Oscon Videos

In this video from OSCON, Paul Cooper, Moblin Apps and UI Engineering Manager at Intel, talks about the user experience on Moblin. The netbook as a mobile device with a smaller screen size, keyboard and trackpad provided particular challenges that had be considered when designing the user experience for Moblin.

In this video from the Intel booth at OSCON, Chris Lord, Intel Engineer for Moblin, talks about the Moblin web browser and some of the decisions and steps required to get the technologies used in Moblin (Clutter, etc.) to work with Mozilla browser technologies and applications for Moblin.

In this video from the Intel booth at OSCON, Robert Kasten, Senior Engineering Manager at Intel, talks about the collaboration between Intel and Sun in the OpenSolaris community to improve system performance, energy effiency, driver support for desktops and mobile platforms used primarily by developers, virtualization capabilities, reliability, and more.

In this video from the Intel booth at OSCON, David Stewart, Senior Manager of the Open Source Product Engineering Team at Intel talks about some of the most important features of Moblin, an open source project focused on building a Linux-based platform optimized for the next generation of mobile devices including Netbooks, Mobile Internet Devices, and In-vehicle infotainment systems. David talks about the importance of fast boot, fast shutdown, user experience, graphics advancements, web 2.0 integration, media, power usage and much more.

In this video from the Intel booth at OSCON, Dr. John Busch, President and CEO of Schooner Information Technology talks about where we are in computing now and gives some perspective on trends for the future in data centers, appliances and technology. He also talks in more detail about web 2.0 applications and the cloud computing infrastructure and the building blocks used to support those applications.

In this video from the Intel booth at OSCON, Glynn Foster, OpenSolaris Product Manager at Sun Microsystems, talks about the OpenSolaris community project and describes the release process for OpenSolaris where they take the source code and package it up into an operating system binary that people can easily install and use. He also talks about some of the features in OpenSolaris that take advantage of Intel technologies, power management, virtualization, etc.

In this video from the Intel booth at OSCON, Ken Drachnik, Landscape Manager at Canonical, gives a quick overview of Ubuntu with some information about adoption on the desktop before diving into more details about Canonical's Landscape product. He talks about how people use Landscape for systems management to manage large deployments of Ubuntu desktops and servers.

Talk from OSCON 2007 on commoditisation of IT.

Haskell is the world's leading purely functional programming language that offers a radical and elegant attack on the whole business of writing programs. In the last two or three years there has been an explosion of interest in Haskell, and it is now being used for a bewildering variety of applications. In this tutorial, I will try to show you why programming in Haskell is such fun, and how it makes you think about programming in a new way. I'm going to use xmonad (http://xmonad.org) as my running example; it's an X11 window manager written entirely in 500 lines of Haskell. Based on xmonad I will show you how to write functional programstest them using QuickCheckwrite imperative programscall foreign functionsuse Haskell for scripting applicationsI won't assume you know any functional programming at all, but I will assume that you are an experienced professional programmer, so I will move along quite briskly.From the O'Reilly Media Open Source Convention, July 23, 2007. Video provided by Galois. Slides are available here.

Part 2 of 2Haskell is the world's leading purely functional programming language that offers a radical and elegant attack on the whole business of writing programs. In the last two or three years there has been an explosion of interest in Haskell, and it is now being used for a bewildering variety of applications. In this tutorial, I will try to show you why programming in Haskell is such fun, and how it makes you think about programming in a new way. I'm going to use xmonad (http://xmonad.org) as my running example; it's an X11 window manager written entirely in 500 lines of Haskell. Based on xmonad I will show you how towrite functional programstest them using QuickCheckwrite imperative programscall foreign functionsuse Haskell for scripting applicationsI won't assume you know any functional programming at all, but I will assume that you are an experienced professional programmer, so I will move along quite briskly.From the O'Reilly Media Open Source Convention, July 23, 2007. Video provided by Galois. Slides are available here.

Commoditisation of IT and What the Future Holds Simon Wardley, COO, Fotango Modern application development consists mainly of "Yak shaving" or repeated mundane but expensive tasks. Worst of all is infrastructure, which is often under utilized, ubiquitous, and provides little or no strategic value at high cost. The time is right to change this, and open source is the key. From the O'Reilly Media Open Source Convention, July 27 2007.

Copyright Regime vs. Civil Liberties Rick Falkvinge, the founder of the Swedish Pirate Party and the international politicized pirate movement, talks about the rise and success of pirates, and why pirates are necessary in today's politics. He'll also outline the next steps in the pirates' strategy to change global copyright laws. The fight against copyright aggression tends to focus on economic aspects of the shift to a networked economy. Falkvinge explains how this conflict is much more important than that: the fight against the copyright regime is about the right to fundamental civil liberties -- down to the postal secret, whistleblower protection, freedom of the press, and the very right to an identity. From the O'Reilly Media Open Source Convention, July 26, 2007.

Transactional Memory for Concurrent Programming Transactional memory (TM) is an extremely promising new way to coordinate concurrent programs. TM eliminates many bugs that plague lock-based programs, such as omitted locking, deadlocks, and missed wake-ups. Even more importantly, TM supports modular programming, whereas locks effectively prevent it. TM is not a magic bullet, but it is nevertheless a potent new weapon in our armory. Come hear why. From the O'Reilly Media Open Source Convention, July 25, 2007.

The Processing Development Environment What began as a domain-specific extension to Java targeted towards artists and designers has turned into a full-blown design and prototyping tool used for large scale installation work, motion graphics, and complex data visualization. Ben Fry, who created Processing along with Casey Reas, will demo Processing, show what it can do, and ask for your help in bringing Processing to a new audience. From the O'Reilly Media Open Source Convention, July 26, 2007.