Schedule

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- March 27, 2012
  - 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmKick-Off SocialWorld of Beer, 902 Gervais St, Columbia, SC
    Join us to say hello and enjoy the more than 500 beers available from around the world.
- March 28, 2012
  - 7:30 am - 5:00 pmRegistrationLower Level of Convention Center
  - 9:00 am - 9:15 amWelcomeOrganizers, Mayor, Governor
  - 9:15 am - 9:50 am
    Keynote: Open Source – Now and in the Future
    
    Larry Augustin, SugarCRM
  - 10:00 am - 10:45 am
    Technical: MySQL Update & 20 MySQL Tips in 20 Minutes
    
    Dave Stokes, Oracle
    
    Big Picture: Building an Open Business
    
    Chris Clark, SparkFun
    
    Education: Here We Come, Ready or Not: Undergraduate Software Engineering Practicum in Open Source
    
    Jim Bowring, College of Charleston
  - 11:00 am - 11:45 am
    Technical: Introduction to Messaging, AMQP, and RabbitMQ
    
    Steve Graham, EMC
    
    Big Picture: "Opening" Up the Prisons: How Open Source Solutions improve IT services and control costs at the SC Department of Corrections
    
    Mark Litz, SC Department of Corrections
    
    Education: Working Laterally: Restructuring K-12 Education Based on Open Source Design Principles
    
    Dan French, Bennington-Rutland Supervisory Union, Vermont
  - 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmLunch and BOF SessionsSpend lunch with new friends discussing a favorite topic.
    
    Securing Cyberspace with Open Source Software
    
    Deb Bryant, Deb Bryant & Associates
    John Weathersby, Open Source Software Institute
    Joshua Davis, Georgia Tech Research Institute
    
    Healthcare
    
    HSSC
    
    Linux
    
    Jon 'maddog' Hall, Linux International
    
    Education
    
    Bryant Patten, National Center for Open Source in Education
  - 1:00 pm - 1:45 pmKeynotes
  - 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm
    Technical: How Open Source permeates every aspect of geospatial operations in Mecklenburg County (Charlotte, NC)
    
    Tobin Bradley, Mecklenburg County, NC
    
    Big Picture: Open Source: Licenses & Communities
    
    Jim Jagielski, Apache
    
    Education: Google Summer of Code and Google Code-In
    
    Carol Smith, Google
  - 3:00 pm - 3:45 pm
    Technical: How Open Source permeates every aspect of geospatial operations in Mecklenburg County (Charlotte, NC)
    
    Tobin Bradley, Mecklenburg County, NC
    
    Big Picture: What is the Cloud?
    
    David Nalley, CloudStack
    
    Education: Improving the Adoption of Open Source Technology in the Classroom
    
    Lindsay Levkoff, SparkFun
  - 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm
    Technical: Secure Cloud Hosting: Real requirements to protect your open source data
    
    Chris Hinkley, FireHost
    
    Big Picture: Changing the Face of Open Identity in Ecommerce
    
    Jonathan Leblanc, X.Commerce
  - 4:45 pm - 5:00 pmWrap Up & Giveaway
  - 5:30 pm - 7:00 pmGitHub DrinkupLiberty Tap Room & Grill, 828 Gervais St, Columbia, SC
  - 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmSpeaker/Sponsor Thank You DinnerRuth's Chris Steakhouse, 924 Senate St, Columbia, SC 29201
- March 29, 2012
  - 9:00 am - 9:15 amWelcome
  - 9:15 am - 10:15 amKeynoteScott McNealy, Sun Microsystems
  - 10:30 am - 11:15 am
    Technical: The Mystical World of Databases: Row vs. Column vs. NoSQL
    
    Jeff Kibler, Infobright
    
    Big Picture: Open Security: How DHS is deploying open source software to address national cyber security challenges
    
    W. Douglas Maughan, Ph.D., Homeland Security
    
    Education: Some People Hate Fun: Protecting 3D Printing and Open Hardware in Washington, DC
    
    Michael Weinberg, Public Knowledge
  - 11:30 am - 12:15 pm
    Technical: Introduction to Grails
    
    Shawn Hartsock
    
    Big Picture: FreedomBox
    
    Bdale Garbee, HP
    
    Education: Open Source in Art
    
    Carl Twarog, East Carolina University
  - 12:15 pm - 1:30 pmLunch and BOF SessionsSpend lunch with new friends discussing a favorite topic.
    
    Securing Cyberspace with Open Source Software
    
    Deb Bryant, Deb Bryant & Associates
    John Weathersby, Open Source Software Institute
    Joshua Davis, Georgia Tech Research Institute
    
    Mobile
    
    Kevin Whinnery, Appcelerator
    
    Healthcare
    
    HSSC
    
    Cloud
    
    Linode
  - 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
    Keynote: Let's Talk About Cloud - The State of the Industry, OpenStack and APIs
    
    Jesse Andrews, Rackspace
  - 2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
    Technical: Open Source and Twitter: The Technology That Powers a Tweet
    
    Chris Aniszczyk, Twitter
    
    Big Picture: Starting a New Open Source Project: The Project Lifecycle and How to Be Successful
    
    Paula Hunter, Outercurve
    
    Education: Kickstarter and Beyond - our adventures in (awesome) open, edutech
    
    Ian Daniher, Nonolith Labs
  - 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm
    Technical: Open Source Boost Tools: Boost.Build System and More
    
    Dave Abrahams, Boost.org
    
    Big Picture: Making an Existing Software Project Open Source: How and Why with AOL as a Case Study
    
    Peter Vescuso, Black Duck
    
    Education: Education by Doing: Supplementing Science, History, Math, Philosophy, etc. by Building Stuff
    
    James Schweitzer, IBM
  - 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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  - 5:00 pm - 5:15 pmWrap Up & Giveaway
  - 5:30 pm - 7:00 pmSend-Off SocialRuth's Chris Steakhouse, 924 Senate St, Columbia, SC 29201

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- March 27, 2012
  - 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmKick-Off Social
- March 28, 2012
  - 7:30 am - 5:00 pmRegistration
  - 9:00 am - 9:15 amWelcome
  - 9:15 am - 9:50 am
  - 10:00 am - 10:45 am
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Chris WanstrathCo-Founder, GitHub
The speaker lineup at POSSCON is world-class.
Matt AsaySVP, Business Development
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
Deborah BryantOregon State University Open Source Lab
Thanks to Matt Asay for moderating our panel at POSSCON. Well worth the trip to South Carolina. Great regional event.
Bryant PattenExecutive Direcor, National Center for Open Source and Education
The synergy between developers, business people, and teachers makes POSSCON pretty unique, I haven't really seen this anywhere else.
Jon 'maddog' HallExecutive Director, Linux International
It was very nicely run and I think you did a bang-up job. You should all be proud of what you did.
Matt HudsonArt Director, Palmetto Computer Labs
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.
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