Long Form
Long-form presentations will receive a 1 hour, 45 minute session. For this format, we’re especially interested in seeing interactive approaches: tutorials, guided discussions, or other hands-on explorations.
Sessions for this sessiontype
* Give a Great Tech Talk
Why do so many technical presentations suck? Make sure that yours doesn't. Josh Berkus and Ian Dees will show you how to share your ideas with your audience by speaking effectively and (when the situation warrants it) showing your code.
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Culture |
| Ian Dees, Josh Berkus | |
* Hands-on Virtualization with Ganeti
Ganeti is a cluster virtualization management software tool built on top of existing virtualization technologies such as Xen or KVM and other Open Source software. This hands-on tutorial will give an overview of Ganeti, how to install it, how to get started deploying VMs, & administrative guide to Ganeti. The tutorial will also cover installing & using Ganeti Web Manager as a web front-end.
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Cooking |
| Lance Albertson, Peter Krenesky | |
* No More Joins
Everything you learned about database modeling is wrong. At least for document databases like CouchDB and MongoDB. Learn about these differences, the trade-offs, the use cases, and put it all in practice in a discussion about a real-life document database problem. Unlearn SQL habits and relax.
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Cooking |
| Nuno Job, J Chris Anderson, Roger Bodamer | |
* Open Source Communities Panel
Learn from open source community leaders who work on projects big and small.
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Culture |
| Audrey Eschright, Asheesh Laroia, Noirin Plunkett, Jane Wells, Chris Strahl | |
* Preventing Runtime Errors at Compile Time
Are you tired of null pointer exceptions, unintended side effects, SQL injections, concurrency errors, mistaken equality tests, and other run-time errors that appear during testing or in the field? A compile-time tool named the Checker Framework has found hundreds of such errors. Oracle plans to include it in the Java 8 javac, but you can use it today to improve your code and avoid errors.
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Cooking |
| David Lazar, Michael Ernst, Werner Dietl | |
* Run Your Javascript Everywhere, with Jellyfish.
In a world where Javascript is everywhere; your browser, server, database, mobile device -- you want and need code reuse to speed up development. In order to do this, you need to know that code works in all the environments you care about.
Jellyfish is a node project focused on provisioning different environments and making it easy for you to execute your JS and get the results.
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Cooking |
| Adam Christian | |
* So, You Want to Make a Map?
Practical cartographic geekery for accidental and padawan mapmakers: a crash course in Mapping 101 where we'll talk about the anatomy of maps and what you need to know when creating them. Topics include cartographic standards, projections, visualization, and the fine art of finding, deciphering, and using geodata and metadata. Included will be examples of the good, the bad, and the ugly, as well as resources for further exploration.
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Chemistry |
| Sarah Beecroft, Darrell Fuhriman | |
Proposals for this sessiontype
* Baby Steps into Open Source
At the Apache Software Foundation, we believe in being open. But we also recognize that "open" isn't enough to draw people in and get them involved. This talk will draw on the lessons learned in the incubation and mentoring projects at Apache to help you understand what's needed to tap the huge pool of potential contributors who already care about your work!
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Culture | 03/22/2011 03:28PM |
| Noirin Plunkett | ||
* Blocker Confessional & Bugbash
What are the three highest priorities for your FLOSS project, what's blocking you, and can we help? A guided discussion, and a hackfest.
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Cooking | 03/16/2011 09:54AM |
| Sumana Harihareswara | ||
* Building a business application on the SugarCRM platform
Learn how to build your business application on the SugarCRM platform.
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Business | 01/28/2011 03:18AM |
| John Mertic | ||
* Cloud Hosts - Look Behind the Scenes
In the last few years, cloud computing has become a major trend in IT industry. By using cloud hosting services like MediaTemple or Mosso, shared hosting almost became obsolete. This session takes a closer look on the concept and technology of grid (cloud) hosting providers and shows what to learn for your own hosting strategy.
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Cooking | 02/21/2011 04:29PM |
| Markus Franz | ||
* Geek Choir 3.0 (Long Form)
Geek Choir - The Return! (Now, even longer!)
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Culture | 02/11/2011 01:54PM |
| Michael Alan Brewer | ||
* Groovy for Java Developers
Build confidence in Groovy with practical experience that draws on your Java knowledge!
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Cooking | 03/09/2011 09:30PM |
| Merlyn Albery-Speyer | ||
* HTML5 and concrete5: Made for Each Other
concrete5 CMS has been making it simple to edit websites for years. Now learn how it can take the hassle out of building HTML5 websites, too.
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Cooking | 03/30/2011 02:55PM |
| Andrew Embler | ||
* Inside Dalvik
Dalvik is Google's version of the Java VM for running apps on Android. This session gives an introduction to the concepts shared by Java and Dalvik, as well as how to migrate code from one to another platform.
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Chemistry | 02/22/2011 11:47AM |
| Markus Franz | ||
* LibreOffice and OO.org - The Evolution of Office
By founding the Document Foundation, a major part of the OpenOffice.org community left Oracle for speeding up development. This session shows how OO.org merged with Go-Oo and other projects to LibreOffice and how it is technically different from OO.org releases.
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Chemistry | 02/21/2011 04:05PM |
| Markus Franz | ||
* Open source geocoding in PostGIS
We will explore the basics of "geocoding" (finding latitude/ longitude from an address string) and "reverse geocoding" (vice-versa) using the PostGIS TIGER geocoder.
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Cooking | 03/29/2011 11:35AM |
| Webb Sprague | ||
* Open, transparent, and vocal - adding audio to your outreach
Let's talk about modern podcasting. There are good reasons to include audio and video in your project or personal blog, and it's gotten so much easier in the last 5 years.
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Culture | 03/31/2011 12:11PM |
| Sarah Novotny, Sheeri Cabral | ||
* PHP on Windows Azure
Only a few months ago, PHP developers faced a dramatical change in the cloud computing industry: By opening Windows Azure for PHP applications, Microsoft transformed their proprietary platform to a great place for open source hosting. This session gives an introduction on using PHP on Azure.
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Cooking | 02/21/2011 04:56PM |
| Markus Franz | ||
* Stone Soup Refactoring
Come be a backseat driver at a collaborative pairing session where we'll factor, refactor, and defactor code from open source projects until we make the world a better place, or learn something, or both.
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Cooking | 03/29/2011 09:07AM |
| Matt Youell | ||
* Why I blog with Drupal
Why do I blog with Drupal instead of say, Wordpress, like everyone else? Learn how I use Drupal on my blog at http://xolotl.org/ to create a highly capable, tailored blogging platform, including customized rich content and media.
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Cooking | 03/30/2011 01:46PM |
| Nathan Angell | ||