Speakers

One of the best reasons to attend the O'Reilly Open Source Convention is the unprecedented gathering of top-notch presenters, leaders, and experts from all avenues of the open source movement. You will find core developers, unique users, and visionaries who will share their knowledge with you to help you solve your computing or programming challenges. You won't find a gathering like this at any other conference.

Our speaker list is growing daily. Please check back regularly to see who we have lined up for you.

N/A Aahz
Aahz has been programming in Python for more than three years and enjoys teaching people how to use Python. Aahz was a technical editor for two Python books and has presented tutorials at OSCON 2000, OSCON 2001, and the Ninth Python Conference.

Tutorial: Python Thread Programming

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Gisle Aas
Gisle Aas is a senior developer at ActiveState. He is one of the core Perl developers and maintainer of several Perl modules on CPAN, including LWP. At ActiveState, Aas led the project for enabling Perl to work with Zope. Before coming to ActiveState he worked as an independent consultant in Norway.

Session: pyperl: Perl & Python is True!

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DJ Adams
DJ Adams is an old SAP hacker who still thinks JCL and S/370 assembler is pretty cool. In recent years he's been successfully combining Open Source software with R/3 to produce hybrid systems that show off the power of free software.

He is the author of O'Reilly's Programming Jabber, contributes articles to O'ReillyNet's P2P site, and has to own up to being responsible for the Jabber::Connection, Jabber::RPC and Jabber::Component::Proxy modules on CPAN.

Session: Transfusing Message Plasma into Business with Perl and Other Magic

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John W. Adams
Despite being at best a mediocre Perl programmer, John Adams spent the last five years at a huge corporation supporting an even huger corporation, using Perl as his primary programming language and tool of choice. During those years, he lost many fights, none about Perl. He is now a data-warehousing consultant based out of Houston, Texas. He has been a newspaper publisher, a bookseller, and a professional student, and writes poetry about Kurt Godel, John von Neumann, and Alan Turing.

Session: Advocacy-Case Study: TMTOWTG(T)T(LY)DI

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Tracy Adams
Tracy Adams is a co-founder of ArsDigita, the chief developer of the original ArsDigita Community System and currently serves as the company's VP of Developer Relations. Prior to ArsDigita, Tracy was with PlanetAll.com (acquired by Amazon.com) and several Boston-area startups. Tracy holds Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in computer science from MIT, where she received the Henry Ford II Scholar Award as most outstanding engineering student in her graduating class.

Session: Benefits of an Open Source Content Management Solution

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Ben Adida
Ben Adida began building database-backed web services in 1995. He was a member of the original ArsDigita team and built early pieces of the ArsDigita Community System, a toolkit for building scalable, collaborative web applications. In November 1999, he helped launch the OpenACS project, a port of the ArsDigita Community System to PostgreSQL. The OpenACS is the only enterprise-class fully open-source web toolkit available to date. Adida is a continuing contributor and architect on the OpenACS project.

Session: OpenACS: Porting Oracle Apps to PostgreSQL

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Brian Aker
Brian Aker is the director of architecture for MySQL when he helps set direction for technology and looks for opportunities to harness and shape the MySQL database for efforts in Web, OEM, and telephony. In his copious amounts of free time he works on Apache and Perl modules, and hacks on the Asterisk Telephony System (hence, never has a working home phone number). In the past, he has been involved with projects for the Army Engineer Corps, The Virtual Hospital, Splunk, and Slashdot. He lives in Seattle with his dog Rosalynd.

Session: Slash: Taming the Beast

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Richard Alan
Rick Alan is an independent software developer with 12+ years of experience in Microsoft, Sun and Open Source technologies. He has degrees in Biology and Electrical Engineering and is also a professional musician and storyteller.

Panel: Lessons Learned from Working with Mozilla

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David Aldrich
David Aldrich works at UNT Health Science Center writing applications exclusively utilizing Open Source software, and teaches classes on various open source topics including Perl and Linux. He began using UNIX in the mid 1980s.

Session: Moving From Flat File Storage to RDBMS

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Jeff D. Almeida
Jeff Almeida is Chief Scientist for a company delivering web-based HR solutions. He has spent the last seven years working as a web developer and sysadmin, building solutions for high-profile clients like Sprint and the Green Bay Packers. He and his family currently live near Dallas, TX.

Session: Filesystem Layouts and Apache Performance

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Michael Ang
Michael Ang is a former Netscape software developer who started working on the "Mozilla Classic" code base in January 1998. While at Netscape he worked on the JavaScript interpreter, the XPIDL compiler and XPConnect. He purports to understand the "big picture" of how the key technologies in Mozilla fit together. Ang currently works for Linuxcare where his activities include kernel and device driver hacking for the PA-RISC Linux port.

Session: Using JavaScript with XPCOM: Components the Easy Way

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Fabio Arciniegas
Fabio Arciniegas is the President and Chief Technical Officer of Postgraphy, a company he co-founded in 2001 for the development of high-end graphics software and technical consulting, mainly in the areas of Image Processing and XML development. Fabio is the creator and main developer of ShotTreatment. As a writer, Fabio is the author of three books in XML development including the unique C++ XML and Addison Wesleys' upcoming Patterns in XML. He contributes regularly to xml.com.

Session: XML User Interfaces: SMIL and VoiceXML

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Kaj Arnö
Kaj Arnö is VP Community at MySQL AB. He promotes the 3 Ps of the MySQL Community: Popularity, Participation and Pioneering -- connecting the external and internal MySQL developers with each other. Kaj believes there are internal connections between his favourite topics which include arranging meetings in a virtual organisation, coping with timezones, managing cross-cultural teams and singing drinking songs (a practice of his native Finland that he is promoting with varied success in Munich, Germany where he's currently living).

Tutorial: Optimizing MySQL

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Jason Asbahr
Jason Asbahr's passion is building virtual worlds. His background includes programming Ultima Online 2 at Origin Systems, developing one of the first PC-based virtual actors for Compaq, crafting virtual building walkthroughs for architects, and performing laser shows for the Houston Museum of Natural Science. His current project is the massively multiplayer open source game Netsu.

Session: Python for Massively Multiplayer Virtual Worlds

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David Ascher
David Ascher manages the ActiveState division of Sophos, an international software company. In this role, he provides business and technical leadership for ActiveState's tools, languages, and resources for open source programming languages.

Prior to ActiveState's acquisition by Sophos, Ascher was the technical lead for ActiveState's Python initiatives and for the Komodo integrated development environment (IDE), which was one of the first professional applications built on top of the Mozilla codebase by a team outside of the Netscape/Mozilla team. Komodo is a commercial IDE which has been on the market for several years, and ships on Windows, Linux, Solaris, and soon Mac OS X.

Ascher is a key figure in the Python community, and a director of the Python Software Foundation. He is a Python trainer and frequent speaker at software conferences, including the O'Reilly Open Source Convention. Ascher co-authored Learning Python and co-edited The Python Cookbook, both published by O'Reilly; helped develop and document the Numeric and PyOpenGL Python extensions.

Prior to joining ActiveState, Ascher was a Python consultant in areas including telemedicine, high-performance graphics, scientific computing, web/database interfaces, and Windows CE. He has worked for Apple Computer, Neuron Data, Brown University, and Distributed Data Systems.

Ascher holds a B.Sc. in Physics and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science, both from Brown University. His interests include scientific computing, advanced user interface and object-oriented programming techniques.

Session: Komodo: Building an Application Based on the Mozilla Framework
Session: The Adventures of a Snake in the Land of Camels
Panel: Lessons Learned from Working with Mozilla

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Elaine Ashton
Elaine Ashton is Sr. Unix Systems Administrator for Nokia. She is the leak plugger for search.cpan.org and creator/maintainer of {lists|bookmarks|mirror}.cpan.org and CPAN Assistant Librarian while the Master Librarian is busy being pump king for Perl 5.8. Ashton’s other highlights include the Perl Monger Taxi, White Camel Award Recipient, and the Perl Timeline creator/maintainer for history.perl.org.

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Daniel Austin
Daniel Austin is currently Director of Research and Development at Mozquito Technologies AG, working on developing cutting-edge web technology with XML. As a member of the XHTML and XML Core Working Groups at W3C, Dr. Austin is the co-editor of "XHTML Modularization in XML Schema", currently a W3C Working Draft, and is also involved in modularizing XML Schemas for diverse platforms. Dr. Austin lives in Munich, Germany. Originally from the United States, Dr. Austin was formerly Director of R&D at CNET, and Senior Information Architect for Ask Jeeves, Inc. In a previous life, he worked for NASA and taught physics at University.

Session: Modularizing XML Schema

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David Axmark
David Axmark is one of the founders of MySQL AB and has been working with MySQL since before it had a name. His involvement with MySQL began with the idea to make an open source SQL RDBMS to replace an old terminal-based tool named UNIREG.

Session: MySQL Replication: Scaling to New Heights

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Fred Baker
Fred Baker has worked in the telecommunications industry since 1978, building statistical multiplexors, terminal servers, bridges, and routers. At Cisco Systems, his primary interest areas include the improvement of Quality of Service for best effort and real time traffic, and the development of next generation routing and addressing for the Internet. In addition to product development, as a Cisco Fellow, he advises senior management of industry directions and appropriate corporate strategies.

His principal standards contributions have been to the IETF, for which he served as IETF Chair in from March 1996 to March 2001. In that forum, he has contributed to Network Management, Routing, PPP and Frame Relay, the Integrated and Differentiated Services architectures, and the RSVP signaling protocol. He now serves on the IETF’s Internet Architecture Board, and as a technical contributor.

Keynote: Will the Next Generation Internet Still Depend on Open Source?

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Jeffrey W. Baker
Speaker biography coming soon.

Session: Reference Implementation of an Open Micropayment System Using Apache and Perl

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Mitchell Baker
Mitchell Baker is CEO of Mozilla Corporation, and Chief Lizard Wrangler for the Mozilla project as a whole. The Mozilla project strives to maintain choice and innovation in key Internet applications by delivering great, user-friendly software, such as the Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client. As one of the world's largest open source software development projects, the Mozilla project includes paid and volunteer staff members, engineers at numerous companies who are paid to work on Mozilla, a volunteer population numbering in the thousands, a range of spin-off projects, and a set of companies using Mozilla technology to build products.

Session: State of the Mozilla Project

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Stig Bakken
Speaker biography coming soon.

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Steve Ball
Steve Ball is founder and CTO of Australia's first dedicated XML consultancy, Zveno. A long time Web application developer, Steve started working with XML in 1996. He is the original author of several Open Source projects, including TclXML (an XML parser for the Tcl scripting language), TclDOM (a Tcl language binding for the DOM), "waX Me Lyrical" (an XML editor) and Plume (a general purpose Web browser). Steve is author of Web Tcl Complete (McGraw-Hill), several magazine articles and numerous research papers.

Tutorial: Introduction to XML
Tutorial: TclDOM
Tutorial: TclXML
Session: Using XML with Tcl

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Bill Barnett
Bill Barnett has responsibility for technology strategy, common component development, and development best practices at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, the investment banking division of Dresdner Bank.

Prior to that, he created the Distributed Object Integration Team (DO-IT) at First Union National Bank, which delivered common components and introduced Java, Corba, XML, and Servlets to the FUNB development environment.

Session: openadaptor
Session: openadaptor: Enterprise Integration and Open Source

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Graham Barr
Graham Barr has contributed to the development of the Perl language and is the author of many network related modules, such as Net::FTP and Net::LDAP and was the original author of the IO::Socket modules. Barr is also the author of the search.cpan.org website and co-founder of the CPAN testers group.

Tutorial: Network Programming with Perl
Tutorial: Programming with Net::LDAP

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James Barry
James Barry comes to CollabNet from International Business Machines, with a solid understanding of the Open Source Community and commercial software development. While at IBM, Barry initiated the WebSphere product line of Internet middleware servers. Barry was pivotal in IBM's adoption of the Apache Webserver as the official Webserver for IBM, as well as initiating the Apache Jakarta Project between Apache, Sun Microsystems and IBM. Barry worked with the Linux and Open Source strategy teams bringing IBM into the world of Open Source software as part of his strategy responsibilities. Prior to IBM, Barry was a partner in ResNova software, an early Webserver software company acquired by Microsoft. In addition, he also founded InfoPort.com, one of the first commercial ISPs, in 1993. Barry brings over 20 years of management experience initiating change at Fortune 500 companies as well as successful startups. Barry received a BA in Economics from the University of Colorado. He left his MBA program at the University of Colorado to begin working on commercial Internet software after discovering the power of the Internet.

Session: Leveraging Collaboration, How Collaborative Development Can Improve the Software Development Lifecycle
Session: Town Hall: The Beat Goes On

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David Beazley
David Beazley is the author of the Python Essential Reference. He is also the developer of a SWIG, a freely available tool for automatically interfacing C/C++ software with Python, Perl, and Tcl. He has taught a variety of tutorials on C-scripting language integration and is currently an assistant professor at the University of Chicago where he teaches courses in operating systems, networks, and Internet programming.

Session: New Features in Python 2

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Brian Behlendorf
Brian Behlendorf founded CollabNet, with O'Reilly & Associates, in July 1999. The company provides tools and services based on open source methods. Before launching CollabNet, Behlendorf was co-founder and CTO of Organic Online, a Web design and engineering consultancy located in San Francisco. During his five years at Organic, Behlendorf helped create Internet strategies for dozens of Fortune 500 companies. During that time, he co-founded and contributed heavily to the Apache Web Server Project, co-founded and supported the VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) effort, and assisted several IETF working groups, particularly the HTTP standardization effort. Before starting Organic, Behlendorf was the first Chief Engineer at Wired Magazine and later HotWired, one of the first large-scale publishing Web sites.

Behlendorf is President of the Apache Software Foundation. He also serves as a Technical Advisor to Critical Path (CPTH) and Topica.

Session: Who Will Capture the Economic Benefits of Open Source?

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Stas Bekman
Stas Bekman is an open source developer, spending most of his time working on the ASF mod_perl project. He is an ASF member, online columnist, and a co-author of Practical mod_perl, published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Tutorial: Getting Started with mod_perl

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Robin Berjon
Robin Berjon is an independant contractor and consultant with strong experience in XML publishing and Perl programming. He has contributed to several Open Source projects such as AxKit and the PerlSAX2 effort.

Session: Towards an XPath API

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Roberto Biancardi
Speaker biography coming soon.

Session: bware cache: Extending PHP to Cache-compiled Code Inside Web Server Memory

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Gunther Birznieks
Gunther Birznieks' early involvement in cutting edge biotechnology research brought him to the Web to manage collaborative research from the start and eventually went on to be a cofounder of eXtropia in Asia where he is CTO. Throughout this time, Birznieks has subsequently published multiple books and talks in various areas of web programming including the CGI Programming with Perl book from O'Reilly.

Session: Bridging mod_Perl to Other Persistent Perl Environments

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Ask Bjørn Hansen
Ask Bjørn Hansen is a software developer and consultant focused on Perl, Apache, Linux and other open source technologies. He has worked with Perl for more than eight years, building large and small systems in Perl, including mod_perl systems serving thousands of requests per second. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and has been building and managing much of the perl.org community infrastructure since 1999.

Session: Real World Performance Tuning

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Alan W. Black
Alan W Black is faculty at the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and co-founder of Cepstral, LLC, a company offering voice building services on top of free software synthesis engines. He has over 15 years in speech and language research, publishing more than 50 papers in those fields. He is a principal author of Edinburgh University's Festival Speech Synthesis System, and co-author of the forthcoming O'Reilly book "Building Synthetic Voices", and co-author of FestVox and Flite.

Session: Building Synthetic Voices
Session: The CMU Sphinx Open Source Speech Initiative

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David N. Blank-Edelman
David N. Blank-Edelman is the Director of Technology at the Northeastern University College of Computer and Information Science and the author of the O'Reilly book Perl for System Administration. He has spent the last 18 years as a system/network administrator in large multi-platform environments, including Brandeis University, Cambridge Technology Group, and the MIT Media Laboratory. He has served as Senior Technical Editor for the Perl Journal.

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David Blevins
David Blevins is a contributing author to the book Component-Based Software Engineering (Addison-Wesley 2001) and author of a forthcoming Addison-Wesley book on the Java 2 Enterprise Edition. Blevins is also the co-founder of the OpenEJB open source Enterprise JavaBeans container system. In the past, he has also been involved in the development of other Java middleware technologies like the JDBCTM API and Object Serialization for the Java platform. Blevins can be found speaking about EJB and OpenEJB at conferences such the Exolab Sessions, and JavaOne.

Session: OpenEJB: The EJB Container System

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Ryan Bloom
Ryan Bloom is a senior software engineer at Covalent Technologies in San Francisco, CA. He is currently working on Apache 2.0 and the Apache Portable Run-Time.

Session: Apache 2.0: Where Is It?
Session: Apache Portable Run-time: Why?
Tutorial: Writing an Apache 2.0 Filter

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Rich Bodo
Rich Bodo is the coordinator of the GNUCOMM, TOSI, and Voxilla.org projects. He previously worked at a number of silicon valley telephony and Linux companies, and is now the Managing Director of Open Source Telecom Corporation. For the last two years he has been developing and commercially deploying GNU/Linux based telecommunications systems. In his copious spare time he is studying to be an Emergency Medical Technician and hosting geeky get togethers such as the Free Telephony Summit.

Session: GNUCOMM and Bayonne

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Rich Bowen
Rich Bowen is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, where he works on the documentation of the Apache Web Server. He's also the web guy at Asbury college (asbury.edu) in Wilmore, Kentucky.

Tutorial: Introduction to the Apache Server

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Ronald A. Bowers
Speaker biography coming soon.

Session: Tcl/Tk in Survivability Modeling for Military Systems

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Don Box
Don Box is an architect at Microsoft where he works on XML messaging technologies and protocols. Don began the XML phase of his life by co-authoring the first SOAP specification in 1998 and has been active in the field of hooking programs together for at least a dozen years.

Session: Pervasive XML: Viewing the World Through Infoset-colored Glasses
Session: SOAP Mishaps and Mistakes

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Franc Brglez
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Dan Brian
Dan Brian is a software engineer, writer, analyst, and entrepreneur. His development and research interests include natural language processing, knowledge ontologies, and entertainment software. He is currently engaged with a small startup building web-based multiplayer knowledge games scheduled to launch in 2005. Brian was formerly a columnist for the Perl journal, a contributor to several O'Reilly texts, and a senior software engineer at NTT/Verio.

Session: Developing WAP Applications with Perl
Session: Linguana
Tutorial: Processing XML with Perl
Session: Statistical Disambiguation of Word Senses with Perl
Session: VSAP: A Dynamic, Scalable Hosting Application Platform

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James Briggs
Speaker biography coming soon.

Session: Internationalized Programming with Perl and ICU

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Leon Brocard
Leon Brocard (a.k.a. acme) is an orange-loving Perl/Parrot Eurohacker with many varied contributions to the Perl community, including the GraphViz module on the CPAN. YAPC::Europe was all his fault. He is still looking for a Perl Monger group he can start which begins with the letter 'D.'

Session: Graphing Perl
Session: Instant Compilers

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Tim Bunce
Tim Bunce has been a Perl5-porter since 1994, contributing to the development of the Perl language and many of its core modules. He is the author and maintainer of the Perl DBI module.

He is the founder and CTO of Data-Plan Services, a Perl, database, and performance consultancy with an international client base. He is co-author, along with Alligator Descartes, of Programming the Perl DBI, the definitive book on DBI, published by O'Reilly Media.

Tutorial: Advanced DBI
Session: Oracle::OCI Module

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Sean M. Burke
Burke is a columnist for /The Perl Journal/, and has written a few dozen modules in CPAN, notably the current generation of HTML::Tree (HTML::TreeBuilder et al). He has a Master's in Linguistics from Northwestern University (thesis 1997: /The Design of Online Lexicons/) and is involved in various projects to study and preserve Native American languages. He is currently working on a book about LWP for O'Reilly & Associates, due out in late 2001.

Tutorial: Web Access with Perl's LWP modules

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Scott Burton
Speaker biography coming soon.

Session: Network Mapping and Management in Zope

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Jerry Carter
Jerry Carter is a Software Architect with SpeechWorks International, specializing in object-oriented methodologies, design patterns, and computer speech recognition. He is an active member of the W3C Voice Browser Working Group focused on VXML, SSML, NLSML, and many other acronyms. He is a graduate of both Caltech and UPenn and skis and plays ultimate frisbee whenever he can. Jerry remembers 8" floppies and the web browser Mosaic. He uses both vi and Emacs.

Session: The OpenVXI VoiceXML Interpreter

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Dave Carvell
Dave Carvell is a Software Engineer and Division Manager for Galaxy Global Corporation of Bridgeport, West Virginia. He has designed and written software in a variety of business, industrial, networking, and artificial intelligence applications.

Session: File Conversion for Space Shuttle Issue Trouble Reports

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Jesus Castagnetto
Jesus Castagnetto, a physical-organic chemist by training and a computational chemist and net-head by inclination, works in The Scripps Research Institute’s Metalloprotein Structure and Design Group. He developed the Metalloprotein Database and Browser (MDB), a bioinformatics resource with both a user interface and a set of APIs (web services).

Session: Creating an API for a Bioinformatic Web Application: The Metalloprotein-site Database and Browser at TSRI

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Joshua Chamas

Josh Chamas is a Senior Consultant with MySQL, specializing in database migrations and performance tuning. He graduated from Stanford with a B.S.C.S., and has been involved in numerous database migrations especially to and from Oracle and MySQL over the past 9 years. He has been responsible for performance analysis and database tuning for large web clusters servicing millions of users, as well as data warehousing applications up to a terabyte in size.

In 1999, he became involved with MySQL while migrating a high performance OLTP database from Oracle, and wrote part of the core MyISAM storage engine to make it more scalable for this project, as well as adding other ANSI SQL syntactic glue to facilitate general migration work.

Tutorial: Advanced Apache::ASP

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Permaine Cheung
Permaine Cheung is the Senior Database Test engineer, at Red Hat, Inc. She is currently responsible for product development of the Red Hat , which is based on the open source project - PostgreSQL, and the supporting database tools. Permaine has over 7 years experience in the computer industry in a variety of testing software tools and databases roles.

Session: The RedHat Database

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Steve Chirokas
Steve Chirokas is Director of Product and Channel Marketing at SpeechWorks where he is responsible for product teams managing SpeechWorks speech recognition and SpeechSite, Speechify and Eloquent ETI Text-to-Speech, SpeechSecure voice recognition, and software components provided as part of the Open Speech Web. Steve also manages marketing efforts targeted for partners integrating and selling SpeechWorks products. Steve is involved with guiding SpeechWorks' product direction on integration and adherence to the VoiceXML standard including past participation within the VoiceXML Forum as part of the Educational Committee. Prior to SpeechWorks, Steve was Director of Marketing at Process Software for product lines including Directory-based IP management solutions, web services and TCP/IP systems. Steve has held previous Marketing positions with Compaq, VDOnet, Brooktrout and Scitex.

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Tom Christiansen
Tom Christiansen is an author and trainer who has been involved with Perl since its initial public release in 1987. Tom is the owner of the perl.com domain and website, author and major caretaker of Perl's online documentation, original author and co-maintainer of the Perl Frequently Asked Questions list, and frequent technical reviewer for The Perl Journal and O'Reilly & Associates.

Tom is the lead author of The Perl Cookbook and co-author of Programming Perl, Learning Perl, and Learning Perl on Win32 Systems - all bestsellers from O'Reilly & Associates. He served two terms on the USENIX Association Board of Directors and was president of The Perl Journal.

Perl users selected Tom to receive the White Camel award in 1999, the year of the award's inception. Members of the Open Source community voted Tom the Best Newbie Helper in the first annual Andover.Net Slashdot Open Source Community Awards, 2000, to honor Open Source pioneers.

Tom owns and operates Tom Christiansen Perl Consultancy, also known as TCPC, which has provided Perl training to most major corporations, Fortune 500 businesses, and military branches in the US as well as many companies internationally.

He has a Masters degree in Computer Science specializing in operating systems design and in computational linguistics from the University of Wisconsin - Madison where he also received Bachelors degrees in Spanish and Computer Science.

Tutorial: Advanced Perl

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chromatic
chromatic is the technical editor of the O'Reilly Network. He edits ONLamp.com, the Linux Dev Center, and Perl.com. In his spare time, he is a prolific CPAN developer, a member of the Perl 6 design team, and a contributor to Perl 5, Parrot, and Pugs.

chromatic is also the author or co-author of several books, including Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook (with Ian Langworth) and Perl Hacks (with Damian Conway and Curtis "Ovid" Poe).

Session: Applying XP to Open Source Projects
Session: Principles of XP and Open Source

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Wesley J. Chun
Wesley J. Chun, author of Core Python Programming, the Python book for Prentice Hall's popular "Core" series, has over a decade of engineering and instructional experience. He is a principal and founder of CyberWeb Consulting, offering website design, software engineering, technical editing, and corporate training services. While at Yahoo!, he helped build Yahoo!Mail and Yahoo! People Search using Python. He can be reached at cyberweb at rocketmail.com.

Tutorial: Internet Programming with Python

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Ding Chunping
Speaker biography coming soon.

Session: Netview: A Tcl/Tk Application for the Visualization of AT&T FR Network

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Petr Cimprich
Petr Cimprich is one of the founders of the Ginger Alliance, a Prague, Czech Republic based software company started in 1999. He is a web developer and software engineer. He designs and develops XML and XSLT applications, frequently using the Charlie framework. In 1997 Cimprich received a Ph.D. in Digital Image Processing from Charles University in Prague.

Session: Charlie as Application Framework

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Mac Cody
Speaker biography coming soon.

Session: RetrievalWare Query Tool: Glueware Between Knowledge Retrieval and Data Mining

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Mark Colan
Mark Colan is an e-business technology evangelist for IBM corporation. He gives technical, keynote, and customer presentations on Web Services and XML technologies and strategy, and has spoken at most XML conferences in 2000 and 2001, as well as Java One '98 and '99. Before joining IBM, Mark worked at Lotus Development Corporation for 12 years, and helped to develop several commercial products. With over 20 years experience in designing and implementing commercial software products and technologies, Mark is well versed in component software strategies, operating systems, and software tools. He served as the Lead Architect for the InfoBus Technology, a Java Standard Extension developed at Lotus.

Session: Becoming a Web Service Provider

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Michael Conner
Michael H. Conner, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Engineer and Member of the IBM Technical Academy. He is the Chief Technical Officer for Web Services where he is leading IBM's efforts to provide customers with tools for developing and deploying web services. Dr. Conner has many years of experience in enterprise application architecture including leading the team that defined the architecture for IBM's Framework for e-business. He also has worked extensively in object technology making many basic contributions.

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Damian Conway
Damian has been a vi addict for quarter of a century. His h, j, k, and l keys are polished blank with overuse. He's noremapped his space and tab keys to more useful functions. His .vimrc is over 600 lines long, about 90% of it scripting code. VIM is his second favorite programming language and his only IDE.

Tutorial: Advanced Object-Oriented Perl
Tutorial: Data Munging
Session: Extreme Perl
Session: Instant Compilers
Session: Lazy Web Site Maintenance
Session: The Conway Channel

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Mark Cotton
Mark Cotton is an expert in open source database and middleware technologies. He leads the team that delivers technology-consulting services to enterprise businesses. Prior work experience includes, Metro Information Services, First Union National Bank, First Data Corp. Health Systems and Digital Equipment Corp. Cotton has presented at numerous industry events, most recently appearing at Software Development West, with upcoming presentations scheduled at O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention, LinuxWorld and Fall Internet World. He has also published articles on open source database technologies in Enterprise Linux, Database Trends, and Storage Management Solutions magazines. He earned a master’s degree in business administration from Pfeiffer University in Charlotte, NC, specializing in information technology. His undergraduate degree is from Boston University.

Session: Tools for Managing Your PostgreSQL Database Environment

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Simon Cozens
Simon Cozens is an open source programmer and author; he is a columnist for the Perl Journal, the author of Beginning Perl by Wrox Press, and co-author of Using Perl and C.

Session: 10 Modules I Wouldn't Go Anywhere Without
Session: An Introduction to Mail::Audit
Session: Calendering Toolkit
Tutorial: Inside Perl 5
Session: Pretty Printing Perl
Tutorial: Unicode: Why, What, and How
Session: use Python;

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Dave Cross
Dave Cross is an active member of the Perl community and is a regular poster to Perl discussion boards. In 1998, Dave founded the London Perl Mongers group, the first Perl users' group outside the USA. He is still the nominal leader of this group.

More recently, Dave has become a Perl writer and trainer. He has written articles for The Perl Journal and www.perl.com and was a regular columnist for PerlMonth. In January 2001, his first book Data Munging with Perl was published by Manning. He is a regular speaker at Perl conferences.

Session: Increasing Perl Use

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Michael Cynn
Michael Cynn is the web programmer at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. His main project is the FAS Web Portal, which he also authored. Cynn attended Carnegie Mellon University Institute of Technology and studied Civil Engineering. He has been involved in web programming for 7 years.

Session: Web Portals Using Perl and mod_perl

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Ian Darwin
Ian Darwin is the author of O'Reilly's popular Java Cookbook and the in-progress Tomcat: The Definitive Guide. He has worked with computers since the beginning of time (0x00000000L), with UNIX since 1980 (currently favoring OpenBSD), with Java since 1995, and with MacOS 7, 8, and X. He teaches regularly for Learning Tree International and has presented tutorials at UniForum, the O'Reilly OSCON, Geek Cruises' Java Jam and elsewhere.

Tutorial: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD

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Deborah Davidson
Speaker biography coming soon.

Session: Using Python to Customize, Extend, and Integrate Enterprise Project Management Software

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Miguel de Icaza
As the founder and leader of the GNOME Foundation, de Icaza is one of the foremost luminaries in the Linux development community. With his seemingly boundless energy, de Icaza has galvanized the effort to make Linux accessible and available to the average computer user. He brings this same excitement to his role as CTO of Ximian. de Icaza was instrumental in porting Linux to the SPARC architecture and led development of the Midnight Commander file manager and the Gnumeric spreadsheet. He is also a primary author of the design of the Bonobo component model, which leads the way in the development of large-scale applications in GNOME.

Session: Mono, an Open Source .NET

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Carlos de la Guardia
Carlos de la Guardia has been an Internet developer for the past 7 years. He is a shareholder and founding member of Aldea Systems, a 6 year old Mexican Internet development and consulting company, which recently opened business operations in Miami, Florida. He has been an active user and supporter of open source, and many of his company's biggest projects to date have used one or various open source technologies, like Perl, Apache, Linux and Zope. Together with lead developer Javier Rodriguez, he received the 1998 Perl Conference Best End User Application Award for a banking application developed by Aldea Systems for a Mexican bank.

Session: Jabber as a Platform for Specialized Messaging Services

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Haim Dimermanas
Haim Dimermanas has been helping several web hosting companies in getting a reliable, scalable and secure infrastructure using top of the range softwares like Apache and different network architectures. He is fascinated by the engineering behind a web hosting and web portal solution. He is teaching Linux, Perl, Apache and other Open Source technologies at the American InterContinental University in Florida.

Session: Web Hosting Mechanics

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John Donagher
Speaker biography coming soon.

Session: Large-scale Web Application Development with PHP

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Asa Dotzler

Asa Dotzler is the community coordinator for several Mozilla projects. He is the founder and coordinator of Mozilla’s Quality Assurance (QA) and Testing Program, which has grown from just a few contributors when Asa joined the project to tens of thousands of volunteers today. As the Quality Assurance lead, Asa works with Mozilla’s volunteer QA and testing community to ensure excellence and to certify applications for release.

Asa is also co-founder and community coordinator for the Spread Firefox project, launched in October 2004, where he spearheads open-source marketing projects. Spread Firefox is charged with empowering Firefox community members to raise awareness of the popular Web browser.

When he's not helping new QA and marketing contributors, he's working with drivers@mozilla.org, the project management group at Mozilla, to define requirements and development roadmaps for the Mozilla projects.

Asa has been an active member of the Mozilla community since 1999. After volunteering for more than a year, Asa joined the Mozilla organization and has played a key role in delivering products including the release of Mozilla 1.0 and the release of the award-winning Mozilla Firefox Web browser and Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client now used by more than 60 million people combined worldwide.

Session: Mozilla Community Quality Assurance and Testing

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Jan Dubois
Jan Dubois, a prominent member of the Perl Community and maintainer of Win32::OLE, comes to ActiveState from Germany and has been part of the ActiveState team since January 2000.

Jan has over 10 years experience with information management in the financial services sector, a key area of ActiveState’s client base for PerlDirect, a quality assured Perl and support package for enterprise clients.

Prior to joining ActiveState, Jan worked in several European banking and insurance firms. In the banking sector, he produced research tools to test portfolio management strategies at Hamburg Mannheimer Investment Trust. He also was an IT project coordinator of electronic futures and options trading at Wereins-und Westbank. In the insurance industry, Jan planned and implemented the information and trading platform for Hamburg Mannheimer Insurance Company’s asset management group and was the information systems manager for the securities division at Albingia Insurance Company.

When not hacking Perl, Jan enjoys reading science fiction. Jan has a graduate degree in Physics (Diplom-Physiker) from the University of Hamburg.

Session: Perl on the Microsoft .NET Framework

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Paul Dubois
Speaker biography coming soon.

Session: Designing a Masked Array Facility for Python

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Casey Duncan
Casey Duncan is a code-monkey at Zope Corporation. He devotes most of his days developing with and for Zope but tries hard not to be too serious. He has developed many open source add-on products for Zope as well including: ExternalEditor and FieldedTextIndex. After the children go to bed, he can often be found plying his keyboard working on pypes and other assorted projects.

Tutorial: Introduction to Zope

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Brendan Eich
Eich is responsible for architecture and the technical direction of Mozilla. He is charged with authorizing module owners, owning architectural issues of the source base and writing the "roadmap" that outlines the direction of the Mozilla project.

Eich created JavaScript, did the work through Navigator 4.0, and helped carry it through international standardization. Before Netscape, he wrote operating system and network code for SGI; and at MicroUnity, wrote micro-kernel and DSP code, and did the first MIPS R4K port of gcc, the GNU C compiler.

Session: State of the Mozilla Codebase

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Schuyler Erle
Schuyler Erle is a free software developer and activist. He is responsible for NoCatAuth, an early open source wireless captive portal, and geocoder.us, an open source U.S. address geocoder. Erle wrote O'Reilly's Mapping Hacks with Jo Walsh and Rich Gibson, and Google Map Hacks, also with Rich.

Presently, he works with MetaCarta in Cambridge, MA, USA, developing nitfy geographic projects like OpenLayers, an open source web mapping framework written in pure JavaScript, and Gutenkarte, a service for exploring the geographic dimension of classic works of literature. Erle is proud to be a founding member of the OSGeo Foundation.

Session: Community Wireless Networks

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Perry Evans
Perry Evans is the founding CEO of Local Matters Inc., a company recently formed through the merging of three leaders in local search. Aptas Inc, the company spearheading the merger, was founded by Evans in late 2001. In 2000, Evans co-founded Jabber, Inc., which he led as chairman until 2003. Prior to this position, he was the president and CEO of Webb Interactive.

Session: The Open Source Instant Messaging Platform

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Ray Everett-Church
Speaker biography coming soon.

Panel: The Challenge of Privacy and Security in the Enterprise

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George Fitch
George "Gaffer" Fitch is a Development Engineer for the Sensors Business Unit of Allegro MicroSystems, the industry leader in hall-effect (magnetic) sensors. Using the NuSphere combo of Apache, MySQL, Perl and PHP, he has developed tools used in various web based applications, including production analysis, inventory tracking, and documentation control. Due to their success at Allegro, he has also started developing open source versions of these tools. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering, a BA in Philosophy, and is currently pursuing an MBA, all from the University of New Hampshire.

Session: Case Study: Allegro MicroSystems and NuSphere's Web Development Platform

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Karl Fogel

Karl Fogel is an open source developer and author. After working on CVS and writing "Open Source Development With CVS" (Coriolis, 1999), he went to CollabNet, Inc as a founding developer in the Subversion project. Based on his experiences there, he wrote "Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project" (O'Reilly, 2005), and after a brief stint at Google, now works as an independent copyright reform activist. His secret mission is to spread open source principles and methods to areas outside software.

Session: Sharing the Wealth: Why Publically Versioned Resources are the Future of Everything

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James Fulton
Jim Fulton leads the development of the Zope application server and the Zope object database. He is currently shepherding the development of Zope 3, which is build on the Zope Component Architecture. He has more than 20 years experience in software development, including over 15 years with object-oriented software development techniques.

Session: Enterprise Zope
Session: Using Perl with Zope
Session: Zope Page Templates

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Mike Furgal
Mike Furgal (aka The Database Guy) is the lead developer of the Gemini project that brought enterprise-class features to MySQL. Mike has dedicated his entire career to working with databases including spending the last 12 years developing the internals of both commercial and open source database engines. Mike has presented at dozens of conferences and seminars around the world as well as advised global companies on how to more effectively use technology in today's fast-paced market.

Session: MySQL Crash Recovery

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Bryan George
Speaker biography coming soon.

Session: DARPA Communicator: The Development of Advanced Dialog

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Rob Ginda
Rob Ginda is a Software Engineer on the JavaScript team at Netscape, where he works on the debugging API for the upcoming JavaScript 2.0 engine. In his copious spare time he hacks ChatZilla, an IRC client for Mozilla written using only JavaScript and XUL. Before joining Netscape, Rob lived in Boston, MA, making his living consulting software while contributing to the Mozilla development effort.

Session: State of the Mozilla Codebase

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Brett Glass
Brett Glass has more than 25 years of experience designing, building, writing about, and crash testing computer hardware and software. A consultant, author, and programmer based in Laramie, Wyoming, Brett obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Case Institute of Technology and his MSEE from Stanford. He writes and architects software, designs hardware (including chips, embedded systems, and network servers), and has more than 1500 published articles to his credit. He currently writes "Mean Streets," a monthly security column, for BoardWatch magazine. When he's not writing, consulting, speaking, or cruising the Web in search of adventure, he may be playing the Ashbory bass, doing carpentry, teaching Internet courses for LARIAT (Laramie's community network and Internet users' group), cooking up a storm, or enjoying spicy ethnic food. He can be reached at www.brettglass.com/mailbrett.html (no spam please).

Session: Stopping Spam and Malware with Open Source

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Paul Grassie
Paul Grassie has been programming in Perl since 1990 and has an extensive background in programmer training and course development. He has over twenty years' experience with Unix programming and administration and has been conducting Unix programmer training seminars for more than fifteen years.

Tutorial: Mastering Perl Data Structures and References

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David Gravereaux
Speaker biography coming soon.

Session: A New Method for Embedding Tcl/Tk into Windows Applications

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Christopher Grill
Speaker biography coming soon.

Session: Embedded Linux Case Study: The Flying Penguin

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Martin Gudgin
Martin Gudgin is a researcher, educator and practitioner at DevelopMentor, a component software think-tank. He spends most of his time thinking about, working with and writing code for XML based systems and has been living the XML lifestyle since early 1999.

Session: A Guide to W3C XML Schemas
Tutorial: A Day of XML

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R.V. Guha
Speaker biography coming soon.

Session: Web Services and the Semantic Web: Two Web World Views

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Neil Gunton
Neil Gunton is an independent software developer who focuses mainly on Open Source tools such as Linux, Apache, Perl, HTML::Embperl and MySQL. He is based in New York City, where he is working on his startup project, NilSpace. His homepage can be found at neilgunton.com.

Session: Embperl: Building Dynamic Web Sites with Perl, mod_perl, and Apache

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Chuck Hagenbuch
Chuck Hagenbuch works as a consultant/engineer-for-hire in the Boston area and wherever the internet reaches. He founded and continues to lead the Horde Project, and has contributed to PHP's IMAP and MCAL extensions and the PEAR class library.

Tutorial: Building Web Applications with the Horde Application Framework
Session: When to Plan, When to Grow, When to Prune, When to Burn: A Case Study

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John Haines
Lead Software Developer for VFI/X at 21st Century Software Inc. Developed VFI/X (Vital File Identifier for the X windows environemnt) for AIX, SUN and HP UNIX Platforms. Developed DRVFI V4.00 - Disaster Recovery, Vital File Identifier for the OS390 mainframe environment.

Session: Using Apache to Monitor Your Network for Disaster Recovery

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Brett Halle
Speaker biography coming soon.

Session: OS X: Moving Developers and Users to Open Source

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Stuart Halloway
Stuart Dabbs Halloway is a co-founder of Relevance, LLC. He is the author of Component Development for the Java Platform. Halloway regularly speaks at industry events including the No Fluff, Just Stuff Java Symposiums and the Pragmatic Studio.

Session: The JAWIN Architecture for Java/COM/Win32 Interop

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David G. Halsted
David G. Halsted, PhD., has been involved with Web programming since 1995, building interactive Web sites and database-driven Web applications for a variety of organizations in higher education and the private sector. He has been doing production work with XML and XML/database combinations since 1999. Halsted has been spoken on XML at national conferences and in smaller settings; he has published articles on XML, databases, and the role of the Web in Humanities instruction. He is Director of the Core Technologies Department at Creative Solutions, Inc. in Dexter, MI.

Session: Building Web Applications with Apache XML Suite

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Mark Hammond
Mark Hammond has been involved in the Python community for over 10 years, and the Mozilla community for not much less! Mark is the co-author of 2 books, releases and maintains the Python for Windows extensions and is the author of both the pyxpcom and pydom Mozilla integration libraries. Mark is currently employed by Enfold Systems and lives in Melbourne, Australia.

Session: Component Programming in Python (COM, XPCOM, .NET)
Session: Using XPCOM and Python with Mozilla

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Kip Hampton
Kip Hampton is a freelance Web Developer living in sunny Southern California. In addition to having written the monthly Perl/XML column for XML.com, he is the also the author of the XML::Schematron and XML::SemanticDiff modules, co-author of the XML::SAX distribution. He sits on the Apache Software Foundation's Project Management Committee for the Apache AxKit XML Publishing and Application Server project, and has written XML Publishing With AxKit published by O'Reilly & Associates. When he is not hacking Perl or writing, he enjoys avant-garde cinema, improvisational comedy, and off-roading in his Jeep.

Session: Using XML with Perl

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Ellen Hancock
Speaker biography coming soon.

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Piers Harding
Born a "Kiwi," Harding has been involved in the SAP community for longer the he would wish to remember. In more recent times he has fallen in love with the open source community, and its original ideals, becoming an enthusiastic advocate when ever possible.

This has prompted him to make some contributions -

SAP::Rfc
SAP::BC::XMLRFC
SAP::WAS::SOAP
Inline::BC
Jabber::mod_perl

Currently he is most interested in:

the developments of Jabber
Inlining anything that is not bolted to the floor

Session: Transfusing Message Plasma into Business with Perl and Other Magic

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Dick Hardt
A pioneer in the internet sector and open source software community, Dick Hardt has been active in software development for nearly two decades. His most recent venture, Sxip Identity, provides enterprise identity management solutions for on-demand applications that leverage the power of Identity 2.0.

Session: Integrating Open Source on Microsoft Platforms: Threat or Opportunity?

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Perrin Harkins
Perrin Harkins is a senior engineer at Plus Three, an open source-oriented consulting company. His prior experience includes development at large web-based businesses like eToys.com and CitySearch.com. He has published articles on perl.com and contributed to several books about web development. He is a frequent participant in open source projects, and a member of the Apache Software Foundation.

Session: Choosing a Templating System

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Trevor Harris
Trevor Harris is an Instructor and Consultant at NuSphere. He is responsible for delivering, and assisting in the development and delivery of customer education. Harris has been teaching advanced MySQL and PHP training for the past two years, and brings twenty years of Services experience to the NuSphere team. Harris has presented at dozens of conferences and seminars around the world as well as advised global companies on how to more effectively use technology in today's fast-paced market.

Tutorial: How to Develop Transaction-oriented, Database-driven Web Sites with MySQL

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Mark Harrison
Mark Harrison is Chief Software Architect at AsiaInfo Holdings, which the Wall Stree Journal reports as "the arms merchant of choice for virtually every combatant in China's network wars...." He is most well known in the Tcl world as coauthor of Effective Tcl Programming and editor of Tcl/Tk Tools.

Keynote: Greeting by Mark Harrison
Keynote: Living With My Tcl Addiction
Michael McLennan
Session: KAP: The Kinetic Application Processor
Session: Scripting Data Structures

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James T. Hennig
James T. Hennig, BSME, MSSE. Has 12 years experience in software development methods with specific interests in system integration, programming languages, and system design.

Session: Command, Control Integration Language (C2IL)

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Jarkko Hietaniemi
Jarkko Hietaniemi has been playing with computers since his father made the mistake of bringing work home and little Jarkko started coloring the mainframe printouts. After getting his MSc in CS in 1995 he has been mainly wondering in the Nokia Research Center how computers and networks can work at all.

Session: What's New in 5.8

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Andrew Po-Jung Ho
Andrew P. Ho, M.D. is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA and the lead developer of Open Infrastructure for Outcomes (OIO), a web-based clinical and research information system that features plug-and-play web-forms (XML) implemented with Zope and PostgreSQL. His areas of research include data interchange, distributed systems and database security.

Session: OIO on Zope

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Jeff Hobbs
Speaker biography coming soon.

Session: The (Active) State of Tcl

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Richard L. Holbert
Rick Holbert is a Unix System Administrator in the Office of Information Technology at Ohio State University and is also an active member of the Central Ohio Linux Users Group and the Columbus Computer Society. Holbert is a 1982 graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and an Ohio native. He has several years of computing experience. His first computer was an Apple ][+ that he modified so he could run CP/M. Holbert started using Unix in 1985, and installed his first copy of Linux in 1995.

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Sterling Hughes
Sterling Hughes is a PHP core developer, whose contributions, among other things, include writing the SimpleXML, cURL, XSLT, and Mono extensions. He is the author of the PHP Developer's Cookbook and currently writes a monthly column for the PHP Magazine entitled "Programming with PHP."

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Jason Hunter
Jason Hunter is Principal Technologist with Mark Logic, specializing in large-scale XML content manipulation using XQuery. He's the author of "Java Servlet Programming" (O'Reilly Media) and the creator of the JDOM open source project for Java-optimized XML manipulation.

Session: JDOM: How It Works, and How It Opened the Java Process

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Brian Ingerson
Ingy döt Net is a hacker with more current projects than years to complete them. Some of his more well-known creations are Inline.pm, Kwiki, and YAML. He is currently homeless, traveling worldwide from hackathon to hackathon.

Session: Pathologically Polluting Perl with C, Python and Other Rubbish using Inline.pm
Tutorial: Perl Programming with C & C++ Using Inline.pm

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Rex Jakobovits
Rex Jakobovits received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 1999. Perl has been Rex's language of choice for the past six years, and this talk describes WIRM, an open-source application server that he developed as part of his dissertation. He is currently a researcher at the Seattle Children's Hospital, where he uses Perl to build better patient record systems for radiologists. Rex is the founder of Wirm.org, an organization for WIRM users and contributors.

Session: Applications of Perl in Medical Informatics

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Per Jambeck
Per Jambeck is a Ph.D. student in the Bioengineering department at the University of California, San Diego. He is the coauthor of Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills (O'Reilly), and he does research on machine learning applications in structural bioinformatics.

Session: Real-World Open Source Bioinformatics

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Cullen Jennings
Cullen is Senior Manager in the Voice Technology Center at Cisco Systems. Cullen has management, consulting, and development experience for both technology based companies and educational institutions. His industry experience includes semiconductor manufacturing, safety critical air traffic control systems, biomedical engineering, natural energy, government and academia. Cullen holds an MS in Computer Science and a BS in Applied Mathematics from the University of Calgary. He is also a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science finalizing his dissertation at the University of British Columbia. Cullen is a Member of IEEE and ACM and has published over 15 articles in the areas of computer vision and pattern recognition, vectorization, thinning algorithms and strategy, character recognition, multiprocessor programming and data capture and conversion.

Session: SIP and the Vovida Open Communication Application Library (VOCAL)

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Mark Johnson
Speaker biography coming soon.

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Steven Johnson
Steven Johnson is the author of five books, including the national bestsellers The Ghost Map, Everything Bad Is Good For You, and Mind Wide Open. His latest online project, the neighborhood mapping site outside.in, launched in October of 2006. Previously, he was the co-creator of the pioneering online magazine FEED and the Webby-award-winning community site, Plastic.com. He is a Distinguished Writer In Residence at NYU's Department of Journalism, and blogs at stevenberlinjohnson.com.

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Ronald Johnston
Ronald L. Johnston is a partner in the Los Angeles Firm office of the international law firm of Arnold & Porter. He has been lead counsel in numerous leading IT and IP cases, founded and serves as Editor-in-Chief of The Computer & Internet Lawyer (1984-2001), founded and Chairs the University of Southern California Computer & Internet Law Institute (1979-2001), serves on the Board of Directors of the Computer Law Association, and is a frequent author and speaker at national institute on technology law issues.

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Eric Jones
Eric Jones has a broad background in engineering and software development and leads Enthought's product engineering and software design. Prior to co-founding Enthought, Jones worked in the fields of numerical electromagnetics and genetic optimization in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Duke University. He has taught numerous courses about Python and how to leverage it for scientific computing. Jones holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Duke University in Electrical Engineering and a B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Baylor University.

Tutorial: Python for Scientific Programming

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Vincent C. Jones
Vincent C Jones is the founder and principal consultant of Networking Unlimited, Inc. Dr. Jones has been applying the theory of networking to the solution of real world problems for almost three decades and is the author of the book High Availability Networking.

Tutorial: Network Design for High Availability

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Mark Karaman
Mark Karaman is Chief Technologist of Solvepoint Corporation (solvepoint.com). He has twenty years experience in the architecture and deployment of advanced database information systems. He recently concluded five years as technical lead of one of the fastest growing privately held firms in the Greater Philadelphia Region. Mr. Karaman has also spoken on many topics, including XML, net deployment platforms and e-commerce. He has been invited to speak at Unix/Expo, Gartner Group, Linux user groups, and many other venues. His work on Internet, enterprise systems and technology has included clients such as MindSpring, Lucent, GMAC, GE Capital, AT&T, United Technologies, and many other world-class enterprises.

Session: MySQL for Industrial Strength Mailing Listservers

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Ricardo Ueda Karpischek
Speaker biography coming soon.

Session: FVNC: A Scaling and Faster VNC Viewer for X

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Brian Kelley
Speaker biography coming soon.

Session: Component-oriented Programming in Python

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Chris Kelly
Chris Kelly is the Chief Privacy Officer for the broadband company, Excite@Home. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, where he as the Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology. He was also a fellow at the Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Chris holds a M.A. in Political Science from Yale University, where he was an editor of the Yale Journal of Law & The Humanities, a B.A. from Georgetown University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and also attended the University of California at Berkeley.

Panel: The Challenge of Privacy and Security in the Enterprise
Session: Town Hall: The Beat Goes On

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Jirka Kosek
Jirka Kosek is a freelance writer and journalist evangelizing XML and related technologies in the Czech Republic. He contributed HTML Help support to DocBook XSL stylesheets.

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Michelle Kraus
Michelle Kraus is a software industry entrepreneur, executive and advisor. Over the last 19 years, she has carved out new territory for high tech developers and businesses. Dr. Kraus is an experienced operating executive with two decades of experience. She has been closely involved in defining new business strategies and supporting product roadmaps. Most recently, she was the founding CEO of OpenSales (Zelerate) that developed back-end architecture and Linux retail server solutions for the enterprise. Over the last two years, Michelle has acted as a strategic advisor to a portfolio of start-ups and mid-stage companies involved in open and collaborative business models. Her portfolio is focused on Linux server technologies, wireless infrastructure, enterprise communications infrastructure, embedded devices, and privacy. Dr. Kraus writes monthly on emerging open and collaborative business models. She also speaks frequently, and moderates panels on investments in new business models and technologies for open source, and is active in program development for BALUG.

Panel: The Challenge of Privacy and Security in the Enterprise
Session: Town Hall: The Beat Goes On

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Frank Kromann
Frank M. Kromann is Senior Software Developer at FrontBase, working on PHP drivers and applications on several different platforms. He is a member of the PHP development team.

Session: Client-side Applications with PHP

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K. Ari Krupnikov
Mr. Krupnikov has worked extensively with relational databases, including Oracle, DB2, SQL Server and Postgres on systems ranging from IBM System/370 to Linux. He has been involved in XML since 1999. He has published open source XML software. A veteran of several startups, he got his professional start with an elite computer unit of the Israeli Defense Forces. Mr. Krupnikov now divides his time between Scotland, where his research at the University of Edinburgh is focused on applications of XML Schema in object-oriented and relational programming, and independent consulting in California.

Session: XML Stores with PostgreSQL

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Bradley M. Kuhn
Bradley M. Kuhn currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer of the Software Freedom Law Center. During most of the 1990s, he worked as a system administrator and software development consultant on Free Software systems for both small and large companies. In early 2000, he was hired to work for FSF, and he served as its Executive Director from March 2001 until March 2005. Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science from Loyola College in Maryland, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Cincinnati.

Session: A Novel Approach for Porting Perl to the Java Virtual Machine

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Pavel Kulchenko
Pavel Kulchenko has over 10 years of experience in design and development of complex financial and banking applications, and information management in the financial services sector.

Pavel is the author and maintainer of the popular SOAP::Lite module for SOAP clients and servers in Perl, the XMLRPC::Lite module that implements XML-RPC protocol, and the UDDI::Lite module, a client interface for UDDI repositories.

Session: SOAP: The Power of Simplicity

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Randy Kunkee
Speaker biography coming soon.

Session: LDAPtcl: A Tcl Interface to the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

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Dan Kuykendall
Speaker biography coming soon.

Session: phpGroupWare for Building Business Applications

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Michel Lambert
Speaker biography coming soon.

Session: ReBug: A Regular Expression Debugger in Perl

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Steve Landers
Speaker biography coming soon.

Session: KitView: A User Interface Tool for MetaKit

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Hemang Lavana
Speaker biography coming soon.

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Karl Lehenbauer
Speaker biography coming soon.

Session: A Tcl-Powered Handheld Computer for Telecommunications Test Automation

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Dr. Urban A. LeJeune
Speaker biography coming soon.

Tutorial: PHP for Perl Programmers

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Manuel Lemos
Manuel Lemos graduated in 1994, in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering at the Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal.

Session: MetaL - XML based Meta-programming Language Technology

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Kevin Lenzo
Kevin A. Lenzo is faculty at the Institute for Software Research International at Carnegie Mellon University and co-founder of Cepstral, LLC, a company offering voice building services on top of free software synthesis engines. He has over a decade of experience on speech research in academia and industry. At CMU, he is currently steward of the Sphinx open source initiative. He the author of the Infobot interactive agent. His is co-author of the forthcoming O'Reilly book "Building Synthetic Voices". He is president and founder of Yet Another Society, a non-profit organization for the adancements of collaborative efforts in computer and information science and the parent organization of the Yet Another Perl Conferences.

Session: Perl and Speech
Session: The CMU Sphinx Open Source Speech Initiative
Session: Building Synthetic Voices

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Rasmus Lerdorf
Rasmus Lerdorf is known for having gotten the PHP project off the ground in 1995, the mod_info Apache module, and he can be blamed for the ANSI92 SQL-defying LIMIT clause in mSQL 1.x which has now, at least conceptually, crept into both MySQL and PostgreSQL.

Prior to joining Yahoo! as an infrastructure engineer in 2002, he was at a string of companies including Linuxcare, IBM, and Bell Canada working on internet technologies.

Tutorial: PHP Spinal Injection
Panel: The Future of PHP

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Jean-Louis Leroy
Jean-Louis Leroy is the original author of Tangram, an object-relational mapper developed as part of the Belgian Appeal Court automation project.

Leroy is now a partner in Sound Object Logic, a company specializing in object-oriented technologies in general, and in Tangram-related services in particular.

Session: Tangram: Object Persistence in Relational Databases

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Gerald Lester
Gerald Lester is a senior consultant with Computerized Processes Unlimited's Plant Application Integration Business Unit. Besides advising unit members in the intricacies of Tcl/Tk, he also is one of the chief architectures of the software framework that is being used by the group. Gerald has been involved with Tcl/Tk since the early 1990s and was chairman of the Second Annual Tcl/Tk Workshop. From 1994 though 1998 he was in charge of CPU's Training Department and conducted Tcl/Tk classes world-wide.

Session: Next Generation of Integration with Tcl/Tk

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Yancy Lind
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Session: Town Hall: The Beat Goes On

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Ray Lischner
Ray Lischner is a professional goof-off, striving to perfect the art of evading gainful employment. He is the author of C++ in a Nutshell and other books and articles about programming. When he has the free time, he teaches computer science at Oregon State University.

Session: RAD Programming on Linux

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Ransom Love
Speaker biography coming soon.

Session: Town Hall: The Beat Goes On

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Maria Lupetini
Maria Lupetini works for Ameritege Technology Partners, www.ameritege.com, a San Diego based software development outsourcing corporation. There she is VP of Business Development. Maria has over fifteen years of experience in managing technical and analytical engagements for Fortune 500 companies. Her systems background includes efforts in XML, Java, and Oracle. She will be co-presenting with Petr Cimprich, Ph.D. from the Ginger Alliance, a European affiliate of Ameritege Technology Partners.

Session: Charlie as Application Framework

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Mark Lutz
Mark Lutz is a Python trainer, writer, and software developer, and is one of the primary figures in the Python community. He is the author of the O'Reilly books Programming Python and Python Pocket Reference, and co-author of Learning Python. Lutz’s involvement with Python started in 1992, and he began teaching Python classes in 1997. Visit Lutz at www.rmi.net/~lutz.

Tutorial: Introduction To Python

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Doug MacEachern
Doug is the CTO and Co-Founder of Hyperic Inc. He is also known for creating mod_perl and Author of "Writing Apache Modules in Perl and C". Doug's been involved in the open source community from his participation in the Apache Software Foundation, as well as spearheading efforts around open source at Hyperic and at Covalent Technologies. He currently spends his time working on the Hyperic Plugin framework, helping build out the HQ community, and working with Hyperic partners and customers extending HQ's management capabilities in new and exciting directions. A native of Topsfield, MA, Doug and his wife now live in San Francisco, CA.

Session: mod_perl 2.0

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Dr. Tim Maher
Since 1982, Tim Maher has taught many thousands of software professionals to program in C, C++, Shell, Awk, and Perl on behalf of major UNIX vendors and Consultix. He's a CPAN author, a frequent speaker at Perl conferences, and a White Camel award winner. He'd rather be programming in Visual Awk or Awk++, but Perl comes pretty close.

Session: An Improved Perl Beautifier

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Bruce Martin

Bruce is one of the pioneers of distributed object computing. At Hewlett Packard Laboratories in the early 90s, he designed and implemented an interface definition language that became the basis for HP's original CORBA submission. At Sun Microsystems, he was one of Sun's CORBA architects and was the primary author of five of the OMG's CORBA Services specifications. At Inprise Corporation, Bruce was an architect and developer of Inprise's first CORBA-based Java Application Server. Bruce has extensive practical experience with Java, XML and the DOM.

Bruce is now a Senior Consultant at Customware. He teaches courses in distributed computing, J2EE, Application Servers and XML based B2B. He manages extensive FAQs at jGuru for XML and CORBA.

Bruce is championing xbeans.org, an open-source project to create a repository of Java Beans that process XML and can be easily composed into distributed applications.

Bruce has an excellent ability to convey both the conceptual basis of a technology and the practical nuts and bolts use of it. He has given talks around the world on distributed systems, advanced transaction models, object oriented programming, XML and distributed object technologies at both academic conferences and industrial events. Bruce has written many papers for conferences, journals, and books.

Bruce received Ph.D. and Masters degrees in Computer Science from the University of California at San Diego, and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Session: Data Exchange Using Xbeans Release Two

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Thomas J. Mather
Speaker biography coming soon.

Session: Building Web Sites with PageKit

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Jason W. May
Jason May is a founder and CTO of on-line payments firm Billpoint, which is majority-owner by leading Internet auction site eBay and minority-owned by Wells Fargo Bank, the industry leader in on-line banking services. The Billpoint payment platform is a complex, multi-tier transaction-processing system written almost entirely in Perl.

Session: Complex Application Engineering with Perl: Stability and Speed

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Neil McKay
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Session: Tcl/Tk Extensions for Visualization of Large Data Sets

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Michael McLennan
Speaker biography coming soon.

Session: Building Mission-critical CAD Applications with Tcl/Tk
Tutorial: Object-oriented Tcl
Keynote: Greeting by Mark Harrison
Keynote: Living With My Tcl Addiction
Michael McLennan

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Jim McQuillan
Jim McQuillan has been developing solutions for customers, utilizing Unix and networking since 1984 and has been involved with Linux since 1995. Additionally, he is the founder of the Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP), an open source project which has received world wide recognition as the standard method of deploying Thin clients in a GNU/Linux environment.

Session: Thin Clients and GNU/Linux Using LTSP

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Graeme Merrall
Speaker biography coming soon.

Tutorial: Dynamic Design: Integrating PHP with Macromedia Flash

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Brent Michalski
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Tutorial: Introduction to Mason

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Trent Mick
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Session: Programmer's Package Manager: Using SOAP to Fetch Pre-built Python Packages

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Patrick J. Miller
Patrick Miller has over twenty years of experience in high performance and parallel computing, and he has been a devoted lover of Python for the last six. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Davis in runtime error detection/correction. He currently works at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and lectures in distributed programming at the University of San Francisco. He has research interests in parallel computation, parallel languages, high efficiency interpreters, and debuggers. He previously developed compilers and interpreters for the SISAL parallel language project and more recently developed a distributed, parallel Python implementation (pyMPI) and various Python to C++ translators.

Session: Steering Massively Parallel Simulations Under Python

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W. Phillip Moore
W. Phillip Moore recently left Morgan Stanley, where he was executive director of UNIX Engineering. There, Moore was a senior architect, responsible for the evolution of the firm's UNIX/Linux infrastructure. With over 15 years of experience deploying solutions to problems of extreme scalability, his past accomplishments include the deployment of Morgan Stanley's Perl development environment, global filesystem (AFS), and transactional messaging infrastructure (MQSeries). He is the original author of the MQSeries suite of Perl modules, and a member of the OpenAFS Advisory Council.

Moore left Morgan Stanley to more fully participate in the open source community. He is an open source advocate and enterprise technology consultant.

Keynote: An Open Source Success Story on Wall Street

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Eric Lease Morgan
Eric is a librarian who first started using the Internet in 1989 through his 2400 baud modem and Unix shell account. Since then he as always considered himself to be a librarian first and a computer user second. His professional goal is to discover new ways to use computers to provide better library and knowledge services. To these ends, he has created many information services using the popular (and even less popular) Internet and computing protocols. Applied research and development has included investigations in traditional library science, digital libraries, information retrieval, and human-computer interaction. Some of his more successful implementations have been a systematic process for collecting electronic magazines, indexes to subject-related networked information, catalogs of electronic texts, CGI scripts for sending email, and customizable interfaces to collections of Internet resources. He has a BA in Philosophy from Bethany College, Bethany, WV (1982), and an MIS from Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA (1987). In his spare time, he has been seen folding defective floppy disks into intricate origami flora and fauna. For more information see http://www.infomotions.com/.

Session: Comparing Open Source Indexers

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Sean Moriarty