Open Source Bridge

We are very pleased to announce the following sessions for this year’s Open Source Bridge conference.

We’re still waiting to hear back from a few speakers, so stay tuned in the next few days as we fill in a few gaps – but the bulk of our speakers have responded to acceptances, and we’re happy to share what we have with you today!

We’d like to thank our Advocate sponsors – Google, Facebook and the Rackspace Cloud. Without them, this conference wouldn’t be happening. We also have many other sponsors listed, and are looking for more! If you’d like to support our grassroots, community-organized conference this year, please get in touch!

Without further ado:

Culture

• Being a Catalyst in Communities – The science behind the open source way by Karsten Wade
• Free Speech, Free Software Across the World by Danny O’Brien
• Geek Choir by Michael Alan Brewer
• Give a Great Tech Talk by Josh Berkus and Ian Dees
• Hacking Space Exploration by Ariel Waldman
• HyperCard 2010: Why Johnny Can’t Code (and What We Can Do About It) by Devin Chalmers
• Making Robots Accessible to Everyone by Brett Nelson and Jim Larson
• Move Your Asana by Sherri Montgomery
• Organizing user groups, a panel discussion by Igal Koshevoy, Jesse Hallett, Eric Wilhelm, Christie Koehler, gabrielle roth, Audrey Eschright, and Sam Keen
• Transparent, Collaborative, Participatory – Grass Roots Implementation of the Open Government Directive by Mark Frischmuth

Cooking

• A day in the life of Facebook Operations by Tom Cook
• Agile User Experience Design by Randall Hansen
• Best Practices for Wiki Adoption by Steven Walling and Mark Dilley
• Building Interactive Displays with Touchscreen 2.0 by Peter Krenesky and Rob McGuire-Dale
• Connecting to Web Services on Android by Sean Sullivan
• Creating Embedded Linux Products with OpenEmbedded by Scott Garman
• Getting Started with FPGAs and HDLs by Phil Tomson
• How To Report A Bug by Michael Schwern
• How to write quality software using the magic of tests by Igal Koshevoy
• Infrastructure as Code by Adam Jacob
• Introduction to MongoDB by Michael Dirolf
• Introduction to PostgreSQL by Josh Berkus and Christophe Pettus
• Making Drupal Go Fast with Varnish and Pressflow by Greg Lund-Chaix and Rudy Grigar
• Node.js and you by Mikeal Rogers
• Open Source Storage Solutions and Next Generation Linux File Systems by Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy
• Relational vs. Non-Relational by Josh Berkus
• Release your hardware hacker potential with gEDA by Eric Thompson
• Sphinx – the ultimate tool for documenting your software project by Nate Aune
• Stacks of Cache by Duncan Beevers
• The Open Geo Stack by Adam DuVander
• The Return of Command-Line Kung Fu by Hal Pomeranz
• The symfony framework behind the scenes at museum installations by David Brewer
• Unlikely tools for pair programming by Jamey Sharp and Josh Triplett
• Using Modern Perl by chromatic x
• Your Internets are Leaking by Reid Beels and Michael Schwern
• libcloud: a unified interface into the cloud by Alex Polvi

Hacks

• Open Source Rockets by Nathan Bergey and Andrew Greenberg
• Building A Mesh Network Wireless Temperature Sensor by Michael Pigg
• Copyright lawyers can Gödel by Markus Roberts
• CouchApp Evently Guided Hack w/ CouchDB by J Chris Anderson
• Drizzle, Scaling MySQL for the Future by Brian Aker
• Fixing SSL security: Supplementing the certificate authority model by Seth Schoen
• Housetruck: Building a Victorian RV by John Labovitz
• JIT-Compiling Domain Specific Languages by Jeremy Voorhis
• Listening to Data – Sonification Using Open Source Tools by M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
• Multicore Haskell Now! by Don Stewart
• Non-visual location-based augmented reality using GPS data by Aaron Parecki and Amber Case
• Practical Facebook stalking with Open Source tools by Paul Fenwick
• Speeding up your PHP Application by Rasmus Lerdorf
• The $2 computer: ultraconstrained devices do your bidding by David Hollingsworth
• The Fine Line Between Creepy and Fun by Audrey Eschright
• When Everything Looks Like A Nail by Markus Roberts and Matt Youell
• X Marks the Spot: Applying OpenStreetMap to the High Seas by Liz Henry and Danny O’Brien
• iizip: Hacking together your own Dropbox by Ben Dechrau
• import rdma: Zero-copy networking with RDMA and Python by Andy Grover

Chemistry

• Activity Streams, Socialism, and the Future of Open Source by Chris Messina
• Cassandra: Strategies for Distributed Data Storage by Kelvin Kakugawa
• Considering in-house automated web testing? by Adam Christian
• Creating a low-cost clustered virtualization environment using Ganeti by Lance Albertson
• Developing Replication Plugins for Drizzle by Padraig O’Sullivan
• Efficient Multi-core Application Architectures by Eric Day
• Hair and Yak Again — A Hacker’s Tale by Eric Wilhelm
• HipHop for PHP by Haiping Zhao
• Living Together In An Open Cloud World by Jonathan Bryce
• Making your information online findable by VJ Beauchamp
• Professional JavaScript by Jesse Hallett
• SELECT * FROM Internet Using YQL by Jonathan LeBlanc
• SuperSpeed me: USB 3.0 Open Source Support by Sarah Sharp
• Why the Sysadmin Hates Your Software by Steve VanDevender

Business

• ‘Open Source Business Models’ and other mythical creatures by Andrew Clay Shafer
• Foundations, Non-profits, and Open Source by Carol Smith
• Functional Requirements: Thinking Like A Pirate by Amye Scavarda
• Legal Difficulties Involving Open Source Companies and How to Avoid Them by Martin Medeiros
• Moonlighting in Sunlight – How to work on independent projects and have a day job. by Paula Holm Jensen
• Teach your class to fish, and they’ll have food for a lifetime. by Jacinta Richardson
• The Naive Developer’s Guide to Venture Capital by Joyce Park
• The Second Step: HOWTO encourage open source work at for-profits by Sumana Harihareswara
• The Story of Spaz: How to Give Away Everything, Make No Money, and Still Win by Edward Finkler