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OSCON 2008

Learn about Ubuntu at OSCON

What is OSCON?

OSCON is the Open Source Convention. Now in its tenth year, OSCON returns to the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon July 21-25, 2008, bringing together over 2500 experts, visionaries, and hackers in the trenches to explore all that open source has to offer. 2008 promises interesting developments in Linux, Java, Web, and open source infrastructure. OSCON will have tracks for Linux, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, Mobile, Databases, Desktop Applications, Web Applications, Administration, Security, People, Business, and Emerging Topics. Learn more at About OSCON ».

This year's OSCON has a wealth of Ubuntu information

Improve your development practices, integrate Ubuntu with Active Directory, reap the benefits of virtualization and learn the latest tips and tricks. Here's a list of just the Ubuntu related sessions, see the full schedule and register at the OSCON website.

LTS Tutorials: Using Ubuntu in the Enterprise
Christer Edwards (Guru Labs, LC)
LTS Tutorials demonstrates how to use Ubuntu in an Enterprise setting in a number of ways. From how to setup LAMP, mass hands-off network deployment, File Servers (NFS, SMB, FTP, SFTP), repository mirroring, and internal secure IM with Jabber. Read more.
How to Achieve Secure Integration of Ubuntu and MS Active Directory Without Breaking the Bank
Jerry Carter (Likewise Software)
Here's an industrial-strength way to address the issue of connecting to a directory in a mixed environment. Instead of grappling with homegrown directory solutions, now there's an open source way to leverage your company's investment in Active Directory. Read more.
Ubuntu Server Technologies
Nick Barcet (Canonical Ltd), Rick Clark (Canonical Ltd)
Peek under the hood of the Ubuntu Server. Read more.
Ubuntu Deployment for Your Enterprise
Fredrik Jonsson (ASCI Sweden AB)
A presentation about how Ubuntu Deployment mechanisms can be used for multiple, zero touch installations in your enterprise network as well as how custom-made network install CDs can provide remote disaster recovery of a machine for a user that is even off site (only internet connection required). Read more.
Landscape: Managing Ubuntu Deployments
Steve George (Canonical Ltd)
Landscape is a system management service that allows you to manage multiple Ubuntu machines as easily as one. Learn how you can manage many machines in a complex environment through a single web-based interface. Read more.
The Ubuntu Community
Jono Bacon (Canonical Ltd)
The Ubuntu community is where the spirit of Ubuntu comes to life. Learn how it all works, and how you can get involved. Read more.
Ubuntu Desktop Technologies
Ted Gould (Canonical)
A tour of the technologies that provide the foundation for the Ubuntu Desktop. What's in; what's out; and why each technology is important to providing an incredible desktop experience. Read more.
Exhibiting Software
Hunter Cross (Ponticlaro Inc.)
An overview of experiences and best practices for how to use Ubuntu as an economically viable platform for installation art, collaborative art projects, and art exhibition kiosks and for the presentation of software-based art project proposals in contemporary art spaces. Read more.
Ubuntu on the Go: Subnotebook and MID technologies
Pete Goodall (Canonical Ltd)
See the latest Ubuntu on ultra-mobile devices such as subnotebooks and MIDs. Read more.
Beyond Agile: Enabling the next wave of software development methods
Martin Pool (Canonical Ltd), Kiko Reis (Canonical Ltd)
Development methodologies are morphing from "pure" Agile to incorporate best practices from Lean and the open source world. Bazaar's first class support for both central and distributed version control models lets communities and companies migrate, as their needs dictate, from their current processes to more adaptive ones. Read more.
Teenbuntu: Reaching Out to Teens
Andrew Harris (Teens on Linux.org), Samuel Baldwin (Teen on Linux)
A talk given by Andrew "Tuna" Harris, the 15-year-old founder of TeensOnLinux.org, and Samuel Baldwin, a 15-year-old hacker from Boston. This is not a suggestion on creating yet another Ubuntu-based distribution, but rather an insight on marketing Ubuntu and FOSS in general to teens. Read more.
Bullet-proof Ubuntu for Remote Installations, like Timbuktu
Jeffrey L. Wishnie (Inveneo, Inc.)
Students get their first introduction to life-changing technology tapping on your keyboard. Your systems track patient health for an entire district. Relief workers coordinate their efforts on your terminals. Your offices are 10,000 miles away, your technicians 8hrs by bus, your network: 16kpbs on a good day. How do keep it running? Zero-maintenance bullet-proof Ubuntu. Read more.
Practical open source collaboration with Launchpad
Kiko Reis (Canonical Ltd), Brad Crittenden (Canonical Ltd), Joey Stanford (Canonical Ltd)
Launchpad is often referred to as Ubuntu's "secret sauce." Learn how it can add flavor to your development efforts. Read more.
Virtualization in Ubuntu
Nick Barcet (Canonical Ltd)
Technology and use cases for virtualization in Ubuntu. Read more.
Using Ubuntu, Virtualization, and Automation to Improve Your Web Development Workflow
David Brewer (Second Story Interactive Studios)
Large-scale web projects use sophisticated staged deployment systems, but the prospect of setting these up can be daunting. Using Ubuntu, virtualization, and automated configuration puts the benefits within easy reach even for small projects. David Brewer explains how Second Story uses Ubuntu, VMware Server, and AutomateIt to grease the wheels of development on their museum-sector projects. Read more.