Open Source Conf - topics/talks/speakers so far
Well I seem to be getting some feed back via the blog, ILUG mailing list and twitter. So many mediums and messages left in multiple areas I said I’d do up a small update of what I’d collected so far. This update is by no means final and I welcome any more suggestions of topics and speakers (hint!!)
Speakers who have expressed an interest and topics they would like to talk on.
Patrick Collison - Fom his language necrophilia, he is willing to talk about badass interactive dev environments — Genera from the Lisp machines of olde, SLIME and such from modern Lisp implementations, Squeak Smalltalk, etc.
Bryn M. Reeves - Red Hat - Magicing LVM back from oblivion under the “Data Recovery”
Alan Cox - Red Hat - still to confirm fully.
Qamir Hussain - Ruby Ireland - Using open source tools in the tech business, i.e. How my business uses them and the advantages/ disadvanges of them.
Noirin Shirley - Open Source - More Than Code; Understanding Open Source Licenses; Open Source - Collaboration Tools.
Php Ireland - hopefully
Topics that folks want to hear about but I need speakers for:
- Using linux based tools to developfor embedded systems that don’t necessarily have an operating system installed.
- How advancements in open source virtulization techology like XenSource is changing things.
Full list and comments are here.
Microsoft have said they would like to partipcate in this event so I looked for topics for them, suggestions put foward inclunde:
- How MS Came up with the Source ForceIdea
- How MS are going to make OOXML implemtable
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:10 am
[…] samdean wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptQamir Hussain - Ruby Ireland - Using open source tools in the tech business, ie How my business uses them and the advantages/ disadvanges of them. Noirin Shirley - Open Source - More Than Code; Understanding Open Source Licenses; … […]
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Sorry for coming to the party a bit late here, but if anyone is interested I have some suggestions;
Open-source: a field-guide
How to best use Open Source in the real world, right
up to getting involved in projects directly, or as
simple as just using a project. Understanding some
small but key things can make an enourmous difference
in how much you get from each.
Getting an Open Source Job
How opportunities and networking work in the open-source community, how it’s possible to use Open Source to improve your employability.
Apache: scaling the hell out of it
How to get tens of thousands of concurrent connections, how to benchmark, and how to serve millions of hits per day, from modest hardware.
Competing with the big-players using OSS
How to build scalable architectures using OSS. Build map-reduce farms with hadoop, scale services with quagga, have fun with Xen!
April 7th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Have also agreed to take part in the event.
Shane Coughlan (FSFE)
Adrian Bowyer (RepRap)
As soon as I get more confirmations I’ll post here also. If you have any queries mail me laura AT lczajkowski DOT com
April 9th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Sebastain Kruk Has also said he’d take part in the conference