Schedule
CPOSC 2009 is a one day event that includes 21 awesome speakers in three tracks throughout the day!
Here’s the current schedule of talks…
CPOSC 2009
October 17, 2009
| Time | Room 1 14th Floor Auditorium |
Room 2 13th Floor HU #1305 |
Room 3 13th Floor HU #1302 |
| 8:00 – 9:00 AM | Registration / Breakfast 12th Floor |
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| 9:00 – 9:10 AM | Welcome (Room 1) 14th Floor Auditorium |
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| 9:20 – 10:10 AM | The Business of Open Source Licensing (Owen Winkler) |
Stop Worrying and Start Monitoring with Nagios (Andrew Libby) |
Making Java Fun Again, Web App Development with Tomcat & Eclipse (Jim Capp) |
| 10:20 – 11:10 AM | DRBD, Network Raid, High Availability and General Awesomeness (Brian Gorka) |
Drupal: Challenges, and Techniques for Managing Change (Christian Pearce) |
The Statistical Significance of R (Premal Vora) |
| 11:20 – 12:10 PM | MySQL Performance Tuning for non-DBAs (Tom Clark) |
The Value of IRC to Open Source Projects and Groups (Jonathan Simpson) | Survey of Fuzzy String Matching Algorithms (Kyle Burton) |
| 12:10 – 1:10 PM | Lunch | ||
| 1:10 – 1:40 PM | Wonderful Desktop Tricks, and Aesthetics (Seth Jerome) |
Clojure: Usable Lisp (David Whittington) |
Why You’ll Love Python (Shawn Milochik) |
| 1:50 – 2:40 PM | Virtualization is Easy Now: An Introduction to VirtualBox OSE (Bob Igo) |
Proper Use of a Computing Cluster (Phil Kostenbader) |
Jump Start Django: The Web Framework for Perfectionists with Deadlines (Rob Yates) |
| 2:40 – 3:00 PM | Refreshment Break | ||
| 3:00 – 3:30 PM | Watching and Manipulating Your Network Traffic (Josiah Ritchie) |
Building Scalable, Fault-Tolerant Applications with Erlang (Joshua Miller) |
Scratch: Programming for the Young and the Young at Heart (Michael Badger) |
| 3:40 – 4:30 PM | Contributing to Open Source Projects (Elizabeth Krumbach) |
How to Get There and What’s Along the Way: Driving directions and Geospatial search (Eric Beyeler) |
Maatkit, a Toolkit for MySQL Users (Baron Schwartz) |
| 4:40 – 5:00 | Closing / Goodbye | ||
Revised: 10/10/2009
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Full abstracts for each talk are available as well!
Looking for last year’s schedule? You can view the CPOSC 2008 schedule on the wiki, or download it as a PDF.


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