Speakers & Schedule
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Schedule
Thursday, the 29th of May: The Welcome Dinner
From 6pm on Thursday evening - at Les Oliviades (Hotel Sofitel), the eLiberatica experience kicks off a little early
with a casual reunion where the speakers are going to meet with the eLiberatica
Committee, sponsors, partners and conference attendees. We will get to
know each other and prepare the details for the conference speeches.
Participating on it, you'll have a great opportunity to establish contacts,
socialize and discuss hot topics, while enjoying the friendly atmosphere in one
of the most exciting restaurants in beautiful Bucharest.
Friday, the 30th of May: Day One
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08:00 |
40' |
Registration |
n/a |
The World Trade Plaza (WTP)
hall |
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08:40 |
20' |
Opening Ceremony |
Lucian Savluc
Zak Greant
Andreea Maier |
WTP |
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09:00 |
30' |
Open Source Adoption Status: What statistics tell us |
Felix Enescu |
WTP |
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09:30 |
50' |
Understanding Free Software and Open Source Licensing |
Zak Greant |
WTP |
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10:20 |
40' |
Legal Aspects related to a FLOSS-based model business |
Bogdan Manolea |
WTP |
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11:00 |
30' |
30 minutes Coffee Break |
n/a |
WTP hall |
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11:30 |
40' |
OSS in Public Administrations - A short Report from the European Level |
Barbara Held |
WTP |
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12:10 |
30' |
For the first time in Europe: Digital ID providers and OpenID services for Romania |
Constantin Teodorescu |
WTP |
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12:40 |
30' |
Integrating Open Source into Your Business - Part I |
Adam Jollans |
WTP |
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13:10 |
30' |
Open Source at Microsoft |
Zoli Herczeg |
WTP |
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13:40 |
1h |
Lunch |
n/a |
Darclee Restaurant
(Hotel Sofitel) |
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14:40 |
40' |
Write the Future: Open Standards, Open Source, OpenOffice.org |
Louis Suarez-Potts |
WTP |
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15:20 |
20' |
OpenSource and Sun: The OpenSolaris case |
Vassilis Boulogiorgos |
WTP |
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15:40 |
20' |
Open Source Software Middleware for "The Internet of Things" - Project ASPIRE |
Humberto Moran |
WTP |
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16:00 |
10' |
SocrateOpen, after two years |
Remus Cazacu |
WTP |
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16:10 |
10' |
10 minutes Break |
n/a |
WTP hall |
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16:20 |
20' |
An Open Source client application for the Hermix Conferencing Framework |
Eugen Rotariu |
WTP |
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16:40 |
30' |
Integrating Open Source into Your Business - Part II |
Adam Jollans |
WTP |
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17:10 |
20' |
20 minutes Coffee Break |
n/a |
WTP hall |
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17:30 |
30' |
Practical workshop 1: Kiwi, a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu and made for Romanians |
Jani Monoses |
WTP |
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18:00 |
20' |
Practical workshop 2: FLOSS Software alternatives to everyday applications |
Tiberiu Turbureanu |
WTP |
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18:20 |
10' |
Closing remarks - Day One |
Lucian Savluc
Zak Greant
Andreea Maier |
WTP |
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18:30 |
1h |
1h Break |
n/a |
n/a |
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19:30 |
2h |
Social Dinner with guests and partners |
n/a |
Locanta Jaristea |
Saturday, the 31st of May: Day Two
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08:00 |
40' |
Registration |
n/a |
The World Trade Plaza (WTP)
hall |
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08:40 |
20' |
Opening remarks - presenting Day Two |
Lucian Savluc
Zak Greant
Andreea Maier |
WTP |
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09:00 |
20' |
Introducing itTraning - Red Hat Training Center |
Radu Radulescu |
WTP |
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09:20 |
40' |
Strategic implementation of Free Software in business |
Shane Martin Coughlan |
WTP |
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10:00 |
30' |
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants |
Brian King |
WTP |
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10:30 |
30' |
HP vision - Governing the use of open source |
Martin Michlmayr |
WTP |
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11:00 |
30' |
30 minutes Coffee Break |
n/a |
WTP hall |
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11:30 |
40' |
Enterprise Information Networks Using FLOSS Technologies - The Navarik Story |
Bill Dobie |
WTP |
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12:10 |
40' |
Mozilla Messaging and Thunderbird: why, and how |
David Ascher |
WTP |
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12:50 |
30' |
The Future of Enterprise Content Management |
Aleksander Farstad |
WTP |
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13:20 |
20' |
What's next |
Alexandru Balan |
WTP |
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13:40 |
1h |
Lunch |
n/a |
Darclee Restaurant
(Hotel Sofitel) |
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14:40 |
20' |
Dell and Open Source |
Serban Zirnovan |
WTP |
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15:00 |
30' |
Active State and Komodo - Why we chose to make our product open source |
Shane Caraveo |
WTP |
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15:30 |
20' |
RedHat and the Open Source Business Model |
Dragos Manac |
WTP |
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15:50 |
10' |
10 minutes Break |
n/a |
WTP hall |
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16:00 |
40' |
Google and the Open Web: Using Google APIs to improve your website |
Matthew "Chewy" Trewhella |
WTP |
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16:40 |
20' |
20 minutes Coffee Break |
n/a |
WTP hall |
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17:00 |
60' |
A Panel Discussion about Open Business Models Versus Closed Business Models |
Moderator – Zak Greant
Participants:
Brian King,
David Ascher,
Shane Caraveo,
Shane Coughlan,
Louis Suarez-Potts,
Microsoft representative
(will be announced) |
WTP |
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18:00 |
10' |
Closing Plenary & Handover to eLiberatica Committee |
Lucian Savluc
Zak Greant
Andreea Maier |
WTP |
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18:10 |
20' |
Partner events |
n/a |
Partners booths |
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18:30 |
1h |
1h Break |
n/a |
n/a |
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19:30 |
2h |
eLiberatica Freedom & Networking Party |
n/a |
Restaurant
(will be announced) |
eLiberatica 2008 Keynote Speakers
We have the pleasure to announce you the eLiberatica 2008 keynote speakers!
In alphabethical, we introduce you:
Worldwide Open Source Strategy Manager
IBM
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Adam Jollans is currently leading the worldwide
Open Source & Linux strategy for IBM Software Group. This role covers a wide spectrum
of activities, from understanding the market and working with customers, to developing IBM's
Open Source & Linux software strategy, to briefing analysts and press.
He is based in Hursley, England, and has been involved with Linux since 1998.
He joined IBM in 1984, and since then has worked in a range of technical,
sales and marketing roles - most of them associated with PC and small
systems hardware and software.
He graduated from the University of Cambridge, England in 1980 with a
degree in Computer Science, and is a Chartered Engineer and a
Member of the British Computer Society.
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Aleksander Farstad is the co-founder
and CEO of eZ Systems AS, a Norwegian Enterprise Open Source company.
Aleksander presented eZ and Open Source at eLiberatica
last year.
We are very pleased to have Aleksander back again bringing us this time the
current trends in the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) market.
Aleksander has a unique perspective on FLOSS shaped by a background uncommon for
an Open Source entrepreneur: mathematical finance and his early career as a
derivatives trader at Oslo's Den norske Bank.
eZ system's major software is eZ Publish,
an Open Source CSM that is used by thousands of companies worldwide, including
prominent clients such as the United Nations,
MIT, Vogue Australia,
National Geographic,
ELLE UK and Tribune De Geneve.
eZ Systems employs nearly 100 people spread across 8 offices in Europe and North America
(including one Romanian in the Norwegian headquarters office), being a perfect example of
an Open Source based business model.
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Alexandru Balan from BitDefender is a repeat offender at Eliberatica.
He just switched from the position of Product Manager for UNIX/Linux based solutions to
that of Product Manger for Innovation and he's here to continue on last year's topic:
what's next to be done in the security industry.
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Barbara Held presently works as Detached
National Expert at the European Commission Programme for "Interoperable
Delivery of pan-European eGovernment Services (IDABC)".
She is responsible for the IDABC projects promoting on Open Source Software (OSS)
in public administration - including a project for a European OSS Repository
(OSOR).
She also coordinates the programme's activities on Open Document Exchange Formats.
Being a Desk Officer at the German Federal Ministry of the Interior in Berlin,
Barbara Held formerly served at the German Government's Coordination and Advisory
Board for IT in the Administration (KBSt),
responsible for software strategy and OSS policy.
She holds a PhD in mass communication sciences from
Free University Berlin.
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Bill Dobie founded Navarik Corp with
his business partners in 2000, and received the Business in Vancouver
magazine's "40 Under 40" award,
recognizing important young entrepreneurs in British Columbia, in 2005.
Since the early '80's, Bill has been programming and using computers
to drive his passion for technology that has continued throughout his business career.
He has a particular interest in how companies use structured information and how
to reduce dependence on email and information overload.
Bill is a major supporter of Open Source technology and constantly drives
Navarik and it's customers to support and embrace these technologies.
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Executive Director,
APTI Romania (The Association for Internet and Technology)
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Bogdan has a legal background and extensive experience in Law and
ITC as APTI Executive Director and owner of the only Romanian site dedicated to the Law and ITC (www.legi-internet.ro).
He is also a Creative Commons Romania
Co- Legal Project Leader and a very active member of the Romanian IT community with insights into the burgeoning Romanian IT sector .
He is also the author of many articles on ITC and the Law, an ardent supporter of Open Source and Free Software and
a presenter in national and international conferences.
Bogdan's presentation
at eLiberatica 2007 was a huge success and many people asked for a return engagement.
And returning he is!
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Founder and manager,
Briks
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Brian has been involved in the FLOSS community since
1999 working on both Open Source and proprietary software built on the
Mozilla Application Platform.
He is on the Board of Directors of the Mozdev Community Organization.
Brian runs Briks, a software company
dedicated to helping clients develop and deploy Mozilla-based web applications.
Briks' headquarters are in Slovenia with a global client base. Briks also
provides opportunities to push Open Source in the business world.
As part of a distributed development model, he uses various OSS tools
to collaborate with teams he works with. These includes bug tracking systems,
mailing list software, and revision control systems.
Brian is a guest speaker at numerous conferences, including the
XML Conference,
LinuxWorld,
and the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting
(FOSDEM).
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Constantin Teodorescu is Secretary of
State, Romanian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
Mr. Teodorescu also holds management positions in several private sector
companies and is involved in major IT projects. He is a noted guest speaker
at many conferences on the applicability and advantages of open software and Linux OS.
A dedicated Open Source supporter, Mr. Teodorescu was involved in the development
of PostgreSQL.
His articles on the implementation of new technologies and alternative FLOSS
solutions have been published in PC Magazine, BYTE Romania, PC Report and eWeek Romania.
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David Ascher is CEO of Mozilla Messaging, the new organization focused on email and Internet communications, and a strategic advisor to ActiveState.
David has been an active member of the Mozilla community since 2000, initially
as the lead of Komodo, a Mozilla-based integrated development environment (IDE).
He is an established leader in the open source community, including his role as
a director of the Python Software Foundation.
He has taught courses about Python to corporations, in universities, and at conferences
and co-wrote the two editions of Learning Python.
Before joining Mozilla, he was managing director and chief technologist of the ActiveState
unit during its ownership by Sophos,
and most recently CTO and VP Engineering.
Or as David puts it: "I work for Mozilla on email. Before that I was the CTO and
VP Engineering for ActiveState. Before that, I ran the ActiveState division of Sophos.
Before that, I wrote code. Before that, I did science."
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Dragos Manac is Lead Operations at System & Network Solutions (SNS),
a Romanian company representing Red Hat as a business partner and one of the first companies in Romania
to offer dedicated services in the Linux/UNIX area.
In the 6 years of activity SNS has done various projects, from video streaming and VoIP to web applications and HA/HPC clusters.
Dragos Manac is a Linux/OSS promoter, writes the Fiat Linux column in Academia Catavencu,
and his blog, manac.ro, was chosen as the best Romanian business and technology blog in 2008.
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Eugen Rotariu is the CEO for IntegraSoft SRL,
the company that is developing the
Hermix Conferencing Framework.
He is also CEO in Intelligent Building Solutions, a company dedicated to
development of hardware and software solutions for intelligent houses.
In the past, Eugen Rotariu was lecturer at the Faculty of Informatics in
the University Petru Maior
Targu Mures and wrote articles for computers
magazines like PC Report, Open IT and Byte.
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Felix Enescu is VP Consulting & EXP with KPC Group, Gartner Representative in Romania.
Felix is also the President and founder of CIO Council, the only industry
association representing the interests of corporate IT clients.
As a former Rompetrol CIO he was in charge with strategic planning and
development of Information Systems in a corporation growing from
turnover of 100M USD to 1B USD in two years.
He has more that 14 years of experience with vendors, clients and big
consulting organizations.
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Humberto Moran is CEO of Open Source Innovation Ltd,
a British charity devoted to the promotion of public knowledge in the form of Open Source Software.
Graduated as Computer Engineer in his home town Caracas, Venezuela, he undertook an
MBA in Cambridge, UK (Judge Institute of Management Studies) and a Ph.D. in Business and
International Economics in Spain (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). Humberto is
also founder and director of Friendly Technologies, a British entrepreneurial venture
specialised in privacy enhancing technologies; and is an RFID
(radio-frequency identification) Expert for the European Commission.
Before founding Open Source Innovation, Humberto worked for the University of Cambridge in the
Auto-ID Project; and occupied managerial positions in
Lafarge Group, Oracle Corporation,
Sistemas Abiertos and Unisys Corporation.
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Jani has been a volunteer Ubuntu
developer since 2005 and an occasional contributor to various projects, notably GNOME,
Xfce and the Linux kernel.
He started and lead the Xubuntu
project, an official Ubuntu derivative aimed
at less powerful computers, and later Kiwilinux,
an Ubuntu derivative for Romanian and Hungarian users. Recently he has been working on getting the educational
software made for the OLPC project's XO laptop
packaged and available in Ubuntu.
As a member of Romanian Free Software Advocacy Group he has participated in several local events
that promote FLOSS.
Jani also runs his own business, Startx.
Startx does embedded software development on Linux and eCos,
plus Ubuntu Linux consultancy and support.
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Chair of the Community Council for OpenOffice.org
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Louis Suárez-Potts is the longtime
Community Manager and Chair of the Community Council for OpenOffice.org;
he joined Sun Microsystems in 2007 and has led the OpenOffice.org community since 2000.
The lead and co-lead of several projects and the primary spokesperson and representative of OpenOffice.org,
Suárez-Potts also represents the project regarding OpenDocument format
(ODF) matters,
and is on the OASIS ODF Adoption
Technical Committee and is a member of the ODF Alliance.
He speaks frequently on the ODF, OpenOffice.org, education and open source, and community
development throughout the world. Suárez-Potts is currently working on several articles
regarding open source development and education. He lives in Toronto and received his PhD
from U.C. Berkeley.
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eLiberatica Conference Chair
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Lucian is a Vancouver-based IT expert,
specialized in user experience, product design and event planning.
He is doing his best for promoting freedom, transparency and open culture
in the IT community in general and in Romania in particular.
Lucian was born in Brasov (Romania) and emigrated to Canada with his family in 2003.
In 2005, with the help of Zak Greant, he initiated a plan of setting
up an IT conference in Romania promoting Open Source and Free Software
technologies in the region. This is how
eLiberatica was born.
Lucian and Zak share the eLiberatica 2008 Conference chair.
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Martin has been involved in various free and open source
software projects for well over 10 years. He acted as the leader of
the Debian project for two years. In this role, he performed important
organizational and coordination tasks within Debian. Martin works for
HP as an Open Source Community Expert and acts as the community
manager of FOSSBazaar.
Martin holds Master degrees in Philosophy,
Psychology and Software Engineering, and earned a PhD from the
University of Cambridge.
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Chewy is a Developer Advocate at Google.
His job is to make technical things accessible and relevant to non-technical people.
He is particularly knowledgeable about Google's APIs and webmaster programmes.
He's has a BEng in Software Engineering, and he's been with Google since November 2005.
When he's not at work, he likes to play the banjo.
One of his latest keynotes (at Google Code Day)
can be found here: " Programming Web".
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Red Hat Certified Trainer, Red Hat Certified Engineer
Romsym Data
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Radu Radulescu graduated The Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications,
Computer System Engineering. He has been using Linux Operating System and training the administrating of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating System for a long time. He has got multiple international certifications;
some of them are: Red Hat Certified Engineer, Red Hat Certified Instructor, Red Hat Certified eXaminer,
VMware Certified Professional, Symantec Storage Foundation Technical Specialist.
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In 1991, still a student, Remus Cazacu, together with 2 associates,
founded an IT and networking company for hardware, networking and software sales and support.
Interested in computers, software development and economic theory,
having a solid background in these areas, he starts in 1993 a new company, BIT Softtware,
which develops and implements ERP/CRM, IT Service Management and Business
Intelligence solutions. Remus is shareholder and CEO of the company.
In 2006, the company moves to open source technology and launches in Romania SocrateOpen,
an integrated, open source ERP/CRM, powered by Compiere.
Remus is an economist, has graduated the Economic Sciences Faculty of Transylvania University Brasov.
He taught economics at the Organizations Management Institute Brasov. He has a solid background
in software development, organizational management, project management,
and is part of various national and international projects.
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Enterprise Business Manager for Bulgaria and Romania,
Dell
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Serban Zirnovan is the Enterprise Business Manager for Romania and Bulgaria
for local Dell representative office. With more than 14 years experience in IT&C industry,
Serban was involved in several large projects as a system consultant and manager for IT system architecture
for different Romanian companies. He's focused on server & storage infrastructure solution,
but also on the recently launched Dell ProSupport services.
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Shane is the chief dragon-wrangler for
Komodo
at ActiveState, an IDE developed in XUL,
JavaScript and Python,
on top of the Mozilla code base. With one foot in the world of dynamic languages, the other in more
obscure efforts like writing debugger protocols or NPAPI
plugins, he's always tackling big bad ugly problems. In years past, he worked extensively on PHP,
making major contributions such as the port to Windows, the
SAPI
architecture and early SOAP implementations.
If you use or develop PHP applications on IIS, then the name Shane Caraveo
is no stranger to you. Shane Caraveo wrote the first Win32 port of PHP
back in the late 90's, and was also responsible for writing the first
ISAPI and FastCGI modules for IIS,
and also getting support for these modules committed to the PHP core.
Shane's work has been instrumental in getting PHP to where it is today on
the Windows / IIS platform. His legacy in the PHP arena is still talked about at Trekkie conventions.
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Shane is the coordinator of FSFE's Freedom Task Force legal project. He has given numerous talks on Free Software issues and delivered training courses throughout Europe as part of his role at the foundation. Shane was previously involved in lock-in analysis, open standards and practical ICT security as a consultant.
He was born in Dublin City, Republic of Ireland and moved to England for
higher education. He studied English, Politics, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands and read for his MA at the University of Birmingham. His research during his MA was focused on security, and he produced a thesis on cybernetic warfare. |
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Tibi is a free software activist and spends a lot of
time enjoying math, algorithms and programming.
His commitment to education and free
software led Tibi to found and become actively involved in two student associations:
in 2007 - ROSEdu, and in 2008 - ASSA.
He contributed knowledge and code to the academic project Cobble and enthusiastically
promoted the OLPC project in Romania.
He initiated and is currently involved in the Liberty in Schools project.
Liberty in Schools actively promotes the free software philosophy and teaching Romanian students to
effectively use and develop free software under GNU/Linux.
Tibi is currently finishing his degree in Computer Science at University "Politehnica" of Bucharest.
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Vassilis is a Software Architect at Sun Microsystems Inc.,
covering 13 countries in the region of South Eastern Europe. He joined Sun Microsystems in
2005 and his role is to help customers craft solutions using Sun's own and other Open Source software.
His core expertise is identity management systems for large telecommunication organizations and banks.
Before joining Sun, Vassilis worked as a senior Java developer for an independent Greek ISV, focusing
on a content management system for the web. During his free time he enjoys riding his motorcycle for long, curvy rides.
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eLiberatica Conference Co-chair
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Zak Greant is an electronic frontier advocate and strategist.
In the last decade, he has worked with a variety of well-known Free Software and Open Source
organizations, including the Free Software Foundation, the Mozilla Foundation, MySQL AB,
the Open Source Initiative and the PHP project.
Zak is eLiberatica co-chair and one of the key people behind the Romanian Open Source and
Free Software Initiative. Zak was a previous keynote speaker at eLiberatica
(2007 keynotes: Free Software, Open Source and the Evolution of Communication,
Building Careers with Free Software and Open Source,
The Past, Present and Future of the Mozilla Foundation)
and this year unpacks his well-traveled bags to share the latest on FLOSS, businesses and community participation.
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Zoli is passionate about business intelligence,
security and development processes. With an IT experience of 15 years, he was trainer,
consultant and manager of a training & consulting company. Seeking to increase adoption
of new technologies and raising the satisfaction of the Romanian architects, developers and
IT professionals, Zoli is now one of the evangelists from Microsoft.
Blog: http://itboard.ro/blogs/zolis_tool
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Unfortunately, Monty can not come this year. He booked his tickets for Romania and prepared everything, but because some last family events (My, his daughter - the one who inspired the MySQL name - is having the graduation exactly when eLiberatica is scheduled) he can not participate.
He is sending his regards to all eLiberatica friends and he is strongly promising that he will come at eLiberatica2009 instead.
For those who don't know yet, Monty was born in Helsinki where he founded TCX DataKonsult in 1978, specialized in data warehousing.
Ten years latter, together with his colleague David Axmark, he began writing the first version of the MySQL database.
In 2003 Monty was awarded the Software Entrepreneur of The Year by swbusiness.fi.
By January 2008, Sun Microsystems announced its intention to purchase MySQL for US $1 billion.
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Ivan Krstic is a software architect and
researcher currently on leave from Harvard University,
working as director of security architecture at One Laptop per Child,
a non-profit organization trying to save the world by fixing education.
He is paid to be paranoid, which he imagines some psychiatrists might find funny.
Ivan enjoys breaking computers and making them hard to break even more so; at OLPC,
he's been developing a security system designed to be both hard to break and easy to use.
If this proves successful, a future version will make ice cream fall from the sky.
Ivan is deeply involved in open-source and free software, notably as a former administrator
of the Ubuntu Server Team
and co-author of the best-selling Official Ubuntu Book,
and specializes in architecture and security of large distributed systems.
He has consulted on both matters for some of the largest websites on the Internet.
In 2007, MIT Technology Review named him
one of the world's top innovators under the age of 35 for his work on the OLPC security platform,
Bitfrost.
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Keynotes Abstracts
In order of the schedule:
-- Day One --
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On: Friday at 09:00 |
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The Open Source Software model continues to mature across markets, attracting more
conservative users along the way. It is becoming not only impractical, but virtually
impossible, for mainstream IT organizations to ignore the growing presence of Open Source
Software within major segments of the IT industry. Failure to optimally manage the potential
risks and rewards of Open Source will put IT organizations at an increasingly serious
risk in the coming years.
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| By: Zak Greant |
On: Friday at 09:30 |
This presentation will provide a simple and practical overview of the
common business concerns relating Free Software and Open Source licensing such as:
* Can I sell Free Software?
* When I build software using Free Software, when must I share my source code?
* Is it safe to use Free Software inside my company?
* What are the common business models built around Free Software?
Major points in the presentation will be supported with examples from the business world.
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| By: Bogdan Manolea |
On: Friday at 10:20 |
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The presentation will focus first on some general aspects of a software-related business,
then particular aspects of an OSS business model. Specifically: copyright principles in OSS,
employee-employer relationship regarding intellectual property, confidentiality, OS licenses
compatibility, twin licensing, alternative dispute resolution methods and the role of the
trademark in a OSS business.
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| By: Barbara Held |
On: Friday at 11:30 |
In the 1990's public administrations across Europe were among the early
users of OSS (Open Source Software). The European Commission took up
the issue around 2000. Since then it initiates, sponsors and manages
projects that further OSS, investigate OSS usage and the benefits of
using OSS for the Information Society at large.
The presentation explains
the policy background of these activities and the main players and projects at
the European level. In particular, the promotion of OSS by the
IDABC program.
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| By: Constantin Teodorescu |
On: Friday at 12:10 |
Are you part of the Government but your Ministry of Finance gives you very limited budgetary resources?
You'd like to develop your eGovernment system and introduce more electronic services for citizens?
And the means of electronic identification of users at the other side of the Internet are missing or have a very high cost?
And the launch of the electronic ID card is delayed?
What can you do?
Easy! Open Google and search for "open source digital identity", click on "get lucky".
You'll find the solution - Open ID.
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| By: Adam Jollans |
Part I on: Friday at 12:40 | Part II on: Friday at 16:40 |
Open Source offers customers many potential benefits such as flexibility
and cost savings, but also potential challenges such as support,
integration and maturity. Business and organisations are today
frequently asking what their Open Source strategy should be.
IBM has a unique set of abilities and offerings to be able to help customers
answer this question, because of its involvement with Open Source going
back over 8 years, its integration of open source components into its
commercial software offerings, and its experiences with Linux,
Apache, Eclipse and many other open source projects.
This presentation will offer an understanding of the Open Source
ecosystem, an insight into the benefits and challenges customers
are experiencing with Open Source, an overview of IBM’s Open Source
approach, and practical advice on how to integrate Open Source
into customer businesses.
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| By: Zoli Herczeg |
On: Friday at 13:10 |
Is Microsoft perceived as a challenge by the OSS community?
If you think so, come and tell us why. We do want to understand
your view and share our thoughts and plans on how Microsoft is working
with the OSS community.
We do believe that challenges can be turned into opportunities for all of us.
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| By: Louis Suarez-Potts |
On: Friday at 14:40 |
Free and Open Source Software is essential to the modern informatic society.
It is economically pivotal. But not everything claiming to be open is actually open.
What counts is what one can do with the code and standard.
Over 70 different
governmental bodies and countless corporations in Europe and around the world
have chosen the OpenDocument
Format and OpenOffice.org for what it does.
And it is for these reasons that OpenOffice.org remains the best choice
for today and tomorrow.
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| By: Vassilis Boulogiorgos |
On: Friday at 15:20 |
Sun has deep roots in Open Source software and recently has made it the core of it's software strategy.
Solaris
has significant momentum as the platform of choice for organizations and developers and the
duo Solaris/OpenSolaris
are key players in Sun's Open Source strategy.
At this talk, we present and
discuss how Sun approaches Solaris and some of the key characteristics, innovations and eventually
differentiators Solaris has brought into the market, like containers, Solaris
ZFS filesystem and Dynamic Tracing
(Dtrace).
We also discuss how these features in Solaris AMP (Solaris + Apache, MySQL, PHP)
application development stack take to a whole different level the daily work of a software developer.
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| By: Humberto Moran |
On: Friday at 15:40 |
The EC-funded OSS ASPIRE (Advanced Sensors and lightweight Programmable middleware
for Innovative RFID
Enterprise Applications) aims to create an innovative, programmable,
royalty-free, lightweight and privacy-friendly middleware for the Radio Frequency
Identification Technology, or RFID. This new middleware paradigm will be particularly
beneficial to European SME,
which are nowadays experiencing significant cost-barriers to RFID deployment.
It will also protect consumers by incorporating privacy-friendly algorithms.
The synergies between the OS movement and the RFID revolution are paramount,
and were first presented by Open
Source Innovation Ltd, a British charity, during
the 2006 Public RFID Consultation held by the European Commission.
The initiative, which crystallized in the €6M ASPIRE,
brings together a consortium of ten renowned European
partners led by Aalborg University (Denmark).
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| By: Remus Cazacu |
On: Friday at 16:00 |
Having a long experience in commercial business software development and implementation,
BIT Software moves in 2004 to open source technology and launches on the Romanian market SocrateOpen, an open source ERP/CRM system based on Compiere platform.
The presentation will include the following topics:
• Open source in the business application arena
• Why a company which developed commercial solution chooses to move to open source?
• Which is the adoption level of open source business software in Romania?
• Who is SocrateOpen/Compiere after two years from the launch?
• SocrateOpen&Compiere characteristics, innovations, and differentiators compared to commercial ERP systems.
• Can the open source model be a success model? • |
| By: Eugen Rotariu |
On: Friday at 16:20 |
econference.ro
will launch in the near future a free conference service
dedicated to private, non commercial users. The service will be integrated with
the software developed for intelligent houses, and will be based on an open source
client application capable to communicate with
Hermix Conferencing Servers.
The presentation will focus on the structure of the open source application and will
invite the auditorium to download the source code and implement its own conferencing
client customized for any non-commercial applications.
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| By: Jani Monoses |
On: Friday at 17:30 |
Kiwi Linux is
an Ubuntu
derivative specifically targeting beginners
and Romanian users, with emphasis on ease of setup and use.
With a live install and demo running in the background, the presentation will
cover the history and the goals of the project, its relation to Ubuntu,
the main differences between Ubuntu and the local developer community around Kiwi,
together with inside on tips and tricks in installing and using it.
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| By: Tiberiu Turbureanu |
On: Friday at 18:00 |
This live demo will show that most of the common tasks for home and office desktop use work
out of the box in a fresh Kiwi install. We'll present the simplicity of installing new applications
from the central Ubuntu archives for activities that are not covered in the default installation.
The following topics will be covered briefly by demo'ing the existing applications: web browsing, mail, instant
messaging, VoIP, multimedia, office suite, vector, bitmap and 3D graphics, interoperability with Windows computers
and emulation of Windows applications.
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-- Day Two --
| By: Radu Radulescu |
On: Saturday at 09:00 |
Training and certification from Red Hat ensures that your IT staff is ready for complete
Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployments. We can help you identify who in your IT staff requires training and what level of training they need.
Radu will talk about the following Red Hat courses: Red Hat Linux Essentials,
Red Hat Linux System Administration + RHCT, RHCT Certification Exam,
Red Hat Linux Networking and Security, RHCE "Rapid Track" course,
RHCE Certification Exam, Red Hat Linux Essentials for Windows Professionals.
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| By: Shane Martin Coughlan |
On: Saturday at 09:20 |
Shane will discuss how Free Software has become a key paradigm in software
technology and is expected to account for up to 32% of the European software
industry by 2010. He proposes, therefore, that understanding the licensing
and philosophy of Free Software is critical to assuring effective engagement
in mainstream ICT.
His speech focuses on the assertion that the successful
strategic implementation of Free Software includes understanding subtle
differences in policy, processes and management planning when compared to
proprietary software, and an awareness of emerging trends in the Free Software community.
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| By: Brian King |
On: Saturday at 10:00 |
The large corporations that churn out the best selling consumer proprietary
software get all the attention. Yet the real heroes are the the FLOSS
communities and individuals that provide the backbone for the industry,
quietly enabling and securing the Internet and other areas of computing.
The mantra of Open Source developers is "there is more than one way to do it",
and choosing the right tools and technologies from the FLOSS patchwork can be
daunting. The best software tools don't get in the way, but rather enable.
This talk will focus on the benefits of using FLOSS in your business, how it
can fast-track you into a good position, and most importantly how if can help
you innovate and turn your ideas into a success.
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| By: Martin Michlmayr |
On: Saturday at 10:30 |
Free and Open Source Software has become unavoidable. For very pragmatic
and practical reasons, FLOSS provides incredible benefit to those who use it. However,
if this software is not managed properly, it can lead to legal, technical, and/or
organizational discomfort that can result in very negative impacts on the business.
HP (Hewlett-Packard)
recognized these realities long ago and has developed processes, tools, and expertise
to both foster and govern the use of Open Source Software within the company. In January,
HP launched two initiatives related to the governance of FLOSS,
FOSSology and
FOSSBazaar.
FOSSology is an open source tool for license detection. FOSSBazaar is a workgroup of the
Linux Foundation,
with partners such as OpenLogic
and the Olliance Group, to share and
discuss best practices related to FLOSS governance.
This talk will describe our experiences and learnings around FLOSS governance and
some of the best practices and tools we've identified along the way.
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| By: Bill Dobie |
On: Saturday at 11:30 |
For over seven years Navarik
has SaaS based services within some
of the largest corporations in the world. The Navarik Platform provides an information network for
all parties engaged in the physical movement and trading of cargo by using, creating and supporting
bilateral and industry standards. Navarik has unique experience in using open source application
development as a way to collect data for large industrial customers who are using proprietary or
commercial data systems internally.
Our application infrastructure is built on a range of open source tools such as the Linux operating system,
Apache web server, PostgreSQL relational database, and PHP scripting language.
Bill will be talking about the early stage and current challenges of selling FLOSS based applications
to customers with significant proprietary architectures. He will also be discussing various ways to convince
customers to deploy FLOSS systems as SaaS additions to their overall architecture and ways to satisfy the
ever increasing compliance and architecture review processes of large corporate customers.
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| By: David Ascher |
On: Saturday at 12:10 |
In this talk, David Ascher will give an introduction to
Mozilla Messaging,
the new Mozilla company focused on email and Internet communications, and the
Thunderbird
email program it produces. David will talk about the organization
of the Mozilla project, why we create products like Firefox and Thunderbird,
and how millions of people around the world contribute to the shared goal of an open,
vibrant Internet.
He will touch on areas such as decentralized innovation, communities
of participation, building business relationships which are aligned with the public benefit,
and the structural trade-offs that result from an open organization.
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| By: Aleksander Farstad |
On: Saturday at 12:50 |
CEO and Co founder Aleksander Farstad of eZ Systems,
discusses the current
trends in the ECM
market and why the enterprise open source business model is
already playing a key role in turning the business upside down.
The presentation
also focuses how Open Source and open source based business models are playing a
vital role in shaping the future of the software business.
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| By: Alexandru Balan |
On: Saturday at 13:20 |
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| By: Serban Zirnovan |
On: Saturday at 14:40 |
Several years ago, when the world was ruled by paper, data was EVERYWHERE … in file cabinets, in massive
back offices … and only certain people were allowed to access it. Then, as things progressed, mainframes
were used to bring all data into one place … to make it easier to manage and find. The problem was that
mainframes were really expensive and inefficient. Only the elite could afford them. Today, we might
think we have the best of both worlds … we’ve got all kinds of access to any type of data we want. Plus,
we can share it whenever and however we see fit. However, data is once again … EVERYWHERE! We’ve gone
back to where we started.
This data explosion is the primary catalyst for all storage problems today.
We’ll also discuss how virtualization allows you to tap into unused capacity hidden within the assets
they already own. Virtualization also offers a way for you to reclaim IT resources that are currently
being used to maintain inflexible and resource consuming infrastructures.
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| By: Shane Caraveo |
On: Saturday at 15:00 |
ActiveState
has a long history of being involved with and contributing to Open Source projects,
especially around Dynamic
Languages. We build value added commercial software and services on top of
Open Source languages and components. Our most recent contribution, however, is a first of it's kind
for ActiveState. We took a proprietary product we developed over many years,
Komodo Edit,
and released it as Open Source software.
In the process we've learned a few things, had
some successes, and some failures. In this talk I'll cover some of our strategies around
commercial Open Source software and why we choose to open source Komodo.
I'll also discuss the area's where we've had wonderful successes and what
kind of problems we've encountered.
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| By: Dragos Manac |
On: Saturday at 15:30 |
RedHat is the world largest Linux and Open Source provider for the Enterprise.
In the last 15 years Red Hat was the pioneer in blending free software with successful commercial models.
Linux based services at the high standards of enterprise customers created a solid company,
a way of earning from Linux/OSS and the financial resources that were invested in
the sustained development of the biggest OSS projects.
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| By: Matthew "Chewy" Trewhella |
On: Saturday at 16:00 |
The Internet has undergone a shift in the last few years: the rapid growth of web applications
has opened up a new and exciting space for developers. At Google, we're really excited
about the growth of web apps because we think it provides an open, fast and easy way for
developers to have greater reach, for webmasters to get great content, and for users to access
powerful, useful tools.
This talk will explore some of Google's efforts in this space,
including how developers can use tools like
OpenSocial
and the Google Maps API to build
better websites and to take advantage of the Programmable Web.
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| By: Multiple panelists |
On: Saturday at 17:00 |
Moderator – Zak Greant (eLiberatica Conference Co-chair)
Participants:
Brian King (Mozdev Community Organization),
David Ascher (Mozilla Messaging; Python Software Foundation),
Shane Caraveo (ActiveState Software Inc.),
Shane Martin Coughlan (Free Software Foundation Europe),
Louis Suarez-Potts (OpenOffice.org),
Zoli Herczeg (Microsoft) and Alexandru Muscalu (Microsoft).
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Note:
Due to factors outside our control, the keynote speakers list and/or the
schedule are subject to change. Any kind of change is going to be
reflected under this section as soon as possible.
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