Anas Tawileh is the Director of Systematics Consulting, a Toronto-based company focused on free and open source software and information security consulting. His portfolio includes several international projects in Canada, the United Stated, Europe, Middle East and Africa. He designed and managed the development of several multilingual Drupal websites, and developed a comprehensive workflow and translation management solution for publishing and managing multilingual website content on different platforms.

Anas is a frequent speaker at several events at industry conferences and events, and his areas of interest include F/OSS solutions for content management, wireless networking and voice over IP, Information Security, Open Data and ICT for Development.

Presentations:
Multilingual Sites and Translation Management in Drupal

I’m a Computer Programming and Analysis graduate from Seneca College currently enrolled in the Bachelor of Software Development Degree. I work at Seneca’s Centre for Development of Open Technology lab as a research assistant developing open source WebGL libraries such as Processing.js and XB PointStream.

Presentations:
XB PointStream: Rendering Point Clouds with WebGL

Andrew Berry is a Drupal fanatic who's been a contributor to the Drupal project since 2006. His journey with Drupal started with a student website that needed to change a sentence in the site footer. Two months and a migration later, Andrew was thoroughly addicted to the Drupal software and community. His contributions as deviantintegral on drupal.org include several modules, patches to Drupal core, and online support. He is also extensively involved with the Waterloo Region Drupal Users Group.

Andrew is strong proponent of the Free Software movement, and loves seeing clients of all shapes and sizes take advantage of the freedom and flexibility it affords. Sharing ideas and "doing it right" gives him the fuel to write awesome software every day.

Andrew also has a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Guelph. While researching there, he specialized in Human Computer Interaction and online security. His research interests include perceptions of privacy online, as well as visualization of security and privacy threats.

Presentations:
Drupal vs. WordPress Smackdown

Andrew Overholt works on Red Hat's Eclipse tools at their Toronto office. At eclipse.org, he leads the Linux Tools project and is a member of the Architecture Council.

Presentations:
Writing, debugging, and analyzing C/C++ Linux applications in Eclipse

Presentations:
Running a Build Farm with Fedora and ARM

Armen Zambrano G. is a former Seneca College graduate that joined Mozilla's Release Engineering in 2008. He has worked on all sorts of automation projects and systems' optimization. He presented at FSOSS last year about Mozilla's release infrastructure (rather than the actual release process) which has buildbot (open source based) as its backbone (see http://fsoss.senecac.on.ca/2010/node/49).

Presentations:
How to ship Open Source software to half a billion users

I am a freelance designer and developer living and working in Toronto, Canada.

A long-time social activist, I also provide communications consultation to progressive businesses and non-profit organizations.

In the last ten years of my life, I have been many things: a partisan communications officer, a community organizer, a technical writer, a protest organizer, a coder, a farmworker and an educator. I love work that requires me to tap the greatest breadth of my experience to create something unique and effective.

Presentations:
Un-bork your hardware: bake it!

A professional technical communicator for more than 30 years, Professor Agnew teaches on documentation development, usability, and writing at Seneca College. An unrepentant geek, she is also a gamer, social media maven, and extreme ironist.

Presentations:
Beyond MAN Pages: 3 Things to Make your Open Source Project a User Favourite

Chris Meek is a 16 month intern at the Toronto Red Hat office working on the SystemTap team.

Presentations:
looking deep into the cloud with systemtap

Chris Tyler is a professor at Seneca College, a long-time user of and contributor to free and open source software, a participant in the Fedora project, and the author of a couple of O'Reilly books. He works in Seneca's Centre for Development of Open Technology on the Fedora-ARM Secondary Architecture project, bringing the Fedora Linux distribution to low-power ARM processors.

Presentations:
Consumer, Creator, Cloud: The Future of Computing, and the Role of Open Source

Workshops:
Popcorn Maker

Presentations:
Buidling a Commercial Game Using Processing.js for Cross-platform Delivery

A software developer from Waterloo, Ontario, Darcy is a volunteer community leader for the Ubuntu's Canadian Local Community Team. He throws Ubuntu release parties (complete with cake!) at Kwartzlab, Kitchener-Waterloo's hackerspace.

Presentations:
Ubuntu Canada: Communitizing the Community with Community Tools

I have been at Red Hat in Toronto for 14 years during which time I have worked on a variety of open source projects mainly in the area of software development tools including gcc, binutils, hardware simulation (sim and sid) and, for the past 3 years or so, systemtap. Before working at Red Hat, I worked for 12 years at IBM on compilers, mainly on front ends.

Presentations:
looking deep into the cloud with systemtap

Workshops:
Introduction to Processing.js for Web and Mobile

Involved in open source since 2004. Support and QA at Canonical.

Presentations:
Unity and GNOME 3

Presentations:
Buidling a Commercial Game Using Processing.js for Cross-platform Delivery

3rd year student at Seneca College, currently working as a researcher at Seneca's Centre for Development of Open Technology (CDOT) on Popcorn.js and Butter.js.

Presentations:
Popcorn.js & Popcorn-Maker

Workshops:
Popcorn Maker

Presentations:
Buidling a Commercial Game Using Processing.js for Cross-platform Delivery

Dru Lavigne is the Community Manager of the PC-BSD project and the lead documentation writer for the FreeNAS project. She is author of BSD Hacks, The Best of FreeBSD Basics, and The Definitive Guide to PC-BSD. She is founder and current Chair of the BSD Certification Group Inc., a non-profit organization with a mission to create the standard for certifying BSD system administrators, and serves on the Board of the FreeBSD Foundation.

Presentations:
FreeNAS 8: Open Source Storage for the Enterprise

Eben is a founder and trustee of the foundation, and is responsible for the overall software and hardware architecture of the Raspberry Pi device. In his day job, he works for Broadcom as an ASIC architect and general troublemaker.

Presentations:
A slice of Raspberry Pi

Ehsan Akhgari has contributed to the Mozilla project for more than 5 years. He has worked on various parts of Firefox, including the user interface and the rendering engine. He originally implemented Private Browsing in Firefox. Right now he's focusing on the editor component in the Firefox engine.

Presentations:
How Web Browsers Work

Emma Jane Hogbin is well known in the Drupal community for her engaging presentations and kickass theming book, Front End Drupal. Her latest book, Drupal: A User's Guide, presents a decade of site building experience in an easy-to-read volume. (Yes, there will be a few free copies given away at the presentation.) With contributions in Drupal's Building Blocks by Earl and Lynette Miles as well as her own workbooks, and a GPL Druplicon knitting pattern, Emma Jane earns her money the hard way: by teaching others how to profit from her experience.

Presentations:
Site Building Extravaganza

Workshops:
Five Secrets to Building Drupal Themes Faster

Frank Eigler works with the Red Hat performance tools team, focusing on systemtap development.

Presentations:
looking deep into the cloud with systemtap

Fred Dixon is an open source developer in the BigBlueButton project and the CEO of Blindside Networks. A serial entrepreneur, Fred has co-founded three technology companies: Databeacon Software (acquired by Cognos 2005), OpenLava Software Inc., and Blindside Networks Inc. In 2003, he was recognized by the Ottawa Business Journal recognized as one of Ottawa’s “Top Forty Under Forty”.

Presentations:
Lecture Broadcast and Capture with BigBlueButton

Frederic Harper is a developer evangelist at Microsoft Canada based in Montreal. Fred has varied experience in the IT world, but has mostly focused on web and mobile development on numerous different platforms. If you want to talk about Web technologies, Open Source, Open Standards and Interoperability, Fred is your man. Even if he looks like a bad guy, don’t be afraid to get in touch with him. He is a kind of social beast. As a social media aficionado, he will be more than happy to connect with you on LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook. If you want to read what he thinks about any day-to-day subjects, please go read his personal blog.

Presentations:
Take the red pill and enter the Matrix

G. Matthew Rice is an engineering graduate of University of Toronto's
Engineering Science programme. After university, he dove right into
software development in Fortran, C, Tcl and Perl. Also, an accomplished
Linux sysadmin, his expertise has increasingly become invaluable to the
Linux Professional Institute (http://www.lpi.org) where he acts as the
Director of Product Development.

Matthew also consults with large companies such as RIM, Palm, Cognos,
Accenture and Compuware on matters concerning Application Life-Cycle
Management (ALM).

Workshops:
LPI Certification Exam Session
LPI Item Cleanup Workshop

Gord Campbell had a long career in the IT industry, including six years as editor of Computing Canada newspaper. Several years ago he jumped into Linux with both feet. In April, 2010, he took over the Q&A column of Full Circle Magazine, the independent magazine for the Ubuntu community.

Presentations:
Comparing Unity and Gnome 3

Heather Leson has a diverse technical background and experience in digital response and open source communities. She brings a passion for community building and idea hacking to her role as Director Community Engagement at Ushahidi. With a formal education in politics and library information technology, she has over 10 years of experience in technical incident management, software life cycle development, customer care and communications in Internet technologies.

A leader within open communities, including Random Hacks of Kindness, Mozilla Drumbeat and CrisisCommons, Heather is the organizer of numerous successful unconference and hackathon events. Bridging information and people inspires her. She enjoys sharing stories about tech super heroes on her blog textontechs.com. Always interested in hearing from members of the Ushahidi community, reach out to Heather at: hleson@ushahidi.com.

Workshops:
Mapping Digital Stories with Ushahidi

Drupal Fanboy; First learned Drupal at a FSOSS workshop.

Jeff Griffiths is a Tech Evangelist at Mozilla, working to promote Mozilla's Add-on SDK ( also known as Jetpack ). Jeff has been a web developer for over 10 years and has spoken at or organized a number of open web events including Open Web Vancouver and Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit.

Presentations:
Introducton to Mozilla's Add-on SDK

Presentations:
Buidling a Commercial Game Using Processing.js for Cross-platform Delivery

Workshops:
Introduction to Processing.js for Web and Mobile

Jon Buckley is a Bachelor of Software Develop graduate from Seneca College, currently working at Seneca's Centre for Development of Open Technologies as a research assistant. He hacks on Processing.js, bringing Processing to the web, and Paladin, Mozilla's open source gaming initiative.

Presentations:
Running a Build Farm with Fedora and ARM

Jon Masters is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, where he works on the Fedora ARM project. Jon is co-author of Building Embedded Linux Systems, and is currently writing a book on porting Linux to new architectures.

Presentations:
Enabling Fedora on new architectures

Presentations:
Running a Build Farm with Fedora and ARM

Julian Egelstaff has been working in the software and IT industries for over 15 years. In 2003, he co-founded Freeform Solutions, a not-for-profit organization with a mission to help other not-for-profits use technology more effectively.

The idea for Freeform Solutions came from seeing how not-for-profit and public sector organizations have many IT challenges in common, but they experience them and approach them differently from commercial organizations. Maybe a for-the-sector, by-the-sector, approach could help everyone do better?

These days Julian puts all his experience to use planning systems with Freeform's partners. He is also the lead programmer of the open source project Formulize, which is a web form and data management system that is designed to provide non-programmers with the ability to create database systems on the web. Before working with technology, Julian spent a lot of time writing and thinking his way towards a Bachelor's degree in Journalism and Philosophy.

Presentations:
Nostalgic About the Future: the challenges of open source entrepreneurship

Presentations:
OLPC Deployment in Kenya

Presentations:
Care: Building a Cloud-based Solution for Non-Profit Organizations

Lawrence Mandel is an XBMC enthusiast who has been using the software in various ways for close to 5 years. While not involved in the development of XBMC he has been involved in open source projects for the last decade. Lawrence is current a Firefox program manager responsible for cross cutting initiatives in the browser. He was previously involved in the Eclipse and Apache open source communities having founded the Web Tools Platform (WTP) and Woden projects. Lawrence is also the author of the book Eclipse Web Tools Platform.

Presentations:
Take control of your TV with XBMC

Mekki holds undergraduate degrees from Carleton University in Computer Systems Engineering, and Psychology, and a Master's degree in Technology Innovation Management. He is a licensed professional engineer (P.Eng) in the province of Ontario. He is currently working on a PhD in Strategic Management at the Schulich School of business. His research interests focus on free/open source software and methods adoption; free and open source ecosystem value creation, extraction, and keystone company positioning; quantifying the value of passive participation in free and open source projects; strategy as practice and practices of free and open source communities; and, the relationship between identity and free and open source community participation. More generally, Mekki is interested in business models that use intellectual resource laws in a creative manner, such as those based on free/libre/open source, creative commons licensing, and the like.

Mekki MacAulay is the Principal of OSStrategy.org, a strategic management consulting firm that helps companies improve their competitive advantage and strategic positioning in a world embracing free and open source methods. Mekki was also the president and founder of MekTek Solutions, an IT services company based in Ottawa, ON that operated from 2002 to 2010.

Presentations:
Free and Open Source Strategy as Practice: Participant Perspectives

Presentations:
How to start an Internet Famous Business with Open Source Software

My name is Mohammed Farrag, ArabBSD Manager, FreeBSD Contributor, Google Technology User Group Administrator and Google Technology User Group Magazine Co-Founder

Neil Hepburn is the Director of Education for IRMAC, and has contributed to DAMA-I's education materials. Currently Neil is leading a Business Intelligence modernization project at Empathica Inc.

Neil has over 17 years IT experience, holds a B.Math in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, and is PMI certified and CDMP certified at the masterly level. Neil is also the GM of marketing for TUN3R - a critically acclaimed Internet Radio Aggregator.

Presentations:
Love The Data

Nelson is the founder and CEO of Citadel Rock Online Communities Inc., a company providing online collaboration and social media solutions. He is a project admin of the Tiki open source software community, and in 2007-08 led the implementation of Tiki for Firefox Support at Mozilla, a pioneer in open source customer support.

Nelson has previously held positions in organizations such as Bank of Canada, Hewlett-Packard, and Singapore Telecom, and successfully architected leading-edge solutions brought to market across the world for companies such as Trans World International Interactive and Telstra.

Nelson holds an M.A. Economics degree from the University of Toronto and an M.Eng. Technology Innovation Management degree from Carleton University. His interests include online communities, open source, industrial organization, and international development.

Presentations:
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware - Software the Wiki Way

Being an engineer by trade my passion is without a doubt being an entrepreneur. Leader, Motivator and Visionary are all qualities one must have in order to be a good entrepreneur. The hard part is finding the right idea, with the right people at the right time in order to truly capitalize on those qualities.

My goal has always been and always will be to combine my love of engineering with my entrepreneurial passion and turn them into a successful venture. My current sectors of interests are learning more about Open Source business models and how to capture the value of such great collaboration. I'm also very interested in using the power of Social Media to market and grow new businesses.

Presentations:
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware - Software the Wiki Way

Ralph Janke has more than 25 years of experience in software development and computer/telecommunications networks. Beside a Masters of Computer Sciences, he has also obtained a law degree and looks at the world of technology from both perspectives. Ralph has been involved in open source through various levels, in particular, by contributing to Ubuntu in several capacities including being a contact for the Ubuntu Canada LoCo and the German speaking Kubuntu community. Ralph has spoken at several Open Source Conferences, in particular at the Ontario Linuxfest in previous years.

Presentations:
Agile Development and Continuous Testing in Open Source

I've been developing software and breaking hardware for 28 years (24 of them professionally). I am a computer generalist that has worked in almost every area related to computer systems, with a special passion for hands-on software development and practices. I am currently a Systems Development Consultant for a large corporation, providing technical direction to remote teams both in Canada and India. In the past I've contributed to Puppy Linux in a truly distributed environment.

Presentations:
When you cannot be there... Remote access and collaboration.

Riyanarto Sarno holds an Ir (Electronic Engineering) from ITB and Drs (Economics) from Pajajaran University.
He received MSc (1988) and PhD (1992) in Computer Science from the University of New Brunswick, Canada.
His research interests include semantic web services, semantic ERP, service oriented analysis and design and ERP Game Simulation.

Presentations:
Developing Open Source Scalable Configurable ERP for SMEs

Rob Day is a long-time Linux and open source trainer, and has spoken at a number of conventions and conferences, most recently Linuxcon 2011 in Vancouver.

Workshops:
The Beginner's Guide to Linux Kernel Programming

Workshops:
Popcorn Maker

I will have to ask him. :)

Workshops:
LPI Certification Exam Session
LPI Item Cleanup Workshop

Scott Nesbitt wears many hats: writer, blogger, editor, speaker, consultant. A long-time user of free and Open Source software, Scott has been exploring how to use free and Open Source tools write and publish since he started using LaTeX in the early 1990s.

Presentations:
Publish Your Own ebooks with FOSS Tools

I help build websites and communities - often at the same time.
I built my first website in 1996 and I still wake up thinking about building them.
I heart the Open Web.
I geek out on web design & development, accessibility, user experience, cooking and games.
I use vi to code, an electric scooter to get to work, and my powers for awesome.
I want to work with people who build websites, communities and make the world more awesome.

Find out more at http://seanyo.ca

Presentations:
Drupal vs. WordPress Smackdown
Web Accessibility Development Tools In Action

Severin is an active Fedora community member, currently works for Red Hat on the Eclipse team and is also a student at University of Toronto. Severin is one of the developers and the maintainer of Fedora Packager for Eclipse which is the project he worked on for the most part of the last 16 months.

Slides: http://jerboaa.fedorapeople.org/presentations/FSOSS_toronto_presentation...

Presentations:
Packaging made easy with Fedora Packager for Eclipse

Simon Chang is the founder of the Toronto Android Users Group (www.torontoandroid.org). He has more than 10 years of experience in the software industry. Simon enjoys learning about open source technologies. He formed the Toronto Android Users Group to facilitate group learning and networking within the Toronto Android developer community.

Presentations:
Introduction to the Google Android Platform

Workshops:
Android Development – Web Service and Data Access

Ushnish Sengupta is an experienced information technology project manager and is currently researching the implementation of technology in social sector organizations. Ushnish has a bachelors in Industrial Engineering and an MBA from the University of Toronto. He is currently a board member of Free Geek Toronto. Free Geek Toronto's Mission includes promoting the use of Free and Open Source Software and has implemented a number of different projects related to FOSS for new users.

Presentations:
Building the base of the FOSS pyramid: Evangelizing Free and Open Source Software for new users