Oscon2007 Videos

Eben Moglen, Director, Software Freedom Law CenterFrom the O'Reilly Radar Executive Briefing, Tuesday, July 24 at the O'Reilly Media Open Source Convention.How does open source licensing need to adapt to the realities of software delivered as a service? We'll talk with Eben Moglen about GPLv3's and the AGPLv3's attempt to deal with this issue.

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.

Open Source Second Life Linden Lab opened the Second Life Viewer source in January 2007, and in the past month alone, more than 80 contributions have been accepted from the open source community. Join Linden Lab CEO Philip Rosedale for a peek at what's next. From the O'Reilly Media Open Source Convention, July 27 2007.

Open Source Therapy Open Source finds itself at a midway point in its existence, with unresolved trauma and an uncertain future. Join noted open source psychologist Dr Nat as he works through these issues and, hopefully, helps open source achieve stability. From the O'Reilly Media Open Source Convention, July 27 2007.

Open Source Hardware: A Start... Phillip Torrone, Senior Editor, MAKE Magazine Limor Fried, Adafruit Industries Open source hardware is a term slowly working its way into many new projects and efforts, but what is it? There are a few definitions, some of which come from "open source software," which is usually considered software's "source code under a license (or arrangement such as the public domain) that permits users to study, change, and improve the software, and to redistribute it in modified or unmodified form." So how does this translate to hardware? This session will focus on electronic hardware, the layers they can be divided into, different document types, licensing concerns, and a show-n-tell of hardware. From the O'Reilly Media Open Source Convention, July 27 2007.

Ubuntu has become an incredibly potent Linux distribution. Behind it lies the vision and direction of Mark Shuttleworth. Join him and Tim O'Reilly as they explore in conversation the state and future of Ubuntu, the possibilities and challenges for Linux, and what lies in store for Open Source. Q&A with the audience will follow. From the O'Reilly Media Open Source Convention, July 25 2007.

Open or Closed? The Future of Search Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikia and Wikipedia, discusses the business models of search with an eye on the question of whether the destiny of search is to be proprietary or open source. Basing his arguments on the business model of search (advertising, not proprietary software sales), Wales will argue that the future of search is open source. From the O'Reilly Media Open Source Convention, July 27 2007.

Pimp My Garbage James Larsson, (notorious for stupid, dangerous and immoral hardware hacks) shows how mundane or discarded machinery can be "improved" using high voltages, low technology and a dollop of humour. With a particular emphasis on old toys and games, James describes how the addition of simple electronics can add a lot of value whilst being inherently open source. Examples include an electrical version of Buckaroo (Buck-ampere-oo) game using old PC components, a steady-hand game run at 30,000 Volts and a very naughty makeover for pong. From the O'Reilly Media Open Source Convention, July 27, 2007.

Overcoming Bias Open Source developers pride themselves on rational thought and their ability to spot and evade marketing flimflam. The creator of prediction markets, Robin Hanson, examines exactly this topic in his blog http://overcomingbias.com. He looks at common situations with an economist's eye to make us question just how good we really are at recognizing and overcoming our biases. In this talk he'll challenge our assumptions and present some ways we can think more clearly about the world around us. From the O'Reilly Media Open Source Convention, July 26, 2007.

Year in Review: Open Source at Microsoft Since OSCON 2006, much has changed in how and where Microsoft has participated with the open source community. We've seen tremendous technical partnerships grow out of the Open Source Software Lab, increased project hosting on Codeplex, and community excitement around the work of the Live Labs team. This talk will review the past year at Microsoft and how open source is changing the way Microsoft does business. From the O'Reilly Media Open Source Convention, July 26, 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.

Steve Yegge of the Google presents his keynote: How to Ignore Marketing and Become Irrelevant in Two Easy Steps. From O'Reilly Media's Open Source Convention, July 26, 2007.

Open Source on the O'Reilly Radar Join Tim O'Reilly, founder of O'Reilly Media, as he recaps the highlights of the previous day's O'Reilly Radar Executive Briefing on Open Source. Tim has been looking at the scaling problems caused by the growth of the web, the change in the nature of programming for speed brought about by multicore and manycore systems, and the invisible systems that permit and promote collaboration. From the O'Reilly Media Open Source Convention, July 25, 2007.

Intel's James Reinders' and Dirk Hohndel's keynote on Outfitting for Multi-Core Parallelism at O'Reilly Media's Open Source Convention, July 25, 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.