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Wednesday, June 28

Type Title Speaker
Session (75 Min.) Breaking Through the Noise: Visibility for your
Open Source Project		 Khudairi
Session (75 Min.) Apache: When the Code Just isn’t Enough Fitzpatrick
Session (75 Min.) Your Open Source Strategy Sucks! Rabellino
Session (75 Min.) Open Source Project Tools for Corporate Projects? Delacretaz
Session (75 Min.) Challenges of Corporate Involvement in Open Source Cooper
Session (75 Min.) Ubuntu: Improving Collaboration in the Free Software World Shuttleworth
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BTS1: Breaking Through the Noise: Visibility for your
Open Source Project

Speaker:
  • Sally Khudairi (HALO Worldwide)
Session (75 Min.)
Description:

Open Source developers often voice the frustration of not having enough visibility of their projects. Gain insight into communication strategies that help to reach beyond your peers and immediate fanbase and break through the noise in the marketplace. Learn how to
clarify your message and define who you are against competitive projects. Improve your media skills to mitigate the reality of overworked reporters and make your efforts more credible to analysts and the community at large. Raise your profile and let the world know how good you really are. Sell the sizzle, and sell the steak.

Details:
  • Level: Novice
  • Room: Lansdowne Room
  • Time: 28.06.2006, 13:30 - 14:20
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BTS2: Apache: When the Code Just isn’t Enough

Speaker:
  • Brian W. Fitzpatrick (Google, Inc.)
Session (75 Min.)
Description:

When people talk about open source software, they tend to concentrate
on openness of the source code itself. While open source code is
integral to the mission of the Apache Software Foundation, developing
the software "in the open" is at the heart of what makes Apache
software sustainable in the long term.

This talk will review how the community, the consensus, the culture, and open
discussion at the ASF help bolster the bottom-up development model that has become the hallmark of great open source projects over the world.

We’ll look into the processes of several Apache projects including the functioning of the Apache Software Foundation itself to see how the ASF takes open source beyond the source code.

Details:
  • Level: Novice
  • Room: Lansdowne Room
  • Time: 28.06.2006, 14:30 - 15:20
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BTS3: Your Open Source Strategy Sucks!

Speaker:
  • Gianugo Rabellino (Sourcesense)
Session (75 Min.)
Description:

Open Source in corporate environments is much more than grabbing a package and installing it. Even in Open Source, "failing to plan is planning to fail": learn how you can make the most out of your Open Source experience by finding out how to persuade your boss that Open Source is a good thing, how to identify the right Open Source solutions for your needs and how to participate in online communities and get all the support you need. This talk will try to give the audience an overview of the most used Open Source business models and provide a few hints to avoid pitfalls.

Details:
  • Level: Novice
  • Room: Lansdowne Room
  • Time: 28.06.2006, 16:00 - 16:50
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BTS4: Open Source Project Tools for Corporate Projects?

Speaker:
  • Bertrand Delacretaz (codeconsult)
Session (75 Min.)
Description:

Can the corporate world learn something from successful Open Source projects?

We will show how a set of lightweight tools plays a critical role in the success of the ASF's projects, enabling a continuous and efficient flow of information in our communities.

A list of nine "project status" questions will be used to evaluate what each tool brings to the process.

The ASF's way of working has demonstrated its efficiency in many successful projects. We will show how a similar way of working can bring big benefits to corporate teams as well.

Details:
  • Level: Novice
  • Room: Lansdowne Room
  • Time: 28.06.2006, 17:00 - 17:50
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BTS5: Challenges of Corporate Involvement in Open Source

Speaker:
  • Danese Cooper
Session (75 Min.)
Description:

This year has seen several high-profile acquisitions of FOSS codebases involving some very wealthy companies, including IBM (Gluecode), Oracle (SleepyCat and nearly Zend), and RedHat (JBoss), and of course Web 2.0 companies bought FOSS too, such as SixApart (LiveJournal) and Yahoo! (Flickr, del.icio.us). At the same time some of the largest FOSS communities, including Kernel.org, Apache, and Mozil

Details:
  • Room: Lansdowne Room
  • Time: 28.06.2006, 11:30 - 12:30
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BTS6: Ubuntu: Improving Collaboration in the Free Software World

Speaker:
  • Mark Shuttleworth (Thawte)
Session (75 Min.)
Description:

The obstacles and challenges that need to be considered now by Open Source Communities and the steps that are being put in place by
Canonical in order to confront these and give Ubuntu the greatest chance of success as a Community project.

Details:
  • Level: Novice
  • Room: Lansdowne Room
  • Time: 28.06.2006, 10:30 - 11:20