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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.
2012 Presentations
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- Changing the Face of Open Identity in Ecommerce (2012)Working 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 (2012)Dr. Douglas Maughan of the DHS S&T Cyber Security Division will discuss how open source software fits into the federal cybersecurity strategy and highlight the Homeland Open Security Technology (HOST) program which leverages open source programs and methodologies to support national cybersecurity objectives.
- Google Summer of Code and Google Code-in (2012)Google 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) (2012)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.
- FreedomBox (2012)FreedomBox 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 (2012)
- Open Source and Twitter: The Technology That Powers a Tweet (2012)
- Welcome to Boost (2012)Welcome to Boost: Boost is a collection of portable peer-reviewed C++ libraries and a community of expert C++ programmers. Boost contains more than 110 libraries—with domains ranging from text processing to concurrency to networking, and beyond—and was the source of most new features present in the C++11 standard library. This talk describes where Boost came from, why it's been so successful, and where we're headed.
- Introducing C++11 (2012)Introducing C++11: For the first time since 1998, we have a new C++ standard. Though a few of the features have been available as extensions for years, some are brand new, and we're only just learning what it's like to program in this new C++ language. In this talk, I'll give an overview of the most important new developments and dip into one of the flagship features, move semantics.
- Starting a New Open Source Project: The Project Lifecycle and How to Be Successful (2012)Paula 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 Study (2012)This 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 Art (2012)Open 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 Classroom (2012)The 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 Principles (2012)This 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. NoSQL (2012)Columnar, 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 Corrections (2012)The 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, DC (2012)Three-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 Business (2012)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.
- Here We Come, Ready or Not: Undergraduate Software Engineering Practicum in Open Source (2012)I 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 Stuff (2012)Throughout 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 Grails (2012)Grails 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 APIs (2012)Join 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.
- How to Succeed with the Cloud (2012)Cloud, and specifically open source cloud is the buzzword of the past couple of years, everyone is talking about it, everyone wants it, but few grasp the concepts, and even fewer are successful with it.
- MySQL Update & 20 MySQL Tips in 20 Minutes (2012)What new features will MySQL 5.6 have to make your life better? How does MySQL Cluster do over 1,000,000,000 transactions a second with improved functionality? 20 MySQL 5.5/5.6 Tips in 20 minutes -- Learn how the latest and greatest MySQL server software can benefit you in a quick, fast-paced presentation that will make a dramatic change in the way you use MySQL.
- Secure Cloud Hosting: Real requirements to protect your open source data (2012)Perform 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 Software (2012)Cybersecurity 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, edutech (2012)A 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.
- Open Source – Now and in the Future (2012)Larry Augustin, CEO of SugarCRM and one of the most influential people in the history of Open Source, tells his story as to why he likes Open Source, where it is today, and where he believes it’s going in the future. Utilizing lessons learned not only as a member of the group who coined the term “Open Source,” but as an angel investor, board member, CEO and founder of some of the most well known companies in the industry, he offers a truly unique perspective few can match.
- Mobile BOF (2012)Kevin Whinnery, Director of Develop Relations at Appcelerator Inc., will facilitate a discussion about mobile and open source. Mobile remains one of the hottest topics in all of IT and open source is playing a large role. An experienced client-side developer who has spent his entire professional life developing rich client applications and frameworks, he’ll give a short presentation and take questions and comments from attendees.
- Open Source: Licenses and Communities (2012)Despite claims to the contrary, in the Open Source world, there is no true single license and no true single community. Instead, there is a small subset of both license and community types that pretty much all open source projects are based on, depending on the needs and wants of both the developer and the end-user ecosystem.
- The Who, What, Where, Why and How of Red Hat Training & Certification (2012)In 1999, Red Hat delivered its first Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam in Raleigh, NC. Since then, Red Hat has delivered the RHCE exam plus seven other certification exams to over 140,000 students in over 90 countries around the world.
- Juju – Devops Distilled (2012)Juju is a service orchestration tool for deploying to the cloud. Through the use of charms, juju provides you with shareable, re-usable, and repeatable expressions of DevOps best practices. You can use them unmodified, or easily change and connect them to fit your needs. Deploying a charm is similar to installing a package on Ubuntu: ask for it and it's there, remove it and it's completely gone.
- Building an application on the SugarCRM platform (2012)Need to build an application to run part of your organization? There's no need to start from scratch; SugarCRM is designed as a Rapid Application Development platform. In this session you'll learn the basics on how to build a business application on the Open Source SugarCRM platform.
- Big Data, Hadoop and Open Source (2012)
- An Introduction to MariaDB (2012)Since its introduction, the goal of the MariaDB branch of the MySQL database has been to be a community driven database that drives innovation. This talk will take a look at the the basics behind MariaDB, as well as the features added to the different versions of the MariaDB database. We will also look at the future of both MariaDB and MySQL, and at how this popular branch is evolving to meet users' needs.
- How GitHub Uses GitHub to Build GitHub (2012)GitHub has no managers, dozens of remote employees, and no set hours to be in an office. This talk will cover how we use GitHub, a robot, and a few other tools to work asynchronously and ship new features and products to users every day.
- Predictions & Trends for Open Source in the Enterprise in 2012 (2012)This presentation distills an immense data set compiled over the past year into 15 slides about the key open source trends you need to be aware of in 2012. From trends on open source adoption and usage to popular open source software and licenses to open source in the cloud, this presentation will help you understand how best-in-class enterprises are using open source software today.
- Open Sourcing: From Within Your Company, For Your Company (2012)Today's digital and globally interconnected world has achieved a strong acceptance and understanding of Open Source Software, yet we continually yearn for stronger innovation. We could spend our time searching the globe for the next big "software project" but with the Open Source model you can find that next big project internally and succeed. Why not take full advantage of all of the benefits of Open Source Software internally? Why not open source your Company?
- Ending the Web Versus Native Debate (2012)The "web versus native" debate rages on in 2012. Appcelerator is set on ending this debate with a unified platform for both web and real native applications. After a brief architectural overview, we will dive into a JavaScript codebase which produces great native apps with tight platform integration, as well as a rich mobile web application.
- The Percona Suite of Open Source MySQL Products & Services (2012)Percona develops Open Source Software products which help businesses run MySQL more successfully. If you use MySQL, this session will point you to new OSS solutions and approaches which will enable you to be more successful now and in the future.
- Benefitfocus Technology (2012)Benefitfocus provides employers, consumers, insurance carriers and government entities cloud-based technology to shop, enroll, manage and exchange benefits information. We are leading the benefits IT revolution by developing cutting-edge technologies that are changing the way the world thinks about healthcare and benefits. Our strategy is simple. We hire the best and brightest. Our engineers tackle the toughest challenges in the industry and create software that is making a positive impact in the lives of millions.
- From Customer to Employee: My Love Affair with Linode (2012)When Matthew Cone created a Linode account two years ago, he never expected to fall in love with the VPS hosting provider and eventually start working for the compary, but that's exactly what happened. This talk will demonstrate why Linode is the right VPS provider for you, too. Learn how to get a VPS running in a matter of minutes, set up a NodeBalancer to distribute workload between servers, use the API to integrate Linode in to your application, and more.
- PHP BOF (2012)Come have lunch with local php developers for an informative time of learning and networking. We will talk about php, one of the oldest and certainly the most widely used languages on the web. We will be taking contact information for anyone interested in joining a monthly PHP Users Group Meeting.
- The Alfresco Open Source Cloud Connected Content Hub (2012)Michael will be discussing and demonstrating how the Alfresco platform can be used to manage content on premise, in the cloud, and to mobile devices. Alfresco provides a proven, secure, and innovative platform for managing content and creating the content centric applications that will fuel the modern mobile workforce.
- OrangeFS – What is a Parallel File System and why do I need one? (2012)
- Keynote: Who’s Leading Now? (2012)Scott McNealy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, presents a keynote challenging someone to take the lead in the Open Source movement.
- World-Class eLearning with Moodle (2012)The Moodle Learning Management System is gaining acceptance as a safe and powerful eLearning platform of choice for both corporate and educational institutions. This talk will provide both an overview of Moodle's features and capabilities as well as an overview of common issues associated with administering and securing a Moodle site.
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