Building Online Open Source Communities

Larry Augustin is an angel investor and advisor to early stage technology companies. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Fonality, Hyperic, Medsphere, OSDL, Pentaho, SugarCRM, VA Software (NASDAQ: LNUX), and XenSource. One of the group who coined the term "Open Source", he has written and spoken extensively on Open Source worldwide. Worth Magazine named him to their list of the Top 50 CEOs in 2000. From 2002 to 2004 he was a Venture Partner at Azure Capital Partners. In 1993 he founded VA Linux (now VA Software), where he served as CEO until August 2002 and led the company through an IPO in 1999. Larry can be found online at lmaugustin.com

Breakfast Keynote

Brian Behlendorf founded CollabNet, with O'Reilly & Associates, in July 1999. The company provides tools and services based on open source methods. Before launching CollabNet, Behlendorf was co-founder and CTO of Organic Online, a Web design and engineering consultancy located in San Francisco. During his five years at Organic, Behlendorf helped create Internet strategies for dozens of Fortune 500 companies. During that time, he co-founded and contributed heavily to the Apache Web Server Project, co-founded and supported the VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) effort, and assisted several IETF working groups, particularly the HTTP standardization effort. Before starting Organic, Behlendorf was the first Chief Engineer at Wired Magazine and later HotWired, one of the first large-scale publishing Web sites.

Brian is currently a Director of the Mozilla Foundation and a retired Director and President of the Apache Software Foundation.

CIO Panel: Getting Started with Open Source

Mr. Ben Berry serves as ODOT’s Chief Information Officer providing overall leadership, planning, development, and delivery of information technology services for ODOT and several other non-transportation organizations. As the second largest State Agency in Oregon, he is responsible for systems supporting highways, bridges, rail service, right-of-way determinations, DMV and Motor Carrier Commercial Trucking inspections and licensing throughout the state. He is the former Chief Technology Officer of Providence Health System supporting the Oregon Service Area of 7 hospitals and 33 clinics. Mr. Berry has held executive and management positions in industries such as State and Local government, healthcare, telecommunications, aerospace/defense and airport transportation. He received his M.B.A. from UCLA and a B.S. in Life Science from the University of Portland. He has 25+ years in computer software program management and operations, computer applications development and design, and systems development for public and private sectors both in the U.S.A. and the Middle-East.

Opening Keynote

Stuart Cohen is Chief Executive Officer of Open Source Development Labs (OSDL). OSDL is a global industry consortium with more than 70 members. Its activities support the adoption of the Linux operating system and open source software in the enterprise. OSDL is headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon. Stuart is also a regular contributor to Business Week online magazine.

With more than 22 years of international sales and marketing experience, Stuart most recently served as vice president and corporate officer at RadiSys Corporation where his responsibilities included strategic partnership development with other industry leaders including IBM, HP and Dell. Prior to RadiSys, Stuart was vice president of worldwide marketing and a corporate officer at InFocus Corporation. Stuart spent 17 years with IBM, where he held senior positions in the US sales & marketing division, and the IBM Personal Computer Company and Networking Division, with international business development responsibilities in Europe, Southeast Asia and China."

Stuart holds a B.S. in Quantitative Business Analysis from Arizona State University.

Callisto: Large Scale Collaboration

Ward Cunningham is the Director of Committer Community Development of the Eclipse Foundation, an innovative open source collaboration among large and small commercial interests focused specifically on software development. Ward co-founded the consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc., has served as an Architect in Microsoft's Patterns & Practices Group, the Director of R&D at Wyatt Software and as Principle Engineer in the Tektronix Computer Research Laboratory. Ward is well known for his contributions to the developing practice of object-oriented programming, the variation called Extreme Programming, and the communities supported by his WikiWikiWeb. Ward hosts the AgileManifesto.org. He is a founder of the Hillside Group and there created the Pattern Languages of Programs conferences which continue to be held all over the word.

Web Mapping Alternatives Analysis

Scott Davis is an author and independent consultant. He is passionate about open source solutions and agile development. He has worked on a variety of Java platforms, from J2EE to J2SE to J2ME (sometimes all on the same project). He is the co-author of JBoss At Work, quite possibly the world's first agile J2EE book. He is also responsible for several mapping books, including Google Maps API: Adding Where To Your Application and the forthcoming Pragmatic GIS.

Scott is a frequent presenter at national conferences (such as No Fluff, Just Stuff) and local user groups. He was the president of the Denver Java Users Group in 2003 when it was voted one of the top-ten JUGs in North America. After a quick move north, he is currently active in the leadership of the Boulder Java Users Group. Keep up with him at http://www.davisworld.org.

Pakistan's Open Source Initiatives

Sher Shah Farooq represents the Pakistan Ministry of Information Technology, who, through its implementation arm Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB), has launched initiatives to introduce open technology in that country. His experience in working PSEB for the includes with moving government and non-government organizations to open source from a business and technical perspective. He is the ministry’s technical expert in network security and voice-over-IP (VOIP) and holds an MS in Computer Science and a BSc in Mathematics and Physics. Sher Shah Farooq is also a faculty member at the National Institute of Research and Education and a key contributor to the Pakistan Open Source Resource Center.

Open Source GIS

Ken co-founded The Health Registry Network (HRN), with MIG, in July 2001. Ken currently serves as the Project and Business Manager for the HRN. The HRN is a multi-state collaborative project that provides Web based health surviellance tools to public health agencies across the United States. Ken has over 14 years of experience in developing health surveillance systems for the healthcare and public health communities. Prior to his role with the HRN, he led the software development teams for the SHACRS cancer registry project and the School Attendance Initiative. Ken's educational background includes an MS degree in Resource Economics from Oregon State University, and a BA degree in Economics from Chico State University. He has been happily married for 16 years and has three children. Ken and his family currently live in Portland, Oregon.

Making Your Organization Open-Source Ready

Bernard Golden is Chief Executive Officer of Navica, a Silicon Valley consulting firm offering open source strategy, implementation, and training services. Bernard is recognized authority on open source software, particularly the use of open source in enterprise settings. He is the author of “Succeeding with Open Source” (Addison-Wesley Press, 2005, published in three languages), which is used as a course text in over a dozen university open source programs throughout the world. He writes a regular blog on open source for CIO Magazine , and his work has been featured in SearchCIO.com, Enterprise Open Source Journal, LinuxWorld, IT Manager’s Journal, InfoWorld, and eWeek. He is a frequent speaker on the topic of open source to many organizations and at conferences like LinuxWorld and the CIO Summit.

OSS in the Federal Government and Opportunities for Collaboration

Drew Ladner is General Manager, Government, of JBoss, Inc., provider of market-leading middleware and pioneer of the Professional Open Source business model. Until 2004, he was Chief Information Officer of the U.S. Treasury Department reporting to the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. Responsible for Treasury's $2.6 billion IT strategy and budget and for operating shared IT services department-wide, he became a Federal Computer Week Fed 100 awardee in his first year on the job for his reforms and innovative agenda. Ladner's career as a technology executive has ranged from startups to large corporations, including AOL Time Warner and Netscape Communications, and enjoys extensive international business experience in Europe, the former Soviet Union, South America, and Southeast Asia. Before his technology career, he was extensively involved in emerging markets and helped launch a micro-enterprise bank in East Africa. Proficient in Spanish and Indonesian, he is a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations, a Principal of The Council for Excellence in Government, and has published and spoken widely on a range of business, governance, development, and technology issues. Ladner holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MA in theology from the University of Oxford, and a BSFS in international economics from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.

Community Source Development 101

Jason McKerr manages operations and finance for JanRain Inc. in Portland, Oregon. Previously he was the co-founder of Oregon State University's Open Source Lab. Jason started his career as an economist before becoming a software engineer. He has worked with private and public sector organizations in understanding the economic and financial models for Open Source in their enterprise, helping them achieve strong returns on their Open Source investment.

Open Technology Development Road Map

John Scott is a project leader of DoD’s Open Technology Development Initiative, which lays the groundwork for streamlined adoption of open source methodologies with DoD, which includes both the adoption (including testing) of private sector open source code and the formation of internal communities of interest around DoD systems, including classified systems. He has held senior positions in technology companies, including three start-ups, including management of software development teams and rapid ramp-up of consulting practices. John is currently Director of Open Integration at RadiantBlue Technologies, Inc.

John holds an M.S. in Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University. He has been a repeat speaker at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conferences (and served on the conference committee of its predecessor, Peer-to-Peer) and was a featured speaker at the 2006 O’Reilly Open Source Conference.

Open Source 101 for Managers

Corey is in charge of computing infrastructure at OSU's Open Source Lab, home to the world's largest non-profit open source projects, including the oversight of technical support for an impressive list of hosted projects. He comes to the lab with over a decade of Linux experience and a deep appreciation of Open Source Software and the communities that make it work. He has contributed to the Gentoo Linux project and served 2 years on the Gentoo Foundation board of trustees.

Collaboratively Evolving Ecosystems

Andy Stein is Director of Information Technology at the City of Newport News, Virginia. Using Open Source as a best practice model for collaborative software development, the City of Newport News is engaged in shared projects with other localities. The City of Newport News has developed a strategy to replace legacy applications through a collaborative ecosystem with public entities and through public-private partnerships.

In addition to his current work in Government, Andy’s professional background includes management and operation of large scaleable computing environments at Capital One, as well as work in application development, relational database and systems architecture in IBM’s consulting practice. Andy designed and implemented the RISC chip for IBM in the mid 1980’s.

Erik Stenehjem is a member of the senior staff at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) where he was responsible for creating new technology-based ventures and building partnerships with northwest institutions to enhance science and technology collaboration and knowledge-based economic development. He is currently serving as the Science and Technology Advisor to the Oregon Governor’s Office. He is headquartered in Portland.

Erik recently completed service on the Washington Economic Development Commission’s steering committee for technology commercialization. He is a member of the board of advisors for the entrepreneurship center at the University of Washington and, in his spare time, Erik teaches entrepreneurship and new business creation in the MBA programs at the University of Washington and Washington State University. Erik holds a Ph.D. in political economy (economics) from the State University of New York and a B.A. in business from the University of Minnesota. He was a recipient of the Federal Laboratory Consortium award for excellence in technology commercialization in 2005.

Using Open Source & Open Standards for Shared Services

Tim Vaverchak is the Manager of Shared Services at the Information Technology Division of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In addition to providing technical leadership for the Commonwealth’s implementation of the OpenDocument standard he manages several development groups including ITD’s Open Source Development team. Tim has worked at ITD for the past five years. During this time he has successfully developed and implemented Open Source technology solutions for business problems as diverse as fostering cross organizational collaboration, online job posting, and computer virus tracking.

Open Source Software Economics (and Licensing) in One Lesson

Stephen is responsible for developing and managing Optaros´ relationships with the open source community. Prior to Optaros, Stephen worked at Microsoft as a business development manager where he created a business model to engage in the open source community. Stephen was vice-president, R&D and a founder at Softway Systems, Inc., developing Interix to re-host UNIX applications on Windows NT. Stephen has also worked as an independent consultant for X/Open, Sun Microsystems, UNISYS, and the Canadian government, and was a long time participant in POSIX and UNIX standards.

Stephen was one of the essay writers for the most recent edition of O´Reilly´s Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution. Read Stephen´s thoughts on open source, standards, and the business of software at his blog.

CARB: One Agency's Experience with Open Source

Bill was appointed Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the California Air Resources Board in 1990. As CIO, he has overall responsibility for information technology systems, services, policies and operations. The ARB has been providing public access to air quality data via the web since 1994, relying on open source solutions, like Linux, Apache, PHP, to do so since 1995.

Previously, Bill served as the Agency Information Officer for the California Environmental Protection Agency. He also directed the Office of Technology Adaptation and Planning for the California State Controller's Office, introducing innovative uses for desktop computers and office technologies. Bill has over 20 years of experience in applying information technologies to improve employee productivity, leveraging partnerships with clients to develop useful and reliable low cost business systems.

Bill has a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Certified Information Systems Auditor and a Certified California Community College Instructor in computer studies. He resides in El Dorado Hills, California, with his wife Charlene, where he serves as president of his local community services district.

$16M Later…A Model to Pool Investments for Directed Open Source Projects"

Dr. Bradley C. Wheeler is the Indiana University Chief Information Officer and Dean of IT for IU-Bloomington. He serves in leadership roles for over $16M of shared university investments in open source software and serves on the board of the Sakai Foundation and chairs the Kuali Project Board. As an Associate Professor of Information Systems at IU's Kelley School of Business, he teaches MBA courses in Executive Leadership of IT Strategy, and has taught e-business and e-learning courses for corporate/academic audiences in 26 countries on six continents.

Brad's published works include:
Open Source 2007: How Did This Happen?