OSCON 2009
2009-07-20..2009-07-24
San Jose, United States
OSCON ·
[OSCON 2008, OSCON 2009, OSCON 2010, OSCON 2010 Cloud Summit, OSCON 2014, OSCON 2017, OSCON 2019]
who it's for
open source project maintainers, software engineers, government technology staff, embedded and mobile developers, cloud engineers, academic researchers, product and engineering managers
topics
netbook boot time optimization; kernel mode setting and GEM; mobile Linux graphics stack; Kindle hacking and Ubuntu chroot; Android and Chrome growth trends; federal open data platforms (data.gov); Apps for America development contest; open source licensing and contribution policy; monads and effects in programming; Linux real-time and determinism work; cloud computing operational patterns; open web threats and net neutrality
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| A Brief History of Software | Michael Lopp | 18m |
A rapid case study of Borland’s Paradox for Windows (1992) shows concrete causes and effects: the product ships as a full desktop database with ObjectPAL IDE… | ||
| Intel and Open Source: Innovation and Leadership for Continued Growth | Dirk Hohndel | 16m |
Company claims netbooks began on Linux with the seven‑inch Eee PC 701 less than two years earlier and delivers concrete work: 5 second boot targets via an… | ||
| The O'Reilly Radar | Tim O'Reilly | 20m |
Argues the internet is becoming a data operating system where sensors on phones plus cloud services create new apps: Google Mobile app sends microphone input… | ||
| Welcome | Edd Dumbill, Allison Randal | 08m |
Conference frames open source as resilient through recession, claiming thousands of projects had new releases and millions of users benefited this year. The… | ||
| Open Source Awards | Leslie Hawthorne, Allison Randall | 13m |
Fifth annual Google‑O'Reilly Open Source Awards at OSCON 2009 hands out glass trophies and cash (one winner receives $5,000) to community-chosen projects… | ||
| Ignite | Brady Forest | 57m |
Kindle is a $300 Linux box with GPS and daily logs sent to Amazon; its update format is a tarball so firmware can be repackaged. Built a web proxy that… | ||
| Moblin, Chrome, Android, Ubuntu, etc | Jim Zemlin | 53m |
Claims that Linux is already the fastest‑growing platform across embedded, mobile, netbooks and servers, backed by concrete examples: Android G1 and… | ||
| Where Next for Openness? | Mark Surman | 16m |
Open web faces concrete threats: net neutrality erosion, mobile platform lock‑down, video trapped in Flash, identity and data silos, and privacy/security… | ||
| The Rewilding: A Metaphor | Karl Schroeder | 15m |
A future scenario claims daily life runs on autonomous software agents that act for users without explicit commands, doing finance, social filtering and home… | ||
| Fundamentalist Functional Programming | Erik Meijer | 14m |
Argues that mixing effects into imperative or “functional” languages breaks expectations: lazy LINQ queries in C# interleave console output and delay… | ||
| Applying Open Source Principles to Federal Government | Gunnar Hellekson | 15m |
Federal agencies adopt concrete open‑source practices: a 2004 DOE grant mandates the most permissive license for shared code, NASA runs a public collab for… | ||
| Apps for America | Clay Johnson | 09m |
Data.gov launches May 20 and Apps for America launches the same day as a development contest that nets $10,000 first prize, $5,000 second and a $1,000 third… | ||
| Cloud Computing - Why IT Matters | Simon Wardley | 14m |
Argues cloud computing is a socio-technical transformation comparable to the Industrial Revolution, driven by concept, suitability, technology and attitude… | ||
| Enabling Academic Research: Open Tools and Services on Microsoft Platforms | Tony Hey | 14m |
An engineering tour of concrete tools: MPI open-source in Microsoft cluster and an open-middleware program to keep research software alive; a workflow called… | ||
| Your Work in Open Source, The Numbers | Chris DiBona | 14m |
Google’s crawl of public repositories reports 30 million unique files and 2.5 billion lines of code, with code.google.com hosting about 225,000 projects… | ||
| Standing Out in the Crowd | Kirrily Robert | 14m |
Open source shows very low female participation — 1.5% in FLOSS polls (2006), 5% in Perl, ~10% in Drupal — yet two projects prove different approaches work… | ||
| nothing matches | ||