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 |
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| 10:00 a.m. | 10:50 a.m. |
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 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 |
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| 2:00 p.m. | 2:50 p.m. |
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. |
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) |
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 |
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| 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. |