Conference Speakers | Southern California Linux Expo

Conference Speakers

The mission of the Southern California Linux Expo is education. To further that goal, each year the Southern California Linux Expo invites noted members of the Open Source Community to speak at SCALE.

Whether you are a beginner, a seasoned *NIX guru or just curious about Open Source, we have many worthwhile sessions for you to learn from this year!

Enjoy!

Aaron Johnson A Basic Introduction to KDE4 KDE Enthusiast	AEleen Frisch Getting Started with System Monitoring Exponential Consulting	Akkana Peck Bug Fixing for Everyone
Anthony Lineberry Undermining the Linux Kernel: Malicious Code Injection Via /dev/mem Flexilis, Inc. Sr. Software Engineer	Blars Blarson Openstreetmap: What, Why, and How	Bradley Kuhn When Software Is a Service, Is Only the Network Luddite Free? Software Freedom Conservancy President
Bryan Che Introduction to Realtime Linux Red Hat Product Manager	Cathy Malmrose (WIOS) The Iron-Jawed Angels of Open Source -- Who we are and why we contribute ZaReason, Inc. CEO	Chris Oberlander More Secure Scripting MSCE: Security, UCLA Programmer/Analyst
Christian Hergert Asynchronous and Concurrent Programming with GTask MySpace.com	Christopher Blizzard Mozilla, Firefox and the Open Web - Fighting for the Future Mozilla Corporation	Clint Savage Fedora Remix Fedora Project, Utah Open Source
Dan Anderson (OSSIE) How We Turned Our Classroom into a Musical Instrument Viewpoint School Computer Science Instructor	Daniel Baroco, et al ORGANIC FOOD, ORGANIC SOFTWARE	Daniel Phillips Tux3, A Versioning Filesystem for Linux tux3.org
David Maxwell Scan Open Source Report 2008 Coverity / NetBSD Open Source Strategist	der.hans Intermediate bash scripting: getting more bash for your $ LOPSA and Phoenix Linux Users Group	Dru Lavigne (WIOS) "Now What?" for the Open Source Noob Open Source Business Resource
Edward Mokurai Cherlin (OSSIE) The GPLed Curriculum Earth Treasury Founder	Elliot Jordan (OSSIE) Open Source Software In Education 2009 Computer Applications Instructor	Emma Jane Hogbin Version Control for Mere (and freelance) Mortals HICK Tech Senior Ninja
Emma McGrattan (WIOS) Do women approach coding differently to men? Ingres SVP Engineering	Eric Mandel & Jason Ford Automating System Builds and Maintenance with Cobbler and Puppet BlackMesh Inc. President	Hunyue Yau Low power Linux HY Research
James Shewmaker Using FUSE to Create Your Own Filesystem Bluenotch Corporation	Jay Pipes Join-Fu: The Art of SQL Sun/MySQL Community Relations Manager	Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier Reaching the masses: 10 ways to improve the reach of your FOSS Project Novell / openSUSE Project
Joe Smith (OSSIE) College and Open Source Student	John Todd Open Source in an Economic Downturn Digium Open Source Community Director	Jono Bacon Building Belonging. Ubuntu Community Manager
Joseph Guarino FOSS Games – FREE FUN – A quick overview of some great FOSS games!	Josh Berkus Database Security for Web Geeks PostgreSQL	Joshua D. Drake Log Shipping and PITR made easy
Juan J. Natera CPAN tour for System Administrators	Ken Gilmer BUG Update: Building open source gadgets with Linux, OSGi, and Web Services Bug Labs	Kenneth Wyrick (OSSIE) Moodle
Kir Kolyshkin Recent advances in the Linux kernel resource management OpenVZ Project leader	Kristian Erik Hermansen Building PC Labs with DRBL Computer Scientist	Kuldip Oberoi Metrics for Success: Performance Analysis 101 Sun Developer Tools Engineering Manager
Kurt Merhoff GNU/Linux 101 An Introduction to Linux, Learning How To Learn Member San Fernando Valley Linux User Group	Laurent Cohen Java Parallel Processing Framework (JPPF): making open source grid technology accessible to all	Leslie Hawthorn, Cat Allman Getting Started in Open Source: An Overview for Newbies Google Inc
Mark Fasheh Linux File Systems Tutorial SUSE Labs Software Developer	Matt Harrison "Scripting" with Python: Maintainable, Testable, & Distributable	Michael Meeks An open office suite Novell Inc.
Mike Stewart Php/drupal Takeout: FOSS Development & Design in a "to go" Box LA Drupal co-manager	Nathan Haines Growing Up Free Ubuntu	Pau Garcia-Mila Cloud Computing and Open Source - the eyeOS Project eyeOS
Peter Roozemaal SmallMail, keep your email private in a world of data collection smallsister.org	Rikki Kite (WIOS) Her PR Problem -- Tooting the horns of women in open source Linux Pro Magazine Associate Publisher	Rob Tiller Patents and Open Source After Bilski Red Hat, Inc Vice President and Assistant General Counsel
Ron Gorodetzky Cluster beats Server, but Pie beats everything Digg Inc. Systems Engineering Manager	Ronald G. Minnich Building, Burning, and Flashing coreboot: an overview and demo Sandia national Labs	Ross Turk Open Source Business for Hackers SourceForge, Inc. Director of Community
Samuel Coleman (OSSIE) Low/No Cost Mini Computer Labs for Classrooms Eastlake High School Assistant Principal	Selena Deckelmann Linux Filesystem Performance for Databases: What Assumptions Make	Sharon Levy (WIOS) PHP and JavaScript: An Introduction
Shawn Anderson Introduction to ruby for writing small tools and applications Software Developer	Simone Bernacchia introduction to AROS	Stormy Peters Companies & Communities, partners in open source? GNOME Foundation
Ted Gould Ubuntu Desktop Technologies Canonical

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