Speakers
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New speakers are being confirmed daily. Please check back often to see the latest additions to the UTOSC 2008 program. Feel free to check out the full schedule as well as daily schedules for Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Speaker Presentations are approximately 60 minutes each with a 30 minute break between. Keynotes lengths may longer or shorter.
Matt Asay (Alfresco)
The Billion Dollar (Free) Software Opportunity - Presentation begins at Aug 28, 12:30 p.m.
Speaker Website: http://cnet.com/openroad
Doran Barton (KnowledgeBlue)
Tools for video and images - Presentation begins at Aug 30, 11:30 a.m.
Speaker Website: http://www.fozzilinymoo.org/
Brandon Beattie (Zatabit)
Linux Media, Security and Automation - Presentation begins at Aug 29, 10:00 a.m.
Linux Multimedia - Presentation begins at Aug 30, 10:00 a.m.
Speaker Website: http://www.linuxis.us/
Nathan Blackham
Starting With Nagios - Presentation begins at Aug 28, 2:00 p.m.
Speaker Website: http://www.plasticrewards.com
Aaron Bockover (Novell, Inc.)
Banshee Media Player - Presentation begins at Aug 29, 8:30 a.m.
Speaker Website: http://abock.org/
Joe Brockmeier (Novell)
KEYNOTE: How to bootstrap a community - Presentation begins at Aug 29, 2:00 p.m.
Speaker Website: http://zonker.opensuse.org/
Aaron Burgemeister (Novell, Inc.)
SSH Tips and Tricks - Presentation begins at Aug 28, 3:30 p.m.
Chris Cameron
Voice Over IP for fun and profit - Presentation begins at Aug 28, 5:00 p.m.
Virtualizing your Infrastructure - Presentation begins at Aug 29, 11:30 a.m.
Speaker Website: http://www.chriscameron.com
Gordon Clarke (FamilySearch)
FamilySearch Platform for Software Developers - Presentation begins at Aug 29, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker Website: http://devnet.familysearch.org
Christer Edwards (Guru Labs)
Ubuntu LTS : Using Ubuntu in the Enterprise - Presentation begins at Aug 30, 8:30 a.m.
Speaker Website: http://ubuntu-tutorials.com
Corey Edwards (Wyoming.com)
High availability with Asterisk and OpenSER - Presentation begins at Aug 29, 8:30 a.m.
Speaker Website: http://www.zmonkey.org/blog/
Jonathan Ellis
Google App Engine 101 - Presentation begins at Aug 29, 10:00 a.m.
Speaker Website: http://spyced.blogspot.com
Paul Frields (Red Hat, Inc.)
KEYNOTE: Fedora: The Future, First - Presentation begins at Aug 28, 7:00 p.m.
Fedora Remix - Presentation begins at Aug 29, 11:30 a.m.
Speaker Website: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PaulWFrields
Joseph Hall (Guru Labs)
Introduction to Perl - Presentation begins at Aug 29, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker Website: http://blog.josephhall.com/
Jason Hall (Utah Open Source Foundation)
Panel: Open Source And Government - Presentation begins at Aug 28, 2:00 p.m.
Speaker Website: http://halls.lug-nut.com/jayce
matt harrison (insight industries)
90% of the Python you need to know - Presentation begins at Aug 28, 12:30 p.m.
Using Lasers, Webcams, and Python to Create a Halloween Game in my Driveway - Presentation begins at Aug 30, 10:00 a.m.
Speaker Website: http://panela.blog-city.com/
Brian Hawkins (Lingotek)
Speeding up database development with GenORMous - Presentation begins at Aug 28, 12:30 p.m.
Mike Heath (LDS Church)
Building Scalable TCP/IP Applications with Apache MINA - Presentation begins at Aug 30, 10:00 a.m.
Speaker Website: http://swamp.homelinux.net/blog
Greg Hendricks (Novell)
HOWTO: Build Rich Web Clients With Extjs - Presentation begins at Aug 30, 3:30 p.m.
Speaker Website: http://testopia.blogspot.com/
Seth House
A Django Miscellany - Presentation begins at Aug 30, 3:30 p.m.
Speaker Website: http://eseth.org/
Dirk Howard (IDK Software)
Installing Drupal: From Blank to Blog in 30 Minutes - Presentation begins at Aug 28, 5:00 p.m.
Speaker Website: http://www.idksoftware.com
Jon Jensen (End Point Corporation)
Camps: Better development environments - Presentation begins at Aug 29, 5:30 p.m.
Speaker Website: http://www.endpoint.com/
John Jolly (Novell/SuSE)
The Dark Art of Autotools - Presentation begins at Aug 28, 3:30 p.m.
Andrew Jorgensen (Novell, Inc.)
openSUSE Build Service - Presentation begins at Aug 30, 10:00 a.m.
Speaker Website: http://andrew.jorgensenfamily.us/
Kevin Kubasik (My Parents Basement Software)
Writing Intelligent Web Crawlers: Consume HTML the 'Right Way' TM. - Presentation begins at Aug 30, 10:00 a.m.
Speaker Website: http://kubasik.net/blog
Barry McCormick
LinuxMCE Home Automation System - Presentation begins at Aug 30, 11:30 a.m.
Speaker Website: http://www.maildragon.com
Brian Merrell (Novell)
Linux accessibility efforts at Novell - Presentation begins at Aug 29, 11:30 a.m.
Speaker Website: http://bgmerrell.blogspot.com
Mac Newbold (Code Greene)
Local Keynote: How To Leverage Open Source in a For-Profit Business - Presentation begins at Aug 28, 6:30 p.m.
Speaker Website: http://codegreene.com
Brad Nicholes (Novell, Inc.)
Monitoring your Data Center using Apache and Ganglia - Presentation begins at Aug 29, 5:30 p.m.
Jared Ottley (Alfresco)
Document Management - Presentation begins at Aug 30, 11:30 a.m.
Speaker Website: http://jared.ottleys.net
Ben Payne (Vantage Legrand)
The future of Artificial Intelligence in Open Source - Presentation begins at Aug 28, 3:30 p.m.
Speaker Website: http://ai.trixtur.com
Jim Petersen (Novell, Inc.)
KVM/QEMU Virtual Machines - Presentation begins at Aug 29, 8:30 a.m.
Edwin Philips
Open Source for the Windows Addict - Presentation begins at Aug 30, 2:00 p.m.
Michael Place (XMission Internet)
HOWTO: Start an open-source radio station - Presentation begins at Aug 29, 11:30 a.m.
Speaker Website: http://www.utahfm.org
Matthew Reinbold
How to Evangelize Without Getting Your Ass Kicked - Presentation begins at Aug 28, 5:00 p.m.
Speaker Website: http://voxpopdesign.com
Glenda Rhodes (Utah OpenTech)
GIMP for Photographers - Presentation begins at Aug 30, 11:30 a.m.
Speaker Website: http://gimpchick.blogspot.com
Tristan Rhodes (Utah OpenTech)
Using Vyatta to replace Cisco gear - Presentation begins at Aug 28, 12:30 p.m.
Speaker Website: http://www.utahopentech.com
Scott Robertson (HP)
Things I've Learned From Oggify - Presentation begins at Aug 29, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker Website: http://scottr.org
Joseph Scott (Automattic)
WordPress Performance and Scalability - Presentation begins at Aug 28, 2:00 p.m.
Speaker Website: http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/
Andrew Shafer (Reductive Labs)
Automated System Management with Puppet - Presentation begins at Aug 30, 3:30 p.m.
Speaker Website: http://stochasticresonance.wordpress.com/
Josh Simpson (Reno Gazette-Journal)
Behavior Driven Development In Ruby - Presentation begins at Aug 30, 3:30 p.m.
Speaker Website: http://stderr.ws/
Jared Smith (Digium)
Dialplans for Dummies: An Introduction to the Asterisk Dialplan - Presentation begins at Aug 28, 3:30 p.m.
Speaker Website: http://www.jaredsmith.net
Grant Sperry (XMission)
How to write a good HOWTO - Presentation begins at Aug 30, 2:00 p.m.
John Taber
Inkscape - Graphics Made Easy - Presentation begins at Aug 30, 2:00 p.m.
Jeremy Willden (Ad Hoc Electronics)
Serious VPN without serious cost - Presentation begins at Aug 28, 2:00 p.m.
Speaker Website: http://www.adhocelectronics.com
Phil Windley (Kynetx)
Using Apache as an Application Server - Presentation begins at Aug 29, 10:00 a.m.
Speaker Website: http://www.kynetx.com/
Jimmy Zimmerman (FamilySearch)
How to build your own FamilySearch application - Presentation begins at Aug 30, 2:00 p.m.
Speaker Website: http://jimmyzimmerman.com
