Irish Open Source Technology Conference 2008
I’ve been asked to lend a hand in this years Irish Open Source Technology Conference 2008. There are a few of us on the committee who belong to differnt groups/communities. (Python, Java, Open Ireland are taking part in this)
Details of the event are here, they are basic at the moment but there is a site in progress being set up.
Some suggestions from PotD and twitter are as follows, if you have any more please contact me on #linux or via twitter or email. Thanks
• Data Recovery
• Emacs V Vi
• The Role of Apache in Modern society
• The Pros and Cons of the GPL compared to the BSD licence
• Thought ware
• A basic introduction to the differences between sneaker net and fibre optic
• Business intelligence
• Hardware
• Cryptography
• “Open Source for my business”
• CPU Optimised firewalls
• Project Management as a social networking exercise
• OSS for non geeks i.e. Firefox, Thunderbird, Openoffice / OSS in an office
• OSS alternatives to commercial apps
• OSS demystified
• The GPL in ENGLISH
• Linux kernel developer talking about their processes
March 28th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Maybe something like Mono and the whole .NET on Unix platforms..
March 28th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Cheers niall I’ll it to the list and see then if we can organise a speaker on it.
March 28th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
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March 31st, 2008 at 9:37 pm
From my language necrophilia, I’m happy to talk about badass interactive dev environments — Genera from the Lisp machines of olde, SLIME and such from modern Lisp implementations, Squeak Smalltalk, etc.
(Auctomatic was implemented in Smalltalk, and I’ve previously worked on my own Lisp dialect.)
April 1st, 2008 at 9:21 am
Hey,
Great to see an event like this happening in Ireland - I’ve been looking around for something interesting happening in Ireland/UK in relation to Linux and Open Source.
What is the typical format of this conference? Will there be tutorials? Guest speakers?
Some possible topics:
1. Java development on Linux (discussion of available tools, how well things work, maybe some real-life examples, debunking the myth that java is slow …)
2. Subversion for SMEs - practical source code management.
3. Practical MySQL - from the basics to current capabilities like replication (and how well they work).
4. MySQL vs Postgres
5. Practical use of LDAP in your business.
Given your past history of running Skycon I’ve no doubt this conference will go very well!
There were some v. good speakers at last years LinuxConf.eu in Cambridge, I dunno if some of them would be interested in coming along.
Thanks,
-stephen
April 1st, 2008 at 9:25 am
Patrick excellent shall definately be taking you up on the offer! I’ll give you a shout later on! Thanks !
April 1st, 2008 at 9:30 am
Stephen, thanks for the vote of confidence, but this tie I’m only giving a hand
THere are others doing stuff also, we just need to get the site up and running with the information.
Those are very interesting topics, are you offering to discuss some/any of them
April 1st, 2008 at 4:08 pm
I’d be happy to talk about (in rough order of preference) Open Source - More Than Code; Understanding Open Source Licenses; Open Source - Collaboration Tools.
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:01 am
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April 2nd, 2008 at 9:15 am
Phew, let me think about it - preparing talks takes time!
April 7th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
I am very interested in attending. If you though I had any aspect of the following that people would be interested in then I would be happy to give a brief talk or perhaps a questions and answers session.
Just as background my experience with open source…
We “discovered” the ACS in 1999 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArsDigita_Community_System which was an open source toolkit created by Arsdigita run by Philip Greenspun. Myself and Michael Hinds got interested and we figured the system out in our spare time. Back at a point in ’99 the .com bubble was growing and things got a little bit quiet in here with relation to work coming in. We were given some time to research the ACS in work here.
After about a week we landed a project for Oceanfree called http://my.oceanfree.net “pick my interests” portal type system (funded by ads etc).
We then did http://www.bestadvice.ie/ Insurance brokers information, product comparison, comparative quotations (funded by ads and subscriptions).
And http://www.xtender.com search and browse EU tenders in 12 Eu languages, push tenders to people based on preferences (funded by subscriptions).
These have all been taken over by different software houses or the clients themselves for commercial reasons (and even rewritten perhaps).
We then did http://bookings.xscapeonline.co.uk (with Openacs) booking system for indoor real snow ski slopes, capacity control, finance, web bookings, online payments. There’s 3 of these now.
We then started to work on AIMS http://www.totalaims.com based on the Openacs and the rest is history…
Most of this stuff has been put on Linux.