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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.
Presentations
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- Changing the Face of Open Identity in EcommerceWorking to solve the issue of providing an open system for identifying and being able to determine trust levels for buyers and sellers in Ecommerce identity, X.commerce is putting the vast user data and statistics behind eBay and PayPal into a new open identity system, providing a real identity solution for merchants and buyers to make purchasing easier and safer.
- Open Security: How DHS is deploying open source software to address national cyber security challenges
- Google Summer of Code and Google Code-inGoogle Summer of Code and Google Code-in are two sister programs that aim at getting students involved in open source software. Google Code-in is aimed at 13-17 year olds, and Google Summer of Code is aimed at university students. I'll be discussing both programs and the impact they've had on students and FOSS communities the world over.
- How Open Source permeates every aspect of geospatial operations at Mecklenburg County (Charlotte, NC)From desktop and web clients to mission critical spatial databases and service oriented architecture, open source software has allowed Mecklenburg County to achieve world-class results, maximize our flexibility and agility, and ensure taxpayers see a maximum return on investment.
- FreedomBoxFreedomBox puts into people's own hands and under their own control encrypted voice and text communication, anonymous publishing, social networking, media sharing, and (micro)blogging.
- Introduction to Messaging, AMQP and RabbitMQ
- Open Source and Twitter: The Technology That Powers a Tweet
- Presentation Coming Soon
- Open Source Boost Tools: Boost.Build System and more
- What’s New in C++ 11
- Starting a New Open Source Project: The Project Lifecycle and How to Be SuccessfulPaula Hunter, executive director of the Outercurve Foundation, will discuss how to guide an open source project through its lifecycle, using an active OSS project as an example.
- Making an Existing Software Project Open Source – How and Why with AOL as a Case StudyThis presentation by Peter Vescuso, EVP of Marketing and Business Development at Black Duck Software, will explore how successful implementation of open source can make a positive change to company culture. Vescuso will use a customer case study (AOL) to discuss hurdles, tips, and community management.
- Open Source in ArtOpen source software, such as Processing and hardware, such as Arduino microcontrollers, find their way into artworks large and small, professional and amateur, and into the hands of artists of all ages and levels of experience and exposure. This talk will present some of the landscape of open source projects in art and then specifically present two in depth art projects that utilize open source software and hardware.
- Improving the Adoption of Open Source Technology in the ClassroomThe altruism, passion and strengths of the open source community is gaining ground in the education community. What have we learned from our experience thus far and how do we improve the adoption of open source technology in the classroom?
- Working Laterally: Restructuring K-12 Education Based on Open Source Design PrinciplesThis presentation will share the experiences of a Vermont school system whose leadership has embraced Innovation Networks as a guiding principle of school transformation.
- The Mystical World of Databases: Row vs. Column vs. NoSQLColumnar, NoSQL and Hadoop are the hot new technologies that are helping companies manage their big data challenges. Jeff Kibler will discuss the challenges posed by machine-generated data and where technologies best fit in addressing the challenges of analyzing large volumes of data.
- “Opening” up the Prisons: How Open Source Solutions improve IT services and control costs at the SC Department of CorrectionsThe proliferation of mobile computing and high speed internet access from home has left SCDC users clamoring for more features and modern interfaces for the workplace but a shrinking agency budget has left little room to develop and license new technology to meet this demand.
- Some People Hate Fun: Protecting 3D Printing and Open Hardware in Washington, DCThree-dimensional printing is one technology that could unwittingly bring anti-user innovations like DRM into the physical world. In the name of fighting "physical goods piracy," disrupted industries may call on Congress to pass laws mandating certain limiting features be include in new 3D printers.
- Building an Open BusinessSparkFun 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.
- Here We Come, Ready or Not: Undergraduate Software Engineering Practicum in Open SourceI teach approximately 25 computer science seniors at the College of Charleston each Spring in the course “Software Engineering Practicum.” Small teams of students are required to research and then choose an open-source H/FOSS project to join and then to become contributing members.
- Education by Doing: Supplementing Science, History, Math, Philosophy, etc. by Building StuffThroughout history learning by doing has been the basis of education. From the informal training gained in traditional hunter/gatherer societies where children mimic adults, to the formalized apprenticeships of the 18th and 19th centuries the transition to the workforce required experience. This presentation will conduct a series of hands on activities that link multiple subjects providing an opportunity to learn by doing.
- Introduction to GrailsGrails is an open source web development framework that is built on best of breed Java technologies. In order to create a highly productive environment Grails leverages the linguistic power of the Groovy Programming Language. These tools combined allow you to produce robust, powerful applications that thrive in the same places Enterprise Java does without all the weight. Learn how to leverage all the benefits of Java without paying all of the penalties. Grails is here to help.
- Let’s Talk About Cloud – The State of the Industry, OpenStack and APIsJoin Jesse Andrews, Director of Rackspace Cloud Builders and an expert on OpenStack, for a lively discussion on the state of the cloud computing industry, how OpenStack is playing a part in driving cloud adoptions forward and the importance of cloud APIs.
- What is the Cloud?
- What’s New in MySQLMySQL update and new features. Twenty MySQL tips in 20 minutes.
- Secure Cloud Hosting: Real requirements to protect your open source dataPerform a Google Trend analysis of the phrases "cloud hosting" and "cloud security." You'll find that it was only five short months after Amazon introduced the idea of the cloud in 2008 that businesses realized that it wasn't secure and started searching for answers.
- Securing Cyberspace with Open Source SoftwareCybersecurity is a big expensive problem and keeping pace with ever-increasing threats can seem impossible, if not unaffordable, for most organizations. Open source provides solutions to a range of threats, and the barrier to acquisition and deployment is low.
- Kickstarter and Beyond – our adventures in (awesome) open, edutechA pair of college students (Ian Daniher and Kevin Mehall, co-founders of Nonolith) set out to build an awesome tool to facilitate exploration in and out of the classroom. A successful Kickstarter project and a year later they've shipped hundreds of their design and learned about every step of the design and fulfillment process. This talk will share an overview of the past year and some nontechnical insights gleaned from the adventure.
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