MacOSX: 8 years of Innovation and Open Source

Jordan K. Hubbard - I've been bugging Jordan for ages (sure feels that way), to come to Denmark to speak about his work at Apple where he is combining his immense FreeBSD and Darwin knowledge. OS X is sharing a good deal of code with the FreeBSD project and Jordan was one of the original co-founders and core team members of FreeBSD and in my book that degree of knowledge makes someone worth listening to. Apparently he is also pushing the buttons on Apples PR-machine to be allowed to talk freely of whats up their sleeve with regards to the future of OS X (Snow Leopard). Right now, I am really curious as to what he will be telling us at Open Source Days.

How to become a Puppet master

Have you ever heard of Puppet? Puppet is a mass scale systemadministration tool written in Ruby - its author Luke Kaines (Reductive Labs) used to be one of the core developers for the open source project CFengine. We use CFengine extensively at DIKU for the administration of our UNIX server park - but sometimes we get a little tired of the way CFengine does things. Puppet has a fresh view on things - and once in a while its really healthy to stop in the midst of all the "that should have been finished yesterday" - and contemplate whether things could be done with a little more cleverness - Puppet is one of those "wait a minute - thats nifty". While checking out Puppet I stumbled across a very interesting podcast from RedMonk featuring Luke Kaines and Nigel Kersten from Google. And I had hardly finished hearing it, before I was trying to figure out - how the hell I could get hold of Nigel and persuade him to come to Open Source Days - it turned out that Nigel is a big fan of Lego - and what better place to visit than Denmark Anyway Nigel's talk is for me considered a MUST.

One account to rule them all - OpenID

You know the feeling - you jump to a webpage, you need to download a piece of software, just to try it out, and you are yet again asked to create an account and enter your e-mail etc. *sigh* - yet another useless account. OpenID tries to rectify that by  lowering the user frustastration level and giving the control back to the user with a Singe-Sign-On OpenID account. OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity. OpenID is a young project, but it got a huge backing group in very short time, which makes its chance of survival pretty damn good. One of the companies that's begun using OpenID is Zyb - a service to keep an easy accessible on-line copy of the contacts from your phone. At Open Source Days, we have 2 OpenID speakers - one Friday morning and one Saturday afternoon, but on Saturday there will also be a lightning talk on the topic and a booth in the user group community area. Lots of possibilities to gain more insight to OpenID.

The once and future Roller

Another talk I am really looking forward to is developer Dave Johnsons talk on Apache Roller. Apache Roller is the software for mass scale blogging sites - Suns own blogs.sun.com is running on Roller and it's one of the worlds biggest corporate blogging sites with 5000+ bloggers. Apache Roller graduated from the Apache Incubator in March 2007 and is now considered an official Apache project. Roller was originally written by Dave - which means, that at Open Source Days you have a chance to hear about the past and especially the future of Roller from the guru himself! Apparently support for OpenID has just been added to Roller, thanks to Googles Summer of Code Apache Roller is a case story on open source development worth listening to!

My new favorite color? Chrome of course!

Do you want to hear one of Denmarks own Chrome/v8 cartoon heroes Kasper Lund? It's just been settled that Kasper will give a talk on Saturday October 4th on the development of Google Chrome/v8 - and the inner workings of the javascript engine that makes it so damn fast.

I hope to see you at Open Source Days - its always worth spending 2 days with like minded people and getting recharged with new ideas.

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The registration for Open Source Days 2008 is now open! You can either buy a ticket that covers both Friday and Saturday or one for just Saturday.

If you can't or don't wish to buy a ticket - we are still looking for crew for the conference - that way you can get in for free and help make the conference even better.

I sure hope to see you at the conference - its the open source event of the year in Scandinavia. This year we've added lightning talks to the agenda - which means you'll have an even harder time deciding what talk to listen to - because there is an entire extra track!

So - the program for this years Open Source Days is shaping up really nicely. Hopefully we'll have most of it online next week. I am really proud of how many cool talks around Sun technology we've managed to fit in. 

• Why formats matter - keynote by Louis Suarez-Potts
• The once and future Roller by David Johnson 
  
• Open High Availability Cluster Geographic Edition talk by Steve McKinty
• OpenStorage/ZFS talk by Mads Toftum
• Deadly Sins of MySQL and PHP by Carsten Pedersen
• Beyond the keyboard, mouse and screen by myself (a SunSPOT talk)
  

Dave is also going to talk about Project SocialSite which has just been released and Louis Suarez-Potts is working on setting up a Nordic OpenOffice project leader/workshop meeting.

Todays qoute from YAPC: "The CBS wifi suck - oh look chocolate cake - the organizers are geniuses" - makes you wonder how much you can solve with a good cake...

We have been working on a poster for the upcoming conference - and here is the result.

Louis Suarez-Potts will be giving us an update from the OpenOffice community and the upcoming version 3.0 of OpenOffice.

Robin Rowe and Gabrielle Pantera will be talking about Linux in Hollywood - the big rendering farms and Linux based tools used at the major studios. Robin and Gabrielle gave an opening session at this years FOSDEM.

Last but not least Dan Klein will be giving the Saturday night evening keynote. The title is not fixed yet - but I can assure you that it will be entertaining as usual.

Other prominent speakers will be joining as well - but I cant reveal who yet, because agreements havn't been finalized yet. 

We will be notifying speakers who sent in papers shortly - if you would like to give a talk at this years Open Source Days - please don't hesistate - send an abstract to papers@opensourcedays.org  ASAP.

Hopefully we'll have some webbanners available next week.

 

Every open source project with the slightest drop of self-esteem has one - a planet.
A collection of blogs, with a common interest.

Sun pulished theirs in "beta" a little while back - http://planets.sun.com/.

Soooooo - of course there's also going to be a planet for Open Source Days.
Its not up and running yet - but it will be - soon  

 

 

Det er nok gået de færrestes næse forbi, at Nordens største - og bedste? - åbne IT-konference, LinuxForum, pr. i år har skiftet navn til Open Source Days, for at understrege at konferencens indhold og formål er andet og mere end blot Linux.

I dag blev det oplyst på konferencens websted, at årets konference afholdes første weekend i oktober (den 3. og 4.), og at konferencen i år holdes på IT-universitetet i København.

Jeg glæder mig til at dukke op. Jeg håber vi ses.