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OSCON 2013
by OreillyMedia 1,025 views
http://oscon.com
Join us July 22-26 at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2013 in Portland, Oregon. We know you won't want to miss it: we're celebrating the 15th anniversary of OSCON, and it's going to be an extraordinary experience.
OSCON is the must-attend gathering of the best and brightest minds in technology, an opportunity to challenge your assumptions and spark your imagination. Join us for five immersive days of all things open source—new and innovative projects, major enterprise-wide deployments, and—from icons of the open source movement—deep perspective on where we've been and where we're headed. -
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OSCON 2012: Tim O'Reilly, "The Clothesline Paradox and the Sharing Economy"
by OreillyMedia 15,196 views
Open source software was one of the earliest successful examples of a sharing economy that has had huge economic impact. But as alternative energy advocate Steve Baer once noted, ecosystem services are often ignored in economic analysis: when you put your clothes in the dryer, the energy you use is measured and counted, but when you hang them on the line, they disappear from the measured economy. In this talk, I explore how various sharing economies are directly and indirectly monetized, and ruminate on their future.
Tim O'Reilly
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O'Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, the Web 2.0 Summit, Strata: The Business of Data, and many others. O'Reilly's Make: magazine and Maker Faire has been compared to the West Coast Computer Faire, which launched the personal computer revolution. Tim's blog, O'Reilly Radar, "watches the alpha geeks" to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim is also a partner at O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, O'Reilly's early stage venture firm, and is on the board of Safari Books Online. -
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OSCON 2012: Brian Aker, "Scaling OpenStack Technology. Lessons From The Field"
by OreillyMedia 3,639 views
Our industry has shown that open source movements usher in tectonic shifts that enable new business and access models. These shifts fundamentally change the way technology is developed, consumed and the value it can bring. Today, mobility, social, big data along with cloud computing are representative of some of the biggest shifts offering great value, especially when leveraging open source movements, like OpenStack technology.
In this keynote, Brian Aker, HP Fellow, will share challenges and best practices from his work with OpenStack software, including how a rich set of APIs must be developed in order to drive broad platform adoption as well as the need for formal APIs. He'll also discuss why aligning roadmaps with the broader open source community are so critical and how enterprise customers, as fast followers, can extend resources for QA and performance improvements from this collaboration.
Brian Aker
HP
Brian has spent his life working on the details of how to build and scale out systems. He is currently working on a new MicroKernel designed MySQL called Drizzle and is building the plumbing required for a new generation of large scale computer deployment. He also spends time working on Apache Modules, Memcached, and Gearman.
In the past, he has been involved with projects for the Army Engineer Corps, The VirtualHospital, Splunk, MySQL, Slashdot, and was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems. He calls Seattle his home since that is where his dog Rosalynd is. -
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OSCON 2012: Danny Hillis, "The Learning Map"
by OreillyMedia 2,257 views
Teachers know their students: what motivates them, what they struggle with, what it looks like when something clicks and a new subject opens wide before them. Teachers also know that a new learning technology isn't very useful if it takes away time that could be spent working directly with students to identify and work on their learning challenges. Applied Minds CEO, Danny Hillis will offer an introduction to The Learning Map, a Shared Learning Collaborative initiative organizing online learning material to get the right content to the right student at the right time.
This keynote is sponsored by Shared Learning Collaborative
Danny Hillis
Applied Minds, LLC
Danny Hillis is Co-Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Applied Minds, LLC, a research and development company that invents, designs, creates and prototypes high technology products and services for a broad range of applications including transportation, education, architecture, distance collaboration, advanced visualization, electronics and software.
Previously, Danny was Vice President, Research and Development at Walt Disney Imagineering, and a Disney Fellow. Before that, he co-founded Thinking Machines Corp., which was the leading innovator in massive parallel supercomputers and RAID disk arrays. In addition to conceiving and designing the company's major products, Danny worked closely with his customers in applying parallel computers to problems in astrophysics, aircraft design, financial analysis, genetics, computer graphics, medical imaging, image understanding, neurobiology, materials science, cryptography and subatomic physics. At Thinking Machines, he built a technical team comprised of scientists and engineers that were widely acknowledged to have been among the best in the industry.
Danny is an inventor, scientist, author and engineer. While completing his doctorate at MIT, he pioneered the concept of parallel computers that is now the basis for most supercomputers, as well as the RAID disk array technology used to store large databases. He holds over 200 U.S. patents, covering parallel computers, disk arrays, forgery prevention methods, and various electronic and mechanical devices. Danny is also the designer of a 10,000-year mechanical clock.
In addition to his leadership role at Applied Minds, he is co-chairman of The Long Now Foundation, Judge Widney professor of engineering and medicine of the University of Southern California, and serves on the board of the Hertz Foundation. He has also served on the Science Board of the Santa Fe Institute, the Advisory Board of Yale's Institute for Biospheric Studies, and SETI Institute's Technical Advisory Committee. Danny is the recipient of numerous awards, including the inaugural Dan David Prize for shaping and enriching society and public life, the Spirit of American Creativity Award for his inventions, the Hopper Award for his contributions to computer science and the Ramanujan Award for his work in applied mathematics. He is a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow in the International Leadership Forum and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. -
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OSCON 2012: Kaitlin Thaney, "The Mudslide Hypothesis of Science"
by OreillyMedia 1,493 views
The Web has transformed not only the way we approach modern day science, but a number of other facets of the research cycle: tools for analysis, mediums which now serve as "information inputs", how we exchange ideas and even discover knowledge. Yet despite the pieces being there, changing practice is like trying to shake a castle.
In scientific research, we're dealing with special circumstances, trying to innovate upon hundreds of years of entrenched norms and practices, broken incentive structures and information discovery problems dramatically slowing the system, keeping us from making the advances needed to better society.
Technological solutions exist and processes are slowly changing, but the machine is not nearly as well-oiled (or straightforward) as we'd like to think, and there are still breaks in the system keeping us from doing more efficient work. In this talk, Kaitlin will posit that we're not only "getting this wrong" in the academic research context, but that we need a shift in mindset towards openness as well as better tools to truly disrupt the system, and bring our methods (finally) into the 21st century.
Kaitlin Thaney
Digital Science
Kaitlin comes from Digital Science, a new technology company started out of Macmillan Publishers, providing tools for researchers. She's a technologist, open science advocate, and data nerd who works in her day job to make scientific research more efficient through better use of technology. Prior to moving to the UK to work for Digital Science, she managed the science division of Creative Commons where she worked to enable better knowledge sharing and research. For more about Digital Science, visit http://digital-science.com. You can follow her at @kaythaney -
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OSCON 2012: David Eaves, "The Science of Open Source Community Management"
by OreillyMedia 1,913 views
An open source community depends on its capacity to attract people and the efficiency with which it can harness their energy to create great software. While a compelling mission or killer product can be helpful, effective communities must be responsive and efficient in managing the diverse needs and demands of its members.
Combining his experience with theories of collaboration and negotiation developed at Harvard and his work in data analytics in the open government space David will outline how better metrics combined with skills, tools and processes can drive faster and better software development while reducing the number of headaches and fights. There will always be some art to managing people, but there can be a lot more science -- the use of proven, measurable processes -- in how we manage our communities.
David Eaves
Eaves Consulting
David Eaves is an expert in negotiation, open innovation and public policy. As a consultant David advises several governments on open government and open data. He drafted the City of Vancouver's Open Motion which helped both launch the world's second municipal Open Data portal (after Washington DC) and rewrite procurement rules to enable the adoption of Open Source software. David has also served as the Director of the Code for America Institute and authored After the Collapse: The Future of Open Government and the Civil Service, a chapter in the O'Reilly book "Open Government".
An expert in collaboration David also advises companies, non-profits and open source communities on managing critical relationships. Working with Mozilla he uses data and negotiation theory to them better understand their contributors. He trained Greenpeace's climate change activists on negotiating to help them move from protest to results. And he served as an adviser during the negotiation of the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement -- an agreement between the 13 major Environmental groups and largest forestry companies in Canada that has changed how environmentalists and industry work together.
David publishes and speaks regularly on open government, open data, collaboration and open innovation. He studied history at Queen's and International Relations at Oxford. When not traveling he lives in Vancouver, BC, blogs regularly at www.eaves.ca and can be found at @daeaves. -
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OSCON 2012: Mark R. Shuttleworth, "Making Magic From Cloud To Client"
by OreillyMedia 12,563 views
Seamless work and play across phones, tablet and desktops is the goal of Ubuntu's design efforts. Mark will demo some of the latest inventions in UX in Ubuntu, preview new features that will land in 12.10, and outline the key areas of research and discovery as we move into a world where "personal computing" is being redefined and reinvented. On the server front, the focus is all cloud. With Ubuntu the #1 OS on public clouds, there has been a great deal of work done on the tools to support large scale (and small scale) deployments across multiple clouds. For web service developers building multi-service web applications, these new tools create an amazing development-and-deployment experience.
Mark R. Shuttleworth
Canonical Ltd.
Mark is founder of Ubuntu, a popular free operating system for desktops and servers. Ubuntu is beautiful, easy to use and precision engineered for consumers and large-scale enterprise deployments alike. It has been adopted by an amazing number of people, from families that just want a PC that works for safe web surfing, to heavy industry, massive cloud computing environments, supercomputers, several armies, national police forces, banks and schools in the Amazon.
Mark leads product strategy and design at Canonical, which sells commercial support for Ubuntu, mainly to large enterprises and governments who deploy it professionally. Canonical also builds many of the unique elements of Ubuntu for desktop, cloud and server deployments. Mark champions design-driven development and has a focus on quality and cadence in the engineering work done at Canonical.
After graduating from the University of Cape Town with a degree in finance and information technology, Mark founded Thawte, a company specialising in digital certificates and cryptography. When Thawte was acquired in 1999 by VeriSign, and he founded HBD, an investment company, and setup the Shuttleworth Foundation, which funds innovative change in society by supporting Fellows and investing in their projects. He moved to London in 2001, and began preparing for the First African in Space mission, training in Star City, Russia, and Khazakstan. In April 2002 he flew in space, as a cosmonaut member of the crew of Soyuz mission TM34 to the International Space Station. After a tour of schools in South Africa promoting science and mathematics for aspiring astronauts he started work on Ubuntu. Today he lives on the lovely Isle of Man along with 12 ducks, the equally lovely Claire, two black bitches and the occasional itinerant sheep. -
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OSCON 2012: John Mone, "Open Source: A Recipe For Success"
by OreillyMedia 755 views
Through its ubiquitous presence in small business, Open Source has become a key, but unrecognized, driver of the U.S. economy. John will discuss the hidden impact of Open Source and what it means to contributors and project leaders. He'll also provide important tips on making it easy to increase exposure of projects through code contributors and distribution platforms.
John Mone
Endurance International Group
John Mone is the EVP of Technology and Program Management for the Endurance International Group, a leading provider of online solutions for small and mid-sized businesses. Previously, John formed Tributary Consulting, where he helped organizations accelerate growth through technology. As the former Global Head of Operations for EBS, the world's largest electronic brokerage for foreign exchange, John led a three-year technology transformation that included the re-architecture of core trading platforms using open systems. Earlier in his career, John founded and served as the CTO of a transaction simulation and analysis software firm. He attended the United States Military Academy, received a B.S. from Rutgers University and holds an M.B.A. in Strategic Management from Wharton. -
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OSCON 2012: Edd Dumbill & Gianugo Rabellino, "An Interview with Gianugo Rabellino"
by OreillyMedia 289 views
Microsoft's journey into open source has been eventful, and even unexpected. Five years ago, few would have predicted the importance to the company of open source projects such Node.JS, Hadoop and even Linux.
Hot on the heels of Microsoft becoming a top-20 contributor to the Linux kernel, this year saw the launch of Microsoft Open Technologies, a new subsidiary that focuses on open source, interoperability and open standards.
OSCON program chair Edd Dumbill will interview Gianugo Rabellino, Microsoft's senior director of open source communities.
Edd Dumbill
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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.
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.
Gianugo Rabellino
Microsoft
Gianugo Rabellino is the Senior Director for Open Source Communities at Microsoft. He is also a Vice President of the Apache XML Project Management Committee and Founder and former Chief Executive Officer of Sourcesense.
Gianugo has a deep understanding of open source technologies and platforms, and brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to the group of passionate and committed individuals who share his same enthusiasm for interoperability and openness between Microsoft and non-Microsoft platforms.
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OSCON 2012: Simon Phipps, "OSI -- More Relevant Than Ever"
by OreillyMedia 627 views
OSCON and the Open Source Initiative (OSI) have a long relationship, going back to OSI's founding in 1998 by a group of people that included Tim O'Reilly. Over the last decade, OSI has been steward of the "gold standard" of open source, the Open Source Definition, and has anchored the transformation of open source from marginal campaign to mainstream default for software.
But times change. Now that open source is the assumed default for all new software, the community needs more than just licenses. The Board of Directors of OSI has been working behind the scenes to craft a transformation. Hear direct from Board members and new Affiliates what has changed, ask questions about the new organisation and perhaps even join at this surprisingly lively session.
Simon Phipps
Open Source Initiative
Simon Phipps has engaged at a strategic level in the world's leading technology companies, starting in roles such as field engineer, programmer, systems analyst and more recently taking executive leadership roles around open source. He worked with OSI standards in the 80s, on collaborative conferencing software in the 90s, helped introduce both Java and XML at IBM and was instrumental in open sourcing the whole software portfolio at Sun Microsystems. A Director of the Open Source Initiative and the UK's Open Rights Group, he takes an active interest in Free and Open Source software, serving at OpenSolaris, OpenJDK and OpenSPARC, and is a widely read commentator at Computerworld and his own Webmink blog.
He holds a BSc in electronic engineering and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and of the Open Forum Academy. -
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OSCON 2012: Frank Frankovsky, "Disrupting Hardware: The Next Era of Openness"
by OreillyMedia 778 views
We've all seen the impact that open source has had on innovation in software; open sharing and collaboration have been at the root of some of our greatest achievements as an industry. The pace of innovation in the hardware space, on the other hand, has been markedly slower. The potential benefits of open hardware are clear enough: More openness and collaboration would likely mean a faster pace of innovation and greater accessibility to the best possible technology for us all. But how do we get there?
In this talk, Facebook's Frank Frankovsky will examine key moments from the history of open hardware and share learnings from his work on the Open Compute Project — a prominent industry initiative focused on driving greater openness and collaboration in infrastructure technology — to draw out insights on how we can create and sustain open source movements in hardware.
Frank Frankovsky
Facebook
Frank Frankovsky is vice president of hardware design and supply chain at Facebook. In that role, he is responsible for the company's hardware engineering and validation; technical program management; capacity engineering and analysis; and supply chain operations teams. He is also one of the key drivers of the Open Compute Project, an initiative dedicated to reshaping the infrastructure hardware industry to be more open, more innovative, and more efficient. Prior to joining Facebook, Frank spent 14 years with Dell, where he was an integral part of building Dell's PowerEdge server business and co-founded Dell's Data Center Solutions business. Prior to Dell, he launched the industry's first rack-mounted x86 servers for Compaq. Frank holds a BA in Marketing from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. -
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OSCON 2012: Chris DiBona, "How Good Is Your Internet, Really?"
by OreillyMedia 821 views
How good is your internet, really? It's not always an easy question to answer, but after 4+ years of the measurement lab collecting over 400TB of network performance data from over 3 million clients, we can now answer truly answer this vexing question. In this plenary, Google's Chris DiBona will share some of the more interesting results from the project and tell you how you too can use and crunch this data.
Chris DiBona
Google, Inc.
Chris DiBona is the Director of Open Source for Mountain View, Ca based Google, Inc. His job includes managing open source related compliance and outreach programs for the company. More information about Google's open source program can be found at http://code.google.com/opensource.
Before joining Google, Mr. DiBona was an editor/author for the hugely popular online website slashdot.org and he is an internationally known advocate of open source software and related methodologies. He co-edited the award winning essay compilations "Open Sources" and "Open Sources 2.0" for O'Reilly and writes for a great number of publications. He was briefly the Linux guy on TechTV, starred in Floss Weekly and speaks on a variety of open source issues internationally. -
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OSCON 2012: "Frank Willison Memorial Award 2012"
by OreillyMedia 242 views
OSCON 2012: "Frank Willison Memorial Award 2012"
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OSCON 2012: Irene Ros, "This Is the House That Open Source Built"
by OreillyMedia 530 views
Working for a company whose culture and growth emerges from a shared passion for open source, is my dream job and I am fortunate enough to do it at Bocoup.
Open source fuels engineers' professional and personal development as well as our client work. By doing so, we've created a sustainable environment that is driven by purpose. In this talk, I will share some of the principles we've adopted and how we managed to make it work. Most importantly, I'll explain why building a company with open source at heart is better for the team, the clients, and the open source community.
Irene Ros
Bocoup
Irene is a Senior Developer and Data Visualization Specialist at Bocoup. Most recently Irene has been working with the Guardian Interactive Team in the UK on the Miso Project, an open source toolkit designed to expedite the creation of high-quality interactive storytelling and data visualisation content.
Before Bocoup, Irene spent 3 years working at IBM Research's Visual Communication Lab as a data visualization research developer. Together with her team she helped build Many Eyes -- a collaborative data visualization creation and sharing tool and Many Bills -- a visual interface to reading congressional legislation. Her work has been written about in the New York Times and the New York Times Open Blog, as well as Fast Company. -
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OSCON 2012: Piers Cawley, "Saying Yes"
by OreillyMedia 1,194 views
"Piers, do you want to do a keynote at OSCON?"
"Yes! What should I talk about?"
"Well... you know xkcd.com?"
"Yes."
"There's this strip over here. It'd be fun if..."
"Oh! Hell yes!"
So here I am. Saying yes.
Piers Cawley
Headforwards
Piers Cawley started programming Perl in the mid nineties, but recently spent a few years working as a Ruby programmer.
He's currently writing Perl for Headforwards in Cornwall. His surfing days are behind him.
He used to write a weekly summary of developments in Perl 6 for the perl.com website and is currently writing (will have written) an eBook for O'Reilly about Higher Order Javascript.
He's a singer and balloon modeller, and has created custom balloon millinery for Sarah Novotny. -
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Round Table Discussion: Economic impact of open source on small business
by OreillyMedia 1,648 views
Tim O'Reilly hosted a discussion at OSCON 2012 to examine findings from the report "Economic Impact of Open Source on Small Business."
He was joined by Dan Handy, CEO of Bluehost; John Mone, EVP Technology at Endurance International Group; Roger Magoulas, Director of Market Research at O'Reilly; and Mike Hendrickson, VP of Content Strategy at O'Reilly.
Download the report for free here: http://oreil.ly/OFbUG5
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Chris McAvoy interviewed at OSCON 2012
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Chris McAvoy
Product Lead, Mozilla Foundation
Product lead for Mozilla Open Badges, former VP of Technology at Threadless, founder of Chicago Python Users Group. -
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Dave Neary interviewed at OSCON 2012
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Dave Neary
Community Gardener, Red Hat
Dave Neary is the founder of Neary Consulting, specialising in growing open communities and developing free software strategy. In this role, he has worked as the docmaster of the Maemo community, and OpenWengo community manager. He is also a runner, and a qualified athletics coach.
With a long history of participation in free software projects, including the GIMP, GNOME, OpenWengo, Maemo and MeeGo, Dave has been exploring the subject of company/community interactions for over a decade. -
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Hadley Wickham interviewed at OSCON 2012
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Hadley Wickham
Assistant Professor / Chief Scientist, Rice University / RStudio
Hadley Wickham is an Assistant Professor and the Dobelman Family Junior Chair in Statistics at Rice University. He is an active member of the R community, has written and contributed to over 30 R packages, and won the John Chambers Award for Statistical Computing for his work developing tools for data reshaping and visualisation. His research focusses on how to make data analysis better, faster and easier, with a particular emphasis on the use of visualisation to better understand data and models. -
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Jeff Gothelf interviewed at OSCON 2012
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Jeff Gothelf
Founding Partner, Proof
Jeff Gothelf has spent a 14 year career as an interaction designer, Agile practitioner, user experience team leader and blogger. He is one of the leading voices on the topic of Agile UX and Lean UX. In addition, Jeff is the author of the upcoming O'Reilly book (2012), Lean UX: Getting Out of the Deliverables Business. He is a highly sought-after international speaker having presented at EuroIA, SXSW, IA Summit, Interaction (IxDA), London IA, the Agile conference and Startup Lessons Learned. Jeff has led cross-functional product design teams at TheLadders, Publicis Modem, WebTrends, Fidelity, AOL while maintaining a strong advisory and mentorship presence in the startup communities of New York City and Silicon Valley. -
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Joe Bowser interviewed at OSCON 2012
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Joe Bowser
Computer Scientist, Adobe Systems
Joe is the creator of the Android implementation of PhoneGap, which has been used in products featured in Popular Science, and as part of the Sony Web SDK. He also works on various client projects developing mobile applications for many platforms using PhoneGap and other frameworks that leverage web technologies. He spends his spare time going to various security conferences, and helping run the Vancouver Hacker Space, which he co-founded, as well as contributing to other Open Source projects. -
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Mohamed Elmallah interviewed at OSCON 2012
by OreillyMedia 176 views
Mohamed Elmallah
Manager of Enterprise Apps, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles
Mohamed Elmallah is the Manager of Enterprise Applications and Architecture at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. He has BSc in Computer Science and MSc in Software Engineering. Mohamed is PMP and has 20 years of Software Development experience. He is passionate about Agile methodologies and Open Source. He is the author of Web Development with Oracle Portal book (Prentice Hall). Twitter @melmallah -
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Gil Elbaz interviewed at OSCON 2012
by OreillyMedia 249 views
Gil Elbaz
Founder, CEO, Factual
Gil Elbaz is an accomplished entrepreneur and pioneer of natural language technology. In 1998, Gil co-founded Applied Semantics Inc. (ASI) which developed contextual advertising products including ASI's AdSense. In 2003, Google acquired ASI and Gil stayed on as the director of engineering for the Santa Monica office and continued to work on AdSense and other products. Prior to founding ASI, Gil worked in engineering roles at IBM, Sybase and SGI.
In 2007, Gil left Google to explore new ideas and passions and went on to found a new company, Factual, an open data platform. Factual launched its public beta in October 2009 and has set out to develop an open data platform and community in an effort to maximize data accuracy, transparency, and accessibility. Since launch, the company has received early investor funding by renowned technology notables and investment funds including Andreessen Horowitz, Bill Gross, Danny Rimer, Esther Dyson, Founder Collective and many more. At the same time Gil founded Factual, he also founded the non-profit foundation, Common Crawl. Common Crawl is dedicated to building and maintaing an open repository of web crawl data in order to drive innovation in research, education and technology.
Gil earned his bachelor's degree from the California Institute of Technology with a double major in Engineering & Applied Science and Economics. Active in a number of non-profits, Gil is on the Board of Trustees at California Institute of Technology as well as the Board of Trustees for the X-Prize Foundation. Gil is president and founder of the CommonCrawl Foundation and is an angel investor, and sits on the board of Opposing Views. -
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Brian Aker interviewed at OSCON 2012
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Brian Aker
Fellow, HP
Brian has spent his life working on the details of how to build and scale out systems. He is currently working on a new MicroKernel designed MySQL called Drizzle and is building the plumbing required for a new generation of large scale computer deployment. He also spends time working on Apache Modules, Memcached, and Gearman.
In the past, he has been involved with projects for the Army Engineer Corps, The VirtualHospital, Splunk, MySQL, Slashdot, and was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems. He calls Seattle his home since that is where his dog Rosalynd is. -
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Karl Fogel interviewed at OSCON 2012
by OreillyMedia 190 views
Karl Fogel
Partner, Open Tech Strategies, LLC
Karl Fogel is an open source software developer, author, and consultant. In 2005 he wrote "Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project" (O'Reilly Media, online at producingoss.com), based partly on his experiences in the Subversion project. He has worked at CollabNet, Google, Canonical, O'Reilly Media, and Code for America / Civic Commons, all as an open source specialist. He is now a partner at Open Tech Strategies, LLC, where he helps organizations launch and engage with open source projects. He is also an Open Internet Tools Project Fellow at the New America Foundation, a member of the board of directors of the Open Source Initative, and a member of the Apache Software Foundation. He is @kfogel on Identi.ca and Twitter, and his home page is red-bean.com/kfogel. -
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Sharren Bates interviewed at OSCON 2012
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Sharren Bates
Senior Program Officier, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Sharren Bates co-leads the Gates Foundation's work on data and content interoperability, building on the success of the widespread state adoption of the Common Core State Standards. She has worked at the intersection of education policy and technology for the past five years in federal and district roles. Most recently, she spent time at the FCC working on the education chapter of the National Broadband Plan. Previously, she led the ARIS team at the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE), where she launched an integrated data reporting and collaboration system for the city's 90,000 teachers and 800,000 parents. Before joining the NYCDOE, Sharren spent 10 years leading product and project management teams building online solutions for companies like Verizon, KPMG and The Grow Network/McGraw Hill. -
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David Eaves interviewed at OSCON 2012
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David Eaves
Open Innovation and Collaboration Expert, Eaves Consulting
An expert in negotiation, open source and public policy, David advises the mayor of Vancouver on open government and open data. He wrote a chapter in the O'Reilly book Open Government entitled After the Collapse: The Future of Open Government and the Civil Service.
He publishes and is asked to speak on open government, policy development, technology and open source frequently. In addition to this work David advises several open source communities including Mozilla and serves as a negotiation adviser to several executives. -
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Irene Ros interviewed at OSCON 2012
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Irene Ros
Senior Programmer , Bocoup
Irene is a Senior Developer and Data Visualization Specialist at Bocoup. Most recently Irene has been working with the Guardian Interactive Team in the UK on the Miso Project, an open source toolkit designed to expedite the creation of high-quality interactive storytelling and data visualisation content.
Before Bocoup, Irene spent 3 years working at IBM Research's Visual Communication Lab as a data visualization research developer. Together with her team she helped build Many Eyes -- a collaborative data visualization creation and sharing tool and Many Bills -- a visual interface to reading congressional legislation. Her work has been written about in the New York Times and the New York Times Open Blog, as well as Fast Company. -
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Joshua Marinacci interviewed at OSCON 2012
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Joshua Marinacci
Researcher, Nokia
Ask me about HTML Canvas, GUI toolkits, and visual design. Or ask me to rant about Java stuff.
Josh Marinacci is a blogger and co-author of Swing Hacks for O'Reilly. He is currently a Developer Advocate for the webOS at HP. He previously worked on JavaFX, Swing, NetBeans, and client lead for the Java Store at Sun Microsystems.
Josh lives in Eugene, Oregon and is passionate about open source technology & great user interfaces. He uses a Palm Pre 3, HP TouchPad, and Nikon D50 SLR to spread understanding of great design in software. -
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Alasdair Allan interviewed at OSCON 2012
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Alasdair Allan
Founder, Babilim Light Industries
Alasdair Allan is the author of Learning iPhone Programming and iPhone Sensor Programming published by O'Reilly Media. He is a senior research fellow in Astronomy at the University of Exeter, and as part of his work there he is building a distributed peer-to-peer network of telescopes that, acting autonomously, can reactively schedule observations of time-critical events and carry out complex long term monitoring of variable objects. Notable successes include contributing to the detection of the most distant object yet discovered, a gamma-ray burster at a redshift of 8.2. Alasdair also runs a small technology consulting company writing bespoke software, building open hardware and providing training. He sporadically writes blog posts about things that interest him, and more frequently provides commentary about them in 140 characters or less. -
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Andreas Kollegger interviewed at OSCON 2012
by OreillyMedia 132 views
Andreas Kollegger
Cloud Wrangler, Neo Technology
Andreas Kollegger is a leading speaker and writer on graph databases and Neo4j and the bridge between community and developer efforts. He works actively in the community, speaking around the world and promoting the larger Neo4j ecosystem of projects. Author of Fair Trade Software, and the lead for Neo4j in the cloud, Andreas plays a valuable role for progressive happenings within Neo4j. -
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Fred Trotter interviewed at OSCON 2012
by OreillyMedia 204 views
Fred Trotter
hacktivist, FredTrotter.com
Fred Trotter is the leading consultant and advocate for Free/Libre and Open Source (FOSS) Health Software. In recognition of his role within the Open Source Health Informatics community, Trotter was the only Open Source representative invited by the NCVHS to testify on the definition of 'meaningful use'.
Trotter has contributed code to FreeMed, OpenEMR is the current project manager of MirrorMed and the original author of FreeB, the worlds first GPL medical billing engine. In 2004 Fred Trotter received the LinuxMedNews achievement award for work on FreeB. Fred Trotter manages the Open Source EHR review project with the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), Open Source Working Group (oswg). Fred is also a member of WorldVistA.
Fred Trotter is a recognized expert in Free and Open Source medical software and security systems. He has spoken on those subjects at the SCALE DOHCS conference, Retail Healthcare conference, LinuxWorld, and DefCon. He has been quoted in multiple articles on Health Information Technology in several print and online journals, including WIRED, zdnet, Government Health IT, Modern Healthcare Online, Linux Journal, Free Software Magazine and LinuxMedNews.
Trotter has a B.S in Computer Science, a B.A in psychology and a B.A in philosophy from Trinity University. Trotter minored in Business Administration, Cognitive Science, and Management Information Systems. Before working directly on health software, Trotter passed the CISSP certification and consulted for VeriSign on HIPAA security for major hospitals and health institutions. Trotter was originally trained on information security at the Air Force Information Warfare Center. -
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Thierry Carrez interviewed at OSCON 2012
by OreillyMedia 125 views
Thierry Carrez
Release Manager, OpenStack
Thierry Carrez has been facilitating collaboration and open innovation since 2010 as the Release Manager for the Openstack project. An Ubuntu Core developer and Debian maintainer, he was previously the Technical lead for Ubuntu Server edition, and an operational manager for the Gentoo Security Team. In a previous life, he used to be an IT Manager for small and large companies. He is working home-based from a small village in the center of France, where he lives with his wife and two daughters. -
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Kevin Shockey interviewed at OSCON 2012
by OreillyMedia 117 views
Kevin Shockey
Author, Founder, Mis Tribus
Kevin is author, founder, speaker, and volunterr. He currently leads Mis Tribus. Previously he founded DóndeEs.com, was editor in chief of TUX magazine, & speaker and blogger for O'Reilly. -
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Bob Evans interviewed at OSCON 2012
by OreillyMedia 97 views
Bob Evans
Software Engineer, Google
Bob Evans' goal is to build computational tools that augment human intelligence. Primarily, he has focused on building tools for other engineers over the last 18 years; tools for intelligently managing computer network systems, aiding software construction, and analyzing correctness of programs as they evolve.
His current focus is on creating tools for everyone to foster better living through personal science and behavioral and social science research. At Google, he has created PACO, the personal analytics companion tool, now opensource, that enables individuals and researchers to easily and rapidly create, deploy and iterate on mobile phone experiments without programming. -
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Krishna Sankar interviewed at OSCON 2012
by OreillyMedia 151 views
Krishna Sankar
Lead Software Engineer/Data Scientist, Genophen
Krishna Sankar is currently a Lead Software Engineer/Data Scientist at genophen.com developing scientific/consumer bioinformatics systems based on AWS, MongoDB & Hadoop. Prior to this, he was a Lead Architect at egnyte.com, developing cloud object store layer (handling billions of files/petabytes of storage) and security (federated Identity/SSO); and before that he was at Cisco as a Distinguished Engineer, lastly working on various aspects of Big Data & Cloud Computing. His latest RFC 6208 is on cloud storage & CDMI. He been developing systems for the last 30+ years -- from C/CPM to Cobol to Ada to Java to ... His interests include big data stacks -- from infrastructure to visualization, highly scalable cloud architectures & intelligent inferences. He is pursuing the Mining Massive Data Sets Graduate Certificate at Stanford. He also writes books -- including "Cisco Wireless LAN Security" and "Enterprise Web 2.0". His other passion is Lego Robotics and is contributing as Technical Judge in local & Lego world competitions. -
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Kaitlin Thaney interviewed at OSCON 2012
by OreillyMedia 427 views
Kaitlin Thaney
Manager, External Partnerships, Digital Science
Kaitlin comes from Digital Science, a new technology company started out of Macmillan Publishers, providing tools for researchers. She's a technologist, open science advocate, and data nerd who works in her day job to make scientific research more efficient through better use of technology. Prior to moving to the UK to work for Digital Science, she managed the science division of Creative Commons where she worked to enable better knowledge sharing and research. For more about Digital Science, visit http://digital-science.com. You can follow her at @kaythaney -
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Jacob Thornton interviewed at OSCON 2012
by OreillyMedia 1,307 views
Jacob Thornton
Twitter
I work at twitter on the platform team and I'm the co-author of some pretty nifty open source, Ender, Bootstrap, and Hogan.js with my good friends @ded, @mdo, and @sayrer (respectively).
I'm not a computer scientist. Also, I'm not obese. But I will respond to fat. I am hungover. And I'm probably eating pizza. -
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Marko Gargenta interviewed at OSCON 2012
by OreillyMedia 440 views
Marko Gargenta
Consultant, Marakana
Marko Gargenta founded Marakana in 2001 to help underprivileged youth, minorities, and inner-city kids learn web technologies and get ahead in life. So Marakana emerged with goal of helping people get better at what they do professionally, focused on open source software training.
Marko is creator of Marakana Android Training series series. He has taught Android to over 1,000 developers at companies such as Cisco, Motorola, Qualcomm, DoD and many others. Marko is a co-founder of San Francisco Android Users Group and regularly teaches Android Bootcamp at Marakana.
Marko is author of Learning Android book published by O'Reilly Media. This book is based on Android Bootcamp and incorporates best learning practices for new developers to start creating applications for this exciting open source mobile platform.
Marko is also co-author of "PHP and MySQL By Example", a collection of PHP examples. The book was published by Prentice Hall in 2006, and has been translated to Spanish and Polish.
Marko Gargenta obtained his Bachelor of Mathematics Degree from University of Waterloo (Canada's MIT) and has been developing in Java since 1996. He lives in San Francisco, California. -
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Michael Italia interviewed at OSCON 2012
by OreillyMedia 237 views
Michael Italia
Lead Application Scientist, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Michael is a Lead Application Scientist in The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Center for Biomedical Informatics. His primary role is to lead, support, and advise projects with a need for integrated clinical, genomic, and imaging data to enable translational research.
Michael has over 10 years of experience building and managing complex biomedical data repositories. Prior to his work at CHOP, Michael spent 8 years designing and building several genomic data integration projects for one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies.
Michael has had a dual interest in biology and computer science since first discovering the field of Bioinformatics as an undergrad studying Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at The Pennsylvania State University. He also holds master's degree in Biotechnology/Bioinformatics from The University of Pennsylvania. -
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Andy Smith interviewed at OSCON 2012
by OreillyMedia 220 views
Andy Smith
Senior Core Developer, Rackspace
Probably better known as "termie," Andy Smith is an open source, uppity, Python programmer from way back who has tried to dabble in everything else along the way. Lately his work focuses on building the infrastructure for quote, the cloud, unquote, with OpenStack but prior to that he built the platform layer at Google App Engine, and before that the application layer at Jaiku and before that the client side at Flock. Notable side projects include OAuth and BarCamp. Before that he worked on MUDs and he wants to do that again. Buying him beer is a good way to find out what he really thinks. -
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The O'Reilly Animals
by OreillyMedia 1,319 views
The O'Reilly Animals
From Perl to Hadoop, the O'Reilly Animal books have been there to help you advance your knowledge—and you've thrived under their tutelage. In real life, the animals themselves have not done nearly as well. Many are now critically endangered, and if the current trend continues, conservationists estimate that one-eighth of all bird species, one-fifth of mammal species, and one-third of amphibian species are at risk of extinction within the next 40 years.
But it doesn't have to end this way.
One person with a bright idea and a little technology can make a big difference. Just think what someone with your mad skills could do. -
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OSCON 2012
by OreillyMedia 1,046 views
Join the world's open source pioneers, builders, and innovators July 16-20, at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon for five intense days. Learn about open development, challenge your assumptions, and fire up your brain.
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Gianugo Rabellino interviewed at OSCON 2012
by OreillyMedia 122 views
Gianugo Rabellino
Microsoft
Gianugo Rabellino is the Senior Director for Open Source Communities at Microsoft. He is also a Vice President of the Apache XML Project Management Committee and Founder and former Chief Executive Officer of Sourcesense.
Gianugo has a deep understanding of open source technologies and platforms, and brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to the group of passionate and committed individuals who share his same enthusiasm for interoperability and openness between Microsoft and non-Microsoft platforms. -
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Frank Frankovsky interviewed at OSCON 2012
by OreillyMedia 102 views
Frank Frankovsky
VP, Hardware Design and Supply Chain, Facebook
Frank Frankovsky is director of hardware design and supply chain at Facebook. In that role, he is responsible for the company's hardware engineering and validation; technical program management; capacity engineering and analysis; and supply chain operations teams. He also serves as the company's representative on the board of directors for the Open Compute Project, and is one of the key drivers of that initiative. Prior to joining Facebook, Frank spent 14 years with Dell, where he was an integral part of building Dell's PowerEdge server business and co-founded Dell's Data Center Solutions business. Prior to Dell, he launched the industry's first rack-mounted x86 servers for Compaq. Frank holds a BA in Marketing from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. -
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Kim Rees interviewed at OSCON 2012
by OreillyMedia 489 views
Kim Rees
Principal, Periscopic
Kim Rees is a founding partner of "Periscopic": http://www.periscopic.com, an award-winning information visualization firm. Their work has been featured in the MoMA as well as several online and print publications, including CommArts' Interactive Annual, The Information Design Sourcebook, VisWeek Discovery Exhibit, Adobe Success Stories, CommArts Insights, Infosthetics.com, FlowingData.com, and numerous websites, blogs, and regional media outlets. Periscopic's body of work was recently nominated for the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards.
Kim is a prominent individual in the information visualization community. She has published papers in Parsons Journal of Information Mapping, was an award winner in the VAST 2010 Challenge, and is a guest blogger for Infosthetics.com. Kim has been featured on CommArts Insights and has presented at several industry events including O'Reilly Strata, Wolfram Data Summit, the Tableau Software Conference, AIGA SHIFT, WebVisions, CERF Biennial Conference, and Portland Data Visualization, among others. Recently she has also been a CommArts Interactive Annual judge and is the Technical Editor for Visualize This by Nathan Yau. Kim received her BA in Computer Science from New York University. -
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A Conversation with Mark Shuttleworth and Tim O'Reilly
by OreillyMedia 1,835 views
Mark R. Shuttleworth
Founder, Canonical Ltd.
Mark is founder of Ubuntu, a popular free operating system for desktops and servers. Ubuntu is beautiful, easy to use and precision engineered for consumers and large-scale enterprise deployments alike. It has been adopted by an amazing number of people, from families that just want a PC that works for safe web surfing, to heavy industry, massive cloud computing environments, supercomputers, several armies, national police forces, banks and schools in the Amazon.
Mark leads product strategy and design at Canonical, which sells commercial support for Ubuntu, mainly to large enterprises and governments who deploy it professionally. Canonical also builds many of the unique elements of Ubuntu for desktop, cloud and server deployments. Mark champions design-driven development and has a focus on quality and cadence in the engineering work done at Canonical.
After graduating from the University of Cape Town with a degree in finance and information technology, Mark founded Thawte, a company specialising in digital certificates and cryptography. When Thawte was acquired in 1999 by VeriSign, and he founded HBD, an investment company, and setup the Shuttleworth Foundation, which funds innovative change in society by supporting Fellows and investing in their projects. He moved to London in 2001, and began preparing for the First African in Space mission, training in Star City, Russia, and Khazakstan. In April 2002 he flew in space, as a cosmonaut member of the crew of Soyuz mission TM34 to the International Space Station. After a tour of schools in South Africa promoting science and mathematics for aspiring astronauts he started work on Ubuntu. Today he lives on the lovely Isle of Man along with 12 ducks, the equally lovely Claire, two black bitches and the occasional itinerant sheep.
Tim O'Reilly
Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O'Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, the Web 2.0 Summit, Strata: The Business of Data, and many others. O'Reilly's Make: magazine and Maker Faire has been compared to the West Coast Computer Faire, which launched the personal computer revolution. Tim's blog, O'Reilly Radar, "watches the alpha geeks" to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim is also a partner at O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, O'Reilly's early stage venture firm, and is on the board of Safari Books Online. -
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Kurt Bollacker interviewed at OSCON 2012
by OreillyMedia 228 views
Kurt Bollacker
Scientist, Applied Minds
Dr. Kurt Bollacker is a computer scientist with a research background in the areas of machine learning, digital libraries, semantic networks, and electro-cardiographic modeling. He was chief scientist of Metaweb Technologies, the creator of freebase.com, co-creator of the CiteSeer research tool, the technical director of the Internet Archive, and a biomedical research engineer at the Duke University Medical Center. He is currently pursuing research on long term digital archiving as the Digital Research Director at the Long Now Foundation and working on open source educational and collaborative tools. -
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OSCON 2012: O'Reilly Open Source Awards
by OreillyMedia 848 views
OSCON 2012: O'Reilly Open Source Awards
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OSCON 2012: Paul Fenwick, "Mindware Upgrades For Fun And Profit"
by OreillyMedia 1,585 views
Humans display an immense capacity to act against their own best judgement. Whether it's putting off healthy lifestyle choices, writing our tests and documentation "tomorrow", or having just one more unit of something we know we shouldn't.
This isn't a matter of willpower. It's a matter of fundamental mind architecture. We have the intelligence to understand when we're acting in a way we'll later regret, but our buggy mindware that causes us to do it anyway.
We're going to fix that. We're going to patch our mindware, graft on cognitive prosthetics, and take some counter-intuitive steps to actually get us towards what we'd like to be doing along the way.
Paul Fenwick
Perl Training Australia
Paul Fenwick is the managing director of Perl Training Australia, and has been teaching computer science for over a decade. He is an internationally acclaimed presenter at conferences and user-groups worldwide, where he is well-known for his humour and off-beat topics.
In his spare time, Paul's interests include security, mycology, cycling, coffee, scuba diving, and lexically scoped user pragmata. -
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Jonathan Ellis interviewed at OSCON 2012
by OreillyMedia 103 views
Jonathan Ellis
CTO & Co-founder, DataStax, Inc
Jonathan is CTO and co-founder at DataStax. Prior to DataStax, Jonathan worked extensively with Apache Cassandra while employed at Rackspace. Prior to Rackspace, Jonathan built a multi-petabyte, scalable storage system based on Reed-Solomon encoding for backup provider Mozy. In addition to his work with DataStax, Jonathan is project chair of Apache Cassandra. -
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Carlos Andreu interviewed at OSCON 2012
by OreillyMedia 103 views
Carlos Andreu
Software Engineer, IBM
Carlos Andreu is a Software Engineer at IBM in Austin, TX. He currently works with a mobile framework called IBM Worklight that aims to provide developers a simple way to write multi-platform hybrid mobile applications. Carlos holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico. -
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Christopher Kelly interviewed at OSCON 2012
by OreillyMedia 77 views
Chris Kelly
Developer/Evangelist, New Relic
Chris is the Developer/Evangelist at New Relic, makers of application performance monitoring tools. Prior to New Relic, Chris lead an engineering and operations team in building an ecommerce platform for the publishing industry. He is an avid Rubyist and is the Open Source Evangelist at SD Ruby. -
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Jeff Hobbs interviewed at OSCON 2012
by OreillyMedia 87 views
Jeff Hobbs
Director, Engineering, ActiveState
Jeff Hobbs is ActiveState's CTO and VP of Engineering. He oversees development of all ActiveState products—from language distributions to development tools and our cloud solutions, including the strategy of integrating our products for an end-to-end desktop to cloud experience.
Though he's responsible for leading and fostering our talented development team, Jeff is a coder at heart! He is passionate about technologies that just work, making the lives of developers easier. His current obsession is making Stackato the best private PaaS platform for developers: using any language, any infrastructure, and leveraging open source -- so that applications just deploy and scale in any cloud. Jeff is a contributing author for Perl and Python extensions, and has been a member of the Tcl Core Team for more than a decade. Jeff is co-author of "Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk", and has been a speaker at Cloud Expo, OSCON, the Tcl Annual Conference, and others. Jeff works closely with ActiveState customers including Cisco, Boeing, Synopsys, NASA and Intel to deliver the best dynamic languages solutions for their development projects.
Before joining ActiveState, Jeff was the Tcl Ambassador at Scriptics and a software engineer at Siemens. He has a Masters Degree in Computer Science from the University of Oregon. -
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Jonathan LeBlanc interviewed at OSCON 2012
by OreillyMedia 106 views
Jonathan LeBlanc
Principal Developer Evangelist, PayPal
Jonathan LeBlanc is a principal technology evangelist, Emmy award winning software engineer, and author of the O'Reilly book "Programming Social Applications". Specializing in open source initiatives around the implementation of social engagement services, Jonathan works with and promotes emerging technologies to aid in the adoption and utilization of new social development techniques, such as his work on the OpenSocial foundation board. As a software engineer, Jonathan works extensively with social interaction development on the web, engaging in new methods for targeting the social footprint of users to drive the ideal of an open web. -
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Mike O'Connor interviewed at OSCON 2012
by OreillyMedia 278 views
Mike O'Connor
Commerce Guys
Mike discovered his love for computers in high school, starting his career at the tender age of 16. At his first eCommerce job, he set out to find an alternative to the frustratingly limited software he was working with and discovered Drupal, the powerful open source CMS. Collaborating with Ryan Szrama, the originator of the Drupal eCommerce software Ubercart, he started consulting on Drupal eCommerce sites. It soon became clear that Ubercart was not as flexible as it should be to support modern commerce. Mike, Ryan, and a small group of others joined together to create Drupal Commerce, a new eCommerce framework built on Drupal that made no assumptions and was infinitely customizable. Commerce Guys was founded in 2008 with Tim Hill, and expanded to include a French office with Frederic Plais in 2010. Mike and the Commerce Guys have been helping eCommerce companies build state-of-the-art sites since then. When he has spare time, Mike enjoys fixing things (any things) and farming. -
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Steve Franzia interviewed at OSCON 2012
by OreillyMedia 129 views
Steve Franzia
Chief Solutions Architect, 10gen
Steve Franzia leads the public side of the engineering organization at 10gen including integration, evangelism, support and consulting. Steve brings to this role his experience as VP of engineering at OpenSky where he build the worlds first e-commerce site powered by MongoDB and one of the first PHP sites backed by MongoDB. Steve has been an engineer, entrepreneur and executive since 1995 when he built one of the first ecommerce sites while working for American Telecom. His previous roles include CIO/COO at Portero, VP of Development at Takkle and Founder & CTO of Supernerd. Steve loves open source. He has contributed to dozens of open source projects including MongoDB, Doctrine, Symfony2 and Zoop and has started a few of his own. Steve holds a BA from Brigham Young University in Philosophy, where among other things, he created and taught a course on dynamic web development. -
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Simon Phipps interviewed at OSCON 2012
by OreillyMedia 226 views
Simon Phipps
President, Open Source Initiative
Simon Phipps has engaged at a strategic level in the world's leading technology companies, starting in roles such as field engineer, programmer, systems analyst and more recently taking executive leadership roles around open source. He worked with OSI standards in the 80s, on collaborative conferencing software in the 90s, helped introduce both Java and XML at IBM and was instrumental in open sourcing the whole software portfolio at Sun Microsystems. A Director of the Open Source Initiative and the UK's Open Rights Group, he takes an active interest in Free and Open Source software, serving at OpenSolaris, OpenJDK and OpenSPARC, and is a widely read commentator at Computerworld and his own Webmink blog.
He holds a BSc in electronic engineering and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and of the Open Forum Academy. -
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Steve Burton interviewed at OSCON 2012
by OreillyMedia 317 views
Steve Burton
AppDynamics
Stephen Burton is Tech Evangelist at AppDynamics, and is also the alter ego of increasingly popular "App Man" character. Steve is responsible for promoting best practice application performance management (APM) for distributed applications running in cloud, virtual and physical environments. Before joining AppDynamics, Steve held senior product management positions at OpTier and Precise leading innovation and creative solutions to help customers better manage the performance of their applications. Steve has previously worked in pre-sales and also spent many years as a senior developer and application support engineer when his career began at Sapient. Steve received his BS in Computer Science from Lancaster University, UK. He enjoys speed and is a keen motorsport/formula 1 fan and hopes one day to become The Stig. -
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Denise Cooper interviewed at OSCON 2012
by OreillyMedia 96 views
Denise Cooper (Shared Learning Collaborative)
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OSCON 2012: Piers Cawley, "How to Look Good Laminated"
by OreillyMedia 327 views
Piers Cawley
Senior Programmer, Headforwards
Piers Cawley started programming Perl in the mid nineties, but recently spent a few years working as a Ruby programmer.
He's currently programming Perl for Headforwards in Cornwall.
He used to write a weekly summary of developments in Perl 6 for the perl.com website and has created custom balloon millinery for Sarah Novotny. He's currently writing (and will hopefully have written, come OSCON) an eBook for O'Reilly on Higher Order Javascript. -
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OSCON 2012: Ross Turk, "Ceph: The Future of Storage"
by OreillyMedia 1,690 views
The quickest way to get a proprietary storage vendor to change the subject is to ask them what they think of Ceph. What makes them so uncomfortable? Ceph provides object storage, block storage, and a distributed file system -- in a single storage platform -- for free. Ceph runs on commodity hardware, allowing you to power your storage with the best technology available.
Ceph's powerful distributed block device allows you to scale cloud platforms without limitation, and its object store is compatible with applications written for S3 or Swift. Ceph has been designed with no single point of failure and intelligent nodes that are self-managing and self-healing. It's time to throw away all the old rules and start a new era of free storage solutions.
You can pay for expensive and limited proprietary products. Or you can use Ceph and invest that money in your business instead.
Ross Turk
Inktank
Ross Turk is responsible for building a strategic relationship with users, contributors, and the open source community. Ross brings more than 15 years of experience creating software, managing complex IT systems, and helping companies understand and serve developers. Before joining Inktank, Ross managed developer communities for Talend, Alcatel-Lucent and SourceForge.net, the world's largest open source community. In the more distant past, Ross ran the engineering team for SourceForge and provided architectural leadership. -
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OSCON 2012: Edward Snajder, "The Raspberry PieMaker"
by OreillyMedia 288 views
Not too long ago, I took up an Indiegogo project that included all of the parts to make an open source, self-replicating 3D printer. It has been a techie's dream, with immense portions of both challenges and rewards.
Even more recently, I received my first Raspberry Pi, a $35 board that will almost fit in an Altoids case, but runs several Linux distros like a champ. Even though the first thing I did was see if it would run PostgreSQL (of course it did), my latest dream is to use the RP to drive the Python-based 3D printer software, and incorporate it all into a single unit capable of surfing for 3D objects to print, downloading them, converting them, and pushing them to the eMaker Huxley.
Edward Snajder
Jive Software
Currently the database administrator at Jive Software, I have been having fun with DB Engines, SQL, ETL and BI for a little over ten years. Today I find myself amongst PostgreSQL and MySQL databases predominantly, though I am certified in SQL 2005, and do a fair amount of Oracle support. Some day I hope to understand and dislike all database engines equally. -
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OSCON 2012: Ben Collins-Sussman, "How to Replace Yourself with an IRC Bot"
by OreillyMedia 786 views
Most of us are now so immersed in electronic forms of communication, that we lose perspective on how absolutely absurd the environments can be. This talk is a gentle reminder that we need to not take these media too seriously, demonstrated through a series of anecdotes about the art of trolling those who do. :-)
Ben Collins-Sussman
Google, Inc.
Ben Collins-Sussman is one of the founding developers of the Subversion version control system, and co-authored O'Reilly's "Version Control with Subversion" book and more recently O'Reilly's "Team Geek: a Software Developer's Guide to Working Well with Others."
Ben co-founded Google's engineering office in Chicago, ported Subversion to Google's Bigtable platform, led Google Code's Project Hosting team, and now manages the engineering team for the Google Affiliate Network. Prior to joining Google, Ben was a senior software engineer on the version control team at CollabNet. He has been an active open source contributor for over twelve years, contributing to projects related to version control and gaming.
Ben collects hobbies which tend to explore the tension between art and science. He has given numerous talks about the social challenges of software development. He writes interactive fiction games and tools, and was the co-winner of the 15th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition. He has co-authored several original musicals and received multiple awards for musical theater composition. He has an Extra-class FCC license for amateur radio, and also spends time learning DSLR photography and playing bluegrass banjo. Ben is a proud native of Chicago, and holds Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Chicago with a major in Mathematics and minor in Linguistics. He still lives in Chicago with his wife, kids, and cats. -
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OSCON 2012: Dan Bentley, "Metric Doesn't Work"
by OreillyMedia 2,756 views
Metric doesn't work. At least, not for what it was intended to be: "for all people for all time". Scientists don't use metric. And even what we think of as metric isn't metric. It's a bastardization. And we've paid a price for this. Let's talk about it. (Cause, after all, you've always just assumed metric is better.)
Dan Bentley
Google
Dan Bentley manages http://code.google.com. His passion is finding places that require the application of a little technology to have a big cultural win. His perfect project is boring and easy but impactful. He has a BA in English and an MS in Computer Science. -
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OSCON 2012: Tony McCormick, "Open Sourcing Architectural Components"
by OreillyMedia 215 views
Blair Korndorfer has spent the last 30 years developing CAD Files, PDF files, Autocad Menus as well as over 11,000 CAD Blocks and 800 LISP programs to automate the blocks.
He has ask me to help him make these available as open source.
These are Dynamic Blocks where one dynamic block can be used the replace five or six hundred static blocks and the dynamic blocks are driven and controlled by lisp program. Others programs have been written that assemble and finish the detailed of drawings.
There are about 800 of these lisp program that have been created and they are completely organized for use. The challenge is the new architect will produce very refined and complete drawing without actually knowing what they are doing at the detail level.
Big firms usually don't have these tools. A block takes about 100 hours to do and with these tools the time required for drawing goes from a day to fifteen minutes. Productivity can grow in the design areas by minimizing the grunt work.
We need feedback on the following:
What licence model should we use?
What infrastructure do we need?
What else do we need?
How should we get the word out?
Any thing else people can think of.
Tony McCormick
Medical Information Integration, LLC
Currently on the Board of Directors for the OpenEMR FOSS project, Project manager for the OpenEMR CCHIT/Meaningful certification in 2011.
I have been involved in HealthCare IT since 1988 where he was part of a team that had started one of the first Preferred Provider Organizations in Texas. Later he developed applications for the HMO market, Independent Practitioners Medical Records and Billing systems and large clinical systems. In Oregon he was a lead analyst on the Oregon Medical Electronic Network which was run by the Oregon Medical Association. He founded MI2 with the desire to help reduce the high cost of medical services by providing efficient, easy to use software based on the Free Open Source Software model.
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OSCON 2012: Stephen Peters, "Leadership Lessons of Hernán Cortés"
by OreillyMedia 243 views
One would think that modern European technology would have given the Spanish an unbeatable edge over the inhabitants of Mexico. However, fourteen muskets, one cannon and and handful of horses can only do so much when the enemy can field 20,000+ soldiers to your 400. Much like today's feisty startups, Hernán Cortéz took a small group of dedicated followers and changed the world against truly impossible odds.
In this talk we explore the leadership style that made the impossible possible and apply it to today's business climate.
stephen peters
Hot Pepper Studios
I was once pressed into service writing FORTRAN at Carnegie Mellon but managed to gnaw through my bindings and escape. By the heady days of 1996 I was "Webmaster" at Network Computing Devices and shortly after that Senior Technologist at CKS|Partners, but wisely snuck out to work for myself before they grew into MarchFirst. For about 12 years I ran a boutique web development shop doing work for Oregon Public Broadcasting, the Oregon State Parks, Rogue Ales, The Annenberg Foundation, and many others before selling the company and moving on.
These days I work at Hot Pepper Studios running client projects, sourcing new clients and promoting our international conference series -- http://webvisionsevent.com
Once a year I host the International Mondo Croquet Championships in Portland, Oregon. Pick up a sledgehammer and join us! http://www.mondocroquet.com/ -
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OSCON 2012: Anthony Bargnesi, "Git Your Linux Environment"
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A programmer or hacker hobbyist relies on their shell environment to provide shortcuts to commonly-faced situations. Shell environments like Bash allow for command aliasing, function that can take arguments, and full-on scripts. This environment is always changing and is generally ubiquitous for many.
Your shell environment should be version controlled with Git. Version control will allow you to track your environment changes and bring them with you wherever you go.
In this session I will walk through a few approaches to managing your Linux shell environment in Git and point out the benefits and drawbacks with each technique. We will finish with techniques for sharing your Linux shell environment with others.
Anthony Bargnesi
Selventa
Anthony Bargnesi is a software engineer with Selventa, a biomarker discovery company, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is the lead engineer on the open source OpenBEL platform.
Anthony has been working with Java technologies for ten years. He is an advocate and contributor to open source. -
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OSCON 2012: Justin Martenstein, "The Science of a Perfectly Poached Egg"
by OreillyMedia 314 views
An Ignite OSCON talk doesn't have to be about the programming or technology. The best Ignite talks happen when you bring a geek's perspective to a non-technical subject. With that in mind, I present to you the magical, mysterious science of EGGS!
The average American (yes, you) eats about 250 eggs a year. But have you stopped to think about what happens when that egg is cooked?
The simplest way to cook an egg is to poach it: crack the shell and drop the egg into a pot of boiling water. And yet, an amazingly complex physical reaction has now been kicked off. The tightly wound proteins are coming unraveled, and solidifying into long chains. If the temperature of the egg is too low (143 degress Farenheit), the proteins don't have time to fully bond, and the egg is runny and slimy. And yet cook the egg too high (165 degrees Farenheit), and it becomes too firm and rubbery.
What's really going on here? How do you get the time and temperature just perfect? What can we tweak to make this process easier? Simpler?
How do you hack an egg?
Justin Martenstein
Revolution Analytics
Justin Martenstein is the Linux Build Engineer for Revolution Analytics, the leading commercial supporter of the R language. He is responsible for building and maintaining all releases for the Linux platform, including the RHadoop libraries, Revo R, and Revo ScaleR.
Justin has been involved in a number of tech and startup events around Seattle. He heloped to found Seattle Mind Camp, Saturday House and the Six Hour Startup. He currently is one of the primary organizers behind Ignite Seattle. From time to time, you can find him down at Metrix Create:Space. -
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OSCON 2012: Martijn Verburg, "The Greatest Threat to Tech Conferences"
by OreillyMedia 209 views
There is an insidious presence that year after year has increasingly been featured in conference presentations around the world. This presence generally comes across small and easily dismissed, yet it impacts negatively on presentations and represents the greatest threat to tech conferences today. What is this presence? All will be unveiled at OSCON Ignite, security measures you know...
Martijn Verburg
jClarity
Martijn Verburg is the CTO of jClarity and has worked with Java/JEE and open source for over ten years. Martijn is passionate about software craftsmanship and the creative power of technical communities. He currently is the co-leader for the London JUG, runs two open source projects (PCGen and Ikasan EIP) and is a bartender at the Javaranch.
Most recently he's been speaking at conferences (FOSDEM, JavaOne, OSCON etc, TSSJS) and co-writing (with Ben Evans) "The Well-Grounded Java Developer" by Manning publications, which covers Java 7 and polyglot programming on the JVM. -
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OSCON 2012: Dave Gruber, "Navigating the World of Open Source is About to Get Easier!"
by OreillyMedia 308 views
Black Duck is planning to make a significant announcement regarding Ohloh.net, the free public directory of open source projects and people, and we'd love the opportunity to unveil our big news at OSCON! With these cool updates, Ohloh will go even further to support the FOSS development community, and users at OSCON can be the first to hear about and use it. Learn more about the new functionality, and find out where to join us for an on-the-fly data dump and real-time data crunching!
Dave Gruber
Black Duck Software
Dave Gruber is Black Duck Software's Director of Developer Marketing. He has an extensive background in software development, with over 30 years' experience in enterprise application development, IT management, product management and product marketing. Gruber was an early pioneer of web infrastructure and development technologies working at companies like Allaire, Macromedia and Adobe. At Black Duck, Gruber drives developer go-to-market strategies and programs, with a focus on helping developers gain greater visibility and insights into the world of open source software leading to faster development. -
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Shahid Shah interviewed at OSCON 2012
by OreillyMedia 319 views
Shahid Shah
Chief Technology Officer, Netspective
Shahid N. Shah is an internationally recognized and influential government technology and healthcare IT thought leader and writer who is known as "The Healthcare IT Guy" across the Internet. He is a strategist for various federal agenices on IT matters and winner of Federal Computer Week's coveted "Fed 100" award given to IT experts that have made a big impact in the government. Shahid has architected and built multiple clinical solutions over his almost 20 year career. He helped design and deploy the American Red Cross's electronic health record solution across thousands of sites; he's built two web-based EMRs now in use by hundreds of physicians; he's designed large groupware and collaboration sites in use by thousands; and, as an ex-CTO for a billion dollar division of CardinalHealth he helped design advanced clinical interfaces for medical devices and hospitals. Shahid also serves as a senior technology strategy advisor to NIH's SBIR/STTR program helping small businesses commercialize their healthcare applications.
Shahid runs three successful blogs. At http://shahid.shah.org he writes about architecture issues, at http://www.healthcareguy.com he provides valuable insights on how to apply technology in health care, at http://www.federalarchitect.com he advises senior federal technologists, and at http://www.hitsphere.com he gives a glimpse of the health-care IT blogosphere as an aggregator.
