Welcome to the GOSCON 2006 Conference Program. We are pleased to provide another quality program including outstanding access to industry expertise and leadership.
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A list of speakers is available at the speakers page .
A detailed description of the Transit Forum tracks is available for download.
| Thursday, October 12th |
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Strategy |
Operations |
Case Studies and Apps |
Transit Forum |
| 7:00 - 8:00 |
Registration & Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00 - 9:00 |
"Building Open Source Collaboration in Government", Opening Keynote, Stuart Cohen, OSDL |
| 9:00 - 9:15 |
Break |
| 9:15 - 10:15 |
Making your Organization Open-Source Ready |
Open Source 101 for Managers |
Community Source Development 101 |
Transit Software Alternatives Analysis: Using OSS as a Baseline Alternative for MMTPS |
| 10:15 - 11:00 |
Break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 |
Executive Panel: Open Source & Public Procurement;
How do we get there from here? |
Pakistan's Open Source Initiatives |
Web Mapping Alternatives Analysis |
| 12:00 - 12:45 |
Buffet Lunch |
| 12:45 - 1:30 |
"Callisto: Large Scale Collaboration", Lunch Keynote, Ward Cunningham, Eclipse |
| 1:30 - 2:30 |
Open Technology Development Road Map |
Open Source Software Economics (and Licensing) in One Lesson |
Open Visualization: NASA World Wind |
Release of the TimeTable Publisher Application |
| 2:30 - 3:00 |
Break |
| 3:00 - 4:00 |
tba |
CARB: One Agency's Experience with Open Source |
Massachusetts Open Initiatives |
Transit Data Models as a Foundation for "Open" Interfaces and Data Sharing |
| 4:00 - 4:15 |
Break |
| 4:15 - 6:00 |
Reception at the Governor Hotel |
| Friday, October 13th |
| 7:30 - 8:30 |
Continental Breakfast | Transit Forum Steering Committee Meeting |
| 8:30 - 9:30 |
"The Open Source Ecosystem", Breakfast Keynote, Brian Behlendorf, CTO, CollabNet |
| 9:30 - 9:45 |
Break |
| 9:45 - 10:45 |
CIO Panel: Getting Started with Open Source |
Building Online Open Source Communities |
Google Maps and Transit (runs to 11:00 am) |
| 10:45 - 11:15 |
Break |
| 11:15 - 12:15 |
OSS in the Federal Government and Opportunities for Collaboration |
Collaboratively Evolving Ecosystems |
Open Source GIS |
Transit Participation in Open Source GIS is encouraged
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| 12:15 - 1:00 |
Plated Lunch |
| 1:00 - 2:00 |
"$16M Later…A Model to Pool Investments for Directed Open Source Projects", Lunch Keynote, Brad Wheeler, CIO Indiana University |
| 2:00 - 2:15 |
GOSCON Conference Close |
| 2:30 - 5:00 |
Transit Forum Meeting |
