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