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Flourish 2008 - Closing

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:00:00 GMT

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Flourish 2008 - John Waclawsky - The Revolution at the Edge of the Network

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:11:02 GMT

The technology world is expanding from its focus on technology-specific businesses such as PCs, cell phones, set top boxes, providing Telecom services, etc. to the business of facilitating Human Interaction. The human perspective is clear when we look from the edge of the network in, not from the inside of the network out. The outside, or edge, perspective reveals the way people use their technology while the inside perspective is a restricted view of what a network anticipates or how it allows attached devices to behave. Today the view at the network edge reveals a communications world in the midst of a multi-decade transformation from Plain Old Telephony Service (POTS) to a multi-dimensional gadget-filled future surrounding each individual, beginning with ubiquitous network(s) access via Personal Area NetworkS (PANS) using Pretty Amazing New Stuff (PANS**2) at the edge of the network. The devices we carry around with us are causing fundamental human patterns of behavior to change. Edge devices are increasingly facilitating our obtaining all the information we need for our daily activities, no matter what professions, as well as being able to have all our social interactions become automatic and routine. The journey from POTS to PANS**2, driven by Moore, Gilder and Metcalf's laws, is also about the evolutionary communication industry melding (or colliding) with revolutionary Internet thinking. Individuals are reaching out to the world in a number of different ways via the technology they routinely carry. Cell phones, iPods, PDA's etc. are beginning to offer significant physical connectivity and flexibility that will form the basis of numerous overlapping logical interactions for communications, education, e-commerce, social networking, etc. For the industry, the critical question is what must it do to keep its edge customers happy? The answer is and always has been about "end user value." This talk took place at Flourish 2008.

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Flourish 2008 - Kevin Harriss - An Introduction to Foresight Linux

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:00:01 GMT

A guided tour on the features of Foresight Linux and what separates it from the pack of other distributions. Benefits include the latest and greatest desktop applications and the revolutionary package manager Conary. This talk took place at Flourish 2008.

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Flourish 2008 - Louis Suarez-Potts - Why OpenOffice.org and the OpenDocument Format are Important

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:15:01 GMT

Louis Suarez-Potts talks about the OpenDocument Format. This talk took place at Flourish 2008.

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Flourish 2008 - Jon 'maddog' Hall - The Use of Free and Open Source in Education

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:31:00 GMT

From the early days of computers the best instructors in computer science believed that the best way of teaching students was to show them how others wrote good code. "A picture is worth a thousand words" is not only applicable to photography and art. This talk illustrated concrete reasons why and how FOSS should and can be used to propel students to learn faster and easier in the area of complex systems, and why the use of closed, proprietary code is dead and dying. This talk took place at Flourish 2008.

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Flourish 2008 - Duncan Murdoch - The R Project: Open Source Statistical Computing

Mon, 12 May 2008 06:54:10 GMT

n this talk, Dr. Murdoch gave a brief description of R and discussed the history of R including those aspects of the project that have led to its success. Dr. Murdoch then focused on some particularly interesting aspects of R, including statistical graphics and the Sweave scheme for literate programming with LaTeX and R. Finally, Dr. Murdoch discussed the short and long term plans for R. This talk took place at Flourish 2008.

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Flourish 2008 - James Gray - IBM's Open Source Strategy: Turning Threat into Opportunity

Mon, 12 May 2008 03:57:08 GMT

For a commercial software company, open source is often seen as a threat to software revenue streams but it can also be an opportunity. This presentation focused on IBM's open source strategy as part of a larger business model. The talk began with a timeline of IBM's involvement in the open source movement and examined some of the decisions that were made at key stages. The talk reflected upon at the effects that open source has had on the IBM software portfolio and on specific customer engagements where "free" products have been selected over "for fee" products. The talk ended with a short discussion on both the positive and negative impacts of open source software and what the future may hold for open source. This talk took place at Flourish 2008.

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Flourish 2008 - James Bottomley - Hacking the Linux Kernel for Fun and Profit

Mon, 12 May 2008 01:27:23 GMT

The linux kernel may seem like a daunting place for people who are (or even for people who are not) new to hacking Open Source operating systems. This talk gave an overview of getting into kernel hacking, which areas of the kernel (and its APIs) might be more amenable to a bit of fine tuning and how to go about getting involved (including mailing list etiquette and all the important business of figuring out whom to pay attention to and whom to ignore). By the nature of the speaker, the talk was focused on kernel device drivers. The talk was rounded out with anecdotes about the best kernel contributions. This talk took place at Flourish 2008.

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Flourish 2008 - Bobby Moore - Perspectives on Open Source from Microsoft

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:18:26 GMT

Today there is low awareness of Microsoft's Open Source efforts; however, Microsoft has had strong and increasing participation in the open source community. The purpose of this talk is to detail Microsoft's open source activities and history in interacting with open source as well as explain why Microsoft's open source strategy is fundamental to the success of the organization. This talk took place at Flourish 2008.

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Flourish 2008 - Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman, Google - Do You Believe in the Users?

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:36:27 GMT

Too many programmers have forgotten about the lost art of customer service. All software has users, though most developers have forgotten how to respect them, trust them, or "sell" their software to in an exciting (but honest!) manner. This talk will focus on anecdotes and strategies for keeping software design uncomplicated, making software fast, and putting usability above programming convenience. We'll also focus on the importance of keeping a healthy illusion of simplicity, while allowing abstractions to deliberately leak for power-users. This talk is from Flourish 2008.

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Flourish 2008 - Bruce Perens - Innovation Goes Public!

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:10:55 GMT

Open Source provides much of the software infrastructure for many of the world's largest companies and organizations: Merrill Lynch, Google, Pixar, Amazon, the City of New York and probably you - although you might not know it. Innovative products like Linux, Firefox and Apache are the market-leaders in their sectors. There are tens of thousands of Open Source programs used for just about everything! But the economics of Open Source are non-intuitive: How can you make money by giving software away? Why did IBM de-emphasize AIX, after spending billions, in favor of Linux, the product of a loose collaboration of programmers that it can never control? How can the world's greatest city trust Open Source to help manage its jails? This talk took place at Flourish 2008.

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Flourish 2008 - Panel

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:41:31 GMT

What happens when you put together Jon "maddog" Hall, Jim Gray (IBM), Bruce Perens, Bobby Moore (Microsoft), and James Bottomley? Well, you get the Flourish 2008 panel and a lot of good discussion.

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Flourish 2008 - Jon Maddog Hall - Ubiquitous Internet More than 'The Last Mile'

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:58:40 GMT

Today we talk about trying to bring the Internet to everyone. But bringing the Internet to everyone is more than just WIMAX and laptops. There are some other serious challenges that need to be considered. Free and Open Source Software is the best solution for the next five billion computers, whether the "last mile" is in Ethiopia or inner city Chicago. This talk took place at Flourish 2008.

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