OSCON 2010
2010-07-19..2010-07-23
Portland, 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 developers, security researchers, platform engineers, data scientists, technical presenters, freelance journalists
topics
genetic algorithms for intrusion detection; nProbe SNORT-style plugin; DARPA tcpdump training data; three-way parent selection crossover; frequent flyer award routing techniques; mileage-run and churning strategies; ITA Software and ExpertFlyer tools; virtualization and hypervisors; automating sysadmins with shell scripts; presentation anti-pattern checklist; optimizing travel as life XP
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Journalism is dead, long live... what?!! | James Turner | 06m |
Print readership falls roughly 10% from 1998–2007 to under 50%, classifieds evaporate, and 65% printing/distribution costs drive publishers online to… | ||
| Hacking Frequent Flyer Programs | Evan "Rabble" Henshaw-Path | 06m |
Shows concrete hacks: how to fly around the world in first class for free by combining award seats, upgrades and alliances; how mile runs and cheap… | ||
| Using Genetic Algorithms for Network Intrusion Detection and Integration into nProbe | Bill Lavender | 06m |
Genetic algorithms generate SNORT-style detection rules from DARPA tcpdump-labeled training data, implemented in C using Gong’s chromosome attributes and a… | ||
| Punching the Clouds | Mark Atwood | 06m |
Fast-paced overview that ties skydiving risks to cloud risks and insists cloud is concrete when you name the technologies and numbers: virtualization… | ||
| Maximum XP: Optimising Life for Adventure | Paul Fenwick | 05m |
Five minute Ignite-style manifesto that claims you can "optimize life for adventure" by treating experiences as XP as life goals, traveling cheaply, and… | ||
| The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Presenters | Josh Berkus | 06m |
Five-minute roast of bad presentation habits that names seven concrete errors and shows how they play out: hide behind the podium, ramble about personal and… | ||
| Using Open Source Technologies to Deliver a Healthcare... | Nagesh Bashyam | 25m |
Claims an open-source reference implementation of NHIN exchange standards called Connect that runs as real software and is already used to link VA, DoD and… | ||
| Distributed, Modular Grid Software for Management and ... | Andrew Hart | 40m |
A reusable middleware called ODT middleware connects clients to data via archive, profile, product, query and datagrid services and is now in the Apache… | ||
| Advancing Interoperability, Patient Safety, and Efficiency ... | Teddy Bachour | 26m |
Microsoft releases three open-source products that implement the Connected Health Framework: Common User Interface controls and guidance (designed with NHS… | ||
| Programming HealthCare Silos | Vaibhav Bhandari | 22m |
A concrete patient flow: an EMR emits HL7v2 pipe‑delimited messages to the lab and back, with results carrying SNOMED CT (e.g. T57000 for gallbladder) and CPT… | ||
| The Project HealthDesign Common Platform: Enabling Innovative Uses... | Sam Faus | 33m |
A working open-source personal health data repository built as a SOAP-based Java web service with a MySQL backend, offering five services: observation… | ||
| Modernizing VistA, ClearHealth's Invaluable Lessons from 'Legacy' ... | David Uhlman | 26m |
ClearHealth rewrites VistA into a horizontally scalable web system running a LAMP stack with memcache, MySQL, PHP and some C++ and extracts MUMPS clinical… | ||
| Building the Redwood MedNet HIE with Mirth Open Source... | Will Ross, Gerald Bortis | 21m |
A rural HIE formed in 2004 builds a grant-funded hub using Mirth tooling rather than expensive vendors, deploying Mirth Connect/Results/Match and lightweight… | ||
| Google Health: Connecting Mobile Patients | Roni Zeiger | 45m |
Google describes concrete efforts: Flu Trends estimates near‑real‑time flu activity from search patterns and mirrors CDC curves a week or two ahead, running in… | ||
| Introduction to Open Source VistA EHR | K.S. Bhaskar, Ben Mehling, David Whiles | 50m |
VistA is the VA’s public‑domain EHR running roughly 160 hospitals and reused as RPMS by Indian Health Service; one hospital implements it for about $6.4M, goes… | ||
| vxVistA.org Community Collaboration Web ... | Deanne Clark, Hugh Creedon, J.D. Keith | 29m |
vxVistA.org packages VA VistA into a non‑VA EHR, removes Social Security numbers as medical record IDs, adds pediatric and women’s modules, and installs in… | ||
| Human Resources Information Systems, HRIS for Health in Low-Resource... | Carl Leitner | 22m |
An open‑source LAMP HRIS suite — IRIS Manage, IRIS Qualify, IRIS Plan — converts dusty paper registries into searchable national databases, deployed as a… | ||
| Leveraging Open Source Software to Assure Privacy of Health Information | Thomas Jones | 24m |
Company builds an open source personal health record system that scales to 3.5 million patients by ingesting CDA/CCD/CCR documents, parsing payloads into… | ||
| Taking OpenEMR, a GPL EMR to ARRA Meaningful Use Certification... | Tony McCormick | 47m |
OpenEMR undergoes a concerted push to meet ONC/ARRA Meaningful Use: a few hundred thousand dollars funds contractors, a modified Scrum with weekly sprints… | ||
| Open Source Is Making a Difference in Health Information Tech... | Deborah Bryant | 30m |
OSU Open Source Lab runs infrastructure that now informs federal health IT decisions and a government-built CONNECT project is released under an open license… | ||
| Welcome and Introduction | Tim O'Reilly | 16m |
Introduces why health IT matters: electronic health records act as a platform that enables feedback loops to spot ineffective procedures and high-cost… | ||
| Open Source's Role in CONNECTing the Public and Private... | David Riley | 47m |
CONNECT ships as a federally funded, BSD‑licensed open source gateway (released April 2009) that implements NHIN service specs and uses a PKI root certificate… | ||
| Free Software on Medical Devices: Unchain My Heart | Karen Sandler | 43m |
Argues that implantable device code must be auditable and often isn’t, citing an FDA advisory of 34,000 malfunctioning ICDs and a MedSec study that uses… | ||
| NHIN Direct: An Open Government Health IT Collaboration | Arien Malec | 51m |
Describes a working, open-source secure transport for clinician-to-clinician exchange that treats health messaging like email: implements S/MIME over SMTP/TLS… | ||
| Data Mining in the EMR Gold Rush | David Uhlman | 32m |
Federal incentives produce roughly a thousandfold increase in EMR data, driving claims of 250 MB per patient per year and hundreds of terabytes to analyze. The… | ||
| The VA and VistA: A Role Model for Radical Improvement of Health... | Phillip Longman | 33m |
Argues that the VA’s VistA grew from an underground clinician hacker culture into the world’s leading integrated health IT, knitting 18,000 programs into a… | ||
| DIY Genomics: An Open Platform for Citizen Science | Melanie Swan | 24m |
Nonprofit DIY Genomics launches tools and studies to link genotype to phenotype: an Android app with 1,500 downloads and open-source Firefox privacy extension… | ||
| Health of the Source | Fred Trotter | 01h 13m |
Open-source VistA acts like the working EHR template: it ships to every VA hospital, implements all 50 evidence-based functions the studies flag as rare, and… | ||
| Open SETIQuest - It Will Be What You Make It! | Jill Tarter | 13m |
SETIQuest describes a concrete, open search pipeline: a 42-element Allen Telescope Array aiming for 350 dishes, instrumentation now ~15 orders of magnitude… | ||
| Is Your Data Free? | Stormy Peters | 09m |
Web services often keep copies of your content and limit exit options; choose services that publish their license and let you export or delete data. Recommend… | ||
| The O'Reilly Radar | Tim O'Reilly | 12m |
Argues that open source and civic tech actually save lives by combining specific tools: Ushahidi and Sahana map incidents, OpenStreetMap fills missing slum… | ||
| George Reese interviewed at OSCON 2010 | George Reese | 05m |
Argues that cloud lock‑in shows up as loss of access during provider failure and as operational drift when a provider changes features, with backups and… | ||
| Marko Gargenta interviewed at OSCON 2010 | Marko Gargenta | 07m |
Explains why Android wins: an open platform that separates hardware from software so one app can target many devices, claiming 150,000 activations per day as… | ||
| Alex Payne interviewed at OSCON 2010 | Alex Payne | 04m |
Scala presents itself as a hybrid object-functional language that combines everyday OOP ergonomics with functional features, and it runs on the JVM and a .NET… | ||
| Kevin Whinnery interviewed at OSCON 2010 | Kevin Whinnery | 04m |
Argues that JavaScript ubiquity makes HTML CSS and JS the pragmatic choice since many developers already know the language and can ship faster than with… | ||
| Coding the Next Generation of American History | Jennifer Pahlka | 05m |
Code for America recruits technologists to embed in cities like Washington DC, Seattle, Philadelphia, Boston and Boulder to build open-source apps that cities… | ||
| Got MeeGo? | Dirk Hohndel | 12m |
Intel and Nokia merge Maemo and Moblin into the MIGO project to produce a unified open-source stack for handsets, tablets, netbooks and in-vehicle systems… | ||
| OSCON 2010: Bryan Sivak | Bryan Sivak | 11m |
Government IT runs twenty percent of servers on Linux and held Apps for Democracy contests that require open licenses, but mandatory top‑down open source rules… | ||
| OSCON 2010: Marten Mickos | Marten Mickos | 09m |
Eucalyptus builds an on‑premise IaaS platform licensed under GPL3 license and claims about 12,000 downloads per month. Originating from an NSF project at UC… | ||
| Welcome | Allison Randal | 03m |
Quick conference orientation: sponsors Intel and Microsoft fund the event, program adds dedicated government 2.0 and healthcare tracks, and sessions span… | ||
| Kristina Chodorow interviewed at OSCON 2010 | Kristina Chodorow | 03m |
MongoDB is a document oriented nonrelational database that stores associative arrays directly and supports secondary indexes plus MapReduce for reporting… | ||
| Mike Hostelter & Jonathan Sharp interviewed at OSCON 2010 | Mike Hostelter, Jonathan Sharp | 04m |
jQuery is framed as a lightweight library that brings CSS selector fluency into scripting and removes tedious DOM tasks, trading tiny runtime overhead for… | ||
| Matthew Russell interviewed at OSCON 2010 | Matthew Russell | 09m |
Recommends starting small — hundreds or thousands of documents — before scaling to Hadoop or cloud clusters; uses concrete tools: NLTK for Python and MALLET… | ||
| Gregory Miller interviewed at OSCON 2010 | Gregory Miller | 18m |
U.S. voting systems are proprietary and concentrated: 88% of voting systems controlled by two vendors and one vendor holds over 75% market share, creating… | ||
| Gregg Pollack interviewed at OSCON 2010 | Gregg Pollack | 06m |
Reports Rails 3 is deep in refactoring with a long beta and a release candidate expected within weeks and some sites already running it in production, cites… | ||
| Melanie Swan interviewed at OSCON 2010 | Melanie Swan | 05m |
Claims rapid fall in sequencing costs with concrete numbers: 23andMe $400, retail whole genome from $350,000 to $100,000 to $20,000, materials cost ~$1,500 and… | ||
| Ian Darwin interviewed at OSCON 2010 | Ian Darwin | 05m |
Android's rapid uptake is credited to the Google brand and right timing and not to a single technical breakthrough. Expectation for tablets and appliances… | ||
| Bryan Sivak interviewed at OSCON 2010 | Bryan Sivak | 06m |
Local governments often duplicate components like geocoders while states each run their own MMIS systems costing about $50–$120M apiece across 56… | ||
| John Jacobsen interviewed at OSCON 2010 | John Jacobsen | 10m |
The project builds the world’s largest neutrino detector by embedding light sensors in Antarctic ice to catch rare particle interactions, producing about 1… | ||
| Edd Dumbill interviewed at OSCON 2010 | Edd Dumbill | 08m |
OSCON returns to Portland and highlights concrete shifts: 730 proposals with 140 accepted and a 70+ waitlist, explicit emphasis on NoSQL, Android and HTML5… | ||
| Jonathan Stark interviewed at OSCON 2010 | Jonathan Stark | 04m |
HTML/CSS/JavaScript works well for content-heavy apps and rapid iteration while native code suits immersive games; distribution via URL and broad WebKit… | ||
| Open Cloud, Open Data | Jean Paoli | 13m |
Microsoft outlines four concrete requirements for interoperable clouds: data portability, reuse of existing standards and new ones where needed, ease of… | ||
| Today's LAMP Stack | David Recordon | 12m |
Maps modern LAMP to the actual components used at scale: uses HipHop for PHP to compile PHP into C++ and reports ~50% CPU reduction on the web tier; stores… | ||
| Public Static Void | Rob Pike | 13m |
A new systems language claims to combine statically typed compiled performance with the brevity and flexibility of dynamic languages, targeting web servers… | ||
| Toward an Open Cloud | Lew Moorman | 09m |
Rackspace donates its cloud code — an object store plus a compute provisioning system that already powers 100,000 customers — to launch OpenStack, released… | ||
| Zohar Babin interviewed at OSCON 2010 | Zohar Babin | 06m |
Argues that HTML5 is not a near-term Flash killer: browser makers disagree on video formats and implementations, HTML5 lacks webcam/microphone capture in the… | ||
| Russ Nelson interviewed at OSCON 2010 | Russ Nelson | 05m |
Builds contrast between expensive buoy platforms and cheap sensors, describing half-million-dollar floating platforms with solar, winch and motor versus a $100… | ||
| Dean Wampler interviewed at OSCON 2010 | Dean Wampler | 02m |
Scala positions itself as a modern replacement for Java, designed for systems and servers by runs on the JVM while adding functional and modular features that… | ||
| Lew Moorman and Jim Curry interviewed at OSCON 2010 | Lew Moorman, Jim Curry | 06m |
Announces OpenStack as a community-driven core for Rackspace cloud services, merging Rackspace code with NASA Nebula under Apache 2 license within four weeks… | ||
| Alasdair Allan interviewed at OSCON 2010 | Alasdair Allan | 08m |
Demo shows face detection running in real time on 3G with slow pan but needs heavy optimization; claim is that iPhone 4’s faster CPU plus iPhone 4 adds 3-axis… | ||
| Ivo Lukas interviewed at OSCON 2010 | Ivo Lukas | 04m |
Global Girls in Tech is a nonprofit social enterprise building a mentorship program that pairs preselected high‑school girls with female tech leaders for 3–6… | ||
| Francesco Cesarini interviewed at OSCON 2010 | Francesco Cesarini | 04m |
Erlang goes open source December 1998 to grow community and ease Ericsson hiring; OTP middleware and Ericsson prototypes seed a language aimed at switching and… | ||
| Steven Vaughn-Nichols interviewed at OSCON 2010 | Steven Vaughn-Nichols | 11m |
Argues that open source is already mainstream in enterprise: Linux on mainframes and widespread use of MySQL and Postgres in Fortune 50 firms, Google runs a… | ||
| Ben Bassi interviewed at OSCON 2010 | Ben Bassi | 04m |
Announces a Drupal module that discovers unstructured user content across site and web sources, ingests it without ontologies, and creates relationships and… | ||
| Your Work in Open Source, Three Years of Incremental Change | Chris DiBona | 10m |
Data come from Google Code search crawl plus project hosting and cover about 3 billion lines of code after deduplicating mirrors and copies. Findings: major… | ||
| OSCON 2010: Mayor Sam Adams | Mayor Sam Adams | 10m |
Portland adopts an open source policy last September that mandates opening city data and code and pursuing open-source procurement. A Civic apps program and… | ||
| Situation Normal, Everything Must Change | Simon Wardley | 29m |
Argues cloud is the commoditization of IT as activities move along a life‑cycle from innovation to utility, demonstrated with a ubiquity‑vs‑certainty graph and… | ||
| The World's Worst Inventions | Paul Fenwick | 25m |
Victorian-era Tempest prognosticator uses leeches in jars (1851) and rings bells — surprisingly accurate but impractical to maintain. A 15 mm × 1.4 mm yeast… | ||
| OSCON Town Hall | Allison Randal, Suzanne Axtell, Edd Dumbill | 16m |
Conference schedule shifts to a 9:00 start and 10-minute breaks between room changes, with Wi‑Fi capacity still patched mid‑conference and a promise to improve… | ||
| Andrew Louis interviewed at OSCON 2010 | Andrew Louis | 08m |
A program that pairs students from two or three schools to build joint capstone projects demonstrates how real distributed software work happens: coast to… | ||
| Peter Scott interviewed at OSCON 2010 | Peter Scott | 07m |
Announcement of a four-course Perl 2 four-course series with a University of Illinois certificate, laying out concrete modules: course one introduces hashes… | ||
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