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Symposium Agenda
9:00am - 4:00pm Oct. 25-26, 2007, Toronto |
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| 8:15-9:00am | Registration -
SEQ Building, Main Entrance |
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| 8:00am-noon 1:00pm-3:00pm (both days) | Coffee and snacks - Room S1209 | |||||
Thursday, October 25 |
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| 8:45am | Welcome Address, Gymnasium, SEQ Building |
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| Track A | Track B | Track C | ||||
| 9:00am | Usability Anonymous: A 12 Step Program for Better User Experiences Jay Goldman President, Radiant Core, Inc. David Crow Senior User Experience Advisor, Microsoft Canada, Instigator, BarCampToronto and DemoCamp, Radiant Core, Inc. Room S1206 | XEN : Virtualization Changes Everything Ross Chevalier CTO, Novell, Canada Room S1208 | Developing a Linux Administration Course for Beginners Mike LeVan Associate Professor of Math, Transylvania University Room S2168 |
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| 10:00am | Facebook's Thrift: Scalable Cross-Language Development Mark Slee Technical Lead, Facebook Marc Kwiatkowski Senior Software Engineer, Facebook David Reiss Software Engineer, Facebook Room S1206 | Reading and Reviewing Code Benjamin Smedberg Platform Developer, Mozilla Corporation Room S1208 | Open Content: Shared Curricula in a Web 2.0 World Diana Condolo eLearning Web Specialist, Seneca College Susan Learney eLearning Specialist, Seneca College James Humphreys eLearning Specialist, Seneca College Room S2168 |
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| 11:00am | Product and User Experience Design in Open Communities Mike Beltzner Director of User Experience, Mozilla Corporation Room S1206 | The Fluid Project: A Community for Inclusive Design Colin Clark Technical Lead, Fluid Project, Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto Room S1208 | Implementing and Supporting Moodle as a Central Course Management System Neal Stephenson Manager, Development Services, York University Meron Hrycusko Senior Web Developer, York University Room S2168 |
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| 12:00pm | Lunch - Cafeteria and Hive, SEQ Building Birds of a Feather Session - Room S1209 Defining The Open Web What makes the web open? What are open web evangelists doing to promote an open web? Members of Mozilla's evangelism team will host a BoF to discuss their efforts to keep the web open. The discussion will start with from a larger view with Mozilla's World View/Manifesto and can progress to specific open web efforts (like participation in web standards organizations, JS2, SVG, and other projects) where Mozilla is focusing its efforts. All projects and opinions about what is best for the Web are welcome! Join us for lunch on day 1 of FSOSS to discuss the open web. Hosted by Mozilla's Asa Dotzler and Seth Bindernagel. |
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| 1:00pm | The SourceForge.net Open Source Infrastructure Ross Turk Community Manager, Sourceforge.net Room S1206 | Welcome To The Jungle: A Field Guide To Enterprise Computing Mike Hoye Systems Administrator, TFO Room S1208 | Open sourcing education in South Africa Mark Surman Open Philanthropy Fellow, The Shuttleworth Foundation Room S2168 |
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| 2:00pm | OpenKomodo, the development environment for the Open Web Shane Caraveo Komodo Lead, ActiveState Room S1206 | Open Commercial Development Lawrence Mandel Software Developer, IBM Rational Software, IBM Canada Jeffrey Liu Software Developer, IBM Rational Software, IBM Canada Room S1208 | Licensing Strategies for Cross-Project Collaboration Matt Norwood Legal Counsel, Software Freedom Law Center Room S2168 |
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| 3:00pm | Keynote: Applying Open Source Concepts to Non-software Industries Bob Young Co-founder, RedHat, CEO and Founder, Lulu.com Gymnasium - SEQ building |
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| 4:00pm | FSOSS:gathering - Cafeteria and Hive, SEQ Building Unwind and chat over a glass of wine, beer, or a soft drink. DafyddHughes and David McCallum present live music and an art installation. |
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Friday, October 26 |
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| Track A | Track B | Track C | ||||
| 9:00am | Drupal under the hood James Walker Director of Education, Lullabot Room S1206 | The Development Commons: A Virtuous Circle of Software Production for Virtuous Organisations Jason Cote President and CEO, Freeform Solutions Julian Egelstaff Sr. Dir., Consulting Services, Freeform Solutions Room S1208 | Accessible Rich Internet Applications David Bolter Accessibility Architect, ATRC, University of Toronto Simon Bates Accessibility Architect, Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto Room S2168 |
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| 10:00am | Shifting the Focus: OpenOffice.org 3.0 Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager and Chair of the Community Council for OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice Room S1206 | Community Management as Open Source's Core Competency David Eaves Room S1208 | METRo: free software provided by the federal government of Canada Miguel Tremblay Physicist, Environment Canada Room S2168 |
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| 11:00am | Miro: Going Open and Mainstream with Video Standards Dean Jansen Outreach Director, Participatory Culture Foundation Room S1206 | The Problem with Open Source: Know Your History Jesse Hirsh Room S1208 | Open Source in the Telephony Market David Mandelstam Founder/President/CEO, Sangoma Technologies, Inc. Room S2168 |
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| 12:00pm | Lunch - Cafeteria and Hive, SEQ Building Birds of a Feather Session - Room S1209 Open source. Open communities? What make open source communities work? What are the biggest challenges for community managers?Join us for lunch on day 2 of FSOSS to dig into these questions. Hosted by blogger David Eavesand Mark Surman from the Shuttleworth Foundation. |
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| 1:00pm | Community as A Core Competency: Microsoft and Open Source Bryan Kirschner Director of Platform Community Strategy, Microsoft Corp. Room S1206 | Social Network Visualization of TikiWiki Open Source Activity Nelson Ko CEO/President, Citadel Rock Online Communities Inc. Room S1208 | Copyright control and open access: From Queen Anne past Bill 60 Rory McGreal Associate VP Research, Athabasca University Room S2168 |
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| 2:00pm | A Linux Desktop on Every PC Marcel Gagné Author and Columnist, Linux Journal Room S1206 | CreativeCommons and the Public Domain Marcus Bornfreund Co-Director, Creative Commons, Canada Room S1208 | The Role of Usability Expertise in Open Source Projects Paula Bach OSS Researcher, Penn State University Room S2168 |
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| 3:00pm | Keynote: Open Source Economics: Stakeholder Perspectives Dirk Riehle Lead, Open-source Research Group at SAP Labs in Palo Alto, California Gymnasium - SEQ building |
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