OSDC 2008 Program
This program is a draft only, and is subject to change closer to the conference.
Google Hackfest:
Tuesday 2nd December, 2008
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09:00 – 12:30 |
Hacking |
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12:30 – 1:30 |
Lunch |
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1:30 – 5:00 |
Hacking |
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Day One:
Wednesday 3rd December, 2008
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8:30 – 9:00 |
Entry Tea |
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9:00 – 9:15 |
Welcome (Conference and Day One) |
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9:15 – 10:00 |
Opening Keynote [Chris DiBona] |
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10:00 – 10:30 |
Why is Open Source Accounting so hard? Bennett
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Songbird: An open source, cross-platform media player. Field
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Rule based systems - using rules to manage business logic Neale
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(Literal) World Domination
Ansell
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10:30 – 11:00 |
Morning Tea |
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11:00 – 11:30 |
Your very own little gem: building a (successful) web... Holmwood
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Keeping on Trac Ellis
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Semantic Modeling, a query language for the 21st century. Heath
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Web accessibility and Content Management Systems
Steenhout
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11:30 – 12:00 |
Bootstrapping your application for just $3 a day and...
Ferlito
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12:00 – 12:30 |
Google Apps Engine + ExtJS prototyping demonstration
Leeuwenburg
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Gender 2.0: the state of the Women in Open Source community Gardiner
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DBI-Link 3.0 Fetter
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What makes an Enterprise Wiki Special (and how TWiki fits...
Dowideit
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12:30 – 1:30 |
Lunch |
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1:30 – 2:00 |
Architecting for Success - Just in Case
Lentz
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An Introduction to Test-Driven Development with Perl McLean
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Implementing a custom B2B system using Apache Ofbiz:...
Gershoni
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Python Language Internals: From Source to Execution Lee
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2:00 – 2:30 |
Improving PHP Application Performance with APC McLean
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MVCs in Perl: Too many ways to do it. Richardson
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Taming Beastly Web Applications with Server-Side OSGi Brown
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Python's unittest module: an underappreciated gem Bennetts
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2:30 – 3:00 |
Managing Hydrodynamic Models with PHP Goodwin
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How OSS helps a Health Fund with 60% less costs than...
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Introduction to Eclipse Rich Client Platform Bath
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Extending Nagios with Python plugins Maneschi
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3:00 – 3:30 |
Geospatial Open Source Software Overview
Shorter, Leslie
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OpenAustralia - making politics work better for everyone Landauer
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Using Dojo Dijits and the Dojox Grid (Javascript framework) Leybourn
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Getting your average Joe to use Open Source Software Serwylo
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3:30 – 4:00 |
Afternoon Tea |
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4:00 – 5:00 |
Lightning Talks (Day One) |
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5:00 – 6:00 |
Pre-dinner break |
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6:00 – 6:30 |
Pre-dinner drinks and snacks |
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6:30 – 7:00 |
Dinner Keynote [Anthony Baxter] |
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7:00 – 10:00 |
Conference Dinner |
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Day Two:
Thursday 4th December, 2008
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8:30 – 9:00 |
Entry Tea |
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9:00 – 9:15 |
Welcome (Day Two) |
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9:15 – 10:00 |
Keynote (Day Two) [Larry Wall] |
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10:00 – 10:30 |
Going mobile – tips, tricks and tools for building... May
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Searching in Rails with Sphinx
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This is not your Father's Microsoft Hodge
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Sponsors Day |
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10:30 – 11:00 |
Morning Tea |
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11:00 – 11:30 |
Streaming the world for free
Balbo
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Automated Testing with Ruby
Pitty
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Introduction to JBoss Seam Bryzak
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11:30 – 12:00 |
An open source "YouTube" Pfeiffer
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Story-based Web Development Koukoullis
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An introduction to Struts 2 and RESTful applications Brown
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12:00 – 12:30 |
MetaVidWiki: when you need a web video solution
Pfeiffer, Ferlito
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How to package your Ruby code for distribution and sharing Williams
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Using Bazaar for Fun and Profit
Hudson
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12:30 – 1:30 |
Lunch |
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1:30 – 2:00 |
Keep Your Enemies Closer: FOSS versus The World Draper
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How to make a FAST command line tool in Python. Bennetts
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Migrating from TeamWare to Mercurial: what we learnt
McPherson
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2:00 – 2:30 |
Managing category structures in relational databases
Osanz
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Natural language generation in Python for weather forecasts Leeuwenburg
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PHP Application Frameworks
Mehta
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2:30 – 3:00 |
Self-Healing Databases: Managing Schema Updates In The Field
Oxer
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Writing an SQL parser with PyParsing Leybourn
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3:00 – 3:30 |
Optimisation by Design Lentz
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Documentation is like sex: everyone loves it when it's...
Wayper
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PHP and the secure development lifecycle van der Linde, Kuivenhoven
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3:30 – 4:00 |
Afternoon Tea |
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4:00 – 5:00 |
Lightning Talks (Day Two) |
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5:00 – 7:00 |
BOF (Day 2) |
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Day Three:
Friday 5th December, 2008
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9:00 – 9:30 |
Entry Tea |
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9:30 – 9:45 |
Welcome (Day Three) |
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9:45 – 10:30 |
Keynote (Day Three) [Andrew Tridgell] |
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10:30 – 11:00 |
Morning Tea |
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11:00 – 11:30 |
OLPC Australia - local projects and hacking Waugh
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Type-Safe Objects in PHP Bergmann
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Strawberry Perl: Achieving Win32 Platform Equality Kennedy
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The State of Python Baxter
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11:30 – 12:00 |
Legal Issues for Open Source Developers Scott
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The art of Klingon Programming Fenwick
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The PyPy Project And You! Hudson
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12:00 – 12:30 |
Automated Testing in
Development and Deployment McLean [Talk 65] |
PHP on Windows Server 2008 Odolphi
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Perl in Optus Cooper
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Game development with pyglet 1.2
Holkner
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12:30 – 1:30 |
Lunch |
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1:30 – 2:00 |
LD_PRELOAD for fun and profit
(or evil) Smith
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Of Lambda Functions, Closures and Traits Bergmann
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Scaling your Business: Approach Defines Outcome Lentz
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Stronghold CMS Barnett
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2:00 – 2:30 |
Your code sucks and I hate you! Code review for human beings
Lange
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2:30 – 3:30 |
Lightning Talks (Day Three) |
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3:30 – 4:00 |
Afternoon Tea |
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4:00 – 4:45 |
Closing Keynote [Pia Waugh] |
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4:45 – 5:00 |
Farewell |
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