Open Source Bridge

Have you been thinking of trying Linux as a primary OS? Have you installed Ubuntu once or twice but felt that it was a bit too awkward to use? This presentation will help you get past the tough parts and will show you where you can find quick answers in the future.

Adobe Flex has a short but convoluted history as an Open Source Project. Come and talk about the community being built around the Flex framework and the ways you can contribute.

We'll examine some of the more subtle synergies in open source development and agile methodologies.

The PIL comes with a number of tools scripts. One useful one is the pildriver tool, which allows access into many PIL functions via the command line. You can use this driver tool to incorporate PIL functions into shell scripts, or even general purpose programs in other languages. Lets use the pildriver to modify a typical digital camera image using a size, format, and filter effect of our choosing. We have to be careful as the pildriver tool uses a Polish notation style argument list, which means that the argument list is best made sense of by reading from right to left. ... continue with example ...

Having your program easily packaged by Linux distributions will help to increase its adoption and to ensure that users have it well-integrated into their systems and kept up-to-date easily. Gentoo Linux has more than 13,000 packages, and Donnie will share his extensive experience creating and maintaining Gentoo packages and offer suggestions for improvement.

Regardless of whether you work in an open-source project or the corporate world, there are leaders without titles. This talk will teach you how to create a reputation as a leader and become someone who others will look to for advice, inspiration, and direction.

Who's this geek chap that you speak of and why are you so proud to be one?

How to install, set up and host open source web based web based applications like WordPress, Drupal and vtiger. Also look at how and where you can host them locally, under your own domain name with as much or as little control/maintenance as you need or can handle.

There are several ways that open source helps companies to build a thriving and sustainable business. In this session we'll explore both winners and losers to come up with a model that may work for you.

See how open source software is impacting the way newspapers are doing business.

Gentoo is an excellent meta-distribution which offers you complete control over how you can build your infrastructure. However in this raw form managing such an infrastructure can be cumbersome if not time consuming. Customizations can run from building an entirely hardened system from the kernel up to the user space applications, to building a minimal system for your needs. Gentoo goes beyond compiler and use flags and takes your infrastructure to the next level.

Encryption is easy, key management is hard. Learn how to build a database encryption solution that also supports effective and secure key management.

Free yourself from worrying about whether that one machine with a critical service is going to go down by using open-source tools to implement automated failover. Expand capacity and improve reliability for your services by spreading the load over many inexpensive servers.

A quick run down on Javascript dates, how they work across browsers and how to localise them with YUI.

What are the challenges a software professional faces moving from the proprietary world of big systems into the web-heavy open source world? Is it as simple as swapping to a new language or a new platform? Is there a mindset change? How big is the learning curve? What will surprise you? For employers, is it as simple as hiring someone smart, motivated and resourceful, or are there greater hidden obstacles?

Companies are sponsoring more open source projects or paying the salaries of people participating in the community. What happens when you throw companies into the mix in an open source community?

Just want to turn out a great-looking, easy-to-manage website for a small business? Concrete5 might be the open source CMS you are looking for.

This presentation will demo setting up the Agile practice of Continuous Integration using Open Sources tools such as Sun's JEE Application Server (Glassfish), Subversion Source Code Management System, and Hudson - an Open Source Continuous Integration engine.

These days, there are a multitude of ways to get up and running with creating web services. PHP is well-known for its roots in development of internet applications, but isn't necessarily the best solution on its own. Whether you need a service based on REST, XML-RPC, SOAP, or JSON-RPC, Zend Framework has you covered.

Take advantage of REST APIs using only Javascript.

This talk should give you ideas, strategy and courage to go build your own Open Source community and promote your projects.

When people have been living in a proprietary world their whole lives but are suddenly introduced to open source, what happens? Do they grab freedom by the throat, or do they suffer from Stockholm Syndrome? The answer might surprise you.

Free, hands-on, geekly advice and assistance for nonprofit organizations from volunteers working on focused project teams and a help desk throughout OSBridge.

Are you tired of null pointer exceptions, unintended side effects, mistaken equality tests, security breaches, and other run-time errors that appear during testing or in the field?

Some of your web site's users have free time that they'd love to spend building features that they (and probably others) find to be missing. Join this panel of successful API creators to hear first-hand why your site needs a developer API, what it takes to ship and maintain one, and how to get started.

Computers make noises, record noises, and change noises with a fluency and grace that has never before been seen in the world. Open source is perfectly placed to take advantage of this capability --- for those who understand how digital audio works.

Doctrine is a powerful object-relational mapper for PHP. David Brewer introduces the library and demonstrates how it can save you time and effort as you develop database-driven websites.

You have written elegant software that you know has commercial value and want to people to use it. The problem is no documentation. You hate documenting your work, but you need documentation in order to sell it.

In this talk I will present concerns around governance of open source solutions in a corporate environment, and some approaches taken to address them.

e-Administration is a versatile e-Platform for e-Governance and can help to transform the lives of citizens on earth and create all round peace and prosperity.

Write efficient MySQL query to paginate through large data set.

Find out how open source connectors such as Snap Logic are enabling interconnection and collaboration between formerly disparate applications.

Examining results from basic simple I/O tests run against Linux filesystems.

Some of your web site's users have free time that they'd love to spend building features that they (and probably others) find to be missing. We'll talk about several steps that you can take as a site owner to make it possible for developers in your community to prototype, innovate, enhance, and remix your site's features and data so don't have to. It's probably simpler that you think.

CFML developers love the language's capabilities for RAD application development, but it can get even faster with Groovy and full access to the Java stack beneath it.

Fedora offers a complete set of tools for generating your own customized distribution. The output format can be installable CDs or DVDs, or Live images suitable for CD/DVD or USB keys. These tools allow sub-communities to consume and contribute to FOSS using a platform that is geared toward their specific needs.

Still working on this! It will be distilled down, but I need to take a break!

Oregon's century-old tradition of progressive political reforms provides a fertile environment for the open source movement. Both are premised on the abilities and passions of the individual.

FreeTUIT is desktop programming with less code. A concise, declarative syntax for widget layout and an expressive API for runtime give you clean and maintainable wxWidgets cross-platform applications in minutes.

Plinkit (Public Library INterface KIT) provides both content and functionality that are exciting and useful to library patrons and staff alike. This talk will cover how Plone, a popular open source content management system, is being used by numerous states as a web-hosting solution for small and medium-sized libraries as part of the larger Plinkit Collaborative.

Come learn the fundamentals of how to leverage Gearman, the open-source, distributed job queuing system. Originally designed to scale LiveJournal.com, Gearman is now faster than ever and can help you build your own scalable applications. Gearman's generic design allows it to be used as a building block for almost any use - from speeding up your website to building your own Map/Reduce cluster.

well run open source communities are the building blocks for the world that our generation y staffers have been immersed in since elementary school. the web has changed and continues to change the availability of information and the definition of expert. how can more traditional businesses make use of these principles of equality of ideas and organic growth of hierarchies to engage and encourage younger staff.

Do you have an idea for an application but get tripped up when it comes to getting started? Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) and the Railo CFML engine can help! In this presentation I will show how you can use EC2 and Railo to get your projects out the door faster.

Learn how to get started virtualizing your infrastructure on Linux. This simple tutorial specifically targets KVM, but also includes discussion of Xen, and general virtualization and management concepts.

The history of how open source citizens built Wikipedia, and what you can do to sustain the project in to the future, even if you don't want to edit an encyclopedia.

Most developers learn by doing, yet the majority of training is hands-off and classroom based. What's the recipe for success to make applied learning work for developers with little spare time?

...think of natural human behavior as being like a constantly blowing wind and Happy Fridays as a bit of technology, a giant wind turbine that harnesses that wind and converts it into money that is used to fund worthy causes that make the world a better place.

Now is the time for Health Information Technology. The challenges of building an interoperable health system have been well documented. Get an overview of what's going on, learn about the role and impact of open source in health IT, and find out how you can get involved.

Appcelerator is using open source as the strategy to bring a new technology to market that challenges the largest software companies in the world. Why it's not enough to have great technology.

Where do people get ideas for Open Source projects? How do you decide if your personal project is worth releasing to the world? Will anyone use it? One of the most prolific and successful Perl authors will give his insights on balancing sharing, selfishness and who gets to run the Open Source world.

Avoid mediocrity and learn the secrets to becoming an amazing community manager. There are some simple and not so simple things that a community manager can do to increase their chances of being successful. We'll talk about some of our secrets for being a great community manager, but we'll spend most of the time letting you (the audience) ask us your toughest questions. Tell us your problems, and we'll come up with ideas for how to solve them.

"Frameworks. We can't live with 'em, we can't live without 'em."

Perl 6 has advanced greatly recently and Rakudo, a Perl 6 implementation on the Parrot Virtual Machine, already implements a significant portion of the language. For example, Rakudo has just recently surpassed 10,000 passing tests. Come to this talk to learn how to get involved in the Perl 6/Rakudo community and learn basics like implementing language builtins in Rakudo and PIR (Parrot Internal Representation) and adding tests to the Perl 6 Test Suite.

Geeks have a special relationship with The Truth. Nothing is more important than correcting a falsehood, no matter how small, and nothing is more odious than not telling The Truth. Unfortunately the meaning is often mangled and the end result is the opposite, a lie. This leads to misunderstanding, mangled interfaces and the myth of the stupid user.

What does a publicly-owned fiber to the home network look like, why is it a good idea, how could it work, and how does it get paid for?

APIs are all over the place, all of them are different, picky and make your app that much cooler, so how do you get them under control?

TAP(Test Anything Protocol) is a simple way to write tests in any language, in any environment, using any style. See tests written in Perl, Ruby, Python, Shell, Javascript, C, PHP and Postgres all come together in one test suite. Learn how to write your own testing functions, tailored to your needs. Archive your test results and watch your test suite grow!

Most developers find they have to use SQL databases for their projects, but few have any idea how to index those databases. Which columns to index, what kinds of indexes to use, multicolumn indexes, foreign keys ... it's all very confusing to anyone who's not a career database person (and even some that are).

Websites from the other side of the world away are viewable instantly, yet most websites are written in a language only their developers understand. Learn about the internationalization features available with Symfony and discover how easy i18n can be.

Pydra provides an easy to use framework for writing, running and managing distributed computing jobs in python. Come hear an overview of Pydra project and how you can use it to deploy your own distributed computing cluster.

This is *not* a build-a-blog-in-20-minutes presentation. This for anyone who's heard about Django, maybe run through the tutorial, and are wondering where they should use it first.

An introduction to the Spring framework, with a focus on the core Dependency Injection module.

The symfony framework is a full-stack web framework for PHP5. It's packed with powerful features, has thorough documentation, and is constantly improving thanks to its active and helpful community. David Brewer provides a high-level overview with real-world examples from his experience using symfony to create websites and on-site installations for museums.

A storage model is a series of frameworks and design philosophy of their usage. How do you know which storage model is correct for your application? This session covers a broad range of topics related to the task of persisting objects into relational storage. We will investigate the pros and cons of very rigid relational models to very loose models of relational storage.

JotDB is an open source database tool which is more than a spreadsheet and less than a database frontend. This brings the power to solve simple problems directly to the desktop without boxing you and your data into a corner.

an introduction to the OAuth protocol and OAuth libraries

How I learned to stop worrying and love Kerberos and LDAP

As more people discover that making things is fun, especially making high-tech, complex, useful machines, the economy will shift from one based on scarcity to one based on technical creativity. The Portland area and Portland Tech Shop are poised to be part of this renaissance

The IEEE Oregon Section is working hard at building a collaborative technical community. Our goal is to develop and foster interaction among our members. We started by building a new website (using Joomla!) with forums, event management, ecommerce, and file up/download. We'll talk about what we we've done and how we did it and what we plan for the future. We'll solicit advice about our future directions.

How do you manage geographic data that comes from a wide variety of sources which are continually updated and massage them into a form that suits your application? I'll share my experiences and let you share yours.

If your IT organization has a team of system administrators that only fight fires and deliver the same things time and time again, it could be time to adjust their thinking and methodologies. This presentation will explain how borrowing concepts from Computer Science and Software Engineering can help create a high performing administration team.

How consensus and consent, coops and sociocracies, user groups and open source development, come to bear on the mismatch between autocracy and open source.

These days, everyone knows that Open Source is a viable business model - but how does one successfully market an Open Source product? This presentation will showcase examples from the Open Source domain and provide hands-on advice about how to unfold a vital Open Source business ecosystem where geeks and customers alike contribute to value creation.

An atlatl, or spear-thrower, is the earliest known force amplifier, preceeding the bow and sling. An atlatl adds strength and support, but not control. Being a successful mentor means embodying the same spirit: helping your people manifest their own goals with their own abilities.

Mercurial is an easy to use, fast, extensible distributed version control system. In this talk we'll explore everything from the basics to extending Mercurial to fit your needs.

Ignite is a variety of lightning talk and one of the premier events in Portland.

We should have known better. Saying 'yes, how can I get involved' to that crazy project that then took over our lives, that was a really good idea. Come listen to us recount our many mistakes.

This talk looks at the role of open source and Linux in the emerging mobile software space. Could Linux and open source provide an easier link to enterprise applications and therefore enterprise adoption of mobile devices?

Open Source projects like CiviCRM are providing tools to non-profit organization that would have otherwise been cost prohibitive. This presentation will focus on success models for leveraging open source in the non-profit context. More importantly, the talk will highlight areas where small efforts from the open source community will lead to huge impacts on the non-profit world.

A overview of the .NET Framework in the context of open source development. Recommended for developers not familiar with .NET, or .NET devs wanting to learn more about open source on .NET.

An overview of open 2D/3D CAD and graphics programs and toolkits from the programmer's point of view. Learn what tools are available for building solutions to graphics and modeling problems and how they work.

It all started when this one guy developed a "Fan Page" for Coca-Cola on Facebook...

This presentation will describe how a Strategy Consulting start up in Bangalore, India is promoting Open Source enterprise applications and has made a difference in over a dozen organizations in the last year and a half.

While recent years have seen some commercial vendors incorporate a community focus, there is still a discernible difference between dealing with open-source projects, open-source companies, and proprietary providers.

There are outstanding technical reasons for using open source software, but what is the business case? Where does open source shine on the bottom line, and where does it fall flat? And what are the critical success factors required to realize the benefits of open source?

AirShipTG uses Open Technology Innovation (OTI) because the collaboration is open to all and the innovative source technology is shared, branded and licensed with participating stakeholders. The market is ready for hyper efficient vehicles and the world is saying let’s go! Adopting improved vehicle performance through clean and renewable technology solutions, we can literally change the world. Our track sphere maglev Spherical Induction Motor wheel assembly is designed to rotate the spheres for 360-degree propulsion through forward, aft directions as well as lateral parking for cars and long haul trucks.

Do opinionated frameworks make it easier or harder to write great opinionated software?

See how the State of Oregon is using open source tools to help K-12 teachers in Oregon.

The Oregon State Wireless Active Learning Device (OSWALD) is a fully featured Ultra-Mobile Personal Computer (UMPC) platform, designed by students, for students. The goals of the project include a desire to give more students access to inexpensive cutting-edge Open Source technology. The OSWALD will be used in the ECE and CS programs at Oregon State University starting Spring 2009.

Engineers hate making estimations because they are a pain and can be wildly inaccurate. Alex will walk through some practical ways to make accurate project estimates that lead to successful projects and create happy clients and engineers

Nothing kills the trendy, devil-may-care feel of a Webby start-up quite like having to sign in and log all visitors to your office. This is just one part of the harsh realities around PCI compliance.

Open Source developers are their own best, or worst, advocates. How do you influence people to use your software? How do you get folks interested in your work? How do you get folks interested in running open source apps? Simple, you hack them.

Everyone knows Perl is dead and Perl 6, that long-delayed second system design by committee mistake, will never be released, and all Perl code is unreadable, executable line noise... right? Real-live modern Perl programmers will prove that wrong.

The rise of utility computing platforms such as Amazon EC2 has made it more feasible to build turnkey hosted solutions on top of open source software. Learn how we built PondCMS, a turnkey Plone-based CMS deployed to Amazon's EC2. In this talk, we will discuss the advantages of hosting Plone sites in the elastic computing cloud and some of the challenges we faced.

Use SQL to get operating system statistics when using PostgreSQL.

What if the principles of open source could be applied to politics? You know- transparency, collaboration, meritocracy... well guess what? Kids are already doing it. Project 2059 is part of Oregon's celebration of 150 years of statehood. Open source tools are being used to create a collective vision of what our state should be like in the year 2059. The project focuses on youth, and will culminate at Willamette University for three days in June and July. There, the input of youth throughout the state will be synthesized into the Oregon Blueprint, which will be delivered to the legislature and monitored for years to come by the Oregon Progress Board.

One of the best ways in which to coerce the needs out of a user is to use an iterative prototype development methodology which is flexible enough to allow us developers to quickly build functional prototypes that can be changed to meet users newly defined or changing needs in an agile manner. When working with data this can be a complex process as data may not exist, we may not know what the back-end technologies will be, and we might not want to get locked into any particular schema. Still we would like to interpret a user’s needs and develop a prototype which gives the user the ability to ‘play’ with the application and manipulate some data, getting some feedback from the application along the way. In return, most users seem to be able to better define their needs using functional prototypes and can provide better needs information to developers. So the question arises, ‘How can I develop a functional data-driven application prototype in Flex without needing to know, well, anything about the back-end?’ The answer may be found within the Cairngorm Microarchitecture.

Inspekt is a filtering and validation library for PHP. With a focus on ease of use, Inspekt makes writing secure PHP applications faster and easier. This talk covers the Inspekt library and the "input cage" concept, best practices when utilizing the library, and how to integrate Inspekt with existing applications and popular frameworks.

Ever get an urge to control a robot using real time Linux and a serial port, but find that your computer only has USB ports?

The last thing you want to present a potential user of your API is a form post scheme like the one Cake expects to get on server side. Nobody would use it!

This talk will give an overview of Rubinius, an alternative Ruby implementation with a C++ VM, Ruby standard library, and Ruby compiler. It will also detail major recent changes like switching away from stackless execution and improvements in the core library data structures, garbage collector, compiler, and JIT assembler.

User Groups are a critical part of the Open Source infrastructure, keeping people in-touch and in-person. The online community is an important, and sometimes neglected part of the user group infrastructure. This talk will help you invigorate the online portion of your user group community.

Why spend all that time fighting/writing code in FORTRAN/C/C++ when you could enjoy writing it in Perl instead?

Our real and online selves are quickly becoming synonymous with one another as we share more and more of our real selves with our online presence. As containers begin to expand the social web with implementations such as OpenSocial, security is quickly becoming a concern. As an open project, Caja meets that demand as a comprehensive JavaScript securer. This talk will explore the implementation of OpenSocial on the social web and why security considerations need to be integrated when creating open standards for this space.

PhpSecInfo is an easy to use security auditing tool for the PHP Environment. We'll discuss how to use PhpSecInfo as part of your web app security toolkit, and how to customize and extend it for your specific needs.

From opening up the development process, to daily pushes of source code, to moving to Git, the IronRuby project has been working to increase its transparency and be more of a community project, and less of a Microsoft project.

An open hardware and software environment for the exchange of automatically sensed data between the real and virtual world.

...or as they say in a mirror universe, basic regexes. A run through on getting the most out of regular expressions.

Discussions of REST usually begin by claiming that REST architecture involves much, much more than reducing the syntax of services to database-derived verbs: create, read, update, delete (CRUD). That might be true, but for this talk, that supremely useful reduction will be "REST"...

Tony Hawk was nine years old when his brother changed his life by giving him a blue fiberglass banana board. By age 16, Tony Hawk was the best skateboarder in the world. Unfortunately, Tony's success in skateboarding has not helped him overcome the challenges of web application development. The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) was designed to help developers build complex Ajax applications. Attend this session to learn how GWT makes Ajax programming as easy as riding an electric skateboard.

The mom and pop businesses are the backbone of America. These businesses are what makes up our society. If you look at the tools they use to run their business it is made up of closed sourced products.

Many startups underestimate the importance of a systems administrator very early on in the company's development. But maybe you're just not there yet. If you don't have a sysadmin, what is the minimum you should know to squeeze by in the meantime?

Aspen is a PHP-based website and application development platform that is entirely designed to work as a modular system, allowing you to separate functionality and share those modules with other projects and other developers. A new level of sharing between small time, or enterprise-level projects. Use it for the end product, or develop and entirely new application with it.

Every year thousands of individuals flood the streets of Austin, TX looking for the next great band. What can their Twitter messages infer about the popularity of bands.

In my ten years involved in a major OSS project I've learned a lot of things about both people and technology, in this session I'll share the top ten things that I've learned

A survey of the Python testing world, with an emphasis on practical recommendations. Practical advice on unit testing, functional testing, and all the glue needed.

Web services and cloud computing are moving users from Open Source desktop applications to proprietary remote computing. How can we set standards to make Web services as liberating to use as Open Source software?

Academics cultivate their skill at reflecting on strategic issues around difficult problems. Open source developers cultivate their ability to execute short-term tactical strikes at difficult problems. Surely the opportunities for cooperation are frequent, and the payoffs high.

This talk will highlight the importance of Open Source in a Cloud based world. Contrary to what some proprietary vendors and open source / free software believers will want you to believe, I am going to argue that Open Source has a very important role to shape the course of Cloud Computing paradigm and any attempts to dismiss its importance will lead to vendor lock-ins and monopoly like in the desktop world.

I would like to talk about my experiences in porting and maintaining open source software that doesn't originate from the linux community and how awry things can get in this case.

Web localization is a complex and intimidating process. Learn why it's important to address localization, the process for implementation, and how to avoid common pitfalls.

10 object-oriented CSS best practices we can learn from children.

Come find out which distribution is best... at keeping their official repositories up to date. Or which distribution has the most up to date LAMP packages. This presentation explores trends culled from package releases since October '08, discusses the challenge of making sense of it all and possible improvements to distribution and package maintenance.

Proprietary desktop-based GTD apps have good usability and high responsiveness but lack the ubiquitous access and extensibility afforded by server-based applications. Tracks is the first Open Source server-based GTD app to deliver a desktop-like experience with the benefits of a web app. You'll come away from this talk with a working instance of your own and everything you need to know to get started with it.

We will explore how to evaluate the validity of experts' statements and introduce some tools to avoid mistaken beliefs based on innate human biases.

Deliverance is an approach that allows you to apply a common look-and-feel to all pages and web applications used for your online presence.

By adding Twitter support to Eclipse, we explain how Eclipse works, what Bundles are and how to write your own.

How open source principles can be applied to other business areas, including helping the formation of new companies.

Vim is already known as a powerful all-purpose editor. It is also an awesome and efficient Ruby on Rails tool! With the right plugins and a few commands you too can use Vim to empower you to use RoR effectively.

Web scraping is a collection of practices and techniques to simulate the behavior of a normal web site user in order to effectively use the web site itself as a web service. This can include both retrieving data made available by the site and well as introducing new data into the site. This presentation will define web scraping and showcase recommended practices and common issues and solutions.

What the heck is an online community manager and what do they do?

While you might not be able to tell at a glance, a lot has changed behind the scenes on a modern Ubuntu system. For instance, did you know Ubuntu is phasing out System V init and has already replaced the init binary? In this talk Kyle discusses the current changes Ubuntu is making to what we might consider the traditional Linux system.

There are millions of open source projects and all of them need contributors. People are what make projects successful. So what is the thing that will get more people interested in your project? In technology companies they call it “evangelism”. Evangelism is the art of taking that love and passion for technology and using it to enthuse other people.

Human hear it on the radio, read it in human news. Lot of problems on earth right now. Humans had chance, now time to cede control robots.

There are a lot of free hosting providers out there for open source projects, but not many offer the flexibility and support that the Open Source Lab has. Our hosting ranges from shared web hosting to fully managed servers to just smart hands support. We're here to help expand the open source community to the next level.

Developers often want to use the latest and greatest development tools and libraries to develop against, and running Gentoo's testing versions (like any good development distribution) allows you to keep all these tools and libraries under package management. It additionally provides a powerful set of tools for a development machine and gives you unmatched power and flexibility coupled with the ease of package management.

Rails has been out for a few years now. We're past the blogs, past the first couple rounds of new apps, and now have legacy systems to maintain. What strategies can we use for improving these systems?

In this session, Open Source business veteran Josh Berkus will go over who the 5 communities are, what they each want, and how that community can help you make money.