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Symposium Agenda

8:45am - 7:00pm Oct. 27, 2006, Toronto


8:15-8:45am Registration - SEQ Building, Main Entrance
8:45-8:55am

Welcome Address - Rick Miner, President, Seneca College

Gymnasium, SEQ Building


9:00am-12:00pm Presentations

 

Track A

Room 1206

Track B

Room 1208

Track C

Room 1209

Track D

Room 2168

Track E

Room 2169

9:00-9:50am

Keynote: You Should Be Giving This Keynote

Mike Shaver, Co-founder, Mozilla Project

Gymnasium

10:00-10:50am Next-Generation DRM Systems and the Shadowy International Organizations Who Love Them

Ren Bucholz, Policy Coordinator, Americas, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Room 1206

Curious George and the $100 Million Supercomputer

Phil Schwan

Room 1208

Monetizing Open Source at Sun

Brian Down, Chief Technologist, Sun Canada

Room 1209

Let's Moodle some more......

Meron Hrycusko, Senior Web Developer, York University

Room 2168

Pure Data: An Open Source Programming Language for Artists

Dafydd Hughes

Room 2169

11:00-11:50am Why Share?

Marcus Bornfreund, Creative Commons, Canada

Room 1206

CANCELED

All Roads Lead to Rails

Ryan McMinn, Partner, Unspace Interactive Inc.

Room 1208

 

Web 2.0, eLearning, and Open Source

Kevin Pitts, eLearning Faculty Advisor - Seneca College

James Humphreys, eLearning Faculty Advisor - Seneca College

Room 1209

Picking an AJAX Toolkit

Lawrence Mandel & Jeffrey Liu, Software Developers, IBM Rational Software

Room 2168

Documentation: A Key to Openness

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

Room 2169


12:00-12:50pm Lunch - Cafeteria, SEQ Building

1:00pm-5:00pm Presentations

 

Track A

Room 1206

Track B

Room 1208

Track C

Room 1209

Track D

Room 2168

Track E

Room 2169

1:00-1:50pm

Keynote: The selling of Linux and Open Source : Do we suck at this or what?

Marcel Gagné, Author of "Moving to Linux: Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye!" and Linux Journal Columnist

Gymnasium

2:00-2:50pm One Laptop Per Child Project

Chris Blizzard

Room 1206

ccHost: Open Service and Media Hosting with Creative Commons software

Jon Phillips, Open Clip Art Library

Room 1208

Breaking the module mold - rapid application development in a module-driven, PHP-based platform/CMS

Julian Egelstaff, Senior Business Analyst/Lead Developer, Freeform Solutions

Room 1209

Adventures with Apple's WebKit

Steve Hayman, Apple

Room 2168

TBA

Jesse Hirsh, President, Openflows Networks, Inc.

 

3:00-3:50pm The Social Logic of Freedom: OpenOffice.org

Louis Suarez-Potts, Community Manager and Community Lead, OpenOffice.org

Room 1206

Documentation in the Open Source World

Eric Shepherd, Developer Documentation Lead, Mozilla Corporation

Room 1208

 

Why Drupal Can Kick Your CMS' Ass

James Walker, Bryght

Room 1209

Are you Certifiable? Preparing for LPI Exams

G. Matthew Rice, VP of Product Development, Linux Professional Institute

Room 2168

Little "s" Semantic: Exploring Metadata About the Web

Nathan Yergler, Senior Software Engineer, Creative Commons

Room 2169

4:00-4:50pm

Keynote: Monkeys, Desktops and Dictionaries: The Mechanics of the Revolution

Nat Friedman, Vice President, Linux Desktop, Novell

Gymnasium


5:00-7:00pm Free Beer as in Free Beer Mixer - Cafeteria, SEQ Building

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