Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Day Twenty Eight: Preparation for POSSCON

I will be attending POSSCON with the rest of my classmates on March 28 and 29. In preparation for this event, I have developed a schedule for the events that I will attend. This is necessary because some time slots have multiple presentations.

March 28
9:00 - 9:15        Welcome
9:15 - 9:50         Keynote: Open Source - Now and in the Future
10:00 - 10:45     Demo: Open Sourcing: From Within Your Company, For Your Company
11:00 - 11:45     Education: Working Laterally: Restructuring K-12 Education Based on Open...
12:00 - 1:00       Lunch
1:00 - 1:45         Keynote: Big Data, Hadoop and Open Source
2:00 - 2:45         Big Picture: Open Source: Licenses & Communities
3:00 - 3:45         Demo: How GitHub Uses GitHub to Build GitHub
4:00 - 4:45         Big Picture: Changing the Face of Open Identity in Ecommerce
4:45 - 5:00         Wrap Up 

March 29
9:00 - 9:15         Welcome
9:15 - 10:15       Keynote
10:30 - 11:15     Education: Some People Hate Fun: Protecting 3D Printing and Open Hardware...
11:30 - 12:15     Education: Open Source in Art
12:15 - 1:30       Lunch
1:30 - 2:15         Keynote: Let's Talk About Cloud - The State of the Industry, OpenStack and APIs
2:30 - 3:15         Big Picture: Starting a New Open Source Project: The Project Lifecycle and How...
3:30 - 4:15         *Tie between Education and Demo*
4:30 - 5:00        Big Picture: Predictions & Trends for Open Source in the Enterprise in 2012
5:00 - 5:15        Wrap Up

We are also supposed to pick three presenters to talk with during free time. Scott McNealy is an obvious choice, though he may be very busy. Dan French has an interesting position as Superintendent of Schools; it would be nice to get some insight as to how he sees public schools interacting with technology in the future. Jonathan LeBlanc also sounds like a very interesting individual. The social side of technology has always intrigued me. These are my three choices as of now, but this decision is subject to change based on presentations. If I see a presentation that particularly interests me, I might decide to spend some of my time in discussion with that speaker instead. 


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