Symposium Agenda
8:45am - 7:00pm Oct. 27, 2006, Toronto |
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| 8:15-8:45am | Registration - SEQ Building, Main Entrance | |||||
| 8:45-8:55am | Welcome Address - Rick Miner, President, Seneca College Gymnasium, SEQ Building |
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9:00am-12:00pm Presentations |
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Track A Room 1206 |
Track B Room 1208 |
Track C Room 1209 |
Track D Room 2168 |
Track E Room 2169 |
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| 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 |
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| 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
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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 |
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| 12:00-12:50pm | Lunch - Cafeteria, SEQ Building | |||||
1:00pm-5:00pm Presentations |
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Track A Room 1206 |
Track B Room 1208 |
Track C Room 1209 |
Track D Room 2168 |
Track E Room 2169 |
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| 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 |
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| 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.
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| 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 |
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| 4:00-4:50pm | Keynote: Monkeys, Desktops and Dictionaries: The Mechanics of the Revolution Nat Friedman, Vice President, Linux Desktop, Novell Gymnasium |
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| 5:00-7:00pm | Free Beer as in Free Beer Mixer - Cafeteria, SEQ Building | |||||
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