Federico Cargnelutti

A couple of weeks ago I attended the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland. OSCON has hundreds of sessions and activities focused on all aspects of open source software. I met some great people, the talks were good and I saw some promising ideas and technologies.

Workshops attended

• Android for Java Developers
  Marko Gargenta (Marakana)
• Building a NoSQL Data Cloud
  Krishna Sankar (Cisco Systems Inc)
• Building Native Mobile Apps Using Open Source
  Kevin Whinnery (Appcelerator)

Sessions attended

• Building Mobile Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
  Jonathan Stark (Jonathan Stark Consulting)
• Open Source Tool Chains for Cloud Computing
  Mark Hinkle (Zenoss), John Willis (Opscode, Inc.), Alex Honor
• Doctor, I Have a Problem with My Innovation.
  Rolf Skyberg (eBay, Inc.)
• Ingex: Bringing Open Source to the Broadcast Industry
  By Brendan Quinn (BBC R&D)
• membase.org: The Simple, Fast, Elastic NoSQL Database
  Matt Ingenthron (NorthScale, Inc.)
• Introducing WebM: High Quality, Royalty-Free, Open Source Video
  John Koleszar (Google, Inc.)
• Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot: Understanding API Activity
  Clay Loveless (Mashery)
• Deploying an Open Source Private Cloud On a Shoe String Budget
  Louis Danuser (AT&T Labs, Inc.)
• Eucalyptus: The Open Source Infrastructure for Cloud Computing
  Shashi Mysore (Eucalyptus Systems Inc.)
• Hadoop, Pig, and Twitter
  Kevin Weil (Twitter, Inc.)
• Mahout: Mammoth Scale Machine Learning
  Robin Anil (Apache Software Foundation)
• BlackBerry development for Web Application Developers
  Kevin Falcone (Best Practical Solutions)
• Practical Concurrency
  Tim Bray (Google, Inc.)
• Scribe – Moving Data at Massive Scale
  Robert Johnson (Facebook)
• Make Open Easy
  Dan Bentley (Google)