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Thursday, July 29
8:45 am

Infinite in Three Directions: In Praise of Open Thinking
Esther Dyson, Editor at Large, CNET Networks
George Dyson, Independent, Historian of Technology
Freeman Dyson, Physicist & Educator
Location: Oregon Ballroom
Time: 8:45am - 9:30am
Track: Keynote
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9:30 am
10:15 am
Break
10:45 am

Using CPAN Tools for In-House Development
Autrijus Tang, President, OurInternet, Inc. | The Elixir Initiative
Brian Ingerson, Free Agent, Social Text, Inc.
Location: Salon G
Time: 10:45am - 11:30am
Track: Perl
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Qpsmtpd - The Perl SMTP Server
Matt Sergeant, Senior Anti-Spam Technologist, MessageLabs Inc.
Location: Salon A
Time: 10:45am - 11:30am
Track: Perl
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XML Driven Classes in Python
Eric van der Vlist, CEO, Dyomedea
Location: Columbia
Time: 10:45am - 11:30am
Track: Python
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State of PHP 5
Andi Gutmans, Co-Founder and VP of Technology, Zend Technologies, Inc.
Location: Salon F
Time: 10:45am - 11:30am
Track: PHP
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Amanda for Data Backup, or: How to Sleep Better at Night
Fran Fabrizio, Senior Systems Administrator, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Location: Salon D
Time: 10:45am - 11:30am
Track: Linux
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Toward a New Kind of "Linux Distribution"
Jeff Licquia, Progeny
Location: Mt. Hood
Time: 10:45am - 11:30am
Track: Linux
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MySQL High Availability Options
Jeremy D. Zawodny, Technical Yahoo, Yahoo! Inc.
Location: Salon I
Time: 10:45am - 12:20pm
Track: MySQL
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Publishing a Revolutionary Medical Textbook with Apache FOP and XSL-FO
Ben Galbraith, Ajaxian
Location: Salon B
Time: 10:45am - 11:30am
Track: XML
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DOAP: Decentralizing Project Registries
Edd Dumbill, Principal, Useful Information Company
Location: Eugene
Time: 10:45am - 11:30am
Track: XML
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Tsearch2: PostgreSQL Full Text Search Extension
George Essig, Web Developer, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Location: Salon H
Time: 10:45am - 11:30am
Track: PostgreSQL
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Controlling and Testing Distributed Systems with Ruby
Richard Kilmer, Founder, InfoEther, Inc.
Location: Meadowlark
Time: 10:45am - 11:30am
Track: Ruby
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Open Source Software - An Industrial Revolution for the 21st Century
Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer, Sun Microsystems
Location: Salon C
Time: 10:45am - 11:30am
Track: Emerging Topics
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Commercial OSS Business Panel
Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Matt Asay, VP, Business Development, Alfresco Software
Brian Behlendorf, Founder & CTO, CollabNet
Bob Lisbonne, General Partner, Matrix Partners
Jason Matusow, Director of Shared Source Initiative, Microsoft Corporation
Zack Urlocker, Executive Vice President, MySQL AB
Location: Salon E
Time: 10:45am - 11:30am
Track: Emerging Topics
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How to Manage Over 1000 Servers in Your Spare Time
Sean Lynch, Senior Director of Systems Engineering, Ticketmaster
Location: Portland
Time: 10:45am - 11:30am
Track: Products & Services
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11:30 am
5 Min. Interim
11:35 am

Database Abstraction with Class::DBI
Casey West, Software Developer, pair Networks
Location: Salon G
Time: 11:35am - 12:20pm
Track: Perl
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Masquerading and Adaptation Design Patterns in Python
Alex Martelli, Uber Technical Lead, Google, Inc.
Location: Columbia
Time: 11:35am - 12:20pm
Track: Python
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High Performance PHP
George Schlossnagle, VP of Engineering, OmniTI Computer Consulting, Inc.
Location: Salon F
Time: 11:35am - 12:20pm
Track: PHP
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Localizing BBC News for a Global Audience
Stephen Betts, Online Systems Development Lead, BBC News
Location: Salon B
Time: 11:35am - 12:20pm
Track: Apache
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Deploying Linux on the Desktop with LTSP
Jim McQuillan, Founder, Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP)
Location: Salon D
Time: 11:35am - 12:20pm
Track: Linux
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Illuminate A Murky IT Environment -- Then Standardize Without Fear
Joel Noble
Location: Salon A
Time: 11:35am - 12:20pm
Track: Linux
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Seeing XForms Inside Out:: Inside an XForms Validator
Micah Dubinko, Chief XML Architect, Cardiff Software
Location: Salon C
Time: 11:35am - 12:20pm
Track: XML
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Flexible Data Acquisition and Analysis
Joseph Conway
Location: Salon H
Time: 11:35am - 12:20pm
Track: PostgreSQL
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Project Alph, a Ruby-to-Flash Bridge
Richard Kilmer, Founder, InfoEther, Inc.
Location: Meadowlark
Time: 11:35am - 12:20pm
Track: Ruby
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Advice for Open Source Job Seekers
Andy Lester, Senior Programmer, Follett Library Resources
Bill Odom, President, The Perl Foundation
Location: Salon E
Time: 11:35am - 12:20pm
Track: Emerging Topics
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Building the Platform
David Ballenger, Senior Principal Engineer, Amazon.com
Location: Salmon
Time: 11:35am - 12:20pm
Track: Emerging Topics
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Meet the O'Reilly Network Editors
 chromatic, Technical Evangelist, O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Bruce Stewart, Editor, Emerging Telephony & MacDevCenter sites, O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Location: Eugene
Time: 11:35am - 12:20pm
Track: Emerging Topics
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Preview of Make
Dale Dougherty, Editor & Publisher, Make, O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Location: Mt. Hood
Time: 11:35am - 12:20pm
Track: Emerging Topics
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java.net
Christian Cheline, Sun Microsystems
Location: Portland
Time: 11:35am - 12:20pm
Track: Products & Services
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12:20 pm
Lunch - on your own
1:45 pm

Building a High-Speed Web Site Using Template Toolkit and PersistentPerl
Vivek Khera, MailerMailer, LLC
Location: Salon G
Time: 1:45pm - 2:30pm
Track: Perl
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IO::All and Other Spiffy Modules
Brian Ingerson, Free Agent, Social Text, Inc.
Location: Salon D
Time: 1:45pm - 2:30pm
Track: Perl
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Cocoa Programming in Perl
Adam Turoff, Consultant
Location: Salon A
Time: 1:45pm - 2:30pm
Track: Perl
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wxPython in a Nutshell
Robin Dunn, Software Craftsman, OSAF
Location: Salon I
Time: 1:45pm - 2:30pm
Track: Python
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Teaching Python with Graphics
Kirby Urner, Partner, 4D Solutions
Location: Salon B
Time: 1:45pm - 2:30pm
Track: Python
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PHP 5 + MySQL 5 = A Perfect 10
Adam Trachtenberg, Senior Manager of Platform Evangelism, eBay
Location: Columbia
Time: 1:45pm - 2:30pm
Track: PHP
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Wackamole: Open Source High Availability
Theo Schlossnagle, Chief Technology Officer, OmniTI Computer Consulting, Inc.
Location: Salon H
Time: 1:45pm - 2:30pm
Track: Apache
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To The Teeth: Arming GNOME for Desktop Success
Jeff Waugh, Consultant, Gnome/Waugh Partners
Location: Mt. Hood
Time: 1:45pm - 2:30pm
Track: Linux
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Java Desktop System: Productivity for Everyone
Peter Korn, Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Location: Salon F
Time: 1:45pm - 2:30pm
Track: Linux
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State of PostgreSQL
Bruce Momjian, Core Team Member, PostgreSQL Project
Location: Salon E
Time: 1:45pm - 2:30pm
Track: PostgreSQL
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Ruby for the Web: The Arrow Web Application Framework
Michael Granger, The FaerieMUD Consortium
Location: Meadowlark
Time: 1:45pm - 2:30pm
Track: Ruby
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Open Source Applications for eCommerce
Jeffrey McManus, CEO, Approver.com
Location: Salon C
Time: 1:45pm - 2:30pm
Track: Emerging Topics
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Writing, Reviewing, and Instigating O'Reilly Books
Laurie Petrycki, VP, Online Publishing Operations, O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Location: Eugene
Time: 1:45pm - 2:30pm
Track: Emerging Topics
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The Open Enterprise Server Health Monitor
Jim Abbott, Product Manager, Web Technologies, Novell
Location: Portland
Time: 1:45pm - 2:30pm
Track: Products & Services
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2:30 pm
5 Min. Interim
2:35 pm

Perl 5.8.5 Was Boring (And Why You Should Be Excited by This)
Nicholas Clark, Fotango
Location: Salon F
Time: 2:35pm - 3:20pm
Track: Perl
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Archetypes: Customize Plone in 60 Seconds
Andy McKay, Enfold Systems
Location: Salon I
Time: 2:35pm - 3:20pm
Track: Python
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Smarty: Gettting Web Designers Out of Your Code
Dirk Elmendorf, Chief Technology Evangelist, Rackspace Managed Hosting
Location: Salon B
Time: 2:35pm - 3:20pm
Track: PHP
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Unit Testing with PHPUnit
George Schlossnagle, VP of Engineering, OmniTI Computer Consulting, Inc.
Location: Columbia
Time: 2:35pm - 3:20pm
Track: PHP
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XML and Apache, An Overview
Ted Leung, Senior Engineer, OSAF
Location: Portland
Time: 2:35pm - 3:20pm
Track: Apache
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Filesystem Snapshots Using Common Utilities
Andrew Sweger, Owner, Addnorya
Location: Salon A
Time: 2:35pm - 3:20pm
Track: Linux
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Running Windows Programs on Linux - Time for Wine?
Jeremy White, CEO, CodeWeavers
Location: Salon G
Time: 2:35pm - 3:20pm
Track: Linux
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Current State of the Linux Kernel
Greg Kroah-Hartman, Kernel Hacker, SuSE Labs / Novell
Location: Salon E
Time: 2:35pm - 3:20pm
Track: Linux
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Mathematics and the WWW: The Abacus.mozdev Project
Alexander Vincent
Location: Salon H
Time: 2:35pm - 3:20pm
Track: XML
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Structuring Structural Biology with PostgreSQL
Reece Hart, Scientist, Genentech, Inc.
Location: Salon C
Time: 2:35pm - 3:20pm
Track: PostgreSQL
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Rublog - Blurring the Line Between Blogging and Everything Else
Chad Fowler, Ruby Central, Inc.
Location: Meadowlark
Time: 2:35pm - 3:20pm
Track: Ruby
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Build a Book With SafariU
CJ Rayhill, CIO, O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Allen Noren, Director, Online Marketing and Digital Initiatives, O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Location: Eugene
Time: 2:35pm - 3:20pm
Track: Emerging Topics
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Foiling Cross-Site Attacks
Chris Shiflett, Principal, OmniTI Computer Consulting, Inc.
Location: Mt. Hood
Time: 2:35pm - 3:20pm
Track: Security
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Build Your Own Spam Firewall
Zach Levow, Co-founder and VP Engineering, Barracuda Networks
Location: Salon D
Time: 2:35pm - 3:20pm
Track: Products & Services
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3:20 pm
Break - refreshments served in the Exhibit Hall
4:30 pm

Parrot in the Real World
Dan Sugalski, The Perl Foundation
Location: Salon F
Time: 4:30pm - 5:15pm
Track: Perl
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Learning Masonry
David Rolsky, House Absolute Consulting
Location: Salon H
Time: 4:30pm - 5:15pm
Track: Perl
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Works in Progress 2
R. Geoffrey Avery, Computer Scientist, GlaxoSmithKline
Location: Portland
Time: 4:30pm - 5:15pm
Track: Perl
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State of the Python Union
Guido van Rossum, Language Architect, Creator of Python
Location: Salon E
Time: 4:30pm - 5:15pm
Track: Python
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PHP Web Services
Christian Wenz, Partner, Hauser & Wenz
Location: Salon A
Time: 4:30pm - 5:15pm
Track: PHP
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Patterns by Example in PHP Web Applications
Terry Chay, Plaxo
Location: Columbia
Time: 4:30pm - 5:15pm
Track: PHP
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The Incubator: How to Start a Successful Apache Project
Cliff Schmidt, Vice President of Legal Affairs, Apache Software Foundation
Location: Salon B
Time: 4:30pm - 5:15pm
Track: Apache
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A Truly Simple API for XML
Sterling Hughes, Freelance Software Developer
Location: Eugene
Time: 4:30pm - 5:15pm
Track: XML
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PostgreSQL Replication Panel
Jan Wieck, PostgreSQL Project
Robert Kaye, Mayhem and Chaos Coordinator, MusicBrainz
Andrew Sullivan, Afilias
Location: Salon G
Time: 4:30pm - 6:05pm
Track: PostgreSQL
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