Schedule

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- March 26, 2013
  - 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmEarly RegistrationSheraton Lobby, 1400 Main Street
  - 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmKick-Off SocialSheraton Rooftop Bar, 1400 Main Street
- March 27, 2013
  - 7:30 am - 5:00 pmRegistrationIT-oLogy Second Floor
  - 9:00 am - 9:15 amWelcomeOrganizers, Mayor
  - 9:15 am - 9:30 am
    Keynote: Open Source Is Everywhere in Modern IT
    
    Mark Driver, Gartner
  - 9:30 am - 10:00 am
    Keynote: Open Source and Licenses: The Basics
    
    Jim Jagielski, Apache Software Foundation
  - 10:15 am - 11:00 am
    Developer: Drupal in a Nutshell: Content, Community, Commerce
    
    Ryan Szrama, Author
    
    Sys Admin: Software Defined Networking: What is the hype all about?
    
    Sergey A. Razin, SIOS
    
    General 1: How to Teach STEM in Schools
    
    Lindsay Craig, SparkFun
    
    General 2: Operations in the Cloud
    
    Tasha Drew, Engine Yard
    
    Demo: Rapidly Evolving Identity & Access Management to Meet Today’s B2C & Cloud Challenges
    
    John Barco, ForgeRock
    
    Training: Intro to FreeNAS 8.3 (until 11:45 am)
    
    Dru Lavigne, iXsystems
  - 11:15 am - 12:00 pm
    Developer: Javascript: The Language Every Developer Should Know
    
    Tom Wilson, Jack Russell Software
    
    Sys Admin: KVM: A Full Virtualization Solution for Linux
    
    Jim Salter, System Administrator
    
    General 1: Linux and How It Grew
    
    Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Journalist
    
    General 2: Inner-Sourcing: Using Open Source Methods in Corporate IT
    
    Shawn Briscoe, Black Duck Software
    
    Demo: Platform as a Service: What It Is, the Technical Challenges Being Addressed, and Where the Industry Is Goin
    
    Tasha Drew, Engine Yard
  - 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmLunch & BOF Sessions
    General 1: FreedomBox
    
    Developer: Drupal
    
    Sys Admin: Databases
    
    The Open Source Why (Columbia IT Council)
  - 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
    Keynote: How Open Source Helped Win the 2012 Election
    
    Harper Reed, Obama for America 2012
  - 2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
    Developer: Building Scalable, High-Performance API Mashups with ql.io and Node
    
    Jonathan Leblanc, PayPal
    
    Sys Admin: MySQL Update
    
    Dave Stokes, Oracle
    
    General 1: Inside Google's Berkeley County Data Center
    
    Eric Wages, Google
    
    General 2: Mainstream Open Source Adoption Trends from an Analyst's Perspective
    
    Mark Driver, Gartner
    
    Demo: So, We Built a Database
    
    Jeremy Martin, SPARC
    
    Training: Open Source Video & Kaltura (until 4:15 pm)
    
    Zohar Babin, Kaltura
  - 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm
    Developer: Beyond PHP: it's not (just) about the code
    
    Wim Godden, Cu.be
    
    General: Case Study: Building Linux Labs in the SC Lowcountry
    
    Charlie Watson, SC Labs
    
    General 1: ZFS on Linux: Copyright & Licensing Issues
    
    Robert H. Williams, Rogers, Townsend & Thomas &
    Jim Salter, System Administrator
    
    General 2: How Open Source Revolutionizes Identity
    
    Allan Foster, ForgeRock
    
    Demo: Empowering Android Applications: Leveraging Web Services to Access Legacy Systems
    
    Erik Rothwell, Life Cycle Engineering
  - 4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
    Developer: Backbone.js
    
    Brad Dunbar, Pathable
    
    Sys Admin: HSSC Case Study: Linux Admin Tips & Tricks
    
    Adrian Michael Nida, HSSC
    
    General 1: Open Sourcing Hardware with GitHub
    
    Christopher Clark, SparkFun Electronics
    
    General 2: Implementation of OpenEMR in a Paper Primary Care Office
    
    Dr. Sam Bowen, Open Source Medical &
    Diane Petersen, Oregon Health & Science University
    
    Demo: Open Source on Intel: Igniting Sparks of Innovation
    
    Tracey Erway, Intel
    
    Training: OrangeFS for Big Data and the Amazon Cloud
    
    Boyd Wilson, Omnibond
  - 5:00 pm - 5:15 pmWrap Up
  - 5:30 pm - 7:00 pmGitHub Drink-UpEdens Building 10th Floor Balcony Overlooking the State Capitol, 1221 Main Street
  - 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmSpeaker/Sponsor Thank You DinnerThe Oak Table, 1221 Main Street
- March 28, 2013
  - 7:30 am - 5:00 pmRegistrationIT-oLogy Second Floor
  - 9:00 am - 9:15 amWelcome
  - 9:15 am - 10:15 am
    Keynote: Is 'Open' Still Enough? Reacting to new threats and old prejudices
    
    Christian Heilmann, Mozilla
  - 10:30 am - 11:15 am
    Developer: Mobile Development with Backbone.js & Grunt
    
    Boaz Sender, Bocoup
    
    Sys Admin: Getting Started with Riak in the Cloud
    
    Ines Sombra, Engine Yard
    
    General: The Basics of Navigating FLOSS Licenses
    
    Bradley M. Kuhn, Software Freedom Conservancy
    
    Demo: 30 Minutes to High Availability
    
    Andrew Slice and Travis Goldie, SIOS
    
    Training: From Crash to Testcase: A Debugging Primer (until 12:15 pm)
    
    Roel Van de Paar, Percona
    
    Open Hardware: Soldering with Simon Workshop (until 12:15 pm)
    
    SparkFun Electronics
  - 11:30 am - 12:15 pm
    Developer: Extending Django
    
    Jarrell Waggoner, University of South Carolina
    
    Sys Admin: Caching & Tuning for High Scalability
    
    Wim Godden, Cu.be
    
    General: LibreOffice: The History
    
    Italo Vignoli, The Document Foundation
    
    Demo: Mobilize Your MongoDB: Deploying iPhone & Android Apps in the Cloud
    
    Grant Shipley, Red Hat
  - 12:15 pm - 1:25 pmLunch & BOF Sessions
    An Open Source City
    Healthcare
    
    Security
  - 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
    Keynote: Filesystems of Now & the Future
    
    Ted T'so, Google
  - 2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
    Developer: Metaprogramming: Clojure vs. Ruby
    
    Gary Fredericks, Groupon
    
    Sys Admin: Best Practices for MySQL Scalability
    
    Peter Zaitsev, Percona
    
    General: Practical Guide to Understanding & Using Debian
    
    Bdale Garbee, Technologist & Community Builder
    
    Demo: Rules Driven Event Frameworks Using Drools and Camel
    
    Don Taylor, Benefitfocus
    
    Training: OpenShift: Code, Deploy & Manage Your Java App from Eclipse (until 4:15 pm)
    
    Grant Shipley, Red Hat
    
    Open Hardware: Intro to Arduino with Simon Workshop (until 4:15 pm)
    
    SparkFun Electronics
  - 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm
    Developer: CSS3
    
    Christian Heilmann, Mozilla
    
    Sys Admin: Building a Test/Development Cloud
    
    David Nalley, Cloudstack
    
    General: Open Source, Not Open to Attack
    
    Chris Hinkley, FireHost
    
    Demo: Securing & Personalizing Commerce Through Identity Data Mining
    
    Jonathan Leblanc, Paypal
  - 4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
    Sys Admin: Filesystems
    
    Ted T'so, Google
    
    General: We the People: Open Source, Open Data
    
    Leigh Heyman, Executive Office of the President
    
    Open Hardware: XBee Wireless Communications Demo
    
    SparkFun Electronics
  - 5:00 pm - 5:15 pmWrap Up

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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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Schedule

Training: Intro to FreeNAS 8.3 (until 11:45 am)

Developer: Drupal

Sys Admin: Databases

Training: Open Source Video & Kaltura (until 4:15 pm)

Training: From Crash to Testcase: A Debugging Primer (until 12:15 pm)

Open Hardware: Soldering with Simon Workshop (until 12:15 pm)

Healthcare

Security

Training: OpenShift: Code, Deploy & Manage Your Java App from Eclipse (until 4:15 pm)

Open Hardware: Intro to Arduino with Simon Workshop (until 4:15 pm)

Developer: CSS3

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