balancing, and you want all these to be easy to configure, maintain, and at no cost. You will learn why and how CUBRID HA guarantees your web service will never die.
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Brian Clark (Objectivity)
Learn how developers and application architects can incorporate graph DB technologies alongside other data stores and open source components to solve the next wave of large-scale problems such as relationship analytics, traversal of complex relationships and connecting the dots in Big Data.
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Bob Nystrom (Google)
Magpie is a brand new language that borrows the shiniest bits from other languages. From Lisp, it takes multimethods and extensible syntax. From ML, it takes pattern-matching and records. From Ruby it takes classes, and a passion for clarity and readability.
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Luke Closs (Recollect)
Come learn the story of the award winning VanTrash open data app and the opportunities such apps can lead to for sustainable development of open data applications. Luke will show different models that open data hackers can pursue to turn their projects into small businesses.
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David Richards (Fleet Ventures)
A survey of open source software for helping find patterns in
pathologies and generating physician recommendations, with a focus on
the presenter's Fathom, a decision support framework.
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Tarus Balog (The OpenNMS Group, Inc.)
Building on last year's presentation on starting a business based on open source software, this presentation will cover the best ways to market such a business.
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Richard Fontana (Red Hat, Inc.)
Formal contributor agreements give rise to a number of social, economic and ethical problems, threatening to undermine many of the advantages of open source development, without offering any real legal benefits. Projects and their sponsoring organizations should implement explicit but informal contribution policies that are grounded in free software tradition and that encourage community-building.
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Joseph Lewis (Sandia National Laboratories)
Refactor existing web pages and applications for maximum accessibility in modern mobile devices using simple HTML5 and CSS3 techniques.
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2:30pm
Bryan Smith (Tacit Labs Inc)
OpenBTS and Asterisk allow enthusiasts to deploy homebrew yet Commercial Grade GSM cellular networks with affordable Open Hardware such as the Range Networks SDR. We’ll cover the hardware and software required to make your own cellular network and demonstrate the Range Networks SDR and OpenBTS at work.
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Chris DiBona (Google, Inc.)
First done at OSCON 2010, we though this session was extremely useful in helping developers work better with Google technology and answer questions they might be baffled about. So, for 40 minutes, we'll be happy to answer nearly any question an engineer might have. Many Googlers covering everything from Android to search will be in attendance and ready to answer your questions.
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Alex Martelli (Google)
Designing interfaces so that other code can interact with ours (whether our code is a library, framework, application, website...) is a very common and clearly crucial activity, but fraught with dangers — stuff we all keep doing wrong time after time. This talks shows some common cases of API design errors encountered in the wild, with tips on how to avoid them when you design your next API.
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Piers Cawley (Headforwards)
"I'm sorry I coined the term 'objects' for this topic ... the big idea is "messaging"' - Alan Kay
Stop thinking about objects and start thinking about the messages you're sending and how they can be handled and you will have simpler methods. In this talk we cover a couple of key patterns and see how they open the door to simpler, clearer, more extensible code.
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Charles McLaughlin (Atlassian)
In this session we'll cover the fundamentals of scaling Django applications using the Mercurial hosting service bitbucket.org for real world examples. We'll cover how we moved the site from EC2 to our own hardware in a data center and scaled to meet demand. Topics will include deployment, caching, replication, load balancing, and monitoring.
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Patrick Guiran (Linagora)
This talk focuses on building an SSH proxy which shields the remote targets from the users by hidding their specific credentials. Using an unpatched openssh on any UNIX flavor, sshGate provides an administration CLI, ACLs, groups, and logs users' sessions, which can be replayed anytime later. Users can use any standard ssh clients, and no installation is required on the managed targets.
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Joel Parker (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
The General Mission Analysis Tool (GMAT) is an open-source mission design tool actively used and developed at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. It is available now in beta form, and will be released fully by the end of the year.
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John Mertic (SugarCRM)
Learn techniques and best practices for enabling customization of your PHP application
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Bryant Patten (National Center for Open Source and Education)
The current buzz in K-12 education is about 21st Century skills and self-directed learning. But this vision is at odds with the passive consumer attitude of many of our current students. Open Source can be the transformative key by enabling engaged cooperation on a global scale on projects of substance.
Come learn about Makerbot 3D printers, humanitarian FOSS projects and the new Open IT Lab.
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Paul Voccio (Rackspace),
Ewan Mellor (Citrix Systems, Inc.)
There are many challenges to being able to move virtual machines to and from your datacenter and public cloud hosting service providers (in other words to obtain hybrid cloud mobility). In this session, members of the OpenStack and Xen.org communities discuss the open source and open standards approach that they are taking and include some of the challenges they face.
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Oren Teich (Heroku)
Procfile is a new open source way of defining the process formation that defines an application. Heroku takes advantage of Procfile to offer an incredible flexible PaaS. Oren will take you through the major features of Procfiles and how Heroku uses it, including illustrating the flexibility, visibility and confidence that you can achieve with Heroku.
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Lars Thalmann (Oracle),
Johannes Schlüter (ORACLE)
Under Oracle's stewardship, MySQL continues to innovate and thrive. Join Oracle's MySQL experts and learn the latest MySQL developments, including product releases, integrations and the roadmap. You'll hear directly from key development engineers in the MySQL replication and connectors team, so don't miss this opportunity!
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Yann Orlarey (GRAME, Centre National de Creation Musicale)
FAUST (Functional AUdio STreams) is a programming language for real-time signal processing and synthesis that targets high-performance DSP applications and audio plugins. The talk will be the opportunity to discover Faust and its applications in the musical and audio domains.
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Van Lindberg (Haynes and Boone)
Finding the right piece of "prior art" - technical documentation that described a patented piece of technology before the patent was filed - is like finding a needle in a very big haystack. This session will talk about making that process faster and more accurate through the use of natural language processing, graph theory, machine learning, and lots of Python.
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Fred Trotter (Cautious Patient Foundation)
What do you get when you mashup Open Source Healthcare software, Quantified Self, Behavioral Economics, and Open Data APIs?
Simple, the ability to hack yourself.
Hacking isn't "breaking in". Hacking is taking a technology far beyond presumed limitations. But what if the "technology" was your own body and mind?
Welcome to Programmable Self.
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Audrey Eschright (Elevated Code / Open Source Bridge),
Sherri Montgomery (Open Source Bridge / Ignite Portland / Mentor Graphics),
Christie Koehler (Mozilla / Open Source Bridge)
A fun, comprehensive overview of how to host a successful code sprint, hackathon, (un)conference or workshop.
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Aaron Williamson (Software Freedom Law Center),
Karen Sandler (GNOME Foundation)
A discussion of fundamental legal concepts for free/open source software developers, focusing on the topics that projects most commonly face: copyrights, trademarks, patents, and incorporation.
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Filip Maj (Nitobi)
Learn how to combine open source development tools with HTML5 to build full-featured, cross-platform mobile apps in HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
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4:10pm
Alasdair Allan (Babilim Light Industries),
Brian Jepson (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
The latest generation of smart phones, such as Apple's iPhone, have a growing range of in-built sensors, large screens, and a (near-)ubiquitous data connection. They would make an excellent hub for a distributed sensor networks, however interfacing to them can be challenging. This session will present several methods for connecting iOS devices to external hardware using serial connections.
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Deborah Wallach (Google),
Eni Mustafaraj (Wellesley College),
Dave Wolber (University of San Francisco),
Ralph Morelli (Trinity College, Hartford, CT)
App Inventor is a new visual programming environment developed by Google, free to the public. Since Fall 2009, several educational institutions have been using it to teach programming in introductory computer science courses. This presentation will share experiences from these courses, showcase examples of mobile apps created by students, and discuss the future of App Inventor use in education.
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Jeremiah Peschka (Brent Ozar PLF)
Writing SQL is has very little in common with writing application code. Refactoring SQL has nothing in common with writing application code. Good object-oriented refactoring techniques frequently cause problems with SQL. This talk covers tried and true methods for refactoring SQL.
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Tom Christiansen (TCPC)
Simple patterns like [a-z] or \d no longer cut the mustard, partly because Unicode is such a large character set, and partly because of multiple ways of writing characters with diacritics. There are many land mines in regular expressions now that Unicode matters
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Adam Parrish (Socialbomb)
This presentation relates my experience teaching Python as a tool for creative writing---or, more specifically, as a tool for creatively reading, transforming, and generating poetic text. Code examples link Python with contemporary practices in creative writing (cut-ups, flarf, generative poetics). Discussion will include hints, tips, and obstacles in using Python in a pedagogical environment.
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Clint Byrum (Canonical)
Is anybody else tired of hearing about the Cloud? Sick of hearing about
how its going to change everything and how it can scale infinitely and
that it makes the best Belgian waffles you've ever had.
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Melanie Swan (DIYgenomics)
Preventive medicine is a grand challenge. A key step is establishing baseline markers of wellness and pre-clinical interventions using personalized genomic data and phenotypic data. DIYgenomics has created such a methodology and completed a MTHFR/Vitamin B deficiency pilot study. An aging study is in enrollment, and other studies are in design for Vitamin D, metabolism, and mental performance.
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Jacinta Richardson (Perl Training Australia)
You have so much you want to teach, how do you structure it so that your training course is both interesting and challenging? How much theory can you squeeze into an hour before your attendees have forgotten where you started? How do you structure your course to account for classes which move slower or faster than average? This talk will cover all of these answers and more.
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Stewart Smith (Percona)
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. This is part survey, part critique of the various Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability models available from various modern databases and data stores used in modern Web and Cloud environments.
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Andrey Breslav (JetBrains)
We present a new statically typed JVM-targeted programming language developed by JetBrains and intended for industrial use.
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Eric van der Vlist (Dyomedea)
Links that disappear are a major threat for long living sites.
This danger can be minimized by creating personal web archives.
A next step could be to create a catalogue of these personal web archives to build a decentralized collective memory of the web.
This presentation proposes a first step to bootstrap this process.
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Vickie Hoffman (Roberts-Hoffman Software),
Thomas Jones (Tolven),
Brady Mathis (Roberts-Hoffman Software, Inc.)
At the 2010 OSCON, Roberts-Hoffman Software, Inc.(RHS) selected Tolven's open source framework to develop a hospital electronic health record plug-in. RHS will focus on the emerging trend for vendors to collaborate in an open source model to address the many challenges of healthcare. RHS will share collaborating with Tolven and Lexicomp to meet governmental healthare regulations.
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Sheeri K. Cabral (Mozilla Foundation)
This session will discuss how to get started podcasting. Tips and tricks to make your podcast run smoothly will be revealed, as well as how to get the word out there that your podcast exists. There will also be technical information on using audio software and hardware.
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Cat Allman (Google)
Free and Open Source projects are volunteer efforts but they still needs funds to pay for misc like bandwidth, hardware and the all important tee-shirts. This talk covers the basics of raising money: types of potential sponsors, choosing who to approach, how to "make the ask", special considerations for events, and some ideas on how to accept funds, including pitfalls to avoid.
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Jon Cruz (Inkscape)
SVG as a vector graphics format has been around for many years, but its usefulness has recently blossomed. Web support extending to being native in all major browsers, inclusion in HTML5, iOS device and now Android support are just the beginning of where SVG can be applied. This talk will give an overview of SVG and then present many of the different areas where one might use it today.
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5:00pm
Bryan Smith (Tacit Labs Inc)
Pandaboard is the Goliath of Open Hardware Embedded Platforms. A Dual-core Arm Cortex A9 processor aND 1GB of DDR2 RAM make it ideal for a myraid of use scenarios. Pandaboard touts an HDMI interface, Hardware accelerated 1080p HD video playback, 802.11n Wifi, Bluetooth, and USB OTG all on an Omap 4 platform.
Have fun exploring this amazing Open Hardware platform up close and personal.
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Marc Lavallee (NPR)
Today's hybrid cars give you the best of both worlds, and hybrid web apps can do the same. We'll walk through how NPR's Project Argo quickly built a blogging platform by combining the strengths of WordPress and Django. Along the way, we'll cover the benefits and drawbacks of this approach, considerations and details of our implementation, and best practices for any hybrid web application.
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Tom Christiansen (TCPC)
How does Unicode support across major platforms, including Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, and more, stack up? Who's doing the best job, and who's failing miserably? Is anyone doing a good job? Does anyone actually implement to standard, and to what extent? I'll compare the major platforms to separate the losers from the not-so-losers.
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A.Sinan Unur (Unur)
HTML5's canvas element allows graphics generation to be offloaded to the client's web browser. Various Perl modules make it easy to take data in various "spreadsheet" formats and turn them into easily chartable data. This presentation will demonstrate a simple web application built using Perl's Dancer to tie these elements together.
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Jordan Sissel (Loggly)
Get the most out of your logs with logstash. Logstash is free, open source, and scalable, and exists to help you debug, analyze, and correlate issues in real-time across your infrastructure and your business.
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Avinash Agrawal (SETI Institute),
Francis Potter (The Hathersage Group)
Most people have ideas on SETI; if only they had a chance, they would enhance the search. Wait no more. setiQuest gives you access to data, software that we just open-sourced after 20 years of being closed, and sophisticated front-end tools. Learn how you can help us improve the data and tools, or use them yourself to find ETI. If we succeed, this could be most profound scientific discovery ever.
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Lucas Carlson (PHPFog),
Rein Henrichs (PHPFog)
No matter which way you look at it PHP is still the most predominant language in use for the web. In the process of creating a scalable platform for PHP, Lucas Carlson came across many issues and discoveries. OReilly author Lucas Carlson takes you through the key issues you need to keep in mind before you write or port PHP code to a public cloud platform. Learn from his findings!
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Matthew Garrett (Red Hat)
Real clouds look fluffy but mass up to a million tonnes. Virtual clouds look cheap but consume the output of 10 nuclear power stations. Real life factors can seriously influence your data center requirements. How can Linux help you?
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Carson Gross (Amalgamated Code)
Gosu is a statically typed, imperative programming language for the JVM. This talk will give an overview of the language, focusing on features that differentiate it from other JVM languages, and then dive into the Open Type System, which a metadata API that allows arbitrary resources to plug into the Gosu compiler.
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Eran Hammer-Lahav (@WalmartLabs)
Sled (sled.com) is a new experimental productivity tool for small groups of close friends and family members. The session will take a detailed look at how OAuth 2.0 played a central role in the product architecture, and how it influence the product design and open source policy.
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Vaibhav Bhandari (Microsoft, Health Solutions Group),
Ali Emami (Microsoft, Health Solutions Group)
Do you want to enable your doctor to send your health information through an e-mail in secure way? Well, the Direct Project enables better patient care, and reduces cost of Healthcare by providing a standard and simple mechanism to share Healthcare information between providers, organizations and consumers. The project is an exemplary collaboration of public and private sector.
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Ilen Zazueta-Hall (Enphase Energy Inc.)
Two years ago, the SFRuby Meetup routinely drew just one or two women to an event of 50 people or more. Twelve Railsbridge Open Workshops and six hundred students later, meetups now routinely draw 15-20% women.
Applying open source thinking to workshop planning, organization and teaching made this change possible. Learn how you can use this approach to start a workshop of your own!
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Terry Chay (Automattic, Inc. (WordPress))
The way you make your luck in Web 2.0 is through virality. Figure out how it what it really means and how to code it in your LAMP website.
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Chrissie Brodigan (Mozilla/Firefox)
Open source projects have long skimped on presentation & packaging (basically, they are the equivalent of "she has a great personality!"). Let's change that. Open source can be the hot girl too. Learn how developers can create opportunities for designers to contribute to projects. Great design is the best way to draw an audience to your project & build contributor confidence.
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7:00pm
Location: Portland 252
R Geoffrey Avery (Platypi Ventures),
Larry Wall (Netlogic Microsystems)
Join us for the annual State of the Onion address with Larry Wall, followed by the ever popular Perl Lightning Talks.
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Location: D135
Moderated by: Brain Aker
Many people view topics like Map/Reduce and queue systems as advanced concepts that require in-depth knowledge and time consuming software setup. Gearman is changing all that by making this barrier to entry as low as possible with an open source, distributed job queuing system.
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Location: D136
Moderated by: Clint Byrum
With the cloud's ability to rapidly provision and unprovision servers, new ideas for scaling and availability are forming around something called service orchestration, that builds on top of the ideas of config management and "Infrastructure as Code".
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Location: D137
Moderated by: Nathan Bergey
Open source, it's not just for computers anymore. From plans to build your own cheap scanning tunneling microscope, to sites that crowdsource astronomical discoveries, and open source/open hardware rockets, science is opening up. Come talk about interesting projects and the unique challenges of open science.
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Location: D138
Moderated by: Jeremy Brinkley
Open source solutions (like Nagios) for monitoring system and service availability and performance present unique challenges when scaling up to large and/or distributed installation. What tools are needed or desirable for dealing with large numbers of monitored nodes in different management scenarios?
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Location: E141
Moderated by: Sebastian Dziallas and Mel Chua
This BoF, run by members of the http://teachingopensource.org community and open to all, hosts discussion on two separate but interrelated topics:
1. Education about FOSS - turning students into FOSS contributors
2. Using FOSS in Education - tools, techniques, and stories.
Anyone interested in open source and education, at any level, discipline, and role, is welcome to participate.
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Location: E142
Moderated by: Dhiraj Bokde
A brief discussion of ActiveMQ features for clustering and high availability and an opportunity to discuss how other users are using these features.
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Location: E143/144
Moderated by: Jeremie Miller
Come hang out w/ a bunch of the folks from the Locker Project and hack on getting your locker running, build new connectors, create apps atop your personal data, talk about the future where lockers connect peer-to-peer!
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Location: See BoF Schedule for Locations
Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions provide face to face exposure to those interested in the same projects and concepts. BoFs can be organized for individual projects or broader topics (best practices, open data, standards). BoFs are entirely up to you. We post your topic and provide the space and time. You provide the engaging topic.
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9:00pm
Location: Jupiter Hotel @ the Dream Tent
Thursday, July 28th, (mt) Media Temple Party! held at the Jupiter Hotel @ the Dream Tent with an Open Bar/All you can eat Tacos/DJ!
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Friday, 07/29/2011
9:00am
Location: Portland Ballroom
Edd Dumbill (O'Reilly Media, Inc. ),
Sarah Novotny (Meteor Enterainment)
Opening remarks by the OSCON program chairs, Sarah Novotny and Edd Dumbill.
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9:05am
Location: Portland Ballroom
Dan Melton (Code for America)
Code for America is a new type of public service for geeks to leverage their engineering skills to bring open source practices to communities across America. We'll talk about the growing geek corps and the challenges of leveraging each other's work in building our digital communities.
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9:20am
Location: Portland Ballroom
Brian Fitzpatrick (Google, Inc.)
Keynote by Brian Fitzpatrick, Engineering Manager, Google, Inc.
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9:35am
Location: Portland Ballroom
Karen Sandler (GNOME Foundation)
Keynote by Karen Sandler, Executive Director, GNOME Foundation.
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10:00am
Tom Hanlon (Cloudera)
Is your application distributed ? How have you chosen to deal with the implications of this distribution? In this session we will introduce and explore zookeeper. Originally developed at Yahoo and used by hbase, zookeeper is a wonderful tool. Zookeeper is straightforward and provides an interface allowing for easy configuration and use.
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Lindsey Simon (Twist)
As the market for browsers on the desktop and mobile platforms becomes increasingly fragmented, remembering what works where and what doesn't becomes increasingly hard. Browserscope is an open source, community-driven project for profiling web browsers. The goals are to foster innovation by tracking and sharing browser functionality and performance. Learn how you can use this cloud resource.
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Kevin Falcone (Best Practical Solutions)
As any open source project that leverages the power of the CPAN or other
dependency rich sources knows, streamlining installation for your users
is critical. Shipwright allows you to build and distribute relocatable
vessels that can ship everything above libc and allow a user a truly
dependency-free installation.
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Edd Dumbill (O'Reilly Media, Inc. ),
Sarah Novotny (Meteor Enterainment)
OSCON belongs to its attendees, and we want to hear what you think of this year’s show. Join the organizers to talk about what you loved and hated about OSCON, and what you’d like to see next year.
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Steven Ellis (Red Hat New Zealand)
A relatively recent addition to Linux, CGroups provide a mechanism to control resource allocation in a manner that has long existed on Unix environments.
Most recently released Linux distributions now include CGroups in their standard package repositories, but few system administrators are aware of the features they provide.
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Mats Kindahl (Oracle),
Lars Thalmann (Oracle)
The ability to replicate from one MySQL server to another is a well established and proven technology. Until recently, replication from a MySQL server to an external application was not supported. This technology would not only enable a universe of applications, it would also permit developers to integrate near real time data changes from MySQL quickly and reliably into their own solutions.
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Steve Hargadon (Classroom 2.0)
I've run the Open Source Lab for the last five years at some of the largest and most influential educational technology shows, including ISTE and CUE. Over the years I've gained some understanding of why and how Open Source Software is adopted (or not) by schools.
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Neil Mansilla (Mashery, Inc.)
A web API needs documentation, unit tests, functional tests and possibly a WADL. Usually one or more is out of date or just doesn't exist. The Unico DSL can generate all these for you from a natural-language document written by project manager-types. Build a quick API in this session and BELIEVE.
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William Schroeder (Kitware, Inc.),
Brian Wylie (Sandia National Labs),
Marcus Hanwell (Kitware, Inc.)
Open source serves as a superb platform for collaborative R&D and the practice of Open Science. In this panel three members of the research community discuss ways to fund, support, and grow research programs based on open source practices.
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Location: F151
Rick Nixon (City of Portland, Oregon),
Oscar Godson (City of Portland, OR),
Eric Arenson (City of Portland, Oregon)
This introduction is targeted to technical and non-technical attendees alike; including a demo of our new legislative agenda app and related API features, followed by an unconference-style discussion of extended features and policies surrounding a public commenting capability to the app.
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Sonya Barry (Oracle)
People hate change, and Java.net, a java-centric open source forge and
community, needed a lot of change. Not just a facelift, but a whole
new infrastructure with new development tools and a modern content
management system. With 5600 projects and 600,000 registered members,
and a handful of engineers dedicated to the task, how do you move a
community this big without destroying it?
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Matt McCarthy (Netflix),
Kim Trott (Netflix)
Learn how Netflix builds its third-generation device user interfaces with web technologies. Between device performance limitations, new technologies like CORS and CSS3 transitions, techniques for managing directional input, and developing both subtle and wildly different UI variants for A/B tests, developing Webkit-based UI for TV devices like the PlayStation 3 is a whole new world.
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11:00am
Adam Kalsey (Tropo)
Tropo's platform for voice, SMS, and IM is a hosted cloud service, and we've opened the source of the core platform. Hear the lessons learned from running a cloud service and a parallel open source project. We did a lot wrong, and we got many things right. We'll discuss what we've learned about product management, release management, marketing, and third party licensing.
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Laura Thomson (Mozilla Corporation)
Review worst practices for releasing software: how to destroy scope in a single meeting; "death sprints" (more agile than death marches); how to avoid testing; how to make your software impossible to configure; and finally, when pushing out a webapp release, how to make your ops team hate you. This tongue in cheek session will review things learned painfully and late at night.
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Chris Prather (Tamarou LLC)
The move to pervasive computing is increasing the speed of production and lowering the bars to entry. The Arts & Crafts movement of was a reaction to the commoditization and division of labour. Perhaps it is time to look again at the idea that craftsmen should take pleasure in their work produce things which please their customers.
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Victor Felix (Univ. of Maryland)
With systems such as Grid Engine, Condor and others, it is relatively easy these days for organizations to create robust distributed compute farms. See how the Grid::Request Perl module can make the authoring, submission and control of large distributed jobs easy and in a scheduler agnostic manner.
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John Haller (PortableApps.com)
A portable app is a program that you can carry around with you on a portable device (USB drive, cloud drive, mobile phone, etc) and use on any Windows or Linux PC you plug it into. This session will cover why making your software portable makes sense and how to do it using open source tools.
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Jason Evans (Facebook)
jemalloc is primarily known as a high performance memory allocator, but Facebook has evolved it to also provide numerous tools for tracking application behavior and detecting memory errors. Jason Evans will demonstrate how to use jemalloc for diagnosing memory errors in large-footprint and/or long-running applications, whether during application development or after deployment.
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John Goulah (Etsy),
Erik Kastner (Etsy / Meta | ateM)
Developers deploy production code more than 20 times per day at Etsy. Small rapid changes allow us to move fast, detect failure, and respond quickly. This works for a number of cultural and technical reasons. Learn about the tool we built, Deployinator, to automate this processand how we accomplish this effectively.
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Gopal Vijayaraghavan (Zynga Game Network, India)
With the prevalence of multi-core systems and virtualization, several assumptions made during the design & optimization of PHP & APC are no longer valid. This talk covers the basic under-the-hood changes that have gone into making PHP perform better on multiple cores & virtualized environments.
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Peter Scott (Pacific Systems Design Technologies),
Scott Gray (O'Reilly School of Technology)
Most online education has failed to work, for the simple reason that it was designed by engineers instead of educators. The O'Reilly School of Technology has been growing for three years and has deployed multiple certificate series in technology fields. Come and hear from its founder (and a content author who will be familiar to OSCON audiences) the principles that make OST so successful.
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Noirin Plunkett (Apache Software Foundation)
Whether you’re just rolling out a new project, or you’re maintaining ten years and three major versions of legacy code, good documentation is vital for your users. They won't bother downloading your software if they can’t work out what it does, and if all you have is the bare-bones documentation to help them to get up and running, you’ll end up spending more time than you want to on support.
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Matt Blair (Elsewise LLC)
A review of three open data projects, from a developer's perspective: assembling a map of poetry posts, crowd-sourcing photos of Heritage Trees, and showcasing Portland's extensive collection of Public Art. Includes practical tips, such as using CouchDB to manage datastores that continue to evolve based on citizen input. Ideal for anyone hoping to get their community engaged in open data projects.
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Gareth Greenaway (SCALE)
This talk explores the similarities and differences between Volunteers and Contributors and the various ways to keep "motivational paychecks" from bouncing. Developers can always point to their code as "proof" of contribution, but what can we give our non-developer volunteers as their "proof" of contribution.
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Bradley Kuhn (Software Freedom Conservancy)
This talk surveys the FLOSS copyleft compliance problems that were and are encountered, and how they have changed historically. Much progress has been made since the 1990s, but widespread adoption of GPL'd and LGPL'd software in embedded systems has led to more violations than ever before. This talk explains how our community meets these challenges to improve worldwide copyleft compliance.
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Bastian Hofmann (ResearchGate GmbH)
Nowadays many modern web applications are solely relying on JavaScript to render their frontend. But if you want to create mashups, load data from many different places or include external widgets into your site, you are quickly running into boundaries because of browser and security restrictions. In this presentation I will talk about techniques old and new helping you with such problems.
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11:50am
Dan York (Voxeo Corporation)
With the news that IPv4 address allocation is in its final stages, IPv6 is getting a great amount of attention and questions are being asked about whether software works with IPv6. Why should you as an open source developer care? What do you need to think about in your applications? How can you make sure your apps work with IPv6?
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Gleicon Moraes (7co.cc)
Sometimes there is a mix between performance and scalability, but they are different dimensions. Changing your code from blocking to non-blocking yields scalability at the cost of a complexity. In this talk I show how Python, Ruby and JS do that, the differences between their async toolkits and some basic building blocks for web and high load applications.
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Chase Douglas (Canonical)
Multitouch hardware has now reached consumer open source products. How can we enable developers to create immersive and useful touch software? How do we look to the future, while still enabling software from the past? In this talk, we will look at the new software technologies and frameworks that will revolutionize user interfaces.
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Michael Schwern (eval Empire),
Ricardo Signes (Pobox.com)
Git makes so much more sense when you understand how it really works. It only has two tricks, and they're really simple, but explanations go on about Directed Acyclic Graphs and Octopus Merges and a bunch of CS jargon nobody understands. Feh. You can illustrate and understand git using just children's toys!
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Trevor Parscal (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.),
Roan Kattouw (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
Discover a variety of creative techniques for dramatically improving page load speed which focus on low-hanging fruit rather than micro-optimization, and what impact they had when applied to the world's fifth largest website, Wikipedia. Trevor and Roan will explore optimization beyond server load, minification and gzip, and offer up new open source libraries to help others do the same.
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Kristopher Wallsmith (OpenSky)
In this presentation Kris Wallsmith, Symfony Guru at OpenSky, introduces his new asset management framework for PHP 5.3, Assetic. Assetic finally makes it easy to integrate the latest frontend tools like YUI Compressor, SASS, and CoffeeScript seamlessly into your PHP workflow.
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Henrique Bastos (Dekode)
Building a strong community is hard. People are diverse and have different interests. So how to gather them and make things happen in a sustainable and constant way?
For the past years, Rio's community kept growing strong. Dozens of different initiatives started to emerge resulting on a "community overflow" spread all over the country. We've learned from it, and now we can share our recipe.
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John Hawley (Linux Foundation / Kernel.org),
Shawn Pearce (Google)
The Google Android platform has sky rocketed in popularity over the last few years, boasting uncounted devices and a vibrant development community. We aim to pull back the curtain on the behind the scenes infrastructure that supports this world wide development effort from Gerrit code review to the servers that push the source code.
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12:40pm
Location: Portland Ballroom
Paul Fenwick (Perl Training Australia)
Our brains are not-at-all suited for modern life, and are plagued by a raft of bugs and unwanted features that we've been unable to remove. Join us in a tour of some of the most amusing bugs and exploits wetware has to offer.
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1:15pm
Location: Portland Ballroom Foyer
Take the opportunity to network one last time and exchange contact information with one another.
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2:00pm
Location: Meet in MLK Lobby of the Oregon Convention Center
One of the best ways to experience Portland, this walking tour will expose you to the culturally underground, the socially underground, and the subterranean underground of Portland. Please register in advance. Tickets are $19 per person.
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