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The speaker lineup at POSSCON is world-class.
POSSCON turned out to be a great event. Big thanks to Jeffrey Hammond, Lee Congdon, Mark Anzani and Deb Bryant for a great AM of panel discussion
Thanks to Matt Asay for moderating our panel at POSSCON. Well worth the trip to South Carolina. Great regional event.
The synergy between developers, business people, and teachers makes POSSCON pretty unique, I haven't really seen this anywhere else.
It was very nicely run and I think you did a bang-up job. You should all be proud of what you did.
This is like nothing you've ever seen before. You can look at the pictures, you can watch the videos... but just like a concert, you have to be there.
Building an Open Business
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Presentation speakers
- Chris Clark, Director of Information Technology, Sparkfun Electronics
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SparkFun Electronics is a rapidly growing provider of electronic components and assemblies that has prospered from a dorm room to a $25MM company with no outside investment. An early reliance on open source technologies enabled this growth and has now developed into an undercurrent that permeates the culture. Now, with an infrastructure rich in open source technology and a custom-built ERP system being gradually pushed public, SparkFun is facing the challenge of pushing further into open source technology while mitigating risk and pressing innovation.
The following topics may be covered:
Use of Linux architecture
Open Source server technologies in use (Nginx, MySQL, etc.)
Use of GitHub
Use of Asterisk
Use of MediaWiki and BugZilla
Push to open internal ERP system
Open source hardware (including GitHub)
Overall Transparency
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