Sumana Harihareswara's favorites
Favorite sessions for this user
* Being a Catalyst in Communities - The science behind the open source way
How does Red Hat have wild success with Fedora and other FLOSS projects? By following a method firmly rooted in humanism, practice, and science. Learn in this session how to be an effective catalyst in communities of users, contributors, and businesses.
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Culture |
| Karsten Wade | |
* Building Interactive Displays with Touchscreen 2.0
Touchscreen is a platform for creating interactive kiosk and dashboard displays. It powers presentations for visitors to the Open Source Lab's data center and the network operations center. Come learn how touchscreen works and how to use it for your own display screens.
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Cooking |
| Peter Krenesky, Rob McGuire-Dale | |
* Foundations, Non-profits, and Open Source
Should you start a foundation? Should you start a nonprofit? What's the role of non-profits in the Open Source community today? How can you be a good citizen in the Open Source arena with a foundation to support?
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Business |
| Carol Smith | |
* Free Speech, Free Software Across the World
How does free software help defend free speech in repressive regimes? Danny O'Brien will draw from the records of the Committee to Protect Journalists to explore how open source can help those at the cutting edge of free expression.
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Culture |
| Danny O'Brien | |
* Functional Requirements: Thinking Like A Pirate
Creating functional requirements as a part of the planning process is like creating a treasure map. You want to get compensated for the value your cool built-with-open-source-thing is providing to your clients. Your clients want it to work better than what they originally had in mind. If you do the work upfront, you'll know when you've hit the X marks the spot.
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Business |
| Amye Scavarda, Bill Fitzgerald | |
* Moonlighting in Sunlight – How to work on independent projects and have a day job.
Best practices for employers, employees and open source projects to coexist without legal conflicts.
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Business |
| Paula Holm Jensen, Marc Alifanz | |
* Move Your Asana
This yoga session is of benefit to anyone who sits and works on computers a lot. Breathing exercises and physical postures that can be done anytime to help maintain a healthy body and clear mind will be taught. Suggestions will be included for how to modify stretches to protect injuries and provide gentle opening.
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Culture |
| Sherri Montgomery | |
* SuperSpeed me: USB 3.0 Open Source Support
USB 3.0 promises a 10x speedup and better power management than USB 2.0. But how do these devices actually work? Is there open source support for them? Come learn about these fast new devices that are finally hitting the market.
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Chemistry |
| Sarah Sharp | |
* Teach your class to fish, and they'll have food for a lifetime.
You have so much you want to teach, how do you structure it so that your training course is both interesting and challenging? How much theory can you squeeze into an hour before your attendees have forgotten where you started? How do you structure your course to account for classes which move slower or faster than average? This talk will cover all of these answers and more.
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Business |
| Jacinta Richardson | |
* The Naive Developer's Guide to Venture Capital
What you need to know before you even think about raising venture or angel capital, presented by a Silicon Valley founder who raised $9m from top tier firms.
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Business |
| Joyce Park | |
* The Rise of Hacker Spaces
Leigh will be discussing hacker spaces, and the culture of DIY spaces for making things around the world.
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Culture |
| Leigh Honeywell | |
* The Second Step: HOWTO encourage open source work at for-profits
Even at pro-FLOSS businesses, logistical obstacles and incentive problems get in the way of giving back. I'll show you how to fix that.
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Business |
| Sumana Harihareswara | |
* Why the Sysadmin Hates Your Software
You've worked really hard on your software. It's stable and has lots of nice features and users love it. But your sysadmin hates it and complains about how hard it is to install, configure, and manage. What's up with that?
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Chemistry |
| Steve VanDevender | |
* X Marks the Spot: Applying OpenStreetMap to the High Seas
The United States has a treasure trove of nautical charts in digital form, including plots of shipwrecks, navigation buoys, coastal and river depths, and other fine booty. OpenStreetMap is an open source, open format collaborative project for building a free map of the world. Join this session to find out more of the marine secrets of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), OpenSeaMap's plans to extend OSM to the high seas, and splicing the two (and your mainbrace) together. We'll use the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL), OGR, Python, and the OSM API.
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Hacks |
| Liz Henry, Danny O'Brien | |
* You Shall Not Pass: Managing Expectations and Boundaries with Clients
Open Source is great fun, even in the area of professional services. But sometimes, you want to be able to pay the bills with your awesomeness too. One of the areas of difficulty is setting boundaries with clients, even though you really just want to write amazing stuff.
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Business |
| Amye Scavarda, Chris Strahl | |
Favorite proposals for this user
* Building a platform from open source at Yahoo!
Join us for a case study on using open source tools to build a platform for enterprise web applications with symfony. The focus of this session will be on how Yahoo! has built web applications that scale with open source tools.
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Chemistry | 02/24/2010 02:12PM |
| Dustin Whittle | ||
* Debt-Free: Technical Debt In Open Source Projects
Ship or fix? This choice presents itself to open source projects every day, and the consequences can be considerable. Learn how to control this "technical debt" in open source projects.
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Cooking | 03/15/2010 07:30AM |
| Brandon Savage | ||
* Dynamic Sublists in GNU Mailman
Have you ever just wanted to unsubscribe from one of those tedious threads on your favorite mailing-list? List administrators wouldn't it be nice to allow end-users to unsubscribe from conversations rather then just silently leaving the list? Now you can using Dyanmic Sublists for GNU Mailman.
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Hacks | 03/29/2010 10:44PM |
| Jennifer Redman | ||
* On predicting predictors: hacking archive formats for fun and prophecy
We aim to inform you about the archive formats you use every day. We will include an in-depth look at the tar, ar, cpio, gzip, bzip2, and deb formats, as well as the internals of the Git object store. Armed with this information, we will show you a practical application: removing the redundancy between files in version control and distributions of source and binaries.
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Chemistry | 02/20/2010 01:54AM |
| Jamey Sharp, Josh Triplett | ||
* Should there be a free software app store?
Since free software "is a matter of liberty, not price", developers and distributions are allowed to ask users to pay for free software (though most users can easily choose not to). Musicians like Radiohead have experimented with asking, but not requiring, users to pay for music (by choosing their own price, which could be $0). What would happen if we did this for free software?
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Business | 03/25/2010 05:53PM |
| Seth Schoen | ||
* The new schism: SQL vs. NoSQL
RDMS showed us the one true way to organize data, yet the NoSQL movement shows us how it fails. The faithful are confused and concerned. The heretics rally boldly in the streets with torches and pitchforks, yelling something about "doesn't scale," while the defenders of orthodoxy scream about the features and safeties these strange new gods lack, and do the apostates even realize it?
As the philosophical storm brews, DB admins and developers must make fateful decisions that will affect the rest of the code's life. Here they will glean the first glimpses of the knowledge they will need to make informed choices and be spared the wrath of the database gods.
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Chemistry | 03/29/2010 04:17PM |
| Melissa Hollingsworth | ||
* Thinking Like a Programmer: Building a Programming Curriculum
Let's discuss the development of a beginning Ruby programming curriculum for the general public.
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Culture | 02/23/2010 09:03PM |
| John Metta | ||
* Usability testing on a shoestring
Usability testing can be fast, cheap and effective. Learn simple, unintimidating ways to do usability testing to identify things that are going horribly wrong.
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Chemistry | 03/25/2010 11:54PM |
| VJ Beauchamp | ||