LinuxWorld Conference and Expo 2007

"Ask the Experts" Q&A area

Show floor, open during expo hours

Open to all attendees: full conference and "exhibit hall only."

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When	Topic	Speaker	Description	Possible alternate times
7 Aug 10AM	Welcome to "Ask the Experts"	Don Marti	About the unconference format. Introduce the white board for on-site setup	no
10:30AM	Wikis at the workplace	Peter Thoeny, TWIKI.NET, Inc.	Short presentations on collaboration challenges at work and how wikis can help, followed by discussion	yes
11AM	Conary, Next generation package management	Erik Troan rPath, Inc.	A brief introduction to conary package management
11:30AM	Open Q&A	Jeremy Garcia, LinuxQuestions.org	I'm open to doing a general Q&A if there's a demand	Flexible
12 noon
12:30PM
1PM	Embedded Linux Development	Mike Anderson The PTR Group, Inc.	People attending this session will learn the basics of setting up Linux for cross-development to an ARM-based target such as a cell phone. There will be a demonstration of compiling and running code on an ARM-based target.	Flexible
1:30PM
2PM
2:30PM	What happens when bugs attack global open source projects	David Maxwell, Coverity	People attending this session will learn the following: Description of where the defects were found Defect resolutions trends Anecdotal comments on how this compares to the way that defects are resolved in proprietary software distributed team development How to apply this information to your own proprietary or open source distributed development teams How large distributed development teams can coordinate to find defects
3PM	Performance optimization of software. Efficient threading of C++ software .	Ganesh Rao, Intel	Discuss techniques to thread for performance for C++ applications. Discuss efficient use of the Intel C++ Compiler, OpenMP and the Intel Threading Building Blocks libraries to optimize applications. Questions and suggestions? Contact me at Ganesh dot P dot Rao at intel dot com.	Flexible.
3:30PM
4PM-5PM	Product Excellence Awards	Don Marti	Awards for the top products at the show in twelve categories, plus "Best of Show"	no
8 Aug 10AM	Embracing The "Green" Datacenter Concept	Russell Pavlicek, Senior Linux Architect for Professional Services, Cassatt Corporation	Many organizations need to reduce power consumption and/or maximize cooling capacity in datacenters.  We will talk about what strategies are currently available, using technologies available in Linux and other platforms.  Attendees will also be encouraged to share any requirements being placed on them by "Green" datacenter initiatives	Anytime Wednesday
10:30AM	Search-driven Development	John D. Mitchell Chief Architect Krugle	SDD is a software development technique that emphasizes the use of search as a powerful programming tool. SDD is not a replacement for existing programming methodologies such as test-driven development or extreme programming. It complements these approaches by using search to improve results and reduce time requirements.	Noon-1, Thursday
11AM	SELinux Policys and Debugging	Mike Anderson The PTR Group, Inc.	We will examine SELinux policy entries and how to debug AVC entries by examining the log files	flexible
11:30AM	High Availability on Linux	Alan Robertson, Linux-HA project, IBM	I'll give a quick intro to Linux-HA, with special mention of its unique features for managing virtualization, replication, and multi-site clusters, and answer questions about the software and the project.	any time on Wed , could possibly be late Tuesday
12 Noon	OpenVZ: fast and efficient Linux virtualization	Kir Kolyshkin	A quick intro to OpenVZ, including live demo. Questions about OpenVZ technology and the project itself answered.	no
12:30PM	Virtualization alternatives	Kir Kolyshkin	Different virtualization technologies and products, their pros, cons, and applications. I would like to see people from other virtualization projects joining this.	no
1PM	Who Has Access?	Kurt Lingel	A discussion of the challenges of determining who has access to all the resources available on a Linux system. What resources are the hardest to determine access? What information are our auditors requiring today?	flexible
1:30PM	Joomla! 1.5 - Demo	Johan Janssens/Louis Landry	A demo of the key features of Joomla! 1.5, the upcoming release of the popular PHP content management system. More info http://www.joomla.org	flexible
2PM	Joomla! 1.5 - Q&A	Johan Janssens/Louis Landry	Ask the experts, get your Joomla! questions answered ! For people that have questions about Joomla!, both as user or developer here is your change to talk directly to the two lead developers.	flexible
2:30PM	Data Recovery from RAID Systems	Chris Bross	A discussion of the challenges and choices involved when rescuing inaccessible data from multi-disk storage systems	somewhat flexible
3PM	Contributing to Debian	Don Armstrong	How you can participate in the development of the Debian project, from bugs to packages to documentation.	flexible
3:30PM	Anatomy of a Debian Package	Don Armstrong	How Debian packages are put together, how you can modify existing packages and create your own.	flexible
4PM	Network backup and recovery	Paddy Sreenivasan Zmanda	Amanda is the leading network backup software for Linux and other operating systems. There are lot of exciting developments in the project. I will discuss the project details and talk about Zmanda's involvement.	no
4:30PM	MySQL backup	Paddy Sreenivasan Zmanda	MySQL databases are part of mission critical applications. There are several ways to backup MySQL databases. The talk will discuss pros and cons of these backup methods. I will also discuss Zmanda recovery manager for MySQL backup.	no
9 Aug 10AM
10:30AM	Open source licensing strategies	Heather Meeker	Heather Meeker, a business attorney specializing in open source licensing, will share suggestions and answer your questions about integrating open source licensing in your business strategy.	noon - 1
11AM	Tradeoffs in Building Entire Networks in Software	Dirk Morris, CTO Untangle	Virtualization has opened-up opportunities to consolidate network functions on a single off-the-shelf server. Still, there are tradeoffs to be made when designing a virtual network and tricks to maintain high performance. In this interactive session, Dirk Morris will layout a number of the techniques used in the Untangle Gateway Platform project to optimize performance of this virtual software network.	no
11:30AM	Linux vs. Solaris	John D. Mitchell, Chief Architect Krugle	What's the real differences in evaluating, developing, deploying, and supporting modern applications on Linux and Solaris?	Noon-1
12 Noon	Debugging Linux Kernel Modules	Mike Anderson, The PTR Group, Inc.	How do you go about debugging loadable kernel modules such as device drivers?  We'll look at techniques using traditional techniques, KGDB, JTAG and other debugging approaches.	flexible
12:30PM
1PM	Linux Processor Affinity	Mike Anderson The PTR Group, Inc.	How do you tune your applications to maximize performance on multi-core processors?  We will talk about how the Linux scheduler addresses thread/process migration and how you can deal with both soft and hard affinity in applications code.  In addition, we will also show some features of interrupt affinity and how interrupts can be locked to a processor core.	Flexible
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