Personal schedule for Andy Piper
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Monty Taylor (HP)
Average rating:
(2.29, 14 ratings)
Monty Taylor, manager of Automation and Deployment at HP, will be our
guest speaker and will be running a lab session. This will be an
in-depth, hands-on session on how to set-up OpenStack. We'll walk
through setting up devstack, with the end result of creating a working
OpenStack development environment by the end of the night.
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Average rating:
(4.43, 30 ratings)
If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Would you pitch a project? Launch a web site? Teach a hack? We’re going to find out when we conduct our third Ignite event at OSCON.
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Location: D137-138
Moderated by: Raja Rao DV
Average rating:
(5.00, 1 rating)
Learn about internal workings of Node.js & buzz around Node.js. Also learn about basics of VMware Cloud Foundry PaaS and how to run 4 different kinds of sample Node.js apps on Cloud Foundry
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Mark Atwood (HP Cloud Services),
Krishna Raman (Red Hat)
Average rating:
(4.17, 6 ratings)
Here's your chance to learn how to build your own Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Come check out this session with Krishna and Mark from the OpenShift team and learn how to install, configure and deploy OpenShift Origin - the open source project that powers the OpenShift service - on your laptop.
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(3.50, 6 ratings)
Join us for a day-long program exploring OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure platform. Originally founded at NASA and Rackspace, OpenStack has grown to be a global software community of developers collaborating on a standard and massively scalable open source cloud operating system.
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Alasdair Allan (Babilim Light Industries)
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(3.80, 5 ratings)
This tutorial will walk you through connecting an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad to an Arduino or other external hardware using an RS-232 adaptor. This is hardware hacking for iOS developers. You'll learn how to build iOS applications that talk to the real world, talk to sensors that talk back, and make iOS part of the Internet of Things.
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Chiradeep Vittal (Citrix Systems)
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(3.50, 2 ratings)
Apache CloudStack is an infrastructure-as-a-service platform used to deploy Amazon-style cloud computing environments, in this session developers will learn abou the architecture, plugin framework, and how to get involved in the Apache CloudStack project.
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Vadim Spivak (VMWare, Cloud Foundry),
Oleg Shaldybin (VMware)
Average rating:
(3.40, 5 ratings)
Introduction to BOSH - an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services. How it works, why we built it, and how it supports IaaS like OpenStack through the BOSH Cloud Provider Interface.
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Average rating:
(4.10, 20 ratings)
Grab a drink and kick off the 14th edition of OSCON by meeting and mingling with exhibitors and fellow attendees.
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Average rating:
(4.12, 32 ratings)
We're swapping last year's clown shoes for Camp OSCON t-shirts at this year's attendee party. You don't have to worry about sewing in nametags and forget those long bus rides -- just stroll over Exhibit Hall A (next to the Expo Hall). This is the camp you wish your parents had sent you to. You won't want to miss this; trust us.
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Edd Dumbill (Silicon Valley Data Science),
Sarah Novotny (Meteor Entertainment),
Sam Adams (City of Portland, Oregon)
Average rating:
(4.25, 20 ratings)
Opening remarks by Portland Mayor Sam Adams, as well as OSCON program chairs, Sarah Novotny and Edd Dumbill.
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Lance Albertson (Oregon State University Open Source Lab)
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(3.80, 20 ratings)
Private cloud computing has become an integral part of global business. While each platform provides a way for virtual machines to be deployed, implementations vary widely. It can be difficult to determine which features are right for your needs. This session will discuss the top open source private cloud platforms and provide analysis on which one is the best fit for you.
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Arun Gupta (Oracle)
Average rating:
(3.86, 7 ratings)
This talk introduces the Java EE 7 platform, the latest revision of the Java platform for the enterprise.
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Lorna Jane Mitchell (LornaJane)
Average rating:
(4.62, 8 ratings)
Did you know that the newest version of PHP ships with its own development server? This talk discusses when this might be useful (and when it isn't!) and also covers a selection of the other features new in PHP.
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Nathaniel Schutta (ntschutta.com)
Average rating:
(3.81, 32 ratings)
Believe it or not, the JavaScript party hasn't stopped. What other libraries are out there? What do they offer? This talk will survey the field of modern JavaScript libraries getting you up to speed on what's new.
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Florian Haas (hastexo)
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(3.80, 5 ratings)
An introduction to high availability for the OpenStack cloud stack, using the Pacemaker cluster management framework.
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Greg Brockman (Stripe)
Average rating:
(4.20, 5 ratings)
Applications are only as reliable as the database they use. At Stripe,
we've developed a set of practical techniques for running MongoDB
without downtime even in the face of catastophic machine failure. This
session will cover a range of these techniques (and the tales behind
their development).
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Federico Lucifredi (Canonical USA)
Average rating:
(3.33, 9 ratings)
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 your design arsenal.
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Charles Bell (Oracle)
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(2.25, 4 ratings)
Building sensor networks, while challenging, can be a data rich endeavor. But what do you do with all of the data you collect? How do you store and make sense of the results? Where do you store the information? This session explores the options available and demonstrates how to store the data in a database system for easy retrieval.
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Philip Lindsay (rancidbacon.com)
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(4.20, 5 ratings)
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 the Handbag for Android project makes development easier.
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Mary Jane Kelly (Casaba Security)
Average rating:
(4.10, 10 ratings)
Long have people dreamed of finding psychokinetic powers. From ancient mythology to the Uncanny X-Men, mental superpowers have been the stuff of legend. Now, with an Arduino and an EEG sensor headset, the amazing power of telekinesis can be yours!
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Rob Reilly (Rob Reilly Consulting)
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(3.85, 13 ratings)
The hacker community has enthusiastically embraced the Arduino microcontroller. Linux and Open Source hackers are some of the most sophisticated and forward thinking in the business. This talk with give them plenty of ideas for building highly capable, remote sensor projects.
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Bruce Momjian (EnterpriseDB)
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(3.88, 8 ratings)
There are more options for home automation than ever before --- a growing number of inputs and outputs can be harnessed to make your home life easier. This presentation ties shows how sensors, temperatures, wireless devices, and telephones can be tied into lights, sounds, and even coffee pots to make your home "smart".
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(4.31, 13 ratings)
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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Location: See BoF Schedule for Locations
Average rating:
(4.67, 3 ratings)
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: E146
Moderated by: Andy Piper
A group discussion on the integration technologies needed in the new open Platform as a Service era - we've got mature data formats, messaging providers and protocols - what sorts of methods and techniques are useful, and what are we missing?
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Average rating:
(3.80, 10 ratings)
Please join us to celebrate the OpenStack community's success on its 2nd anniversary during OSCON 2012! We will have food, drinks, bar games and of course, OpenStack limited-edition t-shirts!
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Blake Yeager (Hewlett Packard)
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(4.00, 2 ratings)
HP’s public cloud is built on OpenStack open-source cloud technology. The OpenStack project has rapidly been adopted as the leading open source cloud solution because it avoids vendor lock-in, and is ubiquitous across public, managed and private clouds.
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Mike Amundsen (Layer 7 Technologies)
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(3.68, 25 ratings)
Unlike some introductions to Node.js that spend time explaining event loops and web sockets, this session start with a typical “Hello, Node” demo and quickly moves to short, fully-functional pps that show how to deal with static files, POST forms, mashups from other servers, file manipulation, data-handling, and even supporting HTTP Authentication.
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Dave Neary (Red Hat)
Average rating:
(4.18, 11 ratings)
Your body is a machine. If you jog or run, then by mixing things up, you can help make that machine run more efficiently. This talk will cover the basics of how to establish a performance baseline, constructing a training program to improve performance, and then measuring the improvements.
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David Nalley (Apache CloudStack (incubating))
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(5.00, 3 ratings)
Come learn about Apache CloudStack, its architecture, and how to deploy it - and then how to connect it to your configuration management system and continuous integration to achieve an incredibly robust and flexible dev/test environment.
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Jeff Hobbs (ActiveState),
Diane Mueller (ActiveState)
Average rating:
(3.00, 3 ratings)
In this presentation, ActiveState CTO Jeff Hobbs and Cloud Evangelist Diane Mueller discuss the challenges, drama, and realities of deploying private Platform as a Service (PaaS) on OpenStack and CloudStack.
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David Nalley (Apache CloudStack (incubating))
Average rating:
(5.00, 1 rating)
Come learn about Apache CloudStack, its architecture, and how to deploy it - and then how to connect it to your configuration management system and continuous integration to achieve an incredibly robust and flexible dev/test environment.
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Allison Randal (DrugDev, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.60, 10 ratings)
Inspired by a friend's X10-wired house in the 1990's, this talk is a modern take on the "smart home", searching for a more organic connection to our digital selves.
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Brian Clapper (Circonus, Inc.)
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(3.00, 8 ratings)
Message Queues are a hot topic, but not all are created equal. After reviewing most of the popular choices, I will review my findings and offer suggestions for which to use when, and pros and cons of each. On the list are RabbitMQ, Kafka, Apache Qpid, Kestrel, ZeroMQ and more as time permits.
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Location: E143
Moderated by: Andy Piper
A discussion about MQTT, a popular lightweight messaging protocol open sourced through the Eclipse Foundation, and used in a variety of mobile and embedded device applications (from automated mousetraps, to tweeting ferries, and Facebook Messenger).
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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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Nicholas Silva (Box)
Average rating:
(3.90, 10 ratings)
While there are many ways to design compute clusters, leveraging fast message queueing for all facets of system operation may be among the most elegant. Topics will include job collection, automatic load balancing, analytics, monitoring, and scaling. Learn real-world best practices and gotchas discovered while scaling an AMQP-based document processing backend to support over 8 million users.
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Donnie Berkholz (RedMonk),
Leslie Hawthorn (Red Hat)
Average rating:
(4.38, 13 ratings)
The strength of your community is the best predictor of your project's long-term viability. What happens when that community is gradually infiltrated by assholes, who infect everyone else with their constant negativity and personal attacks? This talk will teach you about the dramatic impact assholes are having on your organization today and will show you how you can begin to repair it.
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Damian Conway (Thoughtstream)
Average rating:
(4.78, 27 ratings)
If you're one of the 50% of developers who uses vi/Vim on a regular basis, but you still only use the 5% of the editor features that you learned in school, this talk will offer you a dozen ways to instantly make your editing more efficient and productive.
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Brian King (Briks Software),
Benjamin Kerensa (Mozilla)
Average rating:
(4.67, 3 ratings)
Grow, Grow, Grow! People are the life-blood of Open Source Communities. Mozilla has always recognised this in regards to their own success, and are now undertaking a project to expand the community even further with the Mozilla Reps program. This talk will discuss the successes and challenges we have had, and our plans for continued momentum.
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Average rating:
(4.17, 6 ratings)
The 8th Annual O’Reilly Open Source Award winners will be announced.
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Average rating:
(4.60, 5 ratings)
Take the opportunity to network one last time and exchange contact information with one another. Drinks and snacks provided.
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