Edd Dumbill

Edd Dumbill
Program Chair, O'Reilly Media, Inc.

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Edd Dumbill is a technologist, writer and programmer based in California. He is the program chair for the O’Reilly Strata and Open Source Convention Conferences, and Editor in Chief of the journal Big Data.

He was the founder and creator of the Expectnation conference management system, and a co-founder of the Pharmalicensing.com online intellectual property exchange.

A veteran of open source, Edd has contributed to various projects, such as Debian and GNOME, and created the DOAP Vocabulary for describing software projects.

Edd has written four books, including O’Reilly’s “Learning Rails”. He writes regularly on Google+ and on his blog at eddology.com.

Sessions

8:45am Wednesday, 07/18/2012
Opening Welcome
Keynote
 Location: Portland Ballroom
Edd Dumbill (O'Reilly Media, Inc. ), 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. Read more.
9:00am Thursday, 07/19/2012
Thursday Welcome
Keynote
 Location: Portland Ballroom
Edd Dumbill (O'Reilly Media, Inc. ), Sarah Novotny (Meteor Entertainment)
Average rating: ***..
(3.83, 12 ratings)
Opening remarks by the OSCON program chairs, Sarah Novotny and Edd Dumbill. Read more.
9:45am Thursday, 07/19/2012
An Interview with Gianugo Rabellino
Keynote
 Location: Portland Ballroom
Edd Dumbill (O'Reilly Media, Inc. ), Gianugo Rabellino (Microsoft)
Average rating: **...
(2.09, 35 ratings)
Microsoft's journey into open source has been eventful, and even unexpected. Ten years ago, few would have predicted the importance to the company of projects such Node.JS, Hadoop and even Linux. Read more.
9:00am Friday, 07/20/2012
Friday Welcome
Keynote
 Location: Portland Ballroom
Edd Dumbill (O'Reilly Media, Inc. ), Sarah Novotny (Meteor Entertainment)
Average rating: ****.
(4.33, 6 ratings)
Opening remarks by the OSCON program chairs, Sarah Novotny and Edd Dumbill. Read more.
11:50am Friday, 07/20/2012
OSCON Town Hall
Keynote
 Location: D135
Edd Dumbill (O'Reilly Media, Inc. ), Sarah Novotny (Meteor Entertainment), Gina Blaber (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
Average rating: ***..
(3.67, 3 ratings)
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. Read more.

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