speakers

Time Track 1 – 2nd floor (Basekamp) Track 2 – 4th floor (JOG)
10:00 – 10:40 Keynote by Elizabeth Krumbach
“Make a Difference for Millions:
Getting Involved with FOSS”
10:50 – 11:50 Chris ‘apeiron’ Nehren from Philadelphia.pm, Dahut.pm
Le PERL est mort
Michael Froehlich How to Start a Neighborhood Tool Library
11:50 – 1:10 Lunch
1:10 – 1:50 Mark Dominus
Join my army of git zombies!
Patrick R. Michaud
Rakudo Perl 6
2:00 – 3:00 Robert Blackwell (‎rblackwe‎) from Pittsburgh.pm 

Communicating with Perl and Arduino

Mackenzie Morgan
Ubuntu Development Processes
3:10 – 3:50 Walt Mankowski
Become a Perl one-liner ninja!
Mo Morsi
Opening up Cloud Computing with Aeolus
4:00 – 4:40 Introduction to the Parrot Virtual Machine and Parrot Project Deb Nicholson
Community Organizing for Free Software Activists
5:00 – 6:?? Lightning talks and closing

Call For Papers

Fosscon 2011 is a community driven conference for fans of free and open source software(FOSS), being held in Philadelphia, PA on July 23rd, 2011.

We are inviting those in the FOSS community with interesting and exciting topics to speak on to submit a talk to speak at this event.  As a general event built for the community at large, the range of acceptable topics is broad, however Fosscon traditionally favors topics with an immediate real world use in home, business, or teaching environments and broadly categorizes talks under one of these headings.

The program committee invites proposals for paper presentations, demonstrations and poster contributions on any topic relevant to FOSS awareness, accessibility and application. We want to offer something for beginning, intermediate, and advanced learning levels with particular emphasis on the following topics:

  • The Open Culture Movements influence on open source
  • Beginning the FOSS conversion
  • FOSS on a Windows Desktop
  • Fun FOSS projects for your home
  • Plugging into Social Media with FOSS
  • FOSS in business
  • FOSS in education
  • FOSS at non-profits
  • FOSS Government
  • Open Hardware
  • Open Mobile Environments
  • Your new awesome FOSS project
  • Free Network Services

Presentation Proposals:
Your submission should include:

  1. Name, title, address, email and phone number,
  2. Short biography, qualification, occupation, achievement and affiliations (limit 150 words).
  3. Summary or abstract for your presentation (limit 150 words)
  4. including a draft copy of presentation/paper
  5. Time (40-60 minutes). Include time for discussion and questions
  6. Technical requirements (video, internet, wireless, audio, etc.)

Please submit your talks to speakers@fosscon.org Thanks from all the Fosscon team for your help.  We look forward to seeing you there.

For further information visit http://fosscon.org/ or chat with us directly at http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=fosscon


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