Andor Salga is a developer in the Seneca Centre for Development of Open Technology. He is working on the C3DL project, creating a JavaScript library for managing the 3D canvas objects in Mozilla Firefox

Presentations:
Canvas 3D JS Library

By day, Andrew Ross works for Ingres leading a team of software engineers developing code to store map data in Ingres databases. He is also a charter member of OSGeo.

When he really should be sleeping - instead he leads the CAFÉ project, which recently won a LinuxWorld 2008 product excellence award.

Before dawn, Andrew leads a stalwart team of volunteers to grow the FOSSLC ecosystem to get more people involved with open source.

Presentations:
osbootcamp: bringing open source to the noob masses

Andrew Smith is a Seneca BSD graduate currently working for IBM on Lotus Foundations. He's been involved in open source from the first year at Seneca - starting with smaller projects (ISO Master, Asunder, Seneca Freedom Toaster) but not afraid of large beasts like the Mozilla tree (APNG, border-image projects).

Presentations:
TOS@FSOSS: The Student's Perspective

Armen Zambrano-Gasparnian is completing the Seneca Bachelor of Software Development (BSD) program. In the summer of 2008, he interned at Mozilla's Mountain View headquarters in the Release Engineering team.

Presentations:
TOS@FSOSS: The Student's Perspective

Arthur is a Distinguished Engineer at the IBM Toronto Lab where he has worked since 1982. He is currently the Chief Architect for Rational's Project and Porfolio Management Solution and is responsible for defining its next generation of products.

Previously, he led creation of the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) Project and is a coauthor of a recent book about WTP in the Addison-Wesley Eclipse Series. Prior to that, he was a development manager and architect responsible for Web Service, XML, and J2EE tools in Rational Application Developer, WebSphere Studio Application Developer and VisualAge for Java. He was a founder of the IBM Toronto Centre for Advanced Studies and served as its Associate Head. He is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and is a Master Inventor.

Arthur has developed Java and Web Service standards at the Java Community Process and W3C, and was a founder of the Apache Woden project. He has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo and York University and is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He guest edited the recent special issue of IEEE Software on the theme of Software Development Tools.

Presentations:
TOS@FSOSS: The Community's Perspective

Bradley M. Kuhn began his work in the Software Freedom Movement in 1992 when he became an early adopter of the popular GNU/Linux operating system, and began contributing to various FLOSS projects. He served as the Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation from March 2001 until March 2005, when he left FSF to join the founding team of the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). Kuhn is currently the president of the Software Freedom Conservancy and FLOSS Community and Technical Director of the SFLC. Kuhn has been intimately involved with nearly every major GPL enforcement effort in the USA since 2001, and is the original author of the "Affero clause" of the AGPL.

Presentations:
When Software Is a Service, Will Only Network Luddites Be Free?

Brendan Sera-Shriar has been an interactive designer, developer, author and teacher for over 10 years. Brendan studied Graphics, Animation, and Web Development at Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology (Toronto, Canada), Ryerson University (Toronto, Canada), and Pratt University (Brooklyn, NY). Brendan is a prominent member of FlashinTO, PHUG – Open Source Culture, has taught web design at Long Island University Brooklyn campus, and has been a professor at Seneca College in the School of Communication Arts for over 7 years. Brendan currently owns and operates BackSpaceStudios, a web company specializing in Flash and PHP based applications. He is also the founder of PHUG, an open source community for designers and developers with currently over 4000 members, and is also the Flash Technical Director at Lifecapture Interactive. Brendan has contributed to many open source projects including papervision3D, red5, Firefox, WordPress, and Drupal, just to name a few.

Web Addresses:
http://www.backspacestudios.com
http://www.phug.ca
http://workshops.phug.ca
http://www.lifecaptureinc.com

Presentations:
Open Source Design

Catherine Leung is a professor at Seneca College where she teaches some of the game programming courses. Catherine is also the project lead for Canvas 3D JS Library Project (http://www.c3dl.org). The library is an open source javascript library for simplifying the creation of 3D content using canvas 3D

Presentations:
Canvas 3D JS Library

Colin Clark is the technical lead for the Fluid Project. He is currently involved in open source user interface development work with the uPortal, CollectionSpace, and Sakai communities. Colin has worked in the field of inclusive design and software development at the University of Toronto's Adaptive Technology Resource Centre for over ten years.

Presentations:
The Fluid Project and Community: An Overview

Dafydd Hughes sideshowmedia.ca Dafydd Hughes is an artist, musician, programmer and educator living in Toronto. In addition to performing, recording and touring with some of Canada's most notable artists (Feist, Jacksoul, Esthero), he leads several of his own creative projects and is active in Canada's popular, jazz, electronic and experimental music scenes. Dafydd teaches Ear Training and Music Technologies at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario and is a member of the board of directors at Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, where he loves to spend time teaching and participating in workshops, playing with technology, taking things apart and finding himself unable to put things back together.

Workshops:
ohai! art!

Damien is a multifaceted designer, technologist and evangelist. His love and experience for the open-source and web community is evident in the past 2 years of work at MindTouch in his role as Lead Evangelist. Receiving his BS in Organizational Leadership from Miami University of Ohio, Damien is now recognized as an expert in open-source business practices and is passionate about teaching businesses how to create organization and efficiency within the enterprise. Damien speaks regularly on these topics at conferences across the United States.

Presentations:
Enterprise Collaboration

A long-time Mozilla hacker, I've written email, calendaring, and browser code and have spent time on IT work and project governance as well. My current work aims to help the messaging areas of Mozilla grow and flourish; at the moment I am heavily focused on Thunderbird 3.

Presentations:
Enabling Healthy Open Source Communities: Case study -- Thunderbird

Dan Scott is the systems librarian for Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario. He is both a developer for the Evergreen open source library system and the project manager for Project Conifer - a partnership between four Ontario universities and a medical school to adopt Evergreen for academic libraries. Dan has co-authored a book ("Apache Derby: Off to the Races") and occasionally writes about coffee, code, and other good things at http://coffeecode.net. He holds a B.A. in English and Philosophy from Laurentian University and an MISt from the University of Toronto.

Presentations:
Evergreen: an enterprise-strength OSS solution for library ossification

Daniel Hinojosa has been with SourceForge.net since May of 2007. He provides primary site support, posts up front page news, and approves the overwhelming bulk of new project proposals on SF.net. He manages support processes and initial engineering investigations into technical issues reported to SourceForge.net.

Presentations:
How to be successful using SourceForge.net

David is a strong supporter of open community and in the power of technology to connect people and improve their lives, communities and businesses. David is currently employed by Microsoft as a User Experience Evangelist. Previously he has advised and worked with start-ups on product design and development. He is also the instigator of DemoCamp, Founders & Funders and StartupEmpire in Toronto. At Microsoft, David helps companies understand the technology and design opportunities for creating compelling digital experiences. He focuses on helping companies to extend their customers’ reach with next generation technology for the desktop, digital devices, standards based applications for the Web, and rich media applications. David has been named Toronto’s Best Web and Tech Evangelist for his efforts in founding DemoCamp, BarCampToronto and Founders & Funders. David has worked to facilitate a vibrant community and ecosystem in Toronto.

Presentations:
Rich User Experiences - Open Web enabling Closed Platforms

Note: For those attending the session I will be doing with Dan Mosedale on Enabling Healthy Open Source Communities: Case study -- Thunderbird I encourage you to take a look at my presentation from last year on Community Management as the Core Competency of Open Source. The ideas in that presentation will be informing our discussion.

An expert in negotiation, strategy and public policy, David works as a writer, public speaker and consultant. His writings on technology, public policy and foreign policy are frequently published in the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail and Embassy Magazine. As a consultant he works with Common Outlook, a spin-off of the Harvard Negotiation Project, developing and implementing collaborative negotiation strategies that enable organizations to maximize the value they generate with community members, partners, alliance members, customers, and suppliers. He has worked with leading companies across North America and Europe in a range of industries including financial services, healthcare, information technology, and telecommunications. In addition, David works with community groups, non-profits and government agencies consulting on negotiation strategy and public policy issues. He blogs at www.eaves.ca

Presentations:
Enabling Healthy Open Source Communities: Case study -- Thunderbird
TOS@FSOSS: Next Steps - Discussion
TOS@FSOSS: The Professor's Perspective

David Fewer is Legal Counsel with CIPPIC, the Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic, a technology law clinic at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. CIPPIC advocates for balance in policy and law-making on issues arising out of new technologies, and supports the efforts of the CSIA. Mr. Fewer’s work at the Clinic includes teaching and advising on intellectual property and technology law issues, including open source and Creative Commons licensing.

Presentations:
The Canadian Software Innovation Alliance and Copyright Policy

David Humphrey is a professor in the School of Computer Studies at Seneca College, and a founding member of Seneca's Centre for the Development of Open Technology. His research and teaching are focused on open source methods and technologies, specifically the Mozilla project. David is also an educational liaison with the Mozilla Foundation.

Presentations:
TOS@FSOSS: The Professor's Perspective

The work of Toronto-based musician and media artist David McCallum has flirted with improvised performance, DIY electronics, an d locative media, with an emphasis on sharing his curiosity. Before being appointed Editor of Musicworks Magazine, he received an M.Sc. in Art and Technology from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, and studied physics and music before that. Selected works and projects are the Warbike, a bicycle that makes sound from WiFi networks, and You Say Potatoe, I Say Potato: a study in the sonic properties of genetically modified potatoes.

Workshops:
ohai! art!

Emma Jane Hogbin is an Internet consultant, F/LOSS advocate and the founder of the rural technology community consultancy HICK Tech. After spending ten years in Canada's largest city working as a college professor and open source Web developer, Emma brought her urban Web 2.0 experiences back to the country. She has been learning about the real impact of community on technology ever since. Her raucous presentations on women in FOSS and world domination have inspired a new wave of action and hope around the world.

Presentations:
Subverting Proprietary Economics

Eric is a developer with OpenOffice.org, and the co lead of the OpenOffice.org Education Project. He is also a professor of Applied Physics at UTBM, and keenly interested in issues of student involvement in open source projects.

Presentations:
TOS@FSOSS: The Professor's Perspective

Evan Weaver leads the School of Computer Studies at Seneca College. He is a programmer and race driving instructor, and has been a driving force behind the formation of the Seneca Centre for Development of Open Technology (CDOT).

Presentations:
TOS@FSOSS: The Institution's Perspective

Frank Hecker is a staff member at the Mozilla Foundation and a long-time participant in the Mozilla project. He blogs on Mozilla and other topics at blog.hecker.org.

Presentations:
TOS@FSOSS: The Community's Perspective

Geoff Norton is a developer for Novell working on the Mono Project. He's a founder of the Cocoa# and Objective-C# projects and is in charge of the Mac specific development for the Mono project, including a native System.Windows.Forms driver and native Gtk# support. Prior to working for Novell Geoff had been a Mono project contributor for about 3.5 years.

Presentations:
Open Source .NET Development with Mono

Geoff Palin is a recent 2008 graduate of the Digital Media Arts program at Seneca College. Currently he is working at Toronto based web firm http://BackSpaceStudios.com

As a technical director for BackSpaceStudios Geoff is responsible for testing and evaluating a range of different open source tools and applications. From online project management tools, to open source CMS, and productions tools.

Geoff's ability to evaluate project requirements and draw up a working 'open source' solution is key to his position as a technical director and valued also by his project managers, production team, developers and clients.

As a developer Geoff utilizes open source CMS tools such as Wordpress, Drupal to build online communities, business portals +more.

Geoff also contributes back to the open source community by submitting code patches, writing plugins, modules and teaching workshops through http://phug.ca

http://souljive.ca
http://pv3world.com
http://backspacestudios.com
http://opensourceculture.org

Presentations:
Open Source Design

Greg DeKoenigsberg is a senior community architect for Red Hat. The community architecture team is responsible for Red Hat's strategy for building vibrant open source communities, and for aligning Red Hat's community policies with its business objectives. Greg is former chairman and founder of the Fedora Project Board. He has been with Red Hat since 2001.

Presentations:
Community Building and the Architecture of Participation
TOS@FSOSS: The Institution's Perspective

James Walker is Lullabot's Director of Education where he oversees the company's public workshops, seminars and private Drupal trainings. A leader in the Drupal community, James is a founding member of the non-profit Drupal Association and the Drupal security team. As a long time member of the Drupal community, James maintains over a dozen modules and has contributed countless patches to Drupal core. A long time believer in Open Source and Open Standards, James has spent years co-ordinating Drupal's involvement with other communities such as Jabber/XMPP and, most recently, OpenID. An engaging speaker, James is a frequently requested presenter at many types of technical conferences. His humorous and informative lectures have been among the most well-attended at DrupalCons, starting with the first - four years ago.

Presentations:
Using Drupal: Community Powered Code to Run Your Site

Workshops:
Drupal and Views 2: Powerful Websites in Zero Lines of Code

Jamie Gamble is a security consultant at Security Compass. This position allows Jamie to two of the things he really enjoys, finding vulnerabilities and fixing them. Prior to this position he was a member of the VERT team at nCircle. His interests include risk modeling, covert channels, trust relationships, and breaking software. His passion for security dates back over a decade, during this time he also studied Computer Science and Economics.

Presentations:
Protecting You with Exploit Me

Jennifer has been a software architect and product manager for successful software startups in Ottawa and Montreal. She is currently General Director of VisibleGovernment.ca, a non-partisan non-profit promoting the creation of online tools for government transparency.

Jennifer has degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Saskatchewan, and an MBA in Entrepreneurship from McGill University.

Presentations:
Open Source Tools for Government Transparency

Jeremy is a student at UofT and a Psiphon fellow at Citizen Lab a thinktank dedicated to researching government manipulation of information technology. He is currently working on the Psiphon project, an open source censorship circumvention system. Jeremy has written on numerous non-technical aspects of open source projects and communities.

Presentations:
TOS@FSOSS: The Student's Perspective

Jess Mitchell is the Project Manager for the Fluid Project. She has joined the Fluid team, bringing with her a gob of PM experience with large, complex distributed projects. Jess' work has taken her from projects in Ghana to her most recent work at Duke as PM on the Duke Digital Initiative, where she also co-taught an open source project course with 4th years.

Presentations:
The Fluid Project and Community: An Overview

John Fink is the Digital Technologies Development Librarian at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He has been involved in open source systems in libraries since 1995. His research interests include open source software and copyright. He holds a B.A. in English from Miami University and an MLIS from San Jose State University. He blogs at woefully long intervals at http://libgrunt.blogspot.com.

Presentations:
Evergreen: an enterprise-strength OSS solution for library ossification

Johnathan Nightingale is the Mozilla Corporation's Human Shield. Educated in cognitive science and artificial intelligence, now working on security, usability & coding for Firefox, he can usually be found occupying the centre of a Venn diagram. He has written for Dr. Dobb's Journal about software integration, and for O'Reilly's Make: magazine about making tea. He lives just outside Toronto, in a house that needs more room for books.

Presentations:
The Most Important Thing - How Mozilla Does Security, and What You Can Steal

Jon "Maddog" Hall is long-time participant in the Free Software and Open Source communities. He is currently the Executive Director of Linux International and the CTO of Koolu.

He likes to talk to students about computer science over beer and pizza. The pizza is optional.

Presentations:
Open Telephony: Freedom greater than the sum of its parts
TOS@FSOSS: The Community's Perspective

Julian Egelstaff is the Technical Architect of Web Applications at Freeform Solutions, a not-for-profit organization that helps other not-for-profits use technology to meet their mission goals. Prior to co-founding Freeform Solutions, Julian held a variety of positions in project management, documentation, and internal tool developm ent at Corel and later Cognos. Today, Julian oversees the implementation of projects, and coordinates Freeform's open source development efforts. Julian has 8 years experien ce in PHP development, and is a ZCE. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Journalism and Philosophy, and has completed some graduate studies in Cognitive Science.

Presentations:
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts - a case study in integrating two CMSs

Workshops:
CMS 2.0 - Building applications that have dynamic structure, not just dynamic content

Jutta Treviranus established and directs the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC) at the University of Toronto, an internationally recognized centre of expertise on inclusive design of information technology (http://atrc.utoronto.ca/). Jutta has led a large number of international multi-partner research networks that have resulted in broadly implemented open source technical innovations that support inclusion. She has helped to develop pivotal accessibility legislation, standards and specifications internationally (including W3C WAI Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines, IMS AccessForAll and ISO 24751). She is also a member of a number of key advisory panels including the AODA advisory committee. Jutta holds faculty appointments in the Faculty of Information, the Faculty of Medicine, and KMDI, at UofT.

Presentations:
TOS@FSOSS: The Institution's Perspective

Keith Bergelt is the chief executive officer of Open Invention Network (OIN), the collaborative enterprise that enables innovation in open source and an increasingly vibrant ecosystem around Linux. Prior to joining OIN, Mr. Bergelt was the president and chief executive officer of two hedge funds, Paradox Capital and IPI – formed to unlock the considerable asset value of patents, trademarks and copyrights in middle market companies. The funds were the first of their kind to offer specialty lending products supported exclusively by intellectual property. During Mr. Bergelt’s stewardship, he raised over $300 million while financing portfolio companies of private equity firms. Previously Mr. Bergelt co-founded, advised and managed intellectual property portfolios within several multinational organizations. Mr. Bergelt also distinguished himself, serving for twelve years as a U.S. diplomat, with postings at the United Nations in New York and the American Embassy in Tokyo, Japan where he was involved in the negotiation of intellectual property rights protection in Asia. Mr. Bergelt holds an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Duke University, a Jurist Doctorate degree from Southern Methodist University School of Law and a Masters of Business Administration degree from Theseus Institute in France. He is a frequent speaker on corporate strategy, finance and intellectual property management.

Presentations:
Innovation in Open-Source Development

Lawrence Mandel currently leads the Apache Woden project and was previously the documentation and ecosystem lead and a committer for the Eclipse Web Tools Platform project. Lawrence is co-author of the book Eclipse Web Tools Platform: Developing Java Web Applications and serves as a reviewer and editor for Eclipse Corner.

Presentations:
Eclipse: Beyond Java Development

Leif Madsen is a key figure in the Asterisk community and the co-author of Asterisk: The Future of Telephony (O'Reilly).

Presentations:
Introduction to Asterisk and the dialplan

Leslie Chan is Program Supervisor for the Joint Program in New Media Studies and the International Studies program at the University of Toronto at Scarborough. Since 2000, he has served as the Associate Director of Bioline International, a non-profit international electronic publishing collaboration with the main objective of improving the visibility and impact of health and other scientific journals from developing countries.
Homepage: http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~chan

Presentations:
The Convergence of Open Access and Open Source

Luigi Ferrara is the Director of the School of Design at George Brown College and the Institute without Boundaries. His previous accomplishments include his time with the International Council of the Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) where he served as an Executive Board Member from 1997-2003, and then as President in 2003-05, after which he assumed the role of an ICSID Senator. He was also the President and CEO of DXNet Inc. between 1999-2002.

Presentations:
TOS@FSOSS: The Community's Perspective

Marc Laporte has been an admin of the TikiWiki open source community since the early days of the project, and is the President of Avantech.net, a provider of collaborative TikiWiki-centric applications. He has completed over 100 successful TikiWiki implementations for a wide range of businesses, non-profits, and governmental organizations. He was the Tutorials Chair of the 2008 International Symposium on Wikis, and has presented on online collaboration tools at numerous conferences worldwide including the 2006 World Social Forum. Marc holds a business degree specializing in Information Systems from the University of Quebec in Montreal.

Presentations:
TikiWiki - When a Wiki is Not Enough

Workshops:
How to Build Data Driven Applications in a Wiki using TikiWiki Trackers

Marcus Bornfreund is the founding project lead for Creative Commons Canada and a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada. Marcus' law practice focuses on helping knowledge-based businesses and the creative industries understand and manage their intellectual property. A steadfast supporter of strong civil liberties, Marcus has recently expanded his practice to include criminal defence.

Presentations:
Creative Commons and creative copyright licensing

Presentations:
Introduction to Google Doctype: an encyclopedia of the open web

Mark Surman is in the business of connecting things: people, ideas, everything. A community technology activist for almost 20 years, Mark is currently the executive director of the Mozilla Foundation, with a focus on inventing new ways to promote openness and opportunity on the Internet. On the side, Mark convenes conversations about 'open everything' in his home town of Toronto and around the world.

Before joining Mozilla, Mark was an open philanthropy fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation in South Africa, he invented new ways to apply open source thinking to social innovation. Earlier, he was the founding director of telecentre.org, a $26 million effort to network community technology activists in countries around the world. Mark has also served as president of the Commons Group, Director of Content and Community at Web Networks and senior advisor to the Volunteer @ction Online grants program team. Mark's first real job was training social activists to make their own documentaries in the early 1990s.

When he finds time, Mark likes to write about community, technology and changing the world. He's proud to have written things like From the Ground Up (a nice picture book about why telecentres matter), Commonspace (FT.com book about web 2.0, written before there was web 2.0) and Appropriating Technology for Social Change (SSRC research paper about activism on the Internet). When he was still an idealistic student, he wrote From VTR to Cyberspace, an illustrated essay about Gramsci, community television and the Internet. Now his idealistic ramblings appear on his blog.

Presentations:
TOS@FSOSS: The Student's Perspective

Matthew Kay is a graduate student in the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Lab in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science. He is researching methods for capturing limited user attention and effectively communicating salient content in the context of software consent agreements.

Presentations:
Your Attention Please! Getting People's Attention with Software Notices

Michael Terry is a professor in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science where he co-directs the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Lab. His research focuses on developing, deploying, and evaluating new tools to support usability needs in open source software development.

Presentations:
Painting a Picture: What the ingimp Project Tells Us About Users and Usage
Your Attention Please! Getting People's Attention with Software Notices

Mike Hoye is a systems administrator for TFO, the newly-independent Franco-Ontarian TV station, where he's using free software tools to support and smooth the organization's migration to a new infrastructure for hi-def TV production. A veteran Linux user and tech-support monkey, Mike draws on over a decade of cross-platform user support experience to fool people into thinking that he knows what he's talking about. He lives in Toronto with a brilliant wife, a small house, strong feelings about software and powerful metaphor at his disposal.

Presentations:
Making Movies
Pecha Kuchas
Pecha Kuchas II

Nelson is the President and CEO of Citadel Rock Online Communities Inc., a company providing online collaboration and social media solutions based on TikiWiki. He is an admin of the TikiWiki open source community, and is also the development lead for Mozilla's Firefox Support site. Nelson has previously held positions in organizations such as Bank of Canada, Hewlett-Packard, and Singapore Telecom, and successfully architected leading-edge solutions brought to market across the world for companies such as Trans World International Interactive and Telstra. Nelson holds a M.A. Economics degree from the University of Toronto, and is currently working on a dissertation “Knowledge flows and social capital in wiki communities” in the Technology Innovation Management program at Carleton University.

Presentations:
TikiWiki - When a Wiki is Not Enough

Workshops:
How to Build Data Driven Applications in a Wiki using TikiWiki Trackers

Four discussion panels, consisting of professors, students, administrators, and open source community members, will discuss issues related to Teaching Open Source as part of the TOS@FSOSS track.

Paul W. Frields has been a Linux user and enthusiast since 1997, and joined the Fedora Documentation Project in 2003, shortly after the launch of Fedora. As contributing writer, editor, and a founding member of the Documentation Project steering committee, Paul has worked on a variety of tasks, including guides and tutorials, website publishing, and toolchain development. He also maintains a number of packages in the Fedora repository. He also revitalized the Fredericksburg Linux Users Group (FredLUG, http://fredlug.tux.org/) in 2006. Paul was an inaugural member of the Fedora Project Board from 2006-2007, and in February 2008 he joined Red Hat as the Fedora Project Leader. He currently lives with his wife and two children in Virginia.

Presentations:
Fedora: The Future, First
TOS@FSOSS: The Community's Perspective

Robert Cameron is a Professor of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University and a founding member of the Committee for Open Software Technology and Applications Research (COSTAR).

Presentations:
TOS@FSOSS: The Institution's Perspective

Shane is the chief dragon-wrangler for Komodo at ActiveState, an IDE developed in XUL, JavaScript and Python, on top of the Mozilla code base. Komodo was one of the first major projects build on top of Mozilla, staring back in 2000. With one foot in the world of dynamic languages, the other in more obscure efforts like writing debugger protocols or NPAPI plugins, he's always tackling big bad ugly problems.

Presentations:
Komodo: making proprietary products open source

Workshops:
Hacking Komodo

In 1998, while still in high school, Stuart started working on Mozilla converting from Motif to GTK. Less than a year later, he was hired by Netscape to continue his work full time. While at Netscape he worked on many projects, including many platform pieces such as graphics, designing our imaging library, and significant memory and performance work. After Netscape, Stuart worked at OSAF for a year on data synchronizing and then at Oracle for a short time building a calendar client on top of Mozilla and integrating it in to Thunderbird. He eventually found his way back to Mozilla where he has been since 2005. He has been working on redesigning and building Mozilla's new graphics and text rendering systems. He has also done a lot of work on analyzing Firefox's memory use resulting in a significant reduction in memory footprint. Stuart is the current module owner of the Graphics and Image Library systems. He is currently focused on mobile browsing.

Presentations:
Mozilla and Mobile

Thomas Prowse is a partner with the Gowlings Kanata Technology Law Office. His practice at Gowlings focuses on providing legal advice in the areas of technology law and technology-related commercial matters. His private practice, government policy, and in-house counsel experience equip him to provide practical, timely, and concise legal advice grounded in his understanding of the business and technological complexities faced by organizations today. Before re-joining Gowlings, Thomas was Senior Counsel with Nortel, a leading Canadian technology company with global sales and operations. From 1994 to 2007, he provided general legal support to numerous and diverse product development organizations. Thomas worked extensively on Open Source Software matters during his tenure at Nortel and was the Global Law Department leader on the Nortel Open Source Advisory Team.

Presentations:
Treasury of the iCommons - Reflections of a Commons Sourcing Lawyer

Tom Aratyn is the Security Compass tools developer and the lead developer behind Security Compass's Exploit Me series of penetration testing tools (including XSS Me, SQL Inject Me, and Access Me). Tom brings his passion for software development and experience in Open Source to Security Compass developing tools for both public consumption and internal use.

Presentations:
Protecting You with Exploit Me

Tom Wisniewski is a graduate of Seneca's ISA program.

Presentations:
TOS@FSOSS: The Student's Perspective

Anthony I. (Tony) Wasserman is a Professor of Software Engineering Practice at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, and the Executive Director of the Center for Open Source Investigation. He is General Chairman for the 5th Int'l. Conf. on Open Source Systems, to be held in Sweden in June, 2009.

Presentations:
TOS@FSOSS: The Professor's Perspective