June 2009

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09:30 KEYNOTE - On the Pirate Party - Rickard Falkvinge

Falkvinge's Piratpartiet is poised to win its first seat in the European Parliamentary election exactly three days before the conference, on a platform of copyright and patent reform...
Pirate_Party
http://rickfalkvinge.se/english
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10:45 KEYNOTE - Women in Open Source - Angela Byron

The open source world is rich with opportunities: Working with people of all cultures from all over the world; But yet, so many women are missing out. Why is that?
http://webchick.net
http://twitter.com/webchick
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12:45 Tor: Anonymous Communications...- Jacob Appelbaum

Tor (torproject.org), a free-software anonymizing network that helps people around the world use the Internet in safety...Presenter: Jacob Appelbaum is a resident of San Francisco, California, and both a photographer and independent computer security hacker.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum
http://www.appelbaum.net/
http://twitter.com/ioerror
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02:00 The Future of Web Applications Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer

The Ajax revolution saw a sea change in web application development. Presenter: Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer Dion Almaer is the co-founder of Ajaxian.com.Ben Galbraith is a frequent technical speaker, author of several Java-related books. Ben wrote his first computer program when he was six years old, started his first business at ten, and entered the IT workforce just after turning twelve.
http://ajaxian.com
http://twitter.com/dalmaer
http://galbraiths.org/
http://galbraiths.org/feedback.html
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Mozilla Dev

03:15 Open Messaging on the Open Internet David Ascher

It seems clear that an open web requires standards like HTML and HTTP. Presenter: David Ascher David is the CEO of Mozilla Messaging.
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04:30 Hacking with Android: A Gateway to the Open Mobile Web Joe Bowser

The mobile web in many countries has been a source of innovation in Open Source Technologies. Recent developments in web technology by a few companies have opened up the web to a new class of devices, such as the iPhone
http://www.infil00p.org
http://twitter.com/infil00p

08:30A8Ning - Open Web Testing

We'll spend the first half of this talk talking about automated web testing - starting simple and then moving on to Business Driven Development.
http://awesnob.com
http://twitter.com/lukec
http://ingy.net/

09:45 Cross Domain Web Mashups with JQuery and Google App Engine

Over the past year some really great tools and practices have appeared for creating web mashups simply and quickly. Google's App Engine allows the easy creation and deployment of servers to provide the source for data.
http://www.agmweb.ca/blog/andy/
http://twitter.com/clearwind
http://geojsontweet.appspot.com/
http://svn.clearwind.ca/public/projects/presentations/open-vancouver-09/
clearwind.ca
http://json-time.appspot.com/
http://geohash.appspot.com/
http://atomtojsonp.appspot.com/
http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/

11:00Drupal: Under the Hood

You may have heard of Drupal, the fantastic open source content management framework that's powering sites such as Ubuntu, Recovery.gov and The Onion.
http://webchick.net/
http://twitter.com/webchick

01:00 Building Castles in the Clouds

'Cloud Computing' is an oft-heard buzzword lately - the premise is that instead of having "real" servers in a colocation facility somewhere, these servers are virtualized.Drew Smith is a longtime Linux network administrator.
http://disengage.ca
http://twitter.com/mux
http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/aws-solutions/
http://riotnrrd.com/bad_day.jpg
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02:15 The Smart Platform

Joyent's Smart Platform is an open source Platform-as-a-Service, letting developers to build scalable, complex web applications in JavaScript that runs on the server, and then deploy those applications into the "cloud" using Git.
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3:30 Open Data and Semantic Web Community Barn Raising

Open source is now a term that is increasingly understood, or at least talked about. One of the next battles in keeping the web open is keeping data open - from the content we "generate" for many social sites to the closed silos of government and businesses.
http://blog.baconpatiobeer.com/
http://vancouver.freebase.com/
http://bmannconsulting.com
http://twitter.com/bmann

4:00 How and Why to Extend Firefox in Javascript

If you know Javascript, writing Firefox extensions is easy! We talk briefly about the wonderful things you can do in a Firefox extenion
http://www.darkcoding.net
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Command_Line_Options
http://mozdev.org/
http://gkgk.org/
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More conference resources

http://flowplayer.org/
http://www.lizakindred.com
http://twitter.com/LizaK
kindred-open_source_business.pdf
http://johnboxall.ca
http://twitter.com/johnboxall
boxall-squinty_eyes.pdf

One day trip:
Vancouver -> Hope -> Merritt -> Kelowna -> Osoyoos -> Hope -> Vancouver

distance: 980km
start: 7:30am
end: 11:00pm