Oscon 2008 Schedule
Every year I like to make myself a road map of how I will be spending my time during OSCON. As there are so many interesting possible talks, gatherings and social events it’s tough to get to all the things you care about.
At this point in my career my focus is on Web Development, Test Automation (specifically for the web & browsers), and social networking. Obviously on a moment by moment basis your interests are pulled in varying directions, but that sums up the bulk of my attention.
If you are interested in the full schedule grid, it can be seen here: Oscon 08 Schedule Grid.
Wednesday
- 8:45 AM: Welcome
- 9:30 AM: Keynote
- 10:45 AM:
“An Introduction to Ruby Web Frameworks” (It’s going to be tough to convince me to move away from Django)“Changing Education… Open Content, Open Hardware, Open Curricula” looks more interesting today. - 11:35 AM:
This one is tough, either “Web Graphics and Animations without Flash”, “Beautiful Concurrency with Erlang”, or“Beyond REST? Building Data Services with XMPP PubSub”, “CouchDB from 10,000 ft” apparently thats the thing see, or “What Has Ruby Done for You Lately? - 12:20 PM: Really important, LUNCH!
- 1:45 PM: Probably “Thunderbird 3″, maybe “The Open-Source Identity Revolution”
- 2:35 PM: “Caching and Performance Lessons from Facebook”, never know when this one might come in handy working for Slide inc.
- 4:30 PM: “Open Source Community Antipatterns”, I’m really looking forward to hearing Ted Leung explain how to NOT run an Open Source Project…
- 5:30 PM: Probably “Give your Site a Boost with memcached”, or “Shell Scripting Craftmanship”
Thursday
- 8:45 AM: Keynote
- 9:30 AM: Keynote
- 10:45 AM: “Open Source Microblogging”
- 11:35 AM: “This is Your PostgreSQL on Drugs”
- 1:45 PM: “CSS for High Performance JavaScript UI”
- 2:35 PM: “Stupid Django Tricks”
- 4:30 PM: Either “Fixing Hard Problems Through Iterative QA and Development” or “Effective Software Development with Python, C++, and SWIG”, as I have worked with both speakers (Clint Talbert, Robin Dunn) respectively. OR “Machine Learning for Knowledge Extraction from Wikipedia & Other Semantically Weak Sources. This is a hard one..
- 5:20 PM: Couple interesting choices jump out at me here: “Code is Easy, People are Hard: Developing Meebo’s Interview Process”, or “Designing Political Web Apps for MoveOn.org” both could be really cool.
Friday
- 9:30 AM: Plenary
- 10:45 AM: “Toward a Strong Open Source Ecosystem” by Sara Ford at Microsoft? Interested to see what she has to say…
- 11:35 AM: Oh hell yeah, “Searching for Neutrinos Using Ope Source at the Bottom of the World”
- 12:30 PM: Plenary
- 1:30 PM: Plenary, Bye Bye’s
Off to the train to Seattle…
I am going to try a new thing using the Word Press app on my new iPhone 3G, to jot down small blog entries of points during the talks, then fill out the rest of the entry with more detail later.
It’s 2:41 now, so lets see if I can get to that 8:45 AM.. yowch.
July 23, 2008
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