Agenda

October 24th, 2005, Toronto

8:15 a.m. 8:45 a.m. Registration - Main Entrance off The Pond Road
Coffee - Upper Kaleidoscope Room (2168)

8:45 a.m. 8:55 a.m. Welcome Address - Lecture Hall (1206)

9:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m. Presentations - Track A Presentations - Track B Presentations - Track C
9:00 a.m. 9:50 a.m.

Open Source 101: Introduction to Collaboration

Marcus Bornfreund, Creative Commons, Canada

Lecture Hall, Room 1206

10:00 a.m. 10:50 a.m.

The Open Enterprise

Kevin Pitts, Professor, eLearning Centre - Seneca College

Room 1206

Using open source... what? Are you crazy?

Hassan Assiri, Manager, Academic Computing Systems, Seneca College

Lower Kaleidoscope Room (1209)

Python Power -- Learning, Teaching and Doing with the World's Easiest Programming Language

George Belotsky, Open Light Software, Inc.

Room 1208

11:00 a.m. 11:50 a.m.

The Open Source Service-Centric Business Model

Jesse Hirsh, President, Openflows Networks Ltd.

Room 1206

Moodle: the Open Source Alternative to WebCT

Meron Hrycusko, Senior Web Developer-Designer, York University, Academic Technology Services

Lower Kaleidoscope Room (1209)

Teaching Web and J2EE Development with Eclipse

Jeffrey Liu, Software Developer, IBM
Lawrence Mandel, Software Developer, IBM

Room 1208


12:00 p.m. 12:50 p.m Lunch - Upper Kaleidoscope Room (2168)
Additional seating in Rooms 2170 and 2171

1:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. Presentations - Track A Presentations - Track B Presentations - Track C
1:00 p.m. 1:50 p.m.

LTSP - Changing the Rules of the Desktop World

Jim McQuillan, Founder and Project leader of the Linux Terminal Server Project

Lecture Hall, Room 1206

2:00 p.m. 2:50 p.m.

An overview of OpenOffice 2.0

Marcel Gagné, Author of "Moving to Linux: Kiss the Bluescreen of Death Goodbye!"

Room 1206

TBA

Joey deVilla, Technical Community Develoment Coordinator, Tucows Inc.

Lower Kaleidoscope Room (1209)

The Life-cycle of Open Source: The Renaissance of X

Chris Tyler, Professor, School of Computer Studies, Seneca College

Room 1208

3:00 p.m. 3:50 p.m.

Open Solaris

Daniela Malea, Engagement Architect - Client Solutions, Sun Microsystems of Canada

Room 1206

How to Do Things with Source Code: Reading Open Source

David Humphrey, Professor, School of Computer Studies - Seneca College

Lower Kaleidoscope Room (1209)

"Open" Session & Coffee

Completely open and unmoderated. Drop by and chat about your own free software and open source projects or ideas!

Upper Kaleidoscope Room (2168)

4:00 p.m. 4:50 p.m.

Ruby, Blackboard and the Challenge for Open Source

Stephen Downes, Senior Researcher, National Research Council

Lecture Hall, Room 1206

5:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. Free Beer as in Free Beer Mixer - The Hive

We would like to know how we can make the symposium even better. Please tell us what you liked and what you would like to see in next year's symposium. Email comments to robert.boyczuk@senecac.on.ca.