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Glen Campbell is the manager of the Rackspace Developer Relations Group and the lead developer for the php-opencloud library and the little-known Siteframe website framework. His computing experience started in the 1970's programming the COSMAC ELF and changing tubes in an IBM magnetic ledger card reader. He worked on the OpenStack Compute project, including the integration of Rackspace's Next Generation Cloud Servers product, and has presented at various conferences since the early 1990's. Formerly a manager and senior architect at Yahoo!, he has experience in building and deploying extremely large websites that sustain massive traffic loads. Prior to his involvement with the Internet, he was an IT architect and consultant for numerous data management projects. He lives in San Antonio, Texas, and is sometimes mistaken for a country and western singer.

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Succeeding with Open Source

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Received a Bachelor of Mathematics from The University of Waterloo in 2005 (honours Computer Science). Spent most of my professional career build parallel garbage collectors for IBM's JVM. Currently building Open Autonomy Inc. as a technology start-up to solve the problems of online "walled gardens".

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Beyond Open Source: Federated Systems

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I am a UX designer, but I write, blog, and do improv on the side. I love to use humor as a means to share the benefits the Open Web to the larger community. I am a contributor at Mozilla as a Mozilla Rep and I organize events and engage with the community.

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Creativity with Firefox OS

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Marcel have more than 5 year of experience in consultancy and development of document management systems using the ECM Alfresco. From their first semester in university he was caught by the exciting world of which speaks in a documentary presented in classes called “Revolution OS”. From that time to the current date, about 10 years have gone away but in that time has come to know many areas of Linux and Free Software, especially server administration and virtualization, which are the most fascinating for him. He has participated in several business contracts under the labor agreements between Cuba-Venezuela. Currently he works as network administrator in institution that is responsible for studying and disseminating the life and works of the National Hero of Cuba.

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Data transmission system via analog radio

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Luis have more than 6 years of experience in research, development and management in SCADA systems using platforms FLOSS. From his student days he was immense in the development of SCADA system "Guardian of ALBA", Middleware and drivers related to SCADA systems. He has participated in several business contracts under the labor agreements between Cuba-Venezuela. Attending to support team of the systems mentioned.

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Data transmission system via analog radio

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Chris Tyler a researcher, professor, author, and open source contributor, with a recent focus on open source software for emerging datacentre systems. He has worked on computers ranging from small embedded devices to large networks and mainframes.

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The 2020 Datacentre

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Research assistant working at CDOT on the OSTEP team. Working on arm, arm64, system administration, programming, and working with unstable development boards.

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64-bit ARM

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Chad leads a team of developers working on the BigBlueButton mobile client and HTML5 client at Seneca College. Chad is also a committer to the BigBlueButton project.

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Evolving BigBlueButton to support WebRTC, HTML5, and mobile clients (Android and iOS)

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Fred is the Product Manager for BigBlueButton, having managed the past eleven BigBlueButton releases. He is a committer to the BigBlueButton project. He is also the CEO of Blindside Networks, the company that started the BigBlueButton project.

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Evolving BigBlueButton to support WebRTC, HTML5, and mobile clients (Android and iOS)

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Konrad Scherer is a Software Engineer on the Linux Build Systems team at Wind River. Since 2010, Konrad has been building and maintaining the infrastructure used to build and test Wind River Linux, a source based Linux distribution builder.

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Building 2000 Linux Distros from source every day

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Kieran is an intermediate web developer, martial artist, musician, student in Seneca College's Computer Programming and Analysis program and alumni of Seneca College's Open Source research lab CDOT. He is closing in on two years of first-hand open source web development using a variety of cutting edge technologies, including NodeJS, AngularJS and more. His biggest contributions to date have been the development of the first iteration of Webmaker's authentication server and the development of Mozilla's MakeDrive server with David Humphrey's CDOT team.

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Webmaker's Tech: The Future of Web Development

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Neil has been a system administrator and architect for 20 years, in high finance, telecommunications, manufacturing, and software development. His blog is popular in the Sysadmin and DevOps crowd. Neil is a recognized expert in CFEngine.

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Make CFEngine simple with EFL and Delta Reporting

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Blaise Alleyne is a technologist, musicians, writer and advocate for software/cultural freedom based in Toronto, Ontario. He studied Computer Science, English and Philosophy at the University of Toronto, and is currently a part-time student in the Master of Theological Studies program at Regis College, U of T.

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Software Freedom in a Networked World

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Abhijit is a faculty at College of Engineering, Pune (COEP), India. He completed his Masters in Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He worked as a kernel programmer with Veritas Software India Pvt Ltd (Now Symantec) for 3 years before joining Academics. He took initiative in starting the COEP's Free Software users Group (COFSUG) at COEP and takes keen interest in promoting free software as an activist and educator. COFSUG has been instrumental in promoting use of FOSS in COEP. He has delivered many technical and philsophical talks in various engineering colleges in Pune, and helped set up FOSS labs.

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FOSS and Academics: A Perspective from Pune, India

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Brian has been a lifelong lover of computers since he started writing BASIC programs for his 5 MHz Compaq Deskpro 8086 at the age of 6. He is a two-time graduate of Seneca College, working as a Lab Monitor and Teacher Assistant in several open source technology courses during his undergraduate studies. With over a decade of experience in the IT private sector he is now an employee of Seneca College's ITS department. His ongoing fascination with electronic music and video games burn as brightly as ever.

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Open Your Ears: MOD Music and Open Source Culture

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Mekki is a PhD candidate in Strategic Management, Open Source Strategy Research Specialty, at the Schulich School of Business, York University. His research focuses on bridging contemporary management theory with open source research and practice. His teaching focuses on strategy in the modern enterprise, with open source strategies as an increasingly-recognized approach. He holds undergraduate degrees from Carleton University in Computer Systems Engineering, and Psychology, and a Master's degree in Technology Innovation Management. He is a licensed professional engineer (P.Eng) in the province of Ontario. Mekki is the founder of OSStrategy.org, a strategic management consulting firm that helps companies improve their business models and strategic planning in a world that is embracing FLOS tools and methods. Mekki was also the president and founder of MekTek Solutions, an IT services company based in Ottawa, ON that operated from 2002 to 2010.

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How Do Canadian Organizations Benefit from Helping Develop the Firefox Web Browser?
Mozilla Intellego - Terminology-driven automatic translation of web sites.

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Julian Egelstaff has been working in the software and IT industries for over 18 years. In 2003, he co-founded Freeform Solutions, a not-for-profit organization with a mission to help other not-for-profits use technology more effectively. Julian is also the lead programmer of Formulize, an open source project designed to provide non-programmers with the ability to create database systems on the web. Julian holds a Bachelor of Journalism and Philosophy, and is a Zend Certified Engineer.

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Building a CI system with free tools, and duct tape

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I've been actively involved in the Mesa3D project for the last four years and the LLVM project for the last three. I'm currently a Software Developer on the Open Source team at AMD, and I spend most of my time working on compilers and OpenCL.

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AMD Open Source GPU Drivers

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Nelson is a project admin of the Tiki open source software community and also the Chief Technology Officer at Synergiq Solutions Inc. He previously led the implementation of Tiki for Firefox Support at Mozilla, a pioneer in open source customer support. 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.Eng. (Technology Innovation Management) degree from Carleton University and a M.A. (Economics) degree from the University of Toronto.

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How to Implement the Bootstrap CSS Framework (Lessons Learnt from Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware)

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One of the world's first Certified Professional Technical Communicators, Beth Agnew has been teaching at Seneca since 1997. With a broad career as a technical writer for software development companies, and experience in marketing, business development and education, Beth has inspired hundreds of technical communication students to forge promising careers in high tech fields where they never before thought they could go. She is an Associate Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication.

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I am NOT a Developer, I am Open Source

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I'm a performance tools engineer at Red Hat, contributing to Systemtap since 2010. My work has included enabling Systemtap to natively probe java programs as well as adding Performance API metrics to Performance Co-Pilot.

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Ubiquitous System Analysis with Performance Co-Pilot

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I am an intern at Red Hat for the 2014-2015 term, working on SystemTap. My contributions to Systemtap vary between front-end language features and optimization.

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Ubiquitous System Analysis with Performance Co-Pilot

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Over the past 23 years, Murray has taught over 50 unique courses including computer programming, accounting, economics, and management studies. Currently, He works for the School of Computer Studies at Seneca College teaching Bash Shell Scripting, C, C++, Javascript, Perl and PHP/MySQL programming as well as Linux administration, A+ certification, and network security courses. He also has taught a post-diploma course for the Bioinformatics program. He is really interested in the Linux operating system, and the benefits that it provides to this planet. He is constantly discovering neat applications in Linux including LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project: Using thin clients to setup cost effective labs), open source gaming, multimedia (Ubuntu Studio including the following applications: Audacity, Jack Audio Server, setBfree (Hammond B3 organ emulator), Ardour, Ninjam, Cinelerra), DVR applications (Mythtv), as well as web development…

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Home Musical Recording in Linux - My Journey

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Michael Hoye is an open-source entrepreneur, former sysadmin and longtime Mozilla community member whose current venture, Bespoke I/O, has built a suite of Firefox and Thunderbird customization and deployment tools for enterprise users.

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Social Engineering: Building A Community On Purpose

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Software Engineer; College teacher (Linux) • Industry Experience: senior SysAdmin; consultant (Unix, Linux); OSX (iPad) app development; systems work; hardware/software interfacing • Experience with most software platforms • Student: York University, Computer Science & Engineering

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Cloud Computing Infrastructure: Introduction with OpenStack

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Don Pinto is a Product Manager at Couchbase and is currently focused on advancing the server capabilities of Couchbase Server including Security. He is extremely passionate about data technology and in the past, has authored several articles on Couchbase Server including technical blogs and whitepapers. Prior to joining Couchbase, Don spent several years at IBM where he maintained the role of software developer in the DB2 information management group and most recently as a Program Manager on the SQL Server team at Microsoft. Don holds a Masters degree in Computer Science and a Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada. [@NoSQLDon](https://twitter.com/NoSQLDon)

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How Companies Use NoSQL and Open Source Technologies Like Couchbase

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Stephen Tong is currently completing a Masters of Information at U of T. He considers himself a student of open source as a method of production that thrives in a capitalist economy. He finds Bitcoin particularly exciting as an experiment that challenges government-issued currencies.

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Bitcoin 2007-2010: Open Source as a Key To Success

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Marc Lijour is an educator specialized in technology and innovation. He joined Cisco last year to lead the transformation of education in Canada. He helps school boards, colleges, and universities design strategies to improve student success and experience, positioning Canada as the best place to work, live, play, and learn. Marc is also a developer and an adept of Free/Libre Open Source Software. His first job experience was to develop a pre-Web site on the late 80’s French Minitel network (Bell Canada launched a similar system branded Alextel). He started experimenting with Linux before the Y2K, installing school labs. Later, he worked for the Mandriva Linux distribution. Specialized in software engineering, and distributed work, he is a big fan of DevOps and the cloud. ca.linkedin.com/in/marclijour/

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Open at Cisco

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Tharshan is a recent software engineering graduate from the UK. He has a great interested in software engineering and enjoys hacking on side projects in his spare time.

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Mozilla Intellego - Terminology-driven automatic translation of web sites.

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Sergio Durigan Junior is a GNU hacker, a GDB maintainer, and a Free Software activist. He works at Red Hat as a Debugger Engineer.

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GDB, Your Next Best Friend

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Gabor Laszlo received his PhD in Economics and management in 2009. HIs thesis theme was open source utilization in and by public sector. He gives a lecture on various topics connected to open source. His research interests focus on a wide variety of phenomena of openness.

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Open source, what does it stand for?

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Simon Lightstone is an open-source programmer and entrepreneur. He is the lead backend developer at PumpUp.co, a TechCrunch-listed startup. Simon is the creator of IQ Uploader, which is free, open-source software that lets people share files using their own hardware.

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The Easiest File Sharing, Powered by Open Source

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Dmitry is recent graduate from Computer Programming program at Seneca and current research assistant at CDOT. Working on 3D graphics development using WEBGL and THREEJS. A geek, a SCI-FI fan and an HTML5 believer.

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Introduction to 3D Web World

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David is currently the manager for the project management office at Linaro and has experience in software design and project management with several large firms and start-ups. He has contributed to the International Engineering Task Force (IETF) utilizing his expertise in the management of data communications. David's background includes technical solutions for telecom, data communications and financial systems, and project management for open source projects, safety management and CBRNE systems.

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Project Management for Open Source Development