Speakers Bios
Andrew Vandever
Title #1: OpenOffice.org Implementation
Title #2: Open Source TCO: Is it Worth It?
Title #3: Managing Software on Linux with RPM and Yum
Bio: Coming soon
Dane Copeland
Title #2: An Introduction to Regular Expressions
Bio: Dane Copeland is the Director of Windows and Network Training at Technical Training Resources. Technical Training Resources (TTR) specializes in corporate IT and engineering training.
Dane has more than 12 years experience implementing and modifying large commercial software systems. For the last 10+ years he has been providing training in the corporate arena for operating system installation, administration, business and engineering programming.
David Egan
Title #1: Linux can NOW replace windows desktop
Title #2: Virtualization Comparison
Bio: Coming soon.
Donald Ladwig
Title #1: Implementing Adempiere
Title #2: OFBiz ERP/CRM Open Source Applications
Bio: Mr. Ladwig has been part of the Idalica team since its inception. He has over 25 years of Business Solutions and ERP experience and consulted with Fortune 500 companies, both national and international, in multiple verticals in Manufacturing, Retail POS, Engineering, Warehousing, and Financial Information systems. Mr. Ladwig has defined and designed best practices with improved business processes combining these with the latest technologies. These holistic solutions for leading companies enable them to work more efficiently and cost effectively. In addition, they have provided profitable and cost effective ROI's (Return on Investments) during the project lifecycle -- not months or years after implementation. Donald Ladwig has brought this vast experience to design and now lead Idalica Business Solutions. He currently leads Idalica in the development and implementation of Enterprise Level Open Source Business Applications.
George Geller
Title: Openvpn
Bio: George Geller stayed in school way too long. He finally escaped with a Ph.D. in Chemistry from UCLA. After working at Caltech, Suntory (in Osaka, Japan) and Columbia University, he joined a San Diego company producing molecular simulation applications for chemical and pharmaceutical research. Eventually he figured out that writing good software was even more rewarding and fun than trying to make molecules behave. Thereafter he worked as a programmer at several software companies in the San Diego region, most notably Intuit, and has enjoyed modest success in founding his own software startups. He is a founding member of the Kernel-Panic Linux Users Group and the sponsor and primary editor of wsms.wikiplanet.com (the Web Server Maintenance and Security Wiki), a website dedicated to documenting the often-challenging job of keeping computers operating smoothly.
Ian Fyfe
Title: Integrating data with Jaspersoft
Bio: Ian Fyfe is responsible for product management and product marketing of the JasperSoft BI Suite, which includes JasperReports, JasperServer, JasperAnalysis, and JasperETL; as well as Jasper4Salesforce, an on-demand advanced reporting solution for salesforce.com. Ian has an extensive background in business intelligence product management, product marketing, pre-sales engineering, and professional services at both large and small independent software vendors, including Business Objects, Epiphany, Informix, PeopleSoft, and Pivotal. Ian was the lead product manager for the BusinessObjects 4 and WebIntelligence products when they were introduced to the North American marketplace, and has played a pivotal role in JasperSoft’s market-leading open source business intelligence strategy.
Jason Haislmaier
Title: Integrating Open Source Compliance Into Corporate IT
Bio: Jason Haislmaier is a partner in the Technology and Intellectual Property Law Group of the law firm of Holme Roberts Owen (www.hro.com). He is also an adjunct professor of Copyright Law and Technology Contracting Law at the University of Colorado School of Law. Jason represents emerging and established companies in licensing and other transactions relating to the commercialization and procurement of technology and intellectual property, with a special area of emphasis on free and Open Source software licensing and compliance issues. He has helped clients in the US, Europe and Asia develop and implement Open Source compliance strategies, contend with third party open source compliance inquiries, and deal with Open Source issues in a variety of corporate transactions. He has lectured internationally on technology and intellectual property issues, including the practical and legal issues surrounding the interpretation of open source licenses under the copyright and intellectual property laws of the US and EU.
JT Smith, PlainBlack
Title #1: The Business Of Open Source
Title #2: The Stack
Title #3: Why WebGUI For Developers?
Bio: JT Smith is President of Plain Black Corporation, and creator of the Open Source content management system WebGUI. In 1999, JT began working on a project called Web Done Right. A professional in Internet technology since 1992, he recognized the need for a web application framework that married both ease of use and power. Web Done Right evolved and after a number of revisions JT launched WebGUI and its parent company, Plain Black Corporation, in 2001. Less than a decade since its inception, WebGUI has become the most widely deployed mod_perl application on the planet.
In the process, JT's expertise and experience have earned him recognition as an innovative and knowledgeable leader in the Open Source community. JT has spoken internationally at conferences and institutions including HOSC, PerlSIG, OSCOM, Harvard, and YAPC. He has written articles and given expert interviews for such publications as eWeek, CIO, ComputerWorld, LinuxWorld, the Intranet Journal, Perl.com, Chicago Daily Herald, and NewsForge. He also supports local publications and user groups by speaking and participating as a leader in the open source community.
Karl Clinger
Title #1: Scripting 101
Title #2: SELinux- How It Works and How To Respond To Security Denials (Without Turning It Off)
Bio: Karl resides in Castle Rock, Colorado. He is a full-time Instructor and Examiner for the RHCT and RHCE certifications. Karl has been the Technology Director for one of San Diego County's school districts. He also started a Wireless Interent Service Provider (WISP) that covers a large portion of San Diego's East County. In addition, Karl has been a consultant for interactive web design(specializing in Flash development), mainly enhancing existing sites with forms and animations.
He enjoys being involved in the community with activities that include: Red Cross Shelter Operator, Football Coach and Boy Scout Volunteer. Favorite past-times include: learning languages, scripting, solving difficult puzzles (Rubik's, etc.) and going on outings with his three sons. (His wife anddaughter are always welcome, too.)
Keith Wright
Title #1: Create a custom Linux Distribution
Title #2: How to create a custom DVD using open source tools
Bio: Keith Wright has held many positions in the computer industry in the last 23 years including being a robot programmer, providing technical support, building and deploying custom systems, consulting on databases and websites, creating courseware, and teaching computer classes. He holds numerous certifications including current A+, Linux+, Network+, Microsoft Office 2003 Master, and RHCE. Keith also graduated from San Diego State University with a B.S. in Business Administration, Information Systems. When not applying his computer skills to business, he enjoys programming, video production, and photo editing on the computer as some of his hobbies. Keith currently works for One Course Source, Inc. as a Technical Trainer.
Mike Phillips
Title #1: Choosing a Linux Distribution
Title #2: Simple Linux Customizations for Fedora
Bio: Coming soon.
Philip Tellis
Title: Project management with Bugzilla, CVS and Mailing lists
Bio: Philip Tellis is a geek who likes to make the computer do his work for him. As part of his job with the Exceptional Performance team at Yahoo! he analyses the impact of various design decisions on web application performance. On the side, Phillip maintains the javascript implementation of strftime used in YUI and plays around with security, accessibility and i18n. He is also the maintainer of several Open Source projects including ayttm and libyahoo2 where he learned a lot about managing a distributed team of geeks. In his spare time, Philip enjoys cycling, reading, cooking and learning spoken languages.
Stoyan Stefanov
Keynote Address : Software development in economically challenged times
Title #2: Introduction to YUI 3
Bio: Stoyan Stefanov works for Yahoo!'s Exceptional Performance team doing research, experiments and building tools to improve the performance of the Yahoo! properties worldwide. He's also a contributor to several Open Source projects (PEAR, YSlow, Firebug) and author of a number of books (PEAR, phpBB, Object-Oriented JavaScript) and numerous online articles.
Steve Diggs
Title: Open Source and Global Warming: just the facts
Bio: Coming soon
Thomas Cook
Title: Leverage Open Source ETL for your BI Project
Bio: Thomas Cook is a technical consultant for Talend and has several years of data integration industry experience. Thomas has been an avid Linux user for over 13 years, and comes from a systems programming background. He is based out of Austin, TX.
Tony Asaro
Title: The New Economics of Virtualization
Bio: Coming soon.