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        "name": "Migrating to the Web Using Dart and Polymer - A Guide for Legacy OOP Developers",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 17:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 17:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1458,
        "description": "The web development platform is massive. With tons of libraries, frameworks and concepts out there, it might be daunting for the &#x27;legacy&#x27; developer to jump into it.\r\n\r\nIn this presentation we will introduce Google Dart &amp; Polymer. Two hot technologies that work in harmony to create powerful web applications using concepts familiar to OOP developers.",
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        "name": "Refactoring 101",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1449,
        "description": "Refactoring code (altering code to make it cleaner, simpler, and often faster, while not sacrificing functionality) We hate to do it, so learn how to do it better. Covers: When to refactor. How to refactor. Why refactor. How refactor can help us write better code. Common methodology for refactoring.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/33457",
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        "name": "Open Source and Mobile Development: Where Does it go From Here?",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-23 10:40:00",
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        "venue_serial": 1459,
        "description": "Until iOS and Android came along, the opportunities for open source to flourish in the mobile space were limited, because platforms were totally proprietary. Now you can find countless FL/OSS projects that help mobile developers get their job done. So what&#x27;s on the horizon, and what are the best open source tools today to deliver the next great app?",
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        "name": "Open Source Protocols and Architectures to Fix the Internet of Things",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-23 16:10:00",
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        "venue_serial": 1451,
        "description": "Everyday things are becoming smarter. The problem? The things are becoming smarter, but they\u2019re also becoming selfish and you\u2019ve ended up as a mechanical turk inside your own software. How can we fix the Internet of Things? The things have to become not just smarter, but more co-operative, and the Internet of things needs to become anticipatory rather than reactive.",
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        "name": "Scaling PHP in the Real World!",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-23 14:30:00",
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        "description": "PHP is used by the likes of Facebook, Yahoo, Zynga, Tumblr, Etsy, and Wikipedia. How do the largest internet companies scale PHP to meet their demand? Join this session and find out how to use the latest tools in PHP for developing high performance applications. We\u2019ll take a look at common techniques for scaling PHP applications and best practices for profiling and optimizing performance.",
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        "name": "API Ecosystem with Scala, Scalatra, and Swagger at Netflix",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-23 17:00:00",
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        "description": "At Netflix Engineering&#x27;s Partner Product Innovation group, we underwent a revamp of the tech stack to make it API-driven. This was to not only help with the expanding list of API consumers, but also to address the evolving streaming business. With Scala, Scalatra, and Swagger, we achieved one of the best architecture for the scale, agility and robustness needed.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/33481",
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        "name": "XSS and SQL Injections: The Tip of the Web Security Iceberg ",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-23 16:10:00",
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        "description": "You might know about XSS and usual SQL injection, but time has changed and we have to keep up-to-date with the latest attack scenarios.\r\nDo you also know what a clickjacking is? If not I&#x27;ll show you how to protect against it.\r\nI&#x27;ll also present techniques like Perfect Pixel Timing and a combination of xss/time-based-sql-injection to  access intranet sites, which are not even compromised.",
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        "name": "Scalable Analytics with R, Hadoop and RHadoop",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-23 14:30:00",
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        "description": "Do you use Hadoop for large scale data analysis? Do your data scientists love R? This presentation will discuss the challenges of scaling R to multi-terabyte data sets and how RHadoop can be used to solve them.",
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        "description": "There are a number of interrelated concepts which make the understanding and implementation of HA complex. The potential for not implementing HA correctly would be disastrous. This session will use demos to reinforce the concepts and how to connect the dots using OpenStack infrastructure as an example although the lessons learned can be used for implementing HA in general.\r\n\r\n",
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        "name": "Eyes on IZON: Surveilling IP Camera Security",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-23 14:30:00",
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        "description": "This presentation will provide insight into the security mechanisms being used by the IZON IP camera, some of the weaknesses found during research, and a few recommendations for them (or anyone else developing these sorts of cameras) to benefit from. Attention will be paid to topics such as network protocols, iOS app security, APIs, and other aspects of the camera&#x27;s attack surface.",
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        "name": "How to Fake a Database Design",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-22 17:00:00",
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        "description": "Many expert programmers who write complex SQL without a second thought still struggle with database design. Unfortunately, many introductory topics cause eyes to glaze over when we read &#x27;transitive dependencies&#x27; and &#x27;Boyce-Codd normal form&#x27;. When you&#x27;re done with this talk, you&#x27;ll understand the basics of creating a database that won&#x27;t make a DBA yell at you. We won&#x27;t even use (many) big words.",
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        "name": "Testing with Test::Class::Moose",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-22 14:30:00",
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        "description": "Perl is known for its testing culture. Unfortunately it&#x27;s often focused on quantity over quality. Perl&#x27;s Test::Class::Moose project started out as an experiment but morphed into a way of having higher quality testing. With this module, you can get fine-grained control over your test suite, better understand your *real* code coverage and get an quick boost to test suite performance.",
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        "name": "An Elasticsearch Crash Course",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 10:40:00",
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        "description": "Elasticsearch is about more than just search. It\u2019s currently being used in production for everything from traditional text search, to big data analytics, to distributed document storage. This talk will introduce you to Elasticsearch\u2019s REST API, and discuss the basics of full text search and analytics with Elasticsearch.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/33571",
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        "name": "Building a Massively Scalable Cloud Service from the Grounds Up",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-22 16:10:00",
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        "description": "In this talk, we&#x27;ll go into excruciating technical detail about building a greenfield, massively scalable cloud service. Along the path to constructing a scalable cloud service, there are many options and critical decisions to take, and we&#x27;ll share our choices that brought both success and frustrations.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/33581",
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        "name": "Open/Closed Software - Approaches to Developing Freemium Applications",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 10:40:00",
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        "venue_serial": 1457,
        "description": "Developing freemium which involves OSS is not a trivial task. In this talk we\u2019ll showcase Artifactory, which successfully combines open-source and Pro versions. We will talk about developing, building, testing, and releasing hybrid freemium application and will review the existing approaches, discussing pros and cons of each of them.\r\n",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/33585",
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        "categories": [

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        "name": "How to Build Reactive Applications",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-23 10:40:00",
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        "venue_serial": 1456,
        "description": "An introduction to building Reactive Applications and what tools you can use to do so.",
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        "categories": [

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        "name": "Designing Irresistible APIs",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 16:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 16:50:00",
        "venue_serial": 1452,
        "description": "So you want to create a platform for your product? Creating a fantastic open API (or even a closed one) is not the same as creating other products.  I&#x27;ll talk about how what you need to know to design, plan and execute a successful, engaging API and how to avoid common pitfalls.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/33596",
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        "categories": [

          "Computational Thinking"

        ]
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        "name": "Quantifying your Fitness",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 11:50:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 12:30:00",
        "venue_serial": 1475,
        "description": "The Quantified Self movement is all about keeping measurements about your life in order to track progress in various ways. As geeks we all enjoy playing with new toys, and there are a variety of devices and applications out there to help measure steps, activity and fitness. Combining the data from these devices can help you build tools to track your fitness in a way that makes sense for you.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/33597",
        "speakers": [4265,182808],
        "categories": [

          "Geek Lifestyle"

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        "name": "Introduction to Docker: Containerization is the New Virtualization",
        "event_type": "tutorial",

        "time_start": "2014-07-20 13:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-20 17:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1450,
        "description": "You&#x27;ve heard the hype about Docker and container virtualization now see it in action. This tutorial will introduce you to Docker and take you through installing it, running it and integrating it into your development and operational workflow.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/33627",
        "speakers": [5060],
        "categories": [

          "Operations &amp; System Administration",

          "Tools &amp; Techniques"

        ]
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        "serial": 33631,
        "name": "Mind the Gap: Architecting UIs in the Era of Diverse Devices",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 17:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 17:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1449,
        "description": "Architecting and developing user interfaces used to be relatively easy, pick a server side framework, define a standard monitor resolution and spend your days dealing with browser quirks. But today, the landscape presents us with a plethora of screen sizes and resolutions. How does a team embrace this brave new world knowing that the future will introduce even more volatility to the client space?",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/33631",
        "speakers": [108125],
        "categories": [

          "User Experience"

        ]
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        "serial": 33648,
        "name": "Devoxx4Kids: So Your Kid Interested in Programming, Robotics, Engineering?",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1462,
        "description": "Devoxx4Kids is a worldwide initiative that introduces programming, robotics, and engineering to kids by organizing events and workshops. This session will share how Devoxx4Kids is giving Scratch, Greenfoot, Minecraft, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, NAO, Tynker workshops. The session will show a path that can be followed by parents to keep their kids engaged and build, instead of just play games. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/33648",
        "speakers": [143377],
        "categories": [

          "Education"

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        "serial": 33687,
        "name": "Debugging LAMP Apps on Linux/UNIX Using Open Source Tools",
        "event_type": "tutorial",

        "time_start": "2014-07-20 09:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-20 12:30:00",
        "venue_serial": 1451,
        "description": "The purpose of this tutorial is to train web developers working on a Linux/UNIX ENV on production, development ENVs, or both.\r\nOften, these developers, while proficient in say, PHP, lack UNIX system knowledge and therefore come across a brick wall when debugging production issues.\r\nOften times, because the development ENV is different than production.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/33687",
        "speakers": [171078],
        "categories": [

          "PHP",

          "Tools &amp; Techniques"

        ]
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      {
        "serial": 33689,
        "name": "Forty New Features of Java EE 7 in 40 Minutes",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 10:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 11:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1456,
        "description": "The Java EE 7 platform has 4 new components (WebSocket, JSON-P, batch, and concurrency), 3 that are significantly updated (JAX-RS, JMS, and EL), and several others that bring significant changes to the platform. This session explains each feature with a code snippet and provides details on where and how you can use it in your applications.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/33689",
        "speakers": [143377],
        "categories": [

          "Java &amp; JVM"

        ]
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      {
        "serial": 33704,
        "name": "Building a Recommendation Engine with Spring and Hadoop",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1456,
        "description": "Recommendation engines are the mainstay of e-commerce sites.  What if you could build one with only a few lines of code using open source tools.  Come to this talk to find out how as we build one using the data from StackOverflow!",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/33704",
        "speakers": [171147],
        "categories": [

          "Java &amp; JVM"

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        "name": "Introduction to Parallel Iterative Deep Learning on Hadoop\u2019s Next\u200b-Generation YARN Framework",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 14:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1452,
        "description": "In this session, we will take a look at how we parallelize Deep Belief Networks in Deep Learning on the next\u200b-generation YARN framework Iterative Reduce and the parallel machine learning library Metronome. We\u2019ll also take a look at some real world applications of Deep Learning on Hadoop such as image classification and NLP.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/33709",
        "speakers": [171197,171201],
        "categories": [

          "Computational Thinking"

        ]
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        "serial": 33727,
        "name": "Open Sourcing Mental Illness",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 14:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1451,
        "description": "I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety when I was thirteen, and I&#x27;ve been struggling with it my whole life. In this talk, I&#x27;ll discuss how it has impacted my work as a developer, husband, and father. By speaking openly about my experiences, I hope those struggling with mental illness will know the are not alone, and others can better understand how to be helpful and supportive.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/33727",
        "speakers": [1639],
        "categories": [

          "Geek Lifestyle"

        ]
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        "serial": 33733,
        "name": "When PostgreSQL Can&#x27;t, You Can",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 10:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 10:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1475,
        "description": "After using PostgreSQL for a while, you realize that there are missing features that would make it significantly easier to use in large production environments. Thankfully, it&#x27;s extremely easy to make add-ons to enable some of those features right now, even without knowing C! This talk will discuss projects I&#x27;ve worked on and show how easy it is to make an impact in the PostgreSQL community.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/33733",
        "speakers": [152242],
        "categories": [

          "Databases &amp; Datastores"

        ]
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        "serial": 33741,
        "name": "How to Achieve Enterprise Storage Functionality with OpenStack Block Storage",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 16:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 16:50:00",
        "venue_serial": 1475,
        "description": "In this session, SolidFire&#x27;s John Griffith will review some of the key features included within OpenStack Block Storage to help achieve the enterprise storage functionality they require to host production applications in their cloud infrastructure. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/33741",
        "speakers": [171381],
        "categories": [

          "Databases &amp; Datastores"

        ]
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        "serial": 33800,
        "name": "Building Native iOS and Android Apps in Java",
        "event_type": "tutorial",

        "time_start": "2014-07-21 09:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-21 12:30:00",
        "venue_serial": 1456,
        "description": "This tutorial will demonstrate the use of Codename One to develop a cross-platform mobile application in Java.  In it you will build a non-trivial application and deploy it to your mobile device.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/33800",
        "speakers": [171418],
        "categories": [

          "Java &amp; JVM",

          "Mobile Platforms"

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        "serial": 33834,
        "name": "Presentation Aikido",
        "event_type": "tutorial",

        "time_start": "2014-07-20 13:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-20 17:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1475,
        "description": "This tutorial explores a set of simple and practical techniques for giving better, more effective, more entertaining technical presentations. Discover how to capture an audience, hold their interest, convey your message to them clearly\u2026and maybe even inspire them.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/33834",
        "speakers": [4710],
        "categories": [

          "Education",

          "Geek Lifestyle"

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        "serial": 33839,
        "name": "Everyday Perl 6",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 10:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 11:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1465,
        "description": "Perl 6&#x27;s many advanced features (junctions, multiple dispatch, generics, grammars, lazy evaluation, coroutines, etc.) may well offer awesome cosmic power, but for most of us the real and immediate benefits of switching to Perl 6 are the numerous minor Perl annoyances it fixes. This talk offers a dozen practical reasons why Perl 6 might now be a better choice as your everyday go-to problem-solver.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/33839",
        "speakers": [4710],
        "categories": [

          "Perl"

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        "serial": 33841,
        "name": "The Conway Channel",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 17:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 17:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1465,
        "description": "Join Damian for his annual kaleidoscopic tour of the strange and wonderful new Perl modules he&#x27;s been developing over the past twelve months.\r\n ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/33841",
        "speakers": [4710],
        "categories": [

          "Perl"

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        "serial": 33863,
        "name": "Building a Resilient API with Open Source",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 10:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 11:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1452,
        "description": "How do you build and maintain a stable API while rapidly iterating and innovating in your business? Change can never be eliminated, but its impact can be minimized. GitHub takes a pragmatic approach to Hypermedia that emphasizes workflows over data retrieval and employs open source to ensure a consistent experience for API consumers.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/33863",
        "speakers": [109297],
        "categories": [

          "Computational Thinking"

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        "serial": 33875,
        "name": "The Full Stack Java Developer",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1456,
        "description": "Today&#x27;s Java developer is a rare bird: SQL and JPA on the backend, or MongoDB or Hadoop? HTTP, REST and websockets on the web? What about security? JavaScript, HTML, CSS, (not to mention LESS, SASS, and CoffeeScript!) on the client? Today&#x27;s Java developer is a _full stack_ developer. Join Josh Long and Phillip Webb for a look at how Spring Boot simplifies full-stack development for everyone.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/33875",
        "speakers": [171564,171565],
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          "Java &amp; JVM",

          "JavaScript - HTML5 - Web"

        ]
      },

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        "serial": 33880,
        "name": "How Instagram.com Works",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 16:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 16:50:00",
        "venue_serial": 1448,
        "description": "Instagram.com renders almost all of its UI in JavaScript. I&#x27;ll talk about how our packaging and push systems work in great detail, which are clever combinations of existing open-source tools. Anyone building a large site using lots of JavaScript would find what we&#x27;ve learned interesting!",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/33880",
        "speakers": [164756],
        "categories": [

          "Main Stage"

        ]
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      {
        "serial": 33913,
        "name": "Trolls Aren&#x27;t the Only Threat Under the Bridge",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 14:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1457,
        "description": "There&#x27;s been a lot of talk about patent trolls, but how can the free and open source software community address the more complicated (and potentially more damaging) problem of anti-competitive litigation?  ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/33913",
        "speakers": [130731],
        "categories": [

          "Business",

          "Community"

        ]
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        "serial": 33937,
        "name": "Kraken.js - Bringing Open Source to the Enterprise",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 10:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 11:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1457,
        "description": "PayPal has recently moved their web application stack from a proprietary framework, resulting in weeks of training per developer and large maintenance costs, to an open source-based stack that allows our engineers to come in the door coding. This is the story of how we changed our enterprise culture and started giving back to the open source community.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/33937",
        "speakers": [183835,183908],
        "categories": [

          "Business"

        ]
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        "serial": 33943,
        "name": "You Don&#x27;t Know How Your Computer Works",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 16:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 16:50:00",
        "venue_serial": 1456,
        "description": "Software development is easy. You tell a computer to do something. It does it. Someone sends you a packet. The OS receives it. Things don&#x27;t happen unless you ask them to. Simple.\r\n\r\nBut what if that wasn&#x27;t true? What if your computer is full of hidden magic? What if your hardware makes assumptions about your software? Vendors wouldn&#x27;t do that, would they?\r\n\r\n(Spoiler: Yes, they would)",
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        "speakers": [6852],
        "categories": [

          "Operations &amp; System Administration"

        ]
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        "name": "Leaflet, Node.JS, and MongoDB for an Easy and Fun Web Mapping Experience",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 10:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 10:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1450,
        "description": "You have seen the stuff that FourSquare has done with spatial and you want some of that hotness for your app. We will load some data into MongoDB, show you how to handle spatial and finally plug in in some Node.JS JavaScript code to build simple REST services to query your data. Finally we will show how to use the REST service with OpenStreetMap and Leaflet for a fully interactive map.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/33945",
        "speakers": [142320],
        "categories": [

          "JavaScript - HTML5 - Web"

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        "name": "The Simplicity of Clojure",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-20 09:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-20 12:30:00",
        "venue_serial": 1456,
        "description": "Clojure: it&#x27;s a Lisp that runs on the JVM and it&#x27;s gotten a lot of buzz in the last few years. What is it actually good for? In this tutorial, you&#x27;ll learn about Clojure&#x27;s radically simple approach to data and state and how it can help you build real-world projects from web applications to servers to mobile apps.",
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        "speakers": [137149,171822],
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          "Emerging Languages",

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        "name": "There *Will* Be Bugs",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 15:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1449,
        "description": "If you&#x27;re pushing the envelope of programming (or of your own skills)... and even when you\u2019re not... there *will* be bugs in your code.  Don&#x27;t panic!  We cover the attitudes and skills (not taught in most schools) to minimize your bugs, track them, find them, fix them, ensure they never recur, and deploy fixes to your users.\r\n",
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        "categories": [

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        "name": "Apache Cordova: Past, Present and Future",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-24 10:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 10:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1449,
        "description": "A review of the past six years of Apache Cordova development, starting from its origins as PhoneGap, to its donation to the Apache Software Foundation, told from the point of view of its longest running contributor.  This will include a simple introduction to cross-platform hybrid applications on iOS and Android, and their evolution.\r\n",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/33973",
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        "categories": [

          "Mobile Platforms"

        ]
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        "name": "WITH What? CTEs For Fun And Profit",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 14:20:00",
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        "description": "Have you tried some recursion in your SQL? In this session, we will go over the concept of Common Table Expressions (CTE), also known as WITH queries. We will explore syntax, features, and use cases for this powerful SQL construct.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/33978",
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        "categories": [

          "Databases &amp; Datastores"

        ]
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        "name": "Rebooting Open Source at Facebook",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 15:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1448,
        "description": "Open source has always been a huge part of Facebook&#x27;s culture. But in 2013, we rebooted our portfolio and launched a unique suite of internal tools &amp; instrumentation to support hundreds of repos, thousands of engineers, and tens of thousands of contributors. The result? Better-than-ever community adoption - and an open &amp; responsible stewardship, attuned to our ethos of hacking &amp; moving fast.",
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        "speakers": [118233],
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          "Main Stage"

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        "name": "CERN&#x27;s Approach to Mass and Agility",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 17:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 17:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1459,
        "description": "As part of a large-scale adoption of cloud computing to support the increasing computing needs of the Large Hadron Collider processing over 35 PB/year, the infrastructure of CERN IT is undergoing major changes in both technology and culture. This session will describe the steps taken, the challenges encountered and our outlook for the future.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/33997",
        "speakers": [170052],
        "categories": [

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        "name": "Let Them Be Your Heroes",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 10:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 10:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1464,
        "description": "How can you encourage involvement and participation in Open Source? They key is through empowerment. We&#x27;ll discuss how to empower and encourage more people to participate in your open source project by enabling Heroism. This talk will also discuss issues of diversity and inclusion. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34005",
        "speakers": [144736],
        "categories": [

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        ]
      },

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        "serial": 34012,
        "name": "A Presentation Toolbox that Just Might Blow Your Audience Away",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 11:50:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 12:30:00",
        "venue_serial": 1450,
        "description": "Still building presentations in an office suite? That&#x27;s so 2013! Today, you can build awesome, engaging presentations that run in your browser or on your phone, using nothing but HTML5 and a few clever JavaScript libraries. And it&#x27;s super simple! This talk shows you how.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34012",
        "speakers": [131884],
        "categories": [

          "Geek Lifestyle"

        ]
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        "serial": 34018,
        "name": "Raspberry Pi Hacks",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 14:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1465,
        "description": "Ruth Suehle, one of the authors of Raspberry Pi Hacks (O\u2019Reilly, December 2013) will offer technical tips for hardware and software hackers who want to build around the Raspberry Pi computer. She\u2019ll start with some tips like how to add a power switch and go on to share fun projects, from costume builds to radios and light displays.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34018",
        "speakers": [108840],
        "categories": [

          "Open Hardware"

        ]
      },

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        "serial": 34019,
        "name": "From Cloud to Fog Computing and the Internet of Things",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 14:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1449,
        "description": "Open Source is ubiquitous in Cloud compute.  Just as we became familiar with Cloud computing, a new model has emerged, an extension of the cloud to the edge of the network, some call it Fog computing, some call it the Internet of Things.  This talk describes how the compute model is changing as the new generation of devices stretched what we previously knew as Cloud compute.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34019",
        "speakers": [172370],
        "categories": [

          "Mobile Platforms"

        ]
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        "name": "The Accidental DBA",
        "event_type": "tutorial",

        "time_start": "2014-07-21 13:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-21 17:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1475,
        "description": "So, you\u2019ve inherited a PostgreSQL server. Congratulations? This tutorial will cover the essential care and feeding of a Postgres server so that you can get back to your real job.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34026",
        "speakers": [3397],
        "categories": [

          "Databases &amp; Datastores",

          "Operations &amp; System Administration"

        ]
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        "name": "Distributed Robots with Elixir",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 10:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 11:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1451,
        "description": "This talk will take you on a journey from making an LED blink through to building your own Elixir-powered robot using a RaspberryPi and Android.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34037",
        "speakers": [172532,172534],
        "categories": [

          "Open Hardware"

        ]
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        "serial": 34040,
        "name": "What is Async, How Does it Work, and When Should I Use it?",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 11:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 11:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1458,
        "description": "Asynchronous frameworks like Tornado, Twisted, and Node are increasingly important for writing high-performance web applications. Even if you\u2019re an experienced web programmer, you may lack a rigorous understanding of how these frameworks work and when to use them. See how Tornado&#x27;s event loop works, and learn how to efficiently handle very large numbers of concurrent connections.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34040",
        "speakers": [172536],
        "categories": [

          "Python"

        ]
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        "serial": 34047,
        "name": "Go for Object Oriented Programmers (or OO Programming without Objects) ",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 16:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 16:50:00",
        "venue_serial": 1465,
        "description": "Object Oriented programming has dominated software engineering for the last two decades. Although Go is not OO in the strict sense, we can continue to leverage the skills we&#x27;ve honed as OO engineers. This talk will cover how to use our OO programming fundamentals in go, common mistakes made by those coming to go from other OO languages (Ruby, Python, JS, etc.), and principles of good design in go.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34047",
        "speakers": [142995],
        "categories": [

          "Emerging Languages"

        ]
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        "name": "Unicorns, Dragons, Open Source Business Models And Other Mythical Creatures",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 15:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1448,
        "description": "No one size fits all formula can be applied to build a business around open source, and attempting to do so may end in humiliation and disaster.\r\n\r\nThere is no doubt that &#x27;Open Source&#x27; has impacted the dynamics of all manner of business, but building a business on &#x27;Open Source&#x27; is not a solved problem.\r\n\r\nA guided tour of open source business models, real and imaginary.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34056",
        "speakers": [24052],
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          "Main Stage"

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        "name": "Tutorial: Node.js Three Ways",
        "event_type": "tutorial",

        "time_start": "2014-07-21 13:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-21 17:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1452,
        "description": "In this tutorial, we\u2019ll explore three unique technologies, and accompanying use cases, for Node.js development. We\u2019ll divide the tutorial into three one-hour segments, in which you will develop three different Node.js-powered applications.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34063",
        "speakers": [141235,147649],
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          "Emerging Languages",

          "JavaScript - HTML5 - Web"

        ]
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        "serial": 34064,
        "name": "Node.js Patterns for the Discerning Developer",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 10:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 11:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1450,
        "description": "In this session, I\u2019ll presenting high-quality Node.js design patterns. I\u2019ll bring to the table design patterns I\u2019ve stumbled across in my own Node projects, as well as patterns observed from experts in the Node.js community.\r\n\r\nTopics include: Mastering Modules, Object Inheritance in Node.js, Patterns to avoid callback hell, Batch and Queuing patterns for massively concurrent asynchronous I/O",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34064",
        "speakers": [141235],
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          "JavaScript - HTML5 - Web"

        ]
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        "name": "Druid: Interactive Queries Meet Real-time Data",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-23 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1475,
        "description": "This talk will focus on the motivation, design, and architecture of Druid (druid.io), an open-source, real-time analytical data store. Druid is used in production at several organizations to facilitate rapid exploration of high dimensional spaces. Druid can maintain a 95% query latency under 1 second on data sets with &gt;50 billion rows and 2 trillion impressions in tables with 30+ dimensions.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34075",
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          "Databases &amp; Datastores"

        ]
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        "name": "Real-time Analytics with Open Source Technologies",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-23 10:40:00",
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        "venue_serial": 1475,
        "description": "The maturation and development of open source technologies has made it easier than ever for companies to derive insights from vast quantities of data. In this session, we will cover how to build a real-time analytics stack using Kafka, Storm, and Druid. This combination of technologies can power a robust data pipeline that supports real-time ingestion and flexible, low-latency queries.",
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        "name": "Moose is Perl: A Guide to the New Revolution",
        "event_type": "tutorial",

        "time_start": "2014-07-21 09:00:00",
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        "venue_serial": 1457,
        "description": "Moose continues to emerge as the new standard for writing OO libraries in Perl. It provides a powerful, consistent API for building classes with a minimum of code. It can be customized with reusable components, making it easier to refactor your code as you go. This tutorial will explain what Moose is, how its parts work together, and how to start using Moose today to get more done with less.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34078",
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        "name": "Debugging HTTP",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1449,
        "description": "Show how tools including cURL, Wireshark and Charles can be used to inspect and change HTTP traffic when debugging applications which consume APIs and other remote sources.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34081",
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        "categories": [

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        ]
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        "serial": 34083,
        "name": "Creating Models",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1458,
        "description": "How should you organise your models in a PHP MVC application? What is a service class, a mapper or an entity? This talk will look at the components of the model layer and the options you have when creating your models. We\u2019ll look at the different schools of thought in this area and compare and contrast their strengths and weaknesses with an eye to flexibility and testability.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34083",
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        "name": "Incorporating Your Passions into Open Source Hardware ",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 14:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1451,
        "description": "It doesn&#x27;t matter if your passion boating, fashion, kids, carpentry, architecture, race cars or rockets. Building OS hardware can be incorporated into all of these things. We will learn how to bring what you learn in your software day job into your weekend fun time. The result will be better at what you love and making work more fun. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34087",
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        "categories": [

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        ]
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        "serial": 34093,
        "name": "Tsuru: Open Source Cloud Application Platform",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 17:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 17:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1459,
        "description": "Tsuru is an open source, component oriented PaaS. It allows developers to focus on writing, testing and deploying applications in an easier way, without worrying how they get deployed in a server. Its key features include easy extensibility, a fully open source stack and graceful handling of failures. This talk aims to introduce Tsuru and its components, showing how they work together.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34093",
        "speakers": [151991],
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        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34094,
        "name": "Tracing and Profiling Java (and Native) Applications in Production",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 15:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1456,
        "description": "This talk describes the implementation and use of a full stack, low overhead tracing and profiling tool based on the Linux kernel profiler (perf) and extensions to the OpenJDK Hotspot JVM, that we&#x27;ve built at Twitter to help understand the behavior of the kernel, native and managed applications in production.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34094",
        "speakers": [172240],
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          "Java &amp; JVM"

        ]
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        "serial": 34095,
        "name": "Get Started Developing with Scala",
        "event_type": "tutorial",

        "time_start": "2014-07-20 13:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-20 17:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1449,
        "description": "Scala powers some of the biggest companies in the world, including Twitter, Intel, and LinkedIn. Come learn what led them to choose this powerful JVM language and try it out yourself. You\u2019ll get a hands-on intro to Scala and functional programming concepts by building your own performant REST API. No FP experience needed--if you can build apps in Java, Python or Ruby you\u2019ll do great in this class.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34095",
        "speakers": [171226,150440],
        "categories": [

          "Computational Thinking",

          "Java &amp; JVM"

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        "serial": 34103,
        "name": "Reactive All The Way Down",
        "event_type": "tutorial",

        "time_start": "2014-07-21 09:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-21 12:30:00",
        "venue_serial": 1471,
        "description": "In this tutorial you will build a Reactive application with Play Framework, Scala, WebSockets, and AngularJS.  We will get started with a template app in Typesafe Activator.  Then we will add a Reactive RESTful JSON service and a WebSocket in Scala.  We will then build the UI with AngularJS.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34103",
        "speakers": [1158],
        "categories": [

          "Java &amp; JVM",

          "JavaScript - HTML5 - Web"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34104,
        "name": "Building Modern Web Apps with Play Framework and Scala",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 15:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1456,
        "description": "Play Framework is the High Velocity Web Framework For Java and Scala. It is lightweight, stateless, RESTful, and developer friendly. This is an introduction to building web applications with Play. You will learn about: routing, Scala controllers &amp; templates, database access, asset compilation for LESS &amp; CoffeeScript, and JSON services.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34104",
        "speakers": [1158],
        "categories": [

          "Java &amp; JVM"

        ]
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        "name": "Full Monty: Intro to Python Metaprogramming",
        "event_type": "tutorial",

        "time_start": "2014-07-21 13:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-21 17:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1451,
        "description": "Metaprogramming in Python is fun and profitable thanks to its rich Data Model \u2013 APIs that let you handle functions, modules and even classes as objects that you can create, inspect and modify at runtime. The Data Model also enables your own objects to support infix operators, become iterable and emulate collections. This workshop shows how, through a diverse selection of examples and exercises.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34107",
        "speakers": [150170],
        "categories": [

          "Python"

        ]
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        "serial": 34108,
        "name": "Idiomatic APIs with the Python Data Model",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 10:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 10:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1465,
        "description": "The key to writing Pythonic classes, APIs and frameworks is leveraging the Python Data Model: a set of interfaces which, when implemented in your classes, enables them to leverage fundamental language features such as iteration, context managers, infix operators, attribute access control etc. This talk shows how, through a diverse selection of examples.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34108",
        "speakers": [150170],
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          "Python"

        ]
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        "serial": 34109,
        "name": "Data.gov: Open Government as Open Source",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 14:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1454,
        "description": "The underpinnings of open government are transparency and citizen participation.  In re-imagining a new Data.gov (the open data, open government initiative for the White House), this was taken to heart. This system was created using open source and with comments, issues, and commits worked with the public all along the way.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34109",
        "speakers": [62631],
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          "Databases &amp; Datastores"

        ]
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        "serial": 34112,
        "name": "Python: Encapsulation with Descriptors",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 11:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 11:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1465,
        "description": "Python has no private fields, but the property decorator lets you replace public attributes with getters and setters without breaking client code. And the descriptor mechanism, used in Django for model field declarations, enables wide reuse of getter/setter logic via composition instead of inheritance. This talk explains how properties and descriptors work by refactoring a practical example.\r\n",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34112",
        "speakers": [150170],
        "categories": [

          "Python"

        ]
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        "serial": 34116,
        "name": "Choosing a caching HTTP Proxy",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 16:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 16:50:00",
        "venue_serial": 1450,
        "description": "With Web performance and scalability becoming more and more important,\r\nchoosing advanced HTTP intermediaries is a vital skill. This presentation\r\nwill give the audience a thorough walkthrough of the most popular and\r\nadvanced solutions available today. The audience will gain a solid\r\nbackground to be able to make the right choices when it comes to HTTP\r\nintermediaries and proxy caches.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34116",
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          "Operations &amp; System Administration"

        ]
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        "name": "Git for Grown-ups",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 10:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 11:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1452,
        "description": "You are a clever and talented person. You have architected a system that even my cat could use; your spreadsheet-fu is legendary. Your peers adore you. Your clients love you. But, until now, you haven\u2019t *&amp;^#^! been able to make Git work. It makes you angry inside that you have to ask for help, again, to figure out that *&amp;^#^! command to upload your work. It&#x27;s not you. It&#x27;s Git. Promise.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34117",
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          "Tools &amp; Techniques"

        ]
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        "name": "How Open Source Powers Facebook on Android",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1454,
        "description": "The Facebook Android app is large and developed by hundreds of software engineers. This talk will cover how OSS helps us build Facebook for Android - and how we are good OSS citizens - by looking at the full life cycle of a release, from how we organize our git repo, do code reviews in Phabricator, through building using Buck, to how we&#x27;ve improved the quality of our releases using Selendroid.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34125",
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          "Tools &amp; Techniques"

        ]
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        "name": "Design for Life",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 14:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1462,
        "description": "It&#x27;s time to design products to capture life and physiologic signs invisibly\u2026 usually through non-invasive sensors that don&#x27;t require a single drop of blood, but just whiffs and sniffs. And when it is visible, it must be designed to feel wonderful.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34135",
        "speakers": [44753],
        "categories": [

          "User Experience"

        ]
      },

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        "name": "Shipping Applications to Production in Containers with Docker",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 14:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1449,
        "description": "Since its first release in early 2013, Docker has been deployed successfully to implement continuous integration and testing environments, where the very fast lifecycle of containers gives them an edge over virtual machines. We will see how to extend the workflow from development to testing and all the way to production. We&#x27;ll also address challenges like reliability and scaling with Docker.\r\n",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34136",
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          "Operations &amp; System Administration"

        ]
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        "serial": 34137,
        "name": "Is it Safe to Run Applications in Linux Containers?",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1475,
        "description": "Linux Containers (or LXC) is now a popular choice for development and testing environments. As more and more people use them in production deployments, they face a common question: are Linux Containers secure enough? It is often claimed that containers have weaker isolation than virtual machines. We will explore whether this is true, if it matters, and what can be done about it.\r\n",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34137",
        "speakers": [151611],
        "categories": [

          "Operations &amp; System Administration"

        ]
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        "name": "DevOps for University Students",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 10:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 10:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1462,
        "description": "University students rarely get a chance to fully embrace the Devops or FOSS development culture while in school. This year, we\u2019ve started a program called Devops Bootcamp, which is a hands-on, informal workshop open to any student at OSU. Devops Bootcamp immerses college students in the basics of Linux, Linux system administration and FOSS development practices. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34145",
        "speakers": [29558,123516],
        "categories": [

          "Operations &amp; System Administration"

        ]
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        "name": "Protocols for the Internet of Things",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1465,
        "description": "A large part of the internet of things will be made up of small constrained devices. The IETF is standardising protocols which are memory, energy and network efficient. Come and get an overview of these and of some Open Source implementations. See devices including Arduinos and Raspberry Pis with several sensors talking with one another and be inspired to build/connect your own devices.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34148",
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        "categories": [

          "Open Hardware"

        ]
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        "name": "REST: It&#x27;s not just for servers",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 10:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 11:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1462,
        "description": "Have you ever written or used an API wrapper for a webservice? REST is a client-server architecture model and building the server is only half of the challenge. This talk will walk through some of the challenges of building a REST client, describe some best practices and some patterns to avoid, and discuss how we can all work to build better APIs for an open web.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34156",
        "speakers": [151665],
        "categories": [

          "Tools &amp; Techniques"

        ]
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        "name": "Big Data Pipeline and Analytics Platform Using NetflixOSS and Other Open Source Libraries",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 11:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 11:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1452,
        "description": "This session presents the data platform used at Netflix for event collection, aggregation, and analysis. The platform helps Netflix process and analyze billions of events every day. Attendees will learn how to assemble their own large-scale data pipeline/analytics platform using open source software from NetflixOSS and others, such as Kafka, ElasticSearch, Druid from Metamarkets, and Hive. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34159",
        "speakers": [172661,171450],
        "categories": [

          "Computational Thinking"

        ]
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        "name": "Application Deployment and Auto-scaling On OpenStack using Heat ",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1466,
        "description": "This session will show how devops can use Heat to orchestrate the deployment &amp;scaling of complex applications on top of OpenStack. Starting with a walk-thru of OpenStack example deployment Heat Templates for OpenShift Origin (available in openstack github repository) and enhance them to provide additional functions such as positioning alarms, responding to alarms, adding instances, &amp;autoscaling. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34162",
        "speakers": [33987],
        "categories": [

          "Operations &amp; System Administration"

        ]
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        "serial": 34164,
        "name": "Timeseries Data Superpowers: Intuitive Understanding of FIR Filtering and Fourier Transforms",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 17:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 17:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1452,
        "description": "In this talk we&#x27;ll explore the Fourier transform and FIR filters in an intuitive way to make it accessible. You&#x27;ll come out with the ability to look at your time-series data in a new way and explore new uses for otherwise useless data.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34164",
        "speakers": [172201],
        "categories": [

          "Computational Thinking"

        ]
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        "serial": 34176,
        "name": "Functional Vaadin",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 16:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 16:50:00",
        "venue_serial": 1466,
        "description": "Exploring how the functional language features of Java 8 and Scala combine with Vaadin to allow you to write clearer UI code.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34176",
        "speakers": [120866],
        "categories": [

          "Java &amp; JVM"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34187,
        "name": "Continuous Delivery",
        "event_type": "tutorial",

        "time_start": "2014-07-21 13:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-21 17:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1450,
        "description": "Getting software released to users is often a painful, risky, and time-consuming process. This tutorial sets out the principles and technical practices that enable rapid, incremental delivery of high quality and valuable new functionality to users.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34187",
        "speakers": [2650],
        "categories": [

          "Business",

          "Tools &amp; Techniques"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34188,
        "name": "Community War Stories : Squaring the Circle between Business and Community",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 17:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 17:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1464,
        "description": "In this talk we will look at some of the basic dynamics playing out in open source communities and introduce some mental models explaining them. We will look at the Open Source Flywheel (inspired by Walton&#x27;s Productivity Loop and the Bezos Flywheel) and the Open Source Community Funnel (inspired by Sales Funnels) to explain them.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34188",
        "speakers": [62981],
        "categories": [

          "Business",

          "Community"

        ]
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        "serial": 34192,
        "name": "Functional Thinking",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1452,
        "description": "Learning the syntax of a new language is easy, but learning to think under a different paradigm is hard. This session helps you transition from a Java writing imperative programmer to a functional programmer, using Java, Clojure and Scala for examples.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34192",
        "speakers": [2650],
        "categories": [

          "Computational Thinking"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34194,
        "name": "The Curious Clojureist",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 14:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1456,
        "description": "Clojure is the most interesting new language on the horizon, but many developers suffer from the Blub Paradox when they see the Lisp syntax. This talk introduces Clojure to developers who haven\u2019t been exposed to it yet, focusing on the things that truly set it apart from other languages.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34194",
        "speakers": [2650],
        "categories": [

          "Emerging Languages"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34198,
        "name": "Syncing Async",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 16:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 16:50:00",
        "venue_serial": 1450,
        "description": "&#x27;Callback hell&#x27; has very little to do with callbacks. Are promises delivering on the promise of better async flow control, or muddying the waters? Generating general generators, WAT? Let&#x27;s wade through the world of async in JS to find order in the chaos.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34198",
        "speakers": [74368],
        "categories": [

          "JavaScript - HTML5 - Web"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34201,
        "name": "Map, Flatmap and Reduce are Your New Best Friends: Simpler Collections, Concurrency, and Big Data",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 11:50:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 12:30:00",
        "venue_serial": 1452,
        "description": "Higher-order functions such as map(), flatmap(), filter() and reduce() have their origins in mathematics and ancient functional programming languages such as Lisp. But today they have become mainstream and are available in languages such as JavaScript, Scala and Java 8. Learn how to they can be used to simplify code in a variety of domains including collection processing, concurrency and big data.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34201",
        "speakers": [11886],
        "categories": [

          "Computational Thinking"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34203,
        "name": "Creating Awesome Web APIs is a Breeze",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 14:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1458,
        "description": "Web APIs are increasingly important but their creation is still more an art than a science. This talk will demonstrate how Web APIs consumable by generic clients can be implemented in considerably less time. It will also give a brief introduction to JSON-LD and Hydra.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34203",
        "speakers": [172864],
        "categories": [

          "PHP"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34208,
        "name": "Git for Teams of One or More",
        "event_type": "tutorial",

        "time_start": "2014-07-21 09:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-21 12:30:00",
        "venue_serial": 1452,
        "description": "You&#x27;ve dabbled a little in version control using Git. You can follow along with the various tutorials you&#x27;ve found online. But now you&#x27;ve been asked to implement a work flow strategy and you&#x27;re not really sure how (or where) to start. You have a lot of choices, we&#x27;ll help you pick the right one for your project.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34208",
        "speakers": [4146],
        "categories": [

          "Community",

          "Tools &amp; Techniques"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34212,
        "name": "Telling Technology Stories with IPython Notebook",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 14:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1465,
        "description": "As technologists, sometimes it\u2019s as important to be able to share information with others as to be able to actually build something. IPython notebook is a powerful tool to both experiment with code (and data) and share the results with others, technical and non-technical alike. This session introduces the notebook and gives examples and techniques for using it effectively.\r\n",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34212",
        "speakers": [59574],
        "categories": [

          "Python"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34224,
        "name": "Accessibility and Security - For Everyone. Gotchas to Avoid.",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 14:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1462,
        "description": "Did you hear about the double arm amputee who was refused service at a bank because he could not provide a thumbprint? Or the online petition to increase services for blind folks, that they couldn\u2019t sign because of CAPTCHA? These are examples of security practices that cause barriers to people with disabilities. Security can create barriers, but it doesn\u2019t have to reduce accessibility!",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34224",
        "speakers": [172899],
        "categories": [

          "Security",

          "User Experience"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34232,
        "name": "AngularJS Tutorial",
        "event_type": "tutorial",

        "time_start": "2014-07-20 13:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-20 17:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1452,
        "description": "AngularJS is relatively new, meteorically popular, and functionally powerful.  However, a lot of AngularJS\u2019s workings are very opaque and confusing.  In this tutorial, my goal is to walk you through building a basic app, and introduce you to concepts, patterns, and ways of thinking that will allow you to comfortably dive further into using AngularJS for future projects.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34232",
        "speakers": [171372],
        "categories": [

          "JavaScript - HTML5 - Web",

          "Tools &amp; Techniques"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34236,
        "name": "JavaScript and Internet Controlled Hardware Prototyping",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 17:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 17:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1451,
        "description": "In this session we&#x27;ll be exploring how to build rapid hardware prototypes using wifi and bluetooth low energy enabled Arduino boards, all controlled through JavaScript and API data, to allow for innovative, web enabled, software to hardware development techniques.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34236",
        "speakers": [74565],
        "categories": [

          "Open Hardware"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34238,
        "name": "No More Whiteboard: Hiring Processes that Don&#x27;t Waste Time",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 16:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 16:50:00",
        "venue_serial": 1457,
        "description": "Learn how someone writes code by writing code with them. Using katas and pair programming on actual code allows you to get an honest look at the candidate&#x27;s thought process and capabilities, while exposing them to your team&#x27;s culture and key players.  Help your evaluators be focused on what kind of people you actually want on your project by creating key prompts for them to check.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34238",
        "speakers": [155107],
        "categories": [

          "Business"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34243,
        "name": "Monitoring Your Drone Project with Elasticsearch",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1466,
        "description": "Elasticsearch is an open-source document store known for enabling search and real-time analytics on large data sets. In this presentation we will walk through the development of an application that monitors the Parrot AR.Drone.  This application will collect metrics from the drone and then transform them to JSON for storage and real-time analysis in Elasticsearch.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34243",
        "speakers": [172929,142336],
        "categories": [

          "Databases &amp; Datastores"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34244,
        "name": "Grow Your Community with Events",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 15:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1464,
        "description": "Events are an attractive way to grow a community, but how do you choose which types of events work best for your users? We&#x27;ll cover a variety of community event types, as well as building and scaling user groups remotely, simultaneous in-person and online participation, and getting other departments at your company invested in what you&#x27;re planning.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34244",
        "speakers": [142767],
        "categories": [

          "Community"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34247,
        "name": "Community Management Training",
        "event_type": "tutorial",

        "time_start": "2014-07-21 09:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-21 17:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1454,
        "description": "This full day of community management training is delivered by Jono Bacon, author of The Art of Community, and covers a wide range of topics for community managers and leaders to build fun, productive, and rewarding communities.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34247",
        "speakers": [108813],
        "categories": [

          "Community"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34248,
        "name": "Dealing With Disrespect",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 14:30:00",
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        "description": "In this new presentation from Jono Bacon, author of The Art of Community, founder of the Community Leadership Summit, and Ubuntu Community Manager, he discusses how to process, interpret, and manage rude, disrespectful, and non-constructive feedback in communities so the constructive criticism gets through but the hate doesn&#x27;t.",
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        "name": "Zero to Cloud with @NetflixOSS",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-21 09:00:00",
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        "description": "We want you to leave OSCON with a working cloud account, including supporting infrastructure that Amazon DOESN\u2019T provide but that will make your cloud life way more manageable! Once your account is bootstrapped with Asgard and Aminator, we\u2019ll be baking some of the myriad of @NetflixOSS apps. This tutorial will be meaningful for anyone getting started with or currently using AWS. ",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-21 13:30:00",
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        "description": "Python is quickly becoming the go-to language for data analysis. However, it can be difficult to figure out which tools are good to use. In this workshop, we\u2019ll work through in-depth examples of tools for data wrangling, machine learning, and data visualization. I\u2019ll show you how to work through a data analysis workflow, and how to deal with different kinds of data. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34254",
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        "name": "Analyzing Data with Python",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-23 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 15:10:00",
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        "description": "Python is quickly becoming the go-to language for data analysis, but it can be difficult to figure out which tools to use. In this presentation, I\u2019ll give a bird\u2019s eye overview of some of the best tools for data analysis and how you can apply them to your own workflow. I\u2019ll introduce you to how you can use Pandas, Scikit-Learn, NLTK, MRJob, and matplotlib for data analysis.",
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        "name": "Crash Course in Tech Management",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 15:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1452,
        "description": "&#x27;Programmer&#x27; and &#x27;Manager&#x27; are two different titles for a reason: they&#x27;re two different jobs and skill sets. If you have managerial aspirations (or have had them foisted upon you), come to this session to learn some of the tricks of the managerial trade.",
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        "name": "How We Went Remote",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-22 17:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 17:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1448,
        "description": "Hiring remote workers is great for filling those holes on the team...but if you don&#x27;t have the correct infrastructure in place you&#x27;re just setting yourself--and your team members--up for a world of hurt. This session will detail how our engineering department went remote and thrived because of it.",
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        "name": "A Quick Introduction to System Tools Programming with Go",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-21 13:30:00",
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        "venue_serial": 1457,
        "description": "This tutorial provides an introduction to Go with a focus on using it for everyday sysadmins tooling. A example of working from iostat is used to show a practical approach to learning the language.",
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          "Tools &amp; Techniques"

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        "name": "SWI-Prolog for the Real World",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-22 17:00:00",
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        "description": "Savvy functional programmers are discovering logic programming, and SWI-Prolog&#x27;s vast niftiness. Come watch Annie run her debugger in reverse, directly execute syntax specifications, and lets the computer figure out it&#x27;s own darn execution strategy. Be amazed as Annie constrains variables and shrinks her  APIs. Ooh and Aah at the many libraries, nifty web framework and clean environment.",
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        "name": "Arduino + Furby Broken Build Notification - Oh, You&#x27;ll Want to Fix it Quick!",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-24 11:50:00",
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        "venue_serial": 1448,
        "description": "Furby&#x27;s are back and more annoying than ever.  Forget about a traffic light flashing or an email.  When that Furby starts jabbering, you&#x27;ll do ANYTHING to fix that build quickly.  This talk will connect an Arduino board with Jenkins continuous integration framework and out to the Furby to let it annoy your development team, rather than you!",
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        "name": "PHP Development for Google Glass using Phass",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 16:10:00",
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        "venue_serial": 1458,
        "description": "Phass is a ZF2-based framework (implemented as a Module) designed to make building Google GlassWare applications in PHP as easy as possible. In this talk we\u2019ll show you how Phass works, complete with a live Google Glass demo of an application in action! \r\n",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34275",
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        "name": "Portable Logic/Native UI",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 16:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 16:50:00",
        "venue_serial": 1449,
        "description": "This talk shows how to design mobile apps whose complex internal logic runs on many mobile operating systems, but with native UI on those platforms. This ensures that the best possible user experience on each platform.\r\n\r\nThis talk focuses on design patterns for structuring your app for dealing with a mix  of cross\u2013platform code and platform-specific UI code.\r\n",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34280",
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        "name": "Erlang, LFE, Joxa and Elixir: Established and Emerging Languages in the Erlang Ecosystem",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-23 16:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 16:50:00",
        "venue_serial": 1456,
        "description": "Erlang is a concurrent programming language with a small, active community and many high-uptime, critical deployments. It&#x27;s syntax is a bit odd, being inspired by Prolog. Other languages--Elixir, notably--have begun to reap the benefits of Erlang&#x27;s VM, BEAM, modifying syntax and semantics. This talk will provide a view of the BEAM languages, their history, motivations and benefits. ",
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        "name": "Obey the Testing Goat!  TDD for Web Development with Python",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-21 09:00:00",
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        "description": "Learn Test-Driven-Development and how it applies to web applications by building a simple web app from scratch using Python and Django. We&#x27;ll cover unit testing, Django models, views and templates, as well as using Selenium to open up a real web browser for functional tests.",
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        "name": "Idioms for Building Distributed Fault-tolerant Applications with Elixir",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 17:00:00",
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        "description": "This talk will introduce developers to the Elixir programming language and the Erlang VM and show how they introduce a completely new vocabulary which shapes how developers design and build distributed, fault-tolerant applications. This talk also discusses Elixir goals and what it brings to the Erlang VM.",
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        "name": "Lessons from Girl Develop It: Getting More Women Involved in Open Source",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-23 10:40:00",
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        "venue_serial": 1462,
        "description": "Women make up only 11% of open source developers. As Girl Develop It leaders in Philadelphia, we\u2019ve learned about what works to get women involved in open source projects at the grassroots level. We\u2019ll share our experience encouraging women to make open source contributions, using concrete methods that can be replicated in your own communities.\r\n",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34289",
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        "name": "Performing High-Performance Parallel Data Fetching in PHP",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 13:40:00",
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        "venue_serial": 1458,
        "description": "While Node.js and other asynchronous technologies have been receiving quite a bit of attention, in this session, we&#x27;ll discuss a technology stack we&#x27;ve written which permits PHP developers to perform complex database, cache, and API requests asynchronously, in parallel, resulting in excellent response times. This can be done natively in PHP with NO gearman and NO custom PECL extensions.",
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        "name": "Painless Data Storage with MongoDB and Go",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-22 13:40:00",
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        "description": "Find out why some people claim Go and MongoDB are a &#x27;pair made in heaven&#x27; and &#x27;the best database driver they&#x27;ve ever used&#x27; in this talk by Gustavo Niemeyer, the author of the mgo driver, and Steve Francia, the drivers team lead at MongoDB Inc.",
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        "name": "Developing Micro-services with Java and Spring",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-24 10:00:00",
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        "venue_serial": 1458,
        "description": "With plenty of live code and demos, this talk will show you how incredibly easy it is to write Java micro-services with modern Spring. We will walk though the process of creating a simple REST service, discuss deployment options and talk about how self-contained, stand-alone applications work in production.",
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        "name": "Embedding Node.js into a High-performance Network Datapath",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1450,
        "description": "This talk will discuss why LineRate, a high-performance Layer 7 app proxy for developers, chose to embed Node.js as the programming language for the data path. The talk will focus on the challenges of building an embeddable\r\nNode.js and conclude with how the open source Node.js codebase could evolve to better support embeddable use cases.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34327",
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        "name": "Static Web Rising",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1450,
        "description": "A combination of open standards, open source projects, and evolving browser technologies have made static web apps an increasingly appealing target even for complex applications. Learn how you can \u201cgo static\u201d and why you might want to do so.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34329",
        "speakers": [2593],
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        "name": "Global Scaling at the New York Times using RabbitMQ ",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-22 10:40:00",
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        "venue_serial": 1459,
        "description": "Learn about the &#x27;nyt\u2a0da\u0431rik&#x27; platform which sits behind The New York Times website. Learn how it scales across many continents and AWS availability zones using RabbitMQ as the backbone of communication for exchanging messages in near real-time. nyt\u2a0da\u0431rik is built on open-source and most of it will be open sourced.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34332",
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        "name": "One Hat, Two Hats - How to Handle Open Source and Work",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 11:30:00",
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        "venue_serial": 1464,
        "description": "Working in open source is living the dream, right?  What happens when that dream clashes with the real world deliveries associated with those paying you to work in the open.  Speaking from 3 years of experience working on a new tools project and through interviews with others in the industry, this talk should help show you through the ups and downs.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34336",
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        "name": "Making Money at Open Source without Losing Your Soul - A Practical Guide",
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        "description": "One of the tenets of Open Source is \u201cFree as in beer\u201d but there is still a viable commercial model. There are many successful open source companies that, despite the fact they give away their product, still manage to make money. A lot of money. How can this be possible? Let\u2019s explore some of the time tested strategies without compromising your core values.",
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        "serial": 34362,
        "name": "Money for Nothing and Your Downloads for Free",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 13:40:00",
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        "venue_serial": 1464,
        "description": "Not all projects benefit from a deep-pocketed corporate sponsor to fund their community activities. There are bills that need paying for server hosting, download bandwidth and the like, and maybe for trademark registration and other legal costs for larger projects. What&#x27;s the best way to fund your project? These speakers know!",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34362",
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        "name": "A Recovering Java Developer Learns to Go",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-22 13:40:00",
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        "venue_serial": 1461,
        "description": "The Go programming language has emerged as a favorite tool of DevOps and cloud practitioners alike. In many ways, Go is more famous for what it doesn&#x27;t include than what it does, and co-author Rob Pike has said that Go represents a &#x27;less is more&#x27; approach to language design. This talk will introduce Go and its distinctives to Java developers looking to add Go to their toolkits.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34371",
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        "name": "CSS: Declarative Nonsense Made Sensible",
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        "venue_serial": 1450,
        "description": "Unless you&#x27;re working full time as a front-end engineer, odds are that CSS frustrates you from time to time. This session offers advice on how to see past the obtuse corners of CSS, backed by fifteen years&#x27; hands-on experience.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34374",
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        "name": "NASA Open Source Projects for Science and Exploration",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-23 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1459,
        "description": "The Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been busy lately open sourcing its software, such as mobile apps for viewing the latest Mars images, communicating between robots, and sharing scientific analysis software in using app containers and cloud computing. Come and listen to stories and anecdotes about working on NASA projects and our journey into open source.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34377",
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        "name": "WeIO Platform for Internet of Things",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-24 11:00:00",
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        "venue_serial": 1451,
        "description": "WeIO is an innovative Open Source hardware and software platform for Internet of Things that allows the creation of wirelessly connected objects using popular web languages such as HTML5 or Python.\r\nAll further details can be found on project&#x27;s web-site: http://we-io.net.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34378",
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        "name": "Getting Started with Scalding, Twitter&#x27;s High-level Scala API for Hadoop MapReduce",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-21 13:30:00",
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        "venue_serial": 1471,
        "description": "Scalding is an open source framework developed at Twitter that provides a high level abstraction over Hadoop MapReduce, letting you concisely specify complex data analysis pipelines using simple Scala operations like map, filter, join, group, and sum. This introductory tutorial does not require experience with either Hadoop or Scala.\r\n",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34383",
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        "serial": 34394,
        "name": "Just My Type",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-22 10:40:00",
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        "description": "We perl programmers aren&#x27;t known as fans of formal types. Types are for straitjacketed languages like Java.\r\n\r\nBut... the Moose revolution&#x27;s changing all that. Types are a great way of encapsulating the messy business of data conversion and parameter validation, and can help you think more clearly about what&#x27;s going on in complex code.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34394",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-21 09:00:00",
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        "venue_serial": 1475,
        "description": "This tutorial will give developers an introduction and practical experience in building applications with the go language. Go expert Steve Francia will lead the class to build a working go web and cli application together teaching fundamentals, key features and best practices along the way. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34395",
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        "serial": 34407,
        "name": "Big Data Analysis 0-60 in 90 days",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 11:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 11:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1457,
        "description": "Do you know how long could it take to your team start producing value in the Big Data and Machine Learning area? This talk shows a real team experience starting from scratch to a functional Big Data and Machine Learning platform using several open source tools such as Apache Hadoop, Apache Hive and Python frameworks SciPy/Numpy/scikit-learn",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34407",
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        "name": "Train Spotting with Raspberry Pi and Data Science",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 15:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1451,
        "description": "Can computers tell if trains run on time? Using microphones, IP cameras, Arduino and Raspberry Pi we set up sensors to detect commuter trains as they passed by. Together with signal processing in Python, streaming data aggregation with Flume and storing in Hadoop, we\u2019ll show you how you can do this too.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34414",
        "speakers": [171621,133624],
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        "serial": 34422,
        "name": "Mesos: Elastically Scalable Operations, Simplified",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 15:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1466,
        "description": "Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across distributed applications. Mesos is not only a resource scheduler but also a library for rapidly developing scalable and fault-tolerant distributed systems. This talk will take the audience through the key aspects contributing to the growing adoption of Mesos in companies with large-scale data centers.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34422",
        "speakers": [172898,171598],
        "categories": [

          "Cloud",

          "Operations &amp; System Administration"

        ]
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        "serial": 34430,
        "name": "How Does Raleigh Use Open Source?",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 15:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1457,
        "description": "Open source, open data, and open access, that&#x27;s what the City of Raleigh is all about. But how did Raleigh go from open government resolution to an open data portal and a preference for open source software for IT procurement? Come to this session to learn how city government and citizens are working together to create an open source city. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34430",
        "speakers": [156534,173173],
        "categories": [

          "Business",

          "Community"

        ]
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        "serial": 34431,
        "name": "Neo4j 2.0 Intro Training",
        "event_type": "tutorial",

        "time_start": "2014-07-21 13:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-21 17:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1470,
        "description": "This training offers the first step in building a good knowledge of graph databases, and covers the core functionality of the open source Neo4j graph database. With a mixture of theory and hands-on practice sessions, you will quickly learn how easy it is to work with a powerful graph database using Cypher as the query language. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34431",
        "speakers": [159719],
        "categories": [

          "Databases &amp; Datastores"

        ]
      },

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        "serial": 34432,
        "name": "Mesos: An SDK for Distributed Systems Developers",
        "event_type": "tutorial",

        "time_start": "2014-07-20 13:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-20 17:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1456,
        "description": "The shift to the cloud is old news. Unfortunately, the pain of developing distributed architectures is not. Apache Mesos handles the hard parts of building distributed systems and lets developers focus on what makes their application special. In this workshop, we will illustrate how to write applications on Mesos by walking through the implementation of an example framework.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34432",
        "speakers": [172973,171598,172898],
        "categories": [

          "Cloud",

          "Tools &amp; Techniques"

        ]
      },

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        "serial": 34434,
        "name": "Hacking Lessons: Which Micro-Controller Board Do I Use?",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 10:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 10:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1451,
        "description": "It&#x27;s a great time to be a hardware hacker. What started with the Arduino has now evolved to the Raspberry Pi, the BeagleBone Black, the Spark Core, the new Arduino Yun, and a host of other boards. How do you know which one is right for your project? This talk will compare the mainstream boards, how they are applied and help you decide which one best fits your needs. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34434",
        "speakers": [77350],
        "categories": [

          "Open Hardware"

        ]
      },

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        "serial": 34442,
        "name": "Perl 5.20: Perl 5 at 20",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1451,
        "description": "This year brings the release of Perl 5.20.0, and the 20th anniversary of the Perl 5 programming language.  In this session, Ricardo Signes, the Perl 5 project manager,  covers the latest developments in the language, the development process, and changes we&#x27;re hoping for in the near future.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34442",
        "speakers": [3189],
        "categories": [

          "Perl"

        ]
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        "serial": 34447,
        "name": "HTML Canvas Deep Dive",
        "event_type": "tutorial",

        "time_start": "2014-07-20 09:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-20 12:30:00",
        "venue_serial": 1449,
        "description": "In the fourth edition of this popular tutorial, we will focus on data visualization. Finding, parsing, drawing, and animating interesting data sets to promote understanding.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34447",
        "speakers": [6931,183609],
        "categories": [

          "JavaScript - HTML5 - Web"

        ]
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        "serial": 34450,
        "name": "Bluetooth Low Energy: Big Progress for Small Consumption!",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 15:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1451,
        "description": "The last year has been great for Bluetooth LE. Supported on all smartphone OSes, hackable with Arduino and Raspberry PI, and ready for wearable computing. Review the year of BLE, and build your own smart watch.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34450",
        "speakers": [6931],
        "categories": [

          "Open Hardware"

        ]
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        "name": "Netflix API : Top 10 Lessons Learned",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 10:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 11:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1449,
        "description": "Operating a massive-scale system, such as the Netflix API, is no trivial task. It supports over 44M members in 40+ countries and sees billions of requests a day. Along the way, there have been many mistakes, yet it is still at the center of the Netflix streaming ecosystem. In this session, I will go into detail on the top ten lessons learned in operating this complex and critical system.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34451",
        "speakers": [173189],
        "categories": [

          "Cloud"

        ]
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        "serial": 34458,
        "name": "Start a Free Coding Club for Kids",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 15:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1462,
        "description": "Most Saturday mornings, Greg Bulmash brings together 70-80 boys and girls, dozens of parents and volunteers, and they teach the kids to code at a free club called CoderDojo. Come learn how to start a CoderDojo in your city and join the hundreds of cities around the world where kids are learning everything from &#x27;hello world&#x27; to NodeCopters to building apps.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34458",
        "speakers": [171495],
        "categories": [

          "Education"

        ]
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        "serial": 34459,
        "name": "\u201cUnfortunately, Design Tutorial Has Stopped\u201d, and Other Ways to Infuriate People With Mobile Apps",
        "event_type": "tutorial",

        "time_start": "2014-07-21 09:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-21 12:30:00",
        "venue_serial": 1451,
        "description": "In this tutorial you&#x27;ll learn why you can&#x27;t consider UX + design an optional extra when creating mobile apps, and how to tell an awesome app from a bad app. This highly interactive platform-agnostic design-heavy workshop is for programmers of any background. Learn how mobile apps work from a UI perspective, and how + why to build wireframes, and how to evaluate your designs for future improvement.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34459",
        "speakers": [108884,118998,109468],
        "categories": [

          "Mobile Platforms",

          "User Experience"

        ]
      },

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        "serial": 34461,
        "name": "How Do I Game Design?",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 15:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1450,
        "description": "Understanding games means understanding user engagement and interaction. In this session, you&#x27;ll learn a fresh perspective on user experience design by understanding how users engage with the fastest-growing form of entertainment in the world.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34461",
        "speakers": [108884,118998],
        "categories": [

          "User Experience"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34462,
        "name": "The Case for Haskell",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 17:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 17:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1462,
        "description": "We&#x27;re building ever larger and more complex systems. Coupled with changing requirements and demands for scaling concurrency and parallelism, taming this complexity is no small order.\r\n\r\nAllow me to share my excitement with you! I&#x27;ll show you how Haskell helps tame this complexity, allows you to overcome the challenges of modern software, and make predictions about what the near future holds.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34462",
        "speakers": [155881],
        "categories": [

          "Emerging Languages"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34463,
        "name": "GitGot: The Swiss Army Chainsaw of Git Repo Management",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 14:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1454,
        "description": "GitGot is a Perl-based tool for batch management of collections of git repos. It has a number of interesting features and acts as a force multiplier when dealing with a large varied collection of repositories. My talk will cover why you would want to use GitGot as well as how to use it effectively. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34463",
        "speakers": [173201],
        "categories": [

          "Tools &amp; Techniques"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34471,
        "name": "My Journey as a Community Manager (Literally)",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 17:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 17:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1464,
        "description": "I am going to expand on the experiences of setting up a worldwide community around our product, the Neo4j graph database. I will be presenting through the prism of being a woman in the technology world and how that has affected the way i had to work.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34471",
        "speakers": [161517],
        "categories": [

          "Community"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34473,
        "name": "Get Started With the Arduino - A Hands-On Introductory Workshop",
        "event_type": "tutorial",

        "time_start": "2014-07-20 09:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-20 12:30:00",
        "venue_serial": 1470,
        "description": "Have you always wanted to create hardware devices to interact with the real world? Heard about the Arduino electronics prototyping platform but not sure how to get started? When you attend this workshop you will: set up an Arduino board &amp; software; learn how the Arduino fits into the field of physical computing; and make your Arduino respond to button presses and blink lights. Hardware is fun!\r\n",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34473",
        "speakers": [77469],
        "categories": [

          "Geek Lifestyle",

          "Open Hardware"

        ]
      },

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        "serial": 34498,
        "name": "Best Practices for MySQL High Availability",
        "event_type": "tutorial",

        "time_start": "2014-07-21 09:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-21 12:30:00",
        "venue_serial": 1470,
        "description": "The MySQL world is full of tradeoffs and choosing a High Availability (HA) solution is no exception. We demystify all the alternatives in an unbiased nature. Preference is of course only given to opensource solutions. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34498",
        "speakers": [147],
        "categories": [

          "Databases &amp; Datastores",

          "Operations &amp; System Administration"

        ]
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        "serial": 34505,
        "name": "Why Schools Don&#x27;t Use Open Source to Teach Programming",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1462,
        "description": "Aside from the fact that high school programming curricula often require proprietary IDEs, they also don&#x27;t involve examining any source code from Open Source software projects.  What changes would be required in programming curricula to incorporate Open Source?  And is that a desirable objective?",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34505",
        "speakers": [157509],
        "categories": [

          "Education"

        ]
      },

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        "serial": 34506,
        "name": "How to Deploy PHP Apps Safely, Efficiently, and Frequently without Losing Your Sanity (Completely)",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 10:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 11:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1458,
        "description": "Sane and safe continuous deployment (and testing) can be achieved without much effort using a set of freely-available open-source tools, such as a good source control system, Phing, PHPUnit, some security tools, phpDocumentor and others.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34506",
        "speakers": [173235],
        "categories": [

          "PHP"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34509,
        "name": "Inside the Go Tour",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 11:50:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 12:30:00",
        "venue_serial": 1458,
        "description": "One of the most important tools created to help people learn Go is the Go tour (http://tour.golang.org)\r\n\r\nIt allows the user to learn the basics of Go and put them in practice directly on their browsers, running code without installing any compiler.\r\n\r\nImplementing this in a safe way is not an easy task! In this talk I present some techniques used to make sure everything goes as expected.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34509",
        "speakers": [155088],
        "categories": [

          "Security"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34522,
        "name": "Internet ALL the Things - a walking tour of MQTT",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 15:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1465,
        "description": "As the internet grows, there are more and more interesting devices to connect to it - some of which are mobile, sensor platforms, or healthcare devices. This is all part of the &#x27;Internet of Things&#x27; that has been an emerging area of excitement for the last few years. MQTT is a lightweight, messaging system for connected devices, the Industrial Internet, mobile, and the IoT.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34522",
        "speakers": [141661],
        "categories": [

          "Mobile Platforms"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34530,
        "name": "Thinking in a Highly Concurrent, Mostly-functional Language",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 10:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 10:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1452,
        "description": "The actor model has received much attention because of its scalable and intuitive approach to concurrency. But the notion of concurrency is as fundamental to certain languages as object-orientation is to Java. In this talk, we will describe the evolution of concurrent thinking in Erlang, providing valuable lessons for Go, Rust, Elixir and AKKA developers who will undertake a similar journey..  ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34530",
        "speakers": [10595],
        "categories": [

          "Computational Thinking"

        ]
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      {
        "serial": 34535,
        "name": "Cheap Data Dashboards with Node, Amino and the Raspberry PI",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1458,
        "description": "Cheap LCD TV + Raspberry Pi = instant data dashboard. Learn how to use NodeJS and Amino for full screen GPU accelerated graphics (no X) to quickly build data dashboards. Show feeds, chart tweets, or visualize your build server with a particle fountain. Unleash gratuitous graphics for all to see.\r\n",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34535",
        "speakers": [6931],
        "categories": [

          "Open Hardware"

        ]
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        "serial": 34536,
        "name": "HTML5 JavaScript Storage for Structured Data",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 17:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 17:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1450,
        "description": "Learn about going beyond simple cookies and busting the 5MB limit imposed by Web Storage. We&#x27;ll dive into the IndexedDB API and open your world to reading and writing not just strings from within browser storage, but also blobs, Arrays and Objects too.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34536",
        "speakers": [2397],
        "categories": [

          "JavaScript - HTML5 - Web"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34542,
        "name": "Multiple Datastores Working Together: Will It Blend?",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 16:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 16:50:00",
        "venue_serial": 1475,
        "description": "There has been an explosion in datastore technologies. There are five main types of datastores: Relational, Column Family, Graph, Key-Value and Document. Polyglot Persistence, or the ability to have many different types of datastores interacting with one application, is becoming more prominent and beginning to take center stage.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34542",
        "speakers": [159586],
        "categories": [

          "Databases &amp; Datastores"

        ]
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        "serial": 34551,
        "name": "Marketing Your Tech Talent ",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 11:50:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 12:30:00",
        "venue_serial": 1454,
        "description": "Today&#x27;s tech job descriptions want &#x27;superstars&#x27;, but most companies \u2013 and employees! \u2013 still treat employee talent as a replaceable commodity. How can you market yourself and your talents, to benefit your own career as well as the company or project you work for? This talk will provide practical ideas and real-life case studies, based on years of experience helping geeks communicate what they do.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34551",
        "speakers": [122293],
        "categories": [

          "Geek Lifestyle"

        ]
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        "serial": 34552,
        "name": "Improv: Think, React, Go!",
        "event_type": "tutorial",

        "time_start": "2014-07-21 13:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-21 17:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1456,
        "description": "Getting everyone in your company or development team on the same page can be a challenge. This on-your-feet workshop will teach fast, fun improv techniques for helping your group to bond, generate quality ideas and make quick decisions. Learn the secrets of applied improv from two professionals who have decades of experience working in open source, Internet startups and corporate training.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34552",
        "speakers": [4378,106355,123894],
        "categories": [

          "Business",

          "Community"

        ]
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        "serial": 34555,
        "name": "Build your Own Android App using Open Source Libraries - A Hands On Tutorial",
        "event_type": "tutorial",

        "time_start": "2014-07-20 13:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-20 17:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1471,
        "description": "In this tutorial, we will develop a working Android application using open source libraries for key platform components: HTTP client, JSON parsing, Async image download and caching.\r\n\r\nYou will learn how to manage dependencies using Gradle and best practices for building Android apps using open source libraries.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34555",
        "speakers": [173281,182019],
        "categories": [

          "Mobile Platforms"

        ]
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      {
        "serial": 34568,
        "name": "React&#x27;s Architecture",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 11:50:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 12:30:00",
        "venue_serial": 1449,
        "description": "React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces developed by Facebook and Instagram. It has a novel rendering architecture that we&#x27;re going to explore in this talk.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34568",
        "speakers": [133198],
        "categories": [

          "JavaScript - HTML5 - Web"

        ]
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      {
        "serial": 34570,
        "name": "Satisfying Business and Engineering Requirements: Client-server JavaScript, SEO, and Optimized Page Load",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 10:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 10:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1457,
        "description": "Often business and developer needs are at odds when developing public facing websites that need to be indexed. Business is concerned with factors such as SEO, visitor retention and bounce rates, while engineering is concerned with developer ergonomics, re-usage, separation of concerns, and maintenance. This talk will describe a solution that satisfies both business and engineering requirements.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34570",
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          "JavaScript - HTML5 - Web"

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        "name": "Open-Source DoS Testing and Defense",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 16:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 16:50:00",
        "venue_serial": 1466,
        "description": "Denial of Service (DoS) attacks have been making the news lately -- can your site hold up? In this talk, we&#x27;ll look at a number of open-source tools for testing your site and walk through ways to guard yourself against web attackers.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34575",
        "speakers": [173285],
        "categories": [

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        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34578,
        "name": "ETL: The Dirty Little Secret of Data Science",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 11:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 11:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1475,
        "description": "There is an adage that given enough data, a data scientist can answer the world&#x27;s questions. The untold truth is that the majority of work happens during the ETL and data preprocessing phase. In this talk I discuss Origins, an open source Python library for extracting and mapping structural metadata across heterogenous data stores.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34578",
        "speakers": [152026],
        "categories": [

          "Databases &amp; Datastores"

        ]
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      {
        "serial": 34587,
        "name": "Monitoring Distributed Systems in Real-time with Riemann and Cassandra",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 17:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 17:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1449,
        "description": "Computing is spreading outwards: clusters of 1000s of nodes serve a single database, and hundreds of machines analyze the same KPIs.\r\n\r\nHow do we monitor a cluster with many nodes?\r\n\r\nThis talk presents how to effectively monitor a multi-node Cassandra cluster using Riemann and other graphing solutions.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34587",
        "speakers": [156989],
        "categories": [

          "Operations &amp; System Administration"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34588,
        "name": "Getting Started Contributing to Firefox OS",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 17:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 17:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1466,
        "description": "Firefox OS is a new mobile operating system, developed by Mozilla, which lets users install and run open web applications created using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.\r\nThe session will introduce people to Firefox OS, the overview, branding and distribution and will explain the governance behind it. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34588",
        "speakers": [120025,173308],
        "categories": [

          "Mobile Platforms"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34589,
        "name": "Make your Open Source More Open \u2013 Conquering the Accessibility Challenge",
        "event_type": "tutorial",

        "time_start": "2014-07-20 09:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-20 12:30:00",
        "venue_serial": 1457,
        "description": "How accessible are your development projects? This session puts development to the ultimate accessibility test. The presenters will guide you through an experience of accessibility for people who are blind and then go on to cover best practices, testing, and pitfalls in implementing accessible web and program design. You will walk away with actionable tips to use in your development projects.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34589",
        "speakers": [2699,173303],
        "categories": [

          "Tools &amp; Techniques",

          "User Experience"

        ]
      },

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        "serial": 34595,
        "name": "Robots in Finland: How a Small Open Hardware Project Sparked International Collaboration Across 10 Timezones and 5,000 Miles ",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 14:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1464,
        "description": "This talk shares the success story of how a small open hardware project used an Arduino/Python archival digitization robot to spark an international collaboration spanning cultures and continents. The talk focuses on how the collaboration came to be, how the teams used tools like 3D printing and video to work together across 5000+ miles, and how other OS projects can create similar partnerships.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34595",
        "speakers": [165643],
        "categories": [

          "Community"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34610,
        "name": "DNSSEC Via a New Stub Resolver",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 11:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 11:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1466,
        "description": "The need for secure DNS is more pressing than ever but the current standard API for using the DNS can&#x27;t take advantage of modern DNS features.  We will give an application developers view of DNSSEC and describe the independently written getDNS API specification. We will showcase the open source implementation of the specification built by our team of developers from NLNet Labs and Verisign.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34610",
        "speakers": [173324,173326,173325,172895],
        "categories": [

          "Security"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34612,
        "name": "Sepia: How LinkedIn Mobile Made Integration Testing Fast and Reliable in Node.js",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 16:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 16:50:00",
        "venue_serial": 1449,
        "description": "LinkedIn runs a node.js server to power its phone clients. Because the server makes HTTP requests to other services, network latencies make for slow, and potentially unreliable end-to-end tests. This presentation walks through how LinkedIn built an open-source tool, sepia, to address the challenge of scaling a complex test infrastructure in order to release high quality code with high confidence.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34612",
        "speakers": [172988],
        "categories": [

          "Mobile Platforms"

        ]
      },

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        "serial": 34627,
        "name": "Creating an SDK - Lessons Learned",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 11:50:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 12:30:00",
        "venue_serial": 1459,
        "description": "Taking a complex API and wrapping it to create a coherent SDK for a programming language is a huge undertaking, and even harder when it has to be done by a single developer. I created pyrax, the Python SDK for OpenStack, at the request of my company. It has been a success, but it didn&#x27;t come easy. In this talk I&#x27;ll share some of the many lessons learned, both technical and political.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34627",
        "speakers": [152106],
        "categories": [

          "Cloud"

        ]
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        "serial": 34630,
        "name": "Working with Design in Open Source",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1464,
        "description": "In this session we&#x27;ll look at how design effects an open source project and how to encourage designers to contribute.  We&#x27;ll also cover the fundamentals of design, in case a developer finds themselves in the role of designer.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34630",
        "speakers": [173248],
        "categories": [

          "Community",

          "User Experience"

        ]
      },

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        "serial": 34632,
        "name": "OpenStack :: Where Continuous Delivery and Distros Collide",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 14:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1459,
        "description": "Mark McLoughlin and Monty Taylor - both members of the OpenStack Technical Committee and Foundation Board - gives their perspectives on how OpenStack caters to two distinct audiences with its time-based release process and its support for continuous deployment. They will also talk to this a case study for how DevOps is influencing the way open-source projects are managed and consumed.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34632",
        "speakers": [172824,109289],
        "categories": [

          "Cloud"

        ]
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        "serial": 34635,
        "name": "Move Fast and Ship Things ",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 10:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 11:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1449,
        "description": "This talk will explore the &#x27;move fast&#x27; side of Facebook\u2019s software engineering culture: development process, organizational structure, and the vast amounts of tooling we create and use to make sure we don\u2019t screw up. We\u2019ll also dig into how we &#x27;ship things&#x27;: release process, A/B testing, gate keepers, test infrastructure, and more.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34635",
        "speakers": [109270],
        "categories": [

          "Cloud",

          "Operations &amp; System Administration"

        ]
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        "serial": 34637,
        "name": "Chef and OpenStack",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 10:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 10:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1459,
        "description": "The open source configuration management and automation framework Chef is used to configure, deploy and manage many large public and private installations of OpenStack and supports a wide variety of integration opportunities. OpenStack is a large and complex ecosystem, this session will highlight the Chef resources available for developers and operators.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34637",
        "speakers": [141169],
        "categories": [

          "Operations &amp; System Administration"

        ]
      },

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        "serial": 34640,
        "name": "Include Hack - HHVM - PHP++",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 10:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 11:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1458,
        "description": "Did you know that one of the biggest PHP sites on the internet isn&#x27;t running PHP? Did you know that HHVM clocks in at anywhere between 2x and 10x faster than standard PHP with an Opcode Cache? Come take a look at \u201cThe other PHP engine\u201d, how to get a server up and running, what pitfalls to watch out for in migrating over, and what exciting extras are waiting. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34640",
        "speakers": [173262,173336],
        "categories": [

          "PHP"

        ]
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        "serial": 34642,
        "name": "Playing Chess with Companies",
        "event_type": "tutorial",

        "time_start": "2014-07-21 09:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-21 12:30:00",
        "venue_serial": 1458,
        "description": "Most organisations have strategy documents full of implementation, purchasing, tactical and operational choices. Remove this and you&#x27;re often left with a vague &#x27;why&#x27; which normally boils down to copying everyone else. In this tutorial I&#x27;ll demonstrate how a large number of companies are playing a game of chess in which they can&#x27;t see the board and how you can exploit this.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34642",
        "speakers": [6219],
        "categories": [

          "Business"

        ]
      },

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        "serial": 34646,
        "name": "Predicting Global Unrest with GDELT and SQL on Hadoop  ",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 10:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 11:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1454,
        "description": "The Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) is an initiative to construct a catalog of human societal-scale behavior and beliefs across all countries of the world.  Analysis of this data set requires addressing typical data quality and data skew issues.  \r\n\r\nUse a combined Hadoop + SQL on Hadoop stack to cleanse the data and deliver insights into the state of the world.  ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34646",
        "speakers": [53442],
        "categories": [

          "Databases &amp; Datastores"

        ]
      },

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        "serial": 34650,
        "name": "Arduino Yun for Intermediate Arduino Users: Using the Onboard Linux Computer to Communicate with Other Computers and the Internet",
        "event_type": "tutorial",

        "time_start": "2014-07-20 13:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-20 17:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1470,
        "description": "The new Arduino Yun contains both an Arduino Leonardo and a full Linux system on a chip with built-in Ethernet and Wifi. This intermediate level hands-on tutorial will teach you how to use the Yun to communicate between Yun and Yun, Yun and laptop, and Yun and internet services, such Gmail, Twitter, and other services with APIs",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34650",
        "speakers": [141561],
        "categories": [

          "Education",

          "Open Hardware"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34654,
        "name": "Red October: Implementing the Two-man Rule for Keeping Secrets",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 15:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1462,
        "description": "Red October is an open source encryption server with a twist -- it can encrypt secrets, requiring more than one person to decrypt them. This talk will describe what goes into building an open source security product and using it in the real world. From motivation, design decisions, pitfalls of using a young programming language like Go, through deployment and opening the work up to the community.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34654",
        "speakers": [164229],
        "categories": [

          "Security"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34668,
        "name": "OpenUI5 - The New Responsive Web UI Library",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 17:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 17:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1450,
        "description": "OpenUI5 is a comprehensive enterprise-grade HTML5 UI library (developed by SAP) which has been open-sourced recently. Explore its power through concrete code examples and demos for key features like declarative UIs, data binding, and responsiveness: write ONE app and it will adapt to any device, from desktop screen to smartphones.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34668",
        "speakers": [170822,173233],
        "categories": [

          "User Experience"

        ]
      },

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        "serial": 34677,
        "name": "Elasticsearch: The Missing Tutorial",
        "event_type": "tutorial",

        "time_start": "2014-07-20 09:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-20 12:30:00",
        "venue_serial": 1452,
        "description": "Elasticsearch provides a powerful combination of clustered full-text search, synonyms, faceting, and geographic math, but there&#x27;s a big gap between its documentation and real life. We&#x27;ll tell hard-won war stories, work through hands-on examples, and show what happens behind the scenes, leaving you equipped to get the best use out of Elasticseach in your projects.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34677",
        "speakers": [173247,150],
        "categories": [

          "Cloud",

          "Databases &amp; Datastores"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34678,
        "name": "Open HeARTware with ChickTech",
        "event_type": "tutorial",

        "time_start": "2014-07-20 13:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-20 17:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1451,
        "description": "Are you a software person? An artsy type? Never thought you would like hardware? Or perhaps you love hardware? No matter what your skill level, this workshop is for you. Get in on the open hardware movement and join ChickTech to create your own \u201csoft circuit\u201d using conductive thread, fabric, inputs/outputs, and a microcontroller! ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34678",
        "speakers": [131890,124700],
        "categories": [

          "Education"

        ]
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      {
        "serial": 34687,
        "name": "Identity Crisis: Are We Really Who We Say We Are?",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 10:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 10:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1456,
        "description": "Karen Sandler, Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation, will discuss the peculiar tension in the intersection of free and open source software and corporate interest. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34687",
        "speakers": [173364],
        "categories": [

          "Business",

          "Community"

        ]
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      {
        "serial": 34688,
        "name": "Healthcare for Geeks",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 11:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 11:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1448,
        "description": "Hacking Healthcare author David Uhlman will show you how to 3D print your body parts, order your own lab work, build a DNA analyzer, tour an array of personal monitoring devices for fitness, health and open biology projects, stop eating altogether by switching to soylent. Also tips on what insurance to get, navigating hospitals and finding the right doctor.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34688",
        "speakers": [86111],
        "categories": [

          "Main Stage"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34690,
        "name": "Contributing to Contributors: Breaking Down the Barriers to First-commit",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 16:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 16:50:00",
        "venue_serial": 1448,
        "description": "Every open source project is a unique snowflake of technology choices, coding style, and communication channels. Learning not only how, but the &#x27;correct&#x27; way to contribute to each new project can be a blocker for would-be contributors. This talk will give practical examples of how you can reduce the learning curve for new contributors and improve the quality of first-commits.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34690",
        "speakers": [104522],
        "categories": [

          "Main Stage"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34695,
        "name": "Open edX: an Open-source MOOC Platform",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 11:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 11:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1462,
        "description": "Open edX is an open-source platform for delivering online courses. It&#x27;s in use by the 31 member universities of edx.org (Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, etc), as well as Stanford, Google, and many other colleges and universities. This talk will describe the platform and show you ways to participate, as a course author, tool developer, or offering institution.\r\n ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34695",
        "speakers": [41059,179963],
        "categories": [

          "Education"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34700,
        "name": "PHP 5.6 and Beyond: Because Incrementing Major Versions is for Suckers",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 15:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1458,
        "description": "PHP 5.6 is out, and comes with useful new features and internal cleanups, as the last few 5.x releases have. In this talk, I&#x27;ll discuss those features, but also where PHP is going: will there be a PHP 6 or 7 in the near future? What might it contain? How can we learn from Python 3 and Perl 6?",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34700",
        "speakers": [152118],
        "categories": [

          "PHP"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34702,
        "name": "HTML5 Video Part Deux; New Opportunities and New Challenges",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 15:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1450,
        "description": "This talk gives a close look at second wave HTML5 features around video delivery \u2014 specifically,  mediaSource API / adaptive streaming, encrypted media extension and WebRTC. We look at open tools and techniques for transcending platform limitations and delivery these experiences across increasingly diverse set of devices with real world examples from Kaltura, Wikimedia and others.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34702",
        "speakers": [108736],
        "categories": [

          "JavaScript - HTML5 - Web"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34705,
        "name": "What is Happening at the CentOS Project?",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 17:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 17:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1457,
        "description": "What is the future of CentOS Linux? Hear the true story from the project leaders behind the surprise announcement that the CentOS Project and Red Hat are joining forces.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34705",
        "speakers": [46737,173380,173381],
        "categories": [

          "Community"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34711,
        "name": "Schemas for the Real World",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 15:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1475,
        "description": "Development challenges us to code for users\u2019 personal world. Users give push-back to ill-fitted assumptions about their own name, gender, sexual orientation, important relationships, &amp; other attributes that are individually meaningful. We&#x27;ll explore how to develop software that brings real world into focus &amp; that allows individuals to authentically reflect their personhood &amp; physical world.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34711",
        "speakers": [141590],
        "categories": [

          "Databases &amp; Datastores"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34713,
        "name": "Functionally Mobile (Automation)",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1451,
        "description": "Mobile&#x27;s here to stay! This talk will showcase how Open Source tools can power your test automation for mobile apps. It entirely relies on Open Source components such as Appium, Cordova/PhoneGap an Topcoat.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34713",
        "speakers": [173378],
        "categories": [

          "Mobile Platforms"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34717,
        "name": "Developing High Performance Websites and Modern Apps with JavaScript and HTML5",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 10:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 11:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1450,
        "description": "Creating high performance sites and apps is crucial for every developer. In this session, we will explore the best practices and performance tricks, to make your apps running faster and fluid. Come learn the tips, tricks, and tools for maximizing the performance of your sites and apps with JavaScript and HTML5.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34717",
        "speakers": [133360],
        "categories": [

          "JavaScript - HTML5 - Web"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34718,
        "name": "Android Developer Tools Essentials",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 14:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1466,
        "description": "This session is an overview of the Android Developer Tools (ADT and Android Studio), including many useful techniques, tips and tricks for getting the most out of them.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34718",
        "speakers": [150073],
        "categories": [

          "Mobile Platforms"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34731,
        "name": "How We Built a Cloud Platform Using Netflix OSS",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 14:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1459,
        "description": "\r\nThe Netflix OSS Cloud stack is clearly a great set of components for building a cloud infrastructure and platform\u2014if you are Netflix. But how does that architecture work for other businesses? Learn how at Riot we leveraged Netflix OSS cloud tools and platform components to create an infrastructure for our global game platform\u2014maybe it can work for you too.\r\n",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34731",
        "speakers": [161577],
        "categories": [

          "Cloud"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34737,
        "name": "Making Federal Regulations Readable with Python",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 17:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 17:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1465,
        "description": "The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (http://cfpb.gov) has\r\ndeveloped an open source web-based tool to make regulations easy to\r\nread, access and understand. We talk about the unique parsing and\r\nother challenges we encountered working with these legal documents,\r\nand how we used Python, pyParsing, Django and other open source tools\r\nto solve them.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34737",
        "speakers": [157931],
        "categories": [

          "Python"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34744,
        "name": "Machine Learning for Rubyists",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 17:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 17:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1466,
        "description": "In this presentation we&#x27;ll cover five important machine learning techniques that can be used in a wide range of applications. It will be a wide and shallow introduction, for Rubyists, not mathematicians - we&#x27;ll have plenty of simple code examples. \r\n",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34744",
        "speakers": [173396],
        "categories": [

          "Computational Thinking"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34745,
        "name": "Secure Development is Much Easier Than You Think",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 17:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 17:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1462,
        "description": "Secure software development is something absolutely critical to helping create safer more trusted computing experiences for everyone.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34745",
        "speakers": [173399,173403],
        "categories": [

          "Security"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34746,
        "name": "Making maps with OpenStreetMap and Koop",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 11:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 11:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1450,
        "description": "Like maps and open data? Koop has created a new way of accessing open data and making cool maps with wide variety of data    \r\n",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34746",
        "speakers": [108520,173406],
        "categories": [

          "JavaScript - HTML5 - Web"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34753,
        "name": "International Community Building: Bridging Japan and the Rest of the World",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 11:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 11:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1464,
        "description": "Japan has a thriving open source technology community. It\u2019s also the third largest IT market in the world, with more engineers per capita than the US, and a history of game-changing open source projects like Ruby and Jenkins. Hear a first hand account of managing and cultivating open source communities in Japan, the US and other countries and discuss international community building.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34753",
        "speakers": [153857],
        "categories": [

          "Community"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34756,
        "name": "Graph Theory You Need to Know",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 15:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1452,
        "description": "A brief and friendly tour of the basics of graph theory, including a description and classification of the kinds of graphs and some interesting problems they can be employed to solve.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34756",
        "speakers": [137697],
        "categories": [

          "Computational Thinking"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34757,
        "name": "The Data Structures (You Think) You Need to Know",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 14:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1448,
        "description": "A fun and approachable tour of some otherwise intimidating data structures. Learn how to solve difficult problems efficiently through the clever organization and linking of data.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34757",
        "speakers": [137697],
        "categories": [

          "Computational Thinking"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34769,
        "name": "Tapping into Ruby from the JVM",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 14:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1456,
        "description": "With the diversity and innovation in the Ruby ecosystem and the popularity of polyglot programming on the robust and efficient JVM, Ruby and the JVM make a great fit. We\u2019ll cover numerous ways to invoke Ruby from Java and other JVM languages and how to package and deploy this style of application. We\u2019ll study examples from AsciidoctorJ, a Java API to the Ruby-based text processor, Asciidoctor.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34769",
        "speakers": [117513],
        "categories": [

          "Ruby"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34772,
        "name": "Introduction to Ceph",
        "event_type": "tutorial",

        "time_start": "2014-07-20 13:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-20 17:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1458,
        "description": "This Introduction to Ceph tutorial will include a mix of lecture and instructor-led demonstrations that will introduce students to the Ceph distributed storage system, the challenges it addresses, its architecture, and solutions it offers.\r\n\r\nStudents will leave understanding how Ceph works, how it can be integrated with your services and applications, and how it works alongside OpenStack.\r\n",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34772",
        "speakers": [183246],
        "categories": [

          "Databases &amp; Datastores",

          "Operations &amp; System Administration"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34773,
        "name": "Demystifying SELinux Part II: Who\u2019s Policy Is It Anyway?",
        "event_type": "tutorial",

        "time_start": "2014-07-20 09:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-20 12:30:00",
        "venue_serial": 1458,
        "description": "Building on last year\u2019s critically acclaimed \u2018Demystifying SELinux: WTF is it saying?\u2019 talk Demystifying \u2018SELinux Part II: Who\u2019s policy is it anyway?\u2019 is an extended tutorial which has attendees work through real life examples of SELinux configuration and policy construction.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34773",
        "speakers": [151833],
        "categories": [

          "Operations &amp; System Administration",

          "Security"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34788,
        "name": "Painlessly Functional and Concurrent: An Introduction to Elixir",
        "event_type": "tutorial",

        "time_start": "2014-07-20 13:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-20 17:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1457,
        "description": "This tutorial is a quick introduction to the Elixir programming language.  We\u2019ll explore the basics of the language, meta programming, and explore why you want to use Elixir to write concurrent, scalable, and robust programs.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34788",
        "speakers": [173421],
        "categories": [

          "Emerging Languages",

          "Tools &amp; Techniques"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34797,
        "name": "Open Mobile Accessibility with GitHub and Cordova",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 15:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1454,
        "description": "The story of an open-source project that brings mobile accessibility APIs together with native webviews to make mobile app development more responsive to users with disabilities.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34797",
        "speakers": [17378],
        "categories": [

          "Mobile Platforms"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34808,
        "name": "Writing English  ",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 14:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1448,
        "description": "So you know Java, Scala, Python, and Perl, but do you know the correct usage of a semicolon when it comes to the English language? Writers and engineers alike often fall victim to grammatical blunders that can obscure their intended message. Fortunately, there are some simple ways of spotting and correcting these errors. Once learned, your writing will improve and your readers will thank you. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34808",
        "speakers": [173393],
        "categories": [

          "Main Stage"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34809,
        "name": "Streaming Predictions of User Behavior in Real-Time",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 16:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 16:50:00",
        "venue_serial": 1452,
        "description": "Visitors to an online store rarely make their intention explicit. A valuable goal in digital marketing is to infer this intention so to influence the visitor&#x27;s behavior in-situ. We describe a data-driven approach to identifying and predicting online user behavior. The talk focuses on the construction of real-time machine learning tools for inference to sites with thousands of concurrent visitors.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34809",
        "speakers": [173414,173431],
        "categories": [

          "Computational Thinking"

        ]
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        "serial": 34811,
        "name": "Digital Dancing",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 10:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 11:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1448,
        "description": "You check out the schedule, and you note with excitement that there&#x27;s a presentation called DIGITAL DANCING. You grab your stuff and head for that conference room.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34811",
        "speakers": [161486,182741],
        "categories": [

          "Main Stage"

        ]
      },

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        "serial": 34814,
        "name": "Why You Should Be Looking at Functional Web Development",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 11:50:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 12:30:00",
        "venue_serial": 1466,
        "description": "Web combined with functional programming gives pure awesomeness.  Come and learn about WebSharper, an open source web development framework for F#, and how it makes programmers happier and more productive.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34814",
        "speakers": [132323],
        "categories": [

          "Emerging Languages"

        ]
      },

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        "serial": 34820,
        "name": "The State of Crypto in Python",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 11:50:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 12:30:00",
        "venue_serial": 1465,
        "description": "Python has a complex past with crypto. There are half a dozen frameworks built on at least three separate C implementations, each with their own strengths and weaknesses and in various states of maintenance. This presentation will review the current state of the art and discuss the future of crypto in Python including a new library aimed at fixing modern crypto support in Python.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34820",
        "speakers": [173432,173435],
        "categories": [

          "Python"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34823,
        "name": "Building a Culture of Continuous Learning",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 16:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 16:50:00",
        "venue_serial": 1462,
        "description": "Technology moves too quickly for us to ever really stop learning - but how can we establish and maintain a culture of continuous learning in our business teams? And how can we ensure that continuous learning is effective?",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34823",
        "speakers": [152299],
        "categories": [

          "Business",

          "Education"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34824,
        "name": "Getting Started with OpenStack: Hands on Tutorial",
        "event_type": "tutorial",

        "time_start": "2014-07-20 09:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-20 12:30:00",
        "venue_serial": 1475,
        "description": "Curious about OpenStack, but don&#x27;t know where to start? In this hands on tutorial we will walk you through the basics of OpenStack, the OpenSource cloud computing platform that is used to build private and public clouds. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34824",
        "speakers": [169647,169673],
        "categories": [

          "Cloud"

        ]
      },

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        "serial": 34829,
        "name": "Building Reliable Systems: Lessons from Erlang",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 14:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1452,
        "description": "Erlang is famous for building systems that are incredibly reliable, having virtually no down time! What are the principles that Erlang uses? Can we apply them in other languages? In this presentation, you&#x27;ll learn how Erlang&#x27;s design enables reliability and how you can use similar patterns to improve your own software and software systems.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34829",
        "speakers": [131729],
        "categories": [

          "Computational Thinking"

        ]
      },

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        "serial": 34831,
        "name": "Kinect for Creative Development with Cinder, openFrameworks",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 17:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 17:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1458,
        "description": "Want to integrate some body, face, voice recognition into your 3D application? You can do this fairly easily using the Kinect for Windows sensor along with the Kinect Common Bridge, an open source library that makes it simple to integrate Kinect experiences into your C++ code/library. OpenFrameworks, Cinder and other creative development communities have adopted it already! Cool creative demos!",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34831",
        "speakers": [143232,23017],
        "categories": [

          "User Experience"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34836,
        "name": "Perl Lightning Talks",
        "event_type": "Event",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 19:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 20:30:00",
        "venue_serial": 1450,
        "description": "Join us for the ever popular Perl Lightning Talks.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34836",
        "speakers": [4429],
        "categories": [

          "Events",

          "Perl"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34839,
        "name": "Moving Java into the Open",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 17:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 17:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1456,
        "description": "This session will explore how Java development has been brought into the open over the past several years.  Several Java developer community efforts have brought open source development processes and new levels of transparency and participation into their communities.  ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34839",
        "speakers": [65329,116276],
        "categories": [

          "Java &amp; JVM"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34840,
        "name": "Open Community Infrastructure How-to",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 10:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 11:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1466,
        "description": "Does every open source project need an open infrastructure? Should root be potentially available to any community member? If you think, &#x27;Maybe, yes,&#x27; come learn how-to and why-to with lessons-learned from Fedora, oVirt, CentOS Project, and other projects.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34840",
        "speakers": [46737],
        "categories": [

          "Operations &amp; System Administration"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34844,
        "name": "Pro Puppet",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 16:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 16:50:00",
        "venue_serial": 1454,
        "description": "Learn to use Puppet like a Pro! We will take you through several examples of how to bring your Puppet deployment to the next level. We will cover Hiera, deploying puppet code, code architecture best practices, and integrating external tools.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34844",
        "speakers": [125113,99817],
        "categories": [

          "Operations &amp; System Administration",

          "Tools &amp; Techniques"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34845,
        "name": "Transit Appliance at Three",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 17:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 17:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1451,
        "description": "At OSCON 2011 we introduced the Transit Appliance, a project to use open hardware, open source software and open APIs to create a low-cost display for transit arrivals. Three years later we have two dozen displays deployed in the community, have seen the retirement of the Chumby, the rise of the Raspberry Pi and many new web services enriching the display. Progress and lessons learned.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34845",
        "speakers": [109116],
        "categories": [

          "Open Hardware"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34849,
        "name": "tmux - A Multiplexer&#x27;s Multiplexer",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 15:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1466,
        "description": "Many developers, system/network admins, and designers spend good portions of their careers avoiding any interaction with their systems&#x27; command line interface(s) (CLI&#x27;s).  Unfortunately, the CLI is viewed as an archaic and inefficient means of being productive.  In tmux, a powerful terminal multiplexer, developers and admins have a tool for more fully exploiting the power of the CLI.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34849",
        "speakers": [138530],
        "categories": [

          "Operations &amp; System Administration"

        ]
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      {
        "serial": 34853,
        "name": "Build Your Own Exobrain",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 10:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 11:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1448,
        "description": "Online services like &#x27;If This Then That&#x27; (IFTTT) are great for automating your life. However they provide limited ways for the end-user to add their own services, and often require credentials that one may normally wish to keep secret.\r\n\r\nThe &#x27;exobrain&#x27; project allows for service integration and extension on a machine *you* control.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34853",
        "speakers": [6631],
        "categories": [

          "Main Stage"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34855,
        "name": "A Platform for Open Science",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 10:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 11:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1466,
        "description": "This talk will introduce a new open source platform for citizen science data. It allows anyone anywhere to create online data sets by uploading data from their own environmental sensors, mobile devices, do-it-yourself science equipment, and other measurement tools. The talk will describe the design and use of the platform, covering multiple applications and alternatives.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34855",
        "speakers": [169557],
        "categories": [

          "Education"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34856,
        "name": "Grow Developers. Grow Diversity. ",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 10:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 11:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1464,
        "description": "The United States needs more tech talent. Period.\r\n\r\nAnd yet there is a solution \u2014 Grow Developers. My talk will cover all the many ways this community can actively solve the lack of talent problem, and at the same time give solutions for also growing the female and minority tech populations.\r\n\r\nPeople will walk away with a 3-tiered approach for growing developers and growing diversity. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34856",
        "speakers": [173388],
        "categories": [

          "Community"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34860,
        "name": "From Madison Avenue to git Checkout -- A Journey",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 11:50:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 12:30:00",
        "venue_serial": 1457,
        "description": "This talk is going to provide insight into what\u2019s it\u2019s like to view Software Development as an outsider, who happens to be an experienced successful professional. I will also tackle the issues that are implicit with imposter syndrome, such as how to grow developers, how to grow diversity, fixing broken hiring practices, and what it\u2019s like to be afraid of open source. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34860",
        "speakers": [173388,180122],
        "categories": [

          "Community",

          "Education"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34863,
        "name": "Keeping Open Source Open",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 10:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 11:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1464,
        "description": "What happens to an open source community full of hobbyists when the project cleans up its pile of spaghetti and chooses to adopt widely held programming paradigms and systems?",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34863",
        "speakers": [173433],
        "categories": [

          "Community"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34865,
        "name": "Installing OpenStack using SaltStack",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1459,
        "description": "OpenStack is an open source implementation of cloud computing, potentially at very large scale.  However, it has many moving parts and is complex to operate.  \r\nSaltStack appears to provide scalable and secure orchestration for OpenStack.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34865",
        "speakers": [143135],
        "categories": [

          "Cloud"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34870,
        "name": "Open Source: Emerging in Asia / The Asian Open Source Report Card ",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 16:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 16:50:00",
        "venue_serial": 1464,
        "description": "Asia is a huge untapped market for open source expansion, but it is very unlike North America or Europe. Learn differences within Asia, see open source proliferation in all markets, and most importantly get into thinking Asia expansion is prime.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34870",
        "speakers": [147],
        "categories": [

          "Business",

          "Community"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34873,
        "name": "Just Enough Math",
        "event_type": "tutorial",

        "time_start": "2014-07-20 09:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-20 12:30:00",
        "venue_serial": 1471,
        "description": "Advanced math for business people: \u201cjust enough math\u201d to take advantage of new classes of open source frameworks. Many take college math up to calculus, but never learn how to approach sparse matrices, complex graphs, or supply chain optimizations. This tutorial ties these pieces together into a conceptual whole, with use cases and simple Python code, as a new approach to computational thinking.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34873",
        "speakers": [146540],
        "categories": [

          "Business",

          "Computational Thinking"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34875,
        "name": "Money Machines",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 17:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 17:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1457,
        "description": "Money Machines are small scale highly technical or craft based entrepreneurial excursions.  The purpose of the Money Machine is to empower individuals with tools which will allow her/him/them to follow their geeky and nerdy passion of passions while enabling them to address the various financial necessities of life.  Money Machines allow people to work in the manner of their choosing.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34875",
        "speakers": [138530],
        "categories": [

          "Business"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34881,
        "name": "Building a Massively Scalable Web Server In Erlang",
        "event_type": "tutorial",

        "time_start": "2014-07-21 13:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-21 17:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1458,
        "description": "Learn the fundamentals of Erlang - a high productivity, functional programming language used to build scalable, highly concurrent systems. In this tutorial, we&#x27;ll introduce Erlang by way of a fun problem: building an HTTP server! You&#x27;ll learn the basic of networking programming in Erlang along with key techniques for performance and scalability.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34881",
        "speakers": [131729],
        "categories": [

          "JavaScript - HTML5 - Web",

          "Tools &amp; Techniques"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34882,
        "name": "Highly Functional Programming in Perl",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1465,
        "description": "Functional programming is everywhere, hiding between imperative procedures.  Stateless code with no side-effects may seem academic, but practical application of functional techniques leads to fewer bugs and cleaner code.  Functional thinking is useful whether you&#x27;re wrestling with a mess of copy-pasta or doing test-first development on some new object library.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34882",
        "speakers": [6574],
        "categories": [

          "Perl"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34888,
        "name": "Cathedrals in the Cloud: Musings on APIs for the Web",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 15:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1459,
        "description": "With the rise of cloud-based services and Web APIs, it may be time to re-visit Raymond&#x27;s 19 &#x27;lessons&#x27; from his book &#x27;The Cathedral and the Bazaar&#x27; to see how they can be applied (and/or modified) to fit a world where much of the software we use is no longer installed locally and is often kept out of reach from most developers and users. \r\n",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34888",
        "speakers": [108272],
        "categories": [

          "Cloud"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34894,
        "name": "Mobile and Multi-Device Web Development with Tritium",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 11:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 11:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1449,
        "description": "Tritium is a new open source language from the creator of the popular Sass and HAML languages that brings a modern approach to web development with transforms. In this talk, we&#x27;ll introduce the Tritium language and the power of transform based approaches for separating content from presentation in the building of multi-device websites for desktops, smartphones, tablets, TVs, wearables and beyond.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34894",
        "speakers": [122599],
        "categories": [

          "Emerging Languages"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34897,
        "name": "My Friends Keep Leaving and it is Ruining Board Games Day",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 11:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 11:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1454,
        "description": "These days, moving away doesn\u2019t put too much of a dampener on staying in touch with your friends. Unfortunately, it has had a severe effect on my regular board games day.\r\nSo, I thought, why not solve this problem with telepresence board gaming? Can\u2019t be too hard! This session will cover what&#x27;s been done, and what problems are still out there I have no idea about how to solve?",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34897",
        "speakers": [173452],
        "categories": [

          "Geek Lifestyle"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34905,
        "name": "OAuth2: The Swiss-Army Framework",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 11:50:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 12:30:00",
        "venue_serial": 1456,
        "description": "If your application doesn&#x27;t have APIs, it&#x27;s probably written in Cold Fusion. Every application has APIs, and APIs need authentication. See how OAuth2 is robust enough to satisfy the demands of the enterprise, while still serving the smallest of side projects. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34905",
        "speakers": [173314],
        "categories": [

          "Security"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34906,
        "name": "Mapbox: Building the Future of Open Mapping",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1457,
        "description": "Mapbox is leading the way in open mapping. Large companies are switching to OpenStreetMap and open source software for mapping. Learn how Mapbox is running a business like you would run an open source project and how it is succeeding in a field dominated by large, well-funded players by being open. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34906",
        "speakers": [104652],
        "categories": [

          "Business"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34913,
        "name": "Data Workflows for Machine Learning",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1452,
        "description": "Several frameworks have emerged for handling data workflows. Meanwhile, business use of Machine Learning is less about algorithms and more about leveraging workflows. This talk compares/contrasts different workflow approaches with focus on use cases, plus how some leverage the PMML open standard. Summary points build a scorecard for evaluating frameworks based on your use case needs.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34913",
        "speakers": [146540],
        "categories": [

          "Computational Thinking"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34920,
        "name": "Bringing Banking to the Poor with the Help of AngularJS",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1457,
        "description": "AngularJS is one of the most widely adopted open source Javascript frameworks in recent times. We use it for a not-so-typical use case: web apps to deliver financial services to the poor. In this case-study session, we analyze the pros/cons of AngularJS, establish why it was right for us, and go over our experiences using this powerful lightweight framework which adds value to our community daily.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34920",
        "speakers": [173455],
        "categories": [

          "Business",

          "JavaScript - HTML5 - Web"

        ]
      },

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        "serial": 34921,
        "name": "Hacking Radio for Under $10",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 16:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 16:50:00",
        "venue_serial": 1465,
        "description": "We&#x27;ll explore how to use an $8 dollar DVB-T TV dongle to monitor and capture various radio frequencies. The RTL-SDR library turns a cheap Realtek DVB-T into a very powerful Software Defined Radio receiver which can be used to inspect and hack various wireless protocols. All of the code is Free and Open Source so it runs on all platforms.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34921",
        "speakers": [77757],
        "categories": [

          "Open Hardware"

        ]
      },

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        "serial": 34922,
        "name": "Designing for Reuse: Creating APIs for the Future",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 16:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 16:50:00",
        "venue_serial": 1459,
        "description": "Sometimes your API is meant for a small group and will live for only a short time. Other times, your aim is to create an interface that will have wide appeal and should last years into the future. \r\n\r\nThis talk shows you how to create and maintain an API that it can be both stable and vital well into the future.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34922",
        "speakers": [108272],
        "categories": [

          "Cloud"

        ]
      },

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        "serial": 34941,
        "name": "LoopBack: Open Source mBaaS",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1454,
        "description": "Parse is a popular mobile Backend-as-a-Service allowing mobile developers to use backend APIs in conjunction with mobile apps. LoopBack is an open source mBaaS implementation that offers all the same functionality, is written in Node.js, and can be extended with Node.js&#x27; community of over 50,000 modules.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34941",
        "speakers": [173465],
        "categories": [

          "Mobile Platforms"

        ]
      },

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        "serial": 34942,
        "name": "Forking Culture and Committing Ops in Government",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 16:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 16:50:00",
        "venue_serial": 1464,
        "description": "Culture shift is a huge challenge in the public sector. I will walk through how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is able to successfully open source data, platforms, and standards.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34942",
        "speakers": [156591],
        "categories": [

          "Community"

        ]
      },

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        "serial": 34944,
        "name": "Open Source Tools for the Polyglot Developer",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 15:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1449,
        "description": "Developers, increasingly, need to work in several different development languages. It is hard enough to remember all the bits and pieces of the languages themselves, do you really need to know all the unique toolchains to make them work?",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34944",
        "speakers": [141524],
        "categories": [

          "Emerging Languages"

        ]
      },

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        "serial": 34952,
        "name": "Writing Documentation that Satisfies Your Users",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 11:50:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 12:30:00",
        "venue_serial": 1462,
        "description": "Documentation is paramount to increasing an open source project&#x27;s adoption and growth. But writing good documentation is hard. Using examples from new and mature projects, we&#x27;ll explore detailed tactics for selecting, prioritizing, outlining, and writing documentation targeted at multiple audiences.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34952",
        "speakers": [142111],
        "categories": [

          "User Experience"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34953,
        "name": "Adventures in the WebRTC Garden--or is it Wilderness?",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 10:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 10:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1454,
        "description": "The prospects and promise of webRTC--direct browser-to-browser multimedia communications--have led to an explosion of tools, both proprietary and Open Source.  In this session we present an overview of a variety of tools vying for attention, along with a demonstration of the sipML Javascript toolkit, using webRTC-enabled browsers and the latest version of Asterisk.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34953",
        "speakers": [6921,173464,173466,173467,173468],
        "categories": [

          "Emerging Languages"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34954,
        "name": "Introduction to Advanced Bash Usage",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 14:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1475,
        "description": "Broad introduction to Bash features for users who want to go beyond simple command execution.  Covered topics include builtins, keywords, functions, parameters (arguments, variables, arrays, special parameters), parameter expansion and manipulation, compound commands (loops, groups, conditionals), and brace expansion.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34954",
        "speakers": [173223],
        "categories": [

          "Tools &amp; Techniques"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 34955,
        "name": "Hacking the Kernel, Hacking Myself",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 11:50:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 12:30:00",
        "venue_serial": 1451,
        "description": "I was chosen, out of eighteen successful applicants, to be one of four Linux kernel interns through the Gnome Outreach Program for Women. This is the story of my journey from a frustrated retail worker, dreaming of writing code for a living, to a full fledged kernel developer. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34955",
        "speakers": [140811],
        "categories": [

          "Geek Lifestyle"

        ]
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        "serial": 35024,
        "name": "Nymote: Git Your Own Cloud Here",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 11:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 11:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1459,
        "description": "If you want to run your own Internet node, it requires gluing together an awful lot of software, and maintaining it.  We&#x27;ll show you a fresh approach: use the Mirage operating system to easily compile the protocols you need (DNS, HTTP, XMPP and IMAP) for your Internet presence into a type-safe unikernel, and deploy the whole thing using just Travis CI and Git directly on the cloud or on ARM.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/35024",
        "speakers": [109140,159772],
        "categories": [

          "Cloud"

        ]
      },

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        "serial": 35027,
        "name": "Git and GitHub Essentials",
        "event_type": "tutorial",

        "time_start": "2014-07-20 09:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-20 12:30:00",
        "venue_serial": 1450,
        "description": "Learn everything you need to know from Git and GitHub to be the most effective member of your team, save yourself from any jam, and work with the rest of your team flawlessly.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/35027",
        "speakers": [152215],
        "categories": [

          "Tools &amp; Techniques"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 35038,
        "name": "A Reactive Game Stack: Using Erlang, Lua and VoltDB to Enable a Non-Sharded Game World ",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 17:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 17:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1475,
        "description": "Discover why Electronic Arts goes Erlang and hear about a powerful, reactive server architecture that supports a highly concurrent, analyzable and secure simulation stack for gaming. Learn how to easily script composable entities using a server environment purpose-built for event-driven programming, which is scalable under load, resilient and enables evaluation of huge data sets in real-time.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/35038",
        "speakers": [174072,174073],
        "categories": [

          "Databases &amp; Datastores"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 35367,
        "name": "Apache HTTP Server; SSL from End-to-End",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-24 11:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-24 11:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1456,
        "description": "This presentation covers all aspects of configuring Apache HTTP Server for https/TLS, including ECC, RSA and DH keys and key strength, cipher suites, SSL session caches vs. session tickets, OCSP stapling and TLS virtual hostnames.  These elements are integrated to provide perfect forward secrecy and meet modern best practices for both client and proxied connections.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/35367",
        "speakers": [124630],
        "categories": [

          "Security"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 35390,
        "name": "Building an Open Source Learning Thermostat",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 10:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 11:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1451,
        "description": "The Nest learning thermostat has won the hearts and minds of consumers everywhere by completely re-thinking how a thermostat works. In this session, we&#x27;ll explore the Internet of Things by discussing how to build an amazing connected device using open source technology, with Spark&#x27;s open source thermostat project acting as a case study.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/35390",
        "speakers": [175040],
        "categories": [

          "Open Hardware"

        ]
      },

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        "serial": 35406,
        "name": "Pinto: Hassle-Free Dependency Management for Perl",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 16:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 16:50:00",
        "venue_serial": 1451,
        "description": "Managing CPAN dependencies can be a major frustration for Perl developers.  In this session, you&#x27;ll discover how to easily manage those dependencies by creating a private CPAN repository with Pinto.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/35406",
        "speakers": [173472],
        "categories": [

          "Perl"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 35437,
        "name": "Open Source and the Enterprise",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 16:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 16:50:00",
        "venue_serial": 1457,
        "description": "How can businesses take the best ideas from the open source community to improve their end product and the happiness of their developers? In this fireside-chat-styled session, Derek Sorkin from GitHub will talk with Tim Tyler about his experiences setting up a community inside Qualcomm that mimics an open source project. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/35437",
        "speakers": [175353,175354],
        "categories": [

          "Business"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 35444,
        "name": "HTML5/Angular.js/Groovy/Java/MongoDB all together - what could possibly go wrong?",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 17:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 17:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1448,
        "description": "It seems to have been a common theme amongst startups to create the MVP\r\n(Minimum Viable Product) in a language that facilitates rapid\r\nprototyping (for example Ruby), and then migrate to the JVM when the\r\napplication has proved itself and requires more in terms of stability\r\nand performance.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/35444",
        "speakers": [132564],
        "categories": [

          "JavaScript - HTML5 - Web"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 35455,
        "name": "CANCELLED: Using Multi-key AVL Trees to Simplify and Speed Up Complex Searches",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 15:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1457,
        "description": "Multiple indexes into data structures add complexity and slow down processing. A single multi-keyed AVL tree can allow complex searches to be constructed more easily and performed quickly, with a single O(lg N) lookup.\r\n\r\nIn this talk we will discuss how these trees work and how to implement them. Examples will be shown using python version 3, with C++ libraries for optimization of key routines.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/35455",
        "speakers": [31044],
        "categories": [

          "Computational Thinking"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 35464,
        "name": "Real-time Engineering at Uber and the Evolution of an Event-Driven Architecture",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 17:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 17:40:00",
        "venue_serial": 1452,
        "description": "Uber is one of the fastest growing companies in the world and the real-time engineering team are responsible for their mission critical Node.js-powered systems. Learn how they are adapting their services to be autonomous, loosely-coupled and highly-available by applying the principles of event-driven architecture.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/35464",
        "speakers": [175481],
        "categories": [

          "Computational Thinking"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 35493,
        "name": "Coder Decoder: Functional Programmer Lingo Explained, with Pictures",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 10:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 11:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1454,
        "description": "For the uninitiated, a conversation with functional programmers can feel like ground zero of a jargon explosion. In this talk Lambda Ladies Co-Founder Katie Miller will help you to defend against the blah-blah blast by demystifying several terms commonly used by FP fans with bite-sized Haskell examples and friendly pictures. Expect appearances by Curry, Lens, and the infamous M-word, among others.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/35493",
        "speakers": [175488],
        "categories": [

          "Computational Thinking"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 35511,
        "name": "Checking Your Privilege: A How-To for Hard Things",
        "event_type": "Keynote",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 09:45:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 10:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1525,
        "description": "The purpose of this talk is to reexamine the topic through the lens of concrete things individuals can do to check their privilege \u2013 and to put it to work serving themselves and others.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/35511",
        "speakers": [8837],
        "categories": [

          "Keynotes"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 35544,
        "name": "A Multi-Platform Microsoft: Azure, ASP.NET, Open Source, Git and How We Build Things Now",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1448,
        "description": "A lot has changed at Microsoft. Azure has 1000 Linux VMs to choose from, there&#x27;s RESTful APIs abound, and more OSS than ever before. What are Microsoft&#x27;s web folks thinking and how are they developing software today? Is is a good thing?",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/35544",
        "speakers": [132865],
        "categories": [

          "Main Stage"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 35684,
        "name": "Open Source Your Data Design Process",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1448,
        "description": "Design is a process, not a product. What processes do successful data designers follow, and how can we all benefit by open-sourcing our processes (to make better products)?",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/35684",
        "speakers": [147840],
        "categories": [

          "Main Stage"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 35743,
        "name": "Anticipating the Future - An Introduction to Value Chain Mapping",
        "event_type": "Keynote",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 09:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 09:45:00",
        "venue_serial": 1525,
        "description": "In this keynote, Simon will present the general principles of industry change and describe what can and cannot be predicted. He will then examine how companies can better understand the environment around them and by anticipating the nature of change then manipulate the market in their favor through open techniques.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/35743",
        "speakers": [6219],
        "categories": [

          "Keynotes"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 35744,
        "name": "Threats",
        "event_type": "Keynote",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 09:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 09:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1525,
        "description": "What do you care about most in the worlds of software, the Net, and Life Online?  Are you worried about it?  Now is the time for sensible, reasonable, extreme paranoia.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/35744",
        "speakers": [24978],
        "categories": [

          "Keynotes"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 35847,
        "name": "OSCON Kids Day (Sold Out)",
        "event_type": "Event",

        "time_start": "2014-07-20 09:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-20 17:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1587,
        "description": "If you have a school aged children interested in learning more about computer programming, bring them to OSCON. We&#x27;ll be hosting an entire day of workshops for kids about Java, Python, Scratch, Minecraft Modding, Arduino and more. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/35847",
        "speakers": [],
        "categories": [

          "Events"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 35848,
        "name": "Ignite OSCON (sponsored by Orly Atomics)",
        "event_type": "Event",

        "time_start": "2014-07-20 17:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-20 19:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1525,
        "description": "If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Would you pitch a project? Launch a web site? Teach a hack? We\u2019ll find out at our annual Ignite event at OSCON.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/35848",
        "speakers": [],
        "categories": [

          "Events"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 35853,
        "name": "OSCON 5K Glow Run and After Party",
        "event_type": "Event",

        "time_start": "2014-07-20 20:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-20 22:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1606,
        "description": "Don&#x27;t forget to pack your running shoes and your glow-in-the-dark gear, because the OSCON 5K fun run is back. Whether you are an avid runner or just starting out, you are invited to join other OSCON attendees Sunday evening for a run/jog/walk through some of the most scenic and emblematic sites of Portland.  ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/35853",
        "speakers": [],
        "categories": [

          "Events"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 35854,
        "name": "Expo Hall Opening Reception (sponsored by Bluehost)",
        "event_type": "Event",

        "time_start": "2014-07-21 17:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-21 18:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1474,
        "description": "Grab a drink and kick off OSCON by meeting and mingling with exhibitors and fellow attendees.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/35854",
        "speakers": [],
        "categories": [

          "Events"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 35855,
        "name": "OSCON Elements Attendee Party",
        "event_type": "Event",

        "time_start": "2014-07-21 18:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-21 20:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1585,
        "description": "This year&#x27;s attendee party focuses on the four classical elements--fire, earth, air, and water. Wait till you see how each of these essential ideas transforms Hall B into new areas to explore and savor. Trust us, this is one party you don&#x27;t want to miss! ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/35855",
        "speakers": [],
        "categories": [

          "Events"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 35856,
        "name": "Puppet Labs Party",
        "event_type": "Event",

        "time_start": "2014-07-21 20:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-21 22:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1626,
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        "description": "Keynote by Paul Fenwick, managing director of Perl Training Australia.",
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        "description": "Keynote by Wendy Chisholm, Senior Accessibility Strategist and Universal Design Evangelist, Microsoft.",
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        "description": "Do you Hadoop? Or at least interested in stories from people who do?\r\nWe will meet to share our experience and trade tips about working with\r\nthe open source data storage and processing framework - Hadoop.",
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        "description": "Building a cloud is one part of the equation. To get work done with a cloud you need a solid ecosystem that goes with it. In this hands-on tutorial we go through some of the tools in the CloudStack ecosystem: Cloudmonkey, Libcloud, Vagrant, Ansible, and Ec2stack. Come ready to learn and use a cloud.",
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        "description": "Keynote by Will Marshall, CEO of Planet Labs. ",
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        "description": "As more and more atypical devices are internet enabled, operating system providers need to look at the longer term impacts and plan accordingly. How can CE manufactures keep devices up to date and secure over the lifetime of the device. What does it look like when we fail to plan to do so? How can the open source way solve some of these problems.",
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        "description": "If you use and love the ELK stack (that&#x27;s Elasticsearch for search &amp; analytics, Logstash for centralized logging &amp; Kibana for beautiful visualizations), join us for an evening of discussion about these three open source tools and how they make developers and sysadmins lives way better. And your business humans, too. ",
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        "description": "The 10th Annual O\u2019Reilly Open Source Award winners will be announced. ",
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        "description": "In this presentation Andrew will be live-coding the generative algorithms that will be producing the music that the audience will be listening too.  As Andrew is typing he will also attempt to narrate the journey, discussing the various computational and musical choices made along the way.  A must see for anyone interested in creative computing.",
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        "description": "In this talk, Andrew will delve deeper into the technical and philosophical underpinnings of live-coding as an artistic performance practice.  Using his own Extempore language as a reference, Andrew will demonstrate, in a very hands on way, how live-coding works in practice, from both an end-user perspective, as well as a systems design perspective.    ",
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        "description": "Webmaker is a collection of innovative tools and curricula for a global community that is teaching the web. ",
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        "description": "Designing for Participation was created in order to get Mozilla community members to think about how they can structure the work Mozilla does to better enable contributions from anywhere. This BOF will lead discussion through a workshop designed by Mozilla to help project leaders Design projects for participation",
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        "description": "Apache CloudStack enables cloud operators to quickly create scalable clouds with support for multiple hypervisors. Choice is wonderful, but also requires an understanding of how hypervisor features integrate with CloudStack. In this session we&#x27;ll look at the options and provide a template for deployment success.",
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        "description": "OSCON belongs to its attendees, and we want to hear what you think of this year\u2019s show. Join the organizers to talk about what you loved and hated about OSCON, and what you\u2019d like to see next year.",
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        "description": "Gwen\u2019s got answers when it comes to Hadoop, R, analytics and more. She\u2019s happy to talk to you about getting started with Hadoop; R, Python and data analysis with Hadoop; architecture, design, and implementation of Hadoop applications; and anything else you\u2019d like to bring up.",
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        "name": "Office Hour with Garth Braithwaite (Adobe)",
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        "description": "Garth has found that the topic of open source is a bit controversial when people start talk about applying it to the visual and experience design process. He\u2019d like to talk with open source contributors about how the design process could be worked into specific projects, and the proposal (as well its rebuttals) that design should be done in the open.",
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        "serial": 37045,
        "name": "Office Hour with Constantine Aaron Cois (Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1546,
        "description": "Constantine will be more than happy to discuss Node.js or anything else related to programming, software architecture, web apps, and other topics. Let\u2019s have some fun! Dive into Node.js programming and design patterns, event loops and high concurrency apps, reactive apps, and the Meteor framework.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37045",
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        "serial": 37046,
        "name": "Office Hour with Harrison Mebane (Silicon Valley Data Science) and Stephen OSullivan (Silicon Valley Data Science)",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 16:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 16:50:00",
        "venue_serial": 1546,
        "description": "Can computers tell if trains run on time? Harrison and Stephen are ready to discuss this topic and other matters related to the Internet of Things and data\u2014including data pipelines, data platforms, and Fourier analysis.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37046",
        "speakers": [171621,133624],
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        ]
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        "serial": 37047,
        "name": "Office Hour with J\u00e9r\u00f4me Petazzoni (Docker Inc.) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 10:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 11:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1546,
        "description": "Jerome has worked with Docker since its inception, and before that, built the dotCloud PAAS. He\u2019ll be glad to share his experiences in those domains, and discuss everything about Docker and containers, including how to make containers secure; service discovery, network integration, scaling, and failover; and containers for desktop applications.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37047",
        "speakers": [151611],
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        ]
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      {
        "serial": 37048,
        "name": "Office Hour with Heather VanCura (Java Community Process JCP) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 15:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1546,
        "description": "The Adopt-a-JSR and Adopt OpenJDK programs have gained worldwide community participation in the past two years. Come discuss the details with Heather and find out how you can contribute to better, more practical standards. She\u2019ll talk about upcoming changes aimed at broadening participation in the standards process. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37048",
        "speakers": [65329],
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        ]
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      {
        "serial": 37049,
        "name": "Office Hour with Kara Sowles (Puppet Labs) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 15:20:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 16:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1546,
        "description": "Kara is always eager to swap user group tips with you. Come by and pick her brain about ways to remove common obstacles that user groups encounter, and how to craft welcoming, friendly meetings and events. Find out how to plan the right events for your community.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37049",
        "speakers": [142767],
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        ]
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      {
        "serial": 37051,
        "name": "Office Hour with Michael Bleigh (Divshot) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 14:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1546,
        "description": "Come by and talk to Michael about single-page web applications, static site generators, and static content hosting. He\u2019s also willing to tackle other issues such as CORS web services, browser technology, and web components.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37051",
        "speakers": [2593],
        "categories": [

          "Office Hours"

        ]
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      {
        "serial": 37052,
        "name": "Office Hour with Michael Hunger (Neo Technology) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 10:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 11:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1547,
        "description": "Graph Databases take a different approach than relational and aggregate-oriented NoSQL databases. They make connections cheap and fast by making them an explicit part and first-level citizen of your database. Michael will discuss graph-enabled applications, answer questions about their pros and cons, and help you model your domain and use-cases in an interactive way. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37052",
        "speakers": [159719],
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        ]
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      {
        "serial": 37053,
        "name": "Office Hour with James Turnbull (Docker) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 10:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 11:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1548,
        "description": "If you\u2019re ready to learn about Docker for building, shipping, and running distributed applications, James is ready to talk Docker with you. You\u2019ll not only find out how to get started, but also learn about Docker use cases, the Docker roadmap, and how to integrate Docker with Puppet, Chef, SaltStack, or Ansible.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37053",
        "speakers": [5060],
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          "Office Hours"

        ]
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      {
        "serial": 37054,
        "name": "Office Hour with Catherine Farman (Happy Cog) and Corinne Warnshuis (Girl Develop It Philadelphia) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1546,
        "description": "You want to get more women involved in open source projects and communities. And Catherine and Corinne want to help. Come by find out how you can organize communities that are welcoming to women, and how you can be an ally to underrepresented minorities in tech. Start or help a Girl Develop It chapter, and learn about other nonprofits you can and should partner with both nationally and locally.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37054",
        "speakers": [169992,173025],
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      {
        "serial": 37055,
        "name": "Open Cloud Standards In The Real World",
        "event_type": "Open Cloud Day",

        "time_start": "2014-07-21 15:15:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-21 15:45:00",
        "venue_serial": 1584,
        "description": "In the range of API and protocol development from free-form to totally static, there is room in open clouds for patterns that allow both for dynamic discovery and predictable reuse. This talk highlights open cloud standards-based methods that have stood up to testing in the National Science Foundation&#x27;s Cloud and Autonomic Computing Center Standards Testing Lab under real-world conditions.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37055",
        "speakers": [180050],
        "categories": [

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      {
        "serial": 37056,
        "name": "Office Hour with Shadaj Laddad (School) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 10:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 11:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1579,
        "description": "Shadaj is a 14 year old student who loves to program. He\u2019s happy to chat about anything from Scala programming to technology in schools today. He\u2019ll answer your questions about kids programming, including how to get started and what tools are available. And he\u2019ll engage you on topics such bioinformatics algorithms, Android, web development, and game programming.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37056",
        "speakers": [177245],
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          "Office Hours"

        ]
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      {
        "serial": 37058,
        "name": "Open Is As Open Does",
        "event_type": "Open Cloud Day",

        "time_start": "2014-07-21 13:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-21 14:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1584,
        "description": "&#x27;The Cloud&#x27; was built on Open Source. In no way does anything resembling IaaS &#x27;cloud&#x27; exist without the foundation of freely available open source operating systems and virtualization, but what does &#x27;Open&#x27; mean to the user of a service? Does it matter if the code behind a service is open? How would one even know? Do other aspects and definitions of openness become more important than source code?",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37058",
        "speakers": [24052],
        "categories": [

          "Cloud"

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      {
        "serial": 37059,
        "name": "Office Hour with Harry Percival (Harry Percival) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1547,
        "description": "Whether the testing goat is steering you right or wrong, you\u2019ll want to join Harry for an informal discussion of testing and TDD. Find out how to get started with testing and how to get the most value from it. Learn the relative merits of pure isolated unit tests, integrated tests, and functional tests. And explore how to adapt your approach for different project types.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37059",
        "speakers": [180056],
        "categories": [

          "Office Hours"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 37061,
        "name": "Office Hour with Florian Haas (hastexo) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 16:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 16:50:00",
        "venue_serial": 1546,
        "description": "Tap Florian\u2019s brain about all things OpenStack, and take advantage of his broad experience in real-life production OpenStack deployments. Whether it\u2019s OpenStack strategy, organizational concerns, or getting down into the nitty-gritty aspects of OpenStack technology, Florian is happy to talk to you about it. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37061",
        "speakers": [131884],
        "categories": [

          "Office Hours"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 37063,
        "name": "Office Hour with A. Jesse Jiryu Davis (MongoDB) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 16:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 16:50:00",
        "venue_serial": 1547,
        "description": "Come by and have an informal chat with Jesse about MongoDB and Python-related topics, such as Python\u2019s async frameworks, using MongoDB with Python, and MongoDB in general.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37063",
        "speakers": [172536],
        "categories": [

          "Office Hours"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 37066,
        "name": "Office Hour with Matt Stine (Pivotal) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 15:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1546,
        "description": "Why would a Java developer want to learn the Go programming language? Matt is ready to have an informal chat with you about it. Find out how the idiomatic use of Go interfaces encourage you to structure your programs differently (as opposed to Java\u2019s object-oriented constructs), and how Go\u2019s built-in concurrency features make writing concurrent software accessible to mere mortals. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37066",
        "speakers": [173088],
        "categories": [

          "Office Hours"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 37067,
        "name": "Office Hour with Anne Ogborn (Robokind) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 10:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 11:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1547,
        "description": "Ann is ready to talk SWI-Prolog with you\u2014and help you get it installed. She\u2019ll chat with you about your planned uses for Prolog, talk you out of the \u201cwrap my rules engine in a real language\u201d mentality, and help you get through the \u201chey, 2+2 = 4 fails, wtf?\u201d stage. And she\u2019ll laugh evilly when you mention Tomcat.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37067",
        "speakers": [172986],
        "categories": [

          "Office Hours"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 37068,
        "name": "Office Hour with Matt Ray (Chef Software, Inc.) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 16:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 16:50:00",
        "venue_serial": 1548,
        "description": "Chef questions? Bring any and all directly to Matt. He\u2019s ready to discuss how Chef is used to manage the deployment of OpenStack as well as the infrastructure on top of OpenStack, and how to get involved with the Chef and OpenStack community. Beyond that, the sky\u2019s the limit.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37068",
        "speakers": [141169],
        "categories": [

          "Office Hours"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 37069,
        "name": "Office Hour with Phil Webb (Pivotal) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 14:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1547,
        "description": "If there\u2019s anything you want to know about Spring Boot or the Spring Framework in general, Phil is ready to help. He\u2019ll talk to you about an array of issues, such as developing micro-services with Spring, how Pivotal developed the new \u201cspring.io\u201d website, and how to become a full-stack Java developer.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37069",
        "speakers": [171565],
        "categories": [

          "Office Hours"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 37071,
        "name": "Office Hour with Jamie Allen (Typesafe) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1547,
        "description": "Reactive applications are taking over the enterprise world. Join Jamie to chat about various Reactive topics. He\u2019ll answer questions including: How well do various technologies support the core Reactive tenets of event-driven, scalable, fault tolerant and responsive? How do you use open source technologies to deploy an elastically Reactive application? What is the role of big data in Reactive?",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37071",
        "speakers": [170293],
        "categories": [

          "Office Hours"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 37073,
        "name": "Office Hour with Scott Murray (University of San Francisco)",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 15:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1580,
        "description": "Scott\u2019s here to answer your questions about data and how to successfully conveying meaning through well-designed graphics. He\u2019ll chat with you about the data visualization design process; related technologies, including d3.js and Processing; and how we can all benefit by open-sourcing our processes. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37073",
        "speakers": [147840],
        "categories": [

          "Office Hours"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 37075,
        "name": "Office Hour with Francesc Campoy (Google Inc.) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 15:20:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 16:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1548,
        "description": "If you\u2019ve got questions about Go, you\u2019re in luck. Francesc will answer questions about Go basics, programming, organizing your code, and more. Find out about Go concurrency and concurrency primitives, and how Go interfaces simplify your code and break fictitious dependencies.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37075",
        "speakers": [155088],
        "categories": [

          "Office Hours"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 37077,
        "name": "Office Hour with Kirsten Hunter (Akamai)",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 15:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1547,
        "description": "If you want your APIs to amaze and delight your developer partners, bring Kristen all of your API design questions. She\u2019ll chat with you about the API design process (how to plan and create an API that will be successful), developer engagement and support (aka the care and feeding of your developer partners), and how you can help your customers learn and troubleshoot your API.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37077",
        "speakers": [4265],
        "categories": [

          "Office Hours"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 37078,
        "name": "Office Hour with Benjamin Kerensa (Mozilla) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 10:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 11:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1548,
        "description": "If you\u2019ve ever toyed with the idea of contributing to Firefox, Benjamin would love to talk to you about ways to make it happen. Find out why Firefox OS matters, how Mozilla builds community, and how you can contribute to Firefox.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37078",
        "speakers": [120025],
        "categories": [

          "Office Hours"

        ]
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      {
        "serial": 37085,
        "name": "Morning Yoga",
        "event_type": "Event",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 07:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 08:15:00",
        "venue_serial": 1574,
        "description": "Programmers do a lot of sitting, so come refresh your body, mind, and spirit before you head into the day\u2019s sessions. This will be an easy beginner\u2019s yoga session \u2013 so don\u2019t be shy about coming out even if this will be your first yoga experience. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37085",
        "speakers": [],
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          "Events"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 37086,
        "name": "Morning Yoga",
        "event_type": "Event",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 07:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 08:15:00",
        "venue_serial": 1574,
        "description": "Programmers do a lot of sitting, so come refresh your body, mind, and spirit before you head into the day\u2019s sessions. This will be an easy beginner\u2019s yoga session \u2013 so don\u2019t be shy about coming out even if this will be your first yoga experience. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37086",
        "speakers": [],
        "categories": [

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        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 37087,
        "name": "Office Hour with Emma Jane Westby (Freelance)",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1548,
        "description": "Git can be frustrating and opaque. Don\u2019t worry, it\u2019s not you. It\u2019s Git. Come ask questions about making Git work for you instead of feeling stuck in a detached HEAD state. Emma Jane will talk about upgrading from a centralized system to a distributed workflow and improving team efficiencies with the right branching strategy. She\u2019ll also provide tips for teaching anyone how to use Git.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37087",
        "speakers": [4146],
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          "Office Hours"

        ]
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      {
        "serial": 37090,
        "name": "Office Hour with Ken Walker (IBM Canada) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 14:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1548,
        "description": "Need some advice on your next great open source project? Ken can steer you in the right direction. Talk to him about the benefits of the Eclipse Foundation as a home for your project, and discuss what prevents you from trying out cloud IDEs. Ken will also point out which open source components from Orion\u2019s JavaScript libraries you can leverage in your own project.  ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37090",
        "speakers": [39928],
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          "Office Hours"

        ]
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      {
        "serial": 37091,
        "name": "Office Hour with John Griffith (SolidFire) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 10:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 11:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1579,
        "description": "If you\u2019re looking for answers about OpenStack, John is ready to field your questions. He\u2019ll chat with you about block storage in OpenStack with Cinder, core OpenStack features and functionality, and general queries about OpenStack in general.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37091",
        "speakers": [171381],
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          "Office Hours"

        ]
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      {
        "serial": 37095,
        "name": "Office Hour with Damian Conway (Thoughtstream) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1548,
        "description": "The professor is in. Perl\u2019s own Dr. Evil emerges from his secret lair to talk about Perl 6, Perl 5, Vim, and presentation skills. Damian knows a lot about all of the above as the widely sought-after speaker who runs Thoughtstream, an international provider of programmer training. He devotes much of his spare time to Larry Wall and the design of Perl 6.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37095",
        "speakers": [4710],
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          "Office Hours"

        ]
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      {
        "serial": 37097,
        "name": "Office Hour with Adam Culp (Zend Technologies)",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 14:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1579,
        "description": "Organizer of the Sunshine PHP Developer Conference, Adam is ready to hold an open discussion on efficient code refactoring. Find out when to refactor, the key indicators for triggering a refactor, how to get started with code refactoring, and anything else you think is related.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37097",
        "speakers": [169862],
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          "Office Hours"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 37098,
        "name": "Office Hour with Paco Nathan (Liber 118)",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 15:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1547,
        "description": ".",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37098",
        "speakers": [146540],
        "categories": [

          "Office Hours"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 37099,
        "name": "Office Hour with Luciano Ramalho (Python.pro.br) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 15:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1548,
        "description": "Luciano is busy at OSCON with two sessions and a tutorial, but he\u2019s happy to answer any questions you may have about those talks: \u201cIntroduction to Python Metaprogramming\u201d, \u201cIdiomatic APIs with the Python Data Model\u201d, and \u201cPython: Encapsulation with Descriptors\u201d. The common theme for all three is how to use the special methods defined in the Python Data Model. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37099",
        "speakers": [150170],
        "categories": [

          "Office Hours"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 37101,
        "name": "Office Hour with Jess Portnoy (Kaltura Inc) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1579,
        "description": "Join Jess to talk about useful debugging tools, PHP-based apps, and some of her other favorite open source topics. She\u2019ll hold forth on managing open source projects as a commercial company, deploying and maintaining large-scale video applications in the cloud, and open source development in general.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37101",
        "speakers": [171078],
        "categories": [

          "Office Hours"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 37105,
        "name": "Office Hour with Michael Minella (Pivotal) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 14:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1547,
        "description": ".",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37105",
        "speakers": [171147],
        "categories": [

          "Office Hours"

        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 37108,
        "name": "Office Hour with Wade Minter (TeamSnap) and Andrew Berkowitz (TeamSnap)",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-22 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 15:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1579,
        "description": "If you have questions about using applied improvisation for better communication, idea generation, and decision making in your company or team, come to Wade and Andrew. They\u2019ll talk to you about growing a distributed engineering team, and building and maintaining culture in a distributed organization. They\u2019ll also share tools and tips for improving communication.",
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        "serial": 37114,
        "name": "Office Hour with Tim Berglund (DataStax) ",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-22 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 14:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1579,
        "description": "Do you have questions on Apache Cassandra? Bring any and all of them to Tim during Office Hours. He\u2019s also ready to chat about technical training, the technologies formerly known as Big Data, and any other topics of mutual interest.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37114",
        "speakers": [137697],
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      {
        "serial": 37122,
        "name": "Office Hour with Joshua Marinacci (Nokia) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 14:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1548,
        "description": "Joshua is available to talk to you about any of his favorite topics, such as HTML Canvas, Bluetooth Low Energy, wearable computing, and the Internet of Things. And he\u2019s happy just to rant about Java.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37122",
        "speakers": [6931],
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      {
        "serial": 37129,
        "name": "Office Hour with Zach Supalla (Spark Labs) ",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-22 15:20:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 16:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1547,
        "description": "Now that it is possible for startups to build products as powerful and game changing as Nest\u2014without millions of dollars\u2014how can you get in on the action? Zach Supalla from the Spark Labs startup accelerator will share details and answer questions about developing an IoT product, building a business on open source hardware, and growing from a Kickstarter campaign to a business.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37129",
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      {
        "serial": 37134,
        "name": "Open Health Data/Content",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-20 19:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-20 20:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1458,
        "description": "Explore thoughts and ideas around public health and open data.",
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      {
        "serial": 37144,
        "name": "Office Hour with Josh Berkus (PostgreSQL Experts, Inc.) ",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-22 15:20:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 16:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1548,
        "description": "Josh Berkus is happy to chat with you about PostgreSQL high-availability and scale-out techniques, especially on cloud hosting. He\u2019ll discuss things like connection pooling and load-balancing tools, automated failover, RDS vs. roll-your-own on AWS, and scaling out multi-tenant apps.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37144",
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        "serial": 37148,
        "name": "Modernizing CS Education with Open Source",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-23 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 14:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1450,
        "description": "Scott Chacon, co-founder of GitHub, and Jay Borenstein, CS professor at Stanford and founder of Facebook&#x27;s Open Academy, a program designed to match university students with open source projects for academic credit, will discuss how to bring the best of the open source community&#x27;s learning frameworks into formal computer science education. ",
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      {
        "serial": 37153,
        "name": "Mandrill Party",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-23 20:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 22:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1578,
        "description": "Join Mandrill for an OSCON Party at the Jupiter Hotel!",
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        "serial": 37173,
        "name": "Office Hour with Andrei Alexandrescu (Facebook) ",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-22 16:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 16:50:00",
        "venue_serial": 1547,
        "description": "Andrei will be happy to answer questions about the \u201cmove fast\u201d side of Facebook, including large-scale design, the D programming language, and Facebook\u2019s software engineering culture.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37173",
        "speakers": [109270],
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          "Office Hours"

        ]
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      {
        "serial": 37201,
        "name": "Office Hour with Brian Troutwine (AdRoll) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 15:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1579,
        "description": "In his talk (\u201cErlang, LFE, Joxa and Elixir: Established and Emerging Languages in the Erlang Ecosystem\u201d), Brian talks about the differences between these BEAM languages, and how each one is applicable to a distinct engineering task. During Office Hours, he\u2019ll tell you how to get started with each of these languages, and talk about the domains in which they succeed and fail.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37201",
        "speakers": [172990],
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          "Office Hours"

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      {
        "serial": 37253,
        "name": "Juju BoF",
        "event_type": "BoF",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 19:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 20:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1456,
        "description": "Deploying workloads in the cloud can be challenging, in this BoF we&#x27;ll discuss how to use Ubuntu and Juju to get up and running in the cloud quickly ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37253",
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        ]
      },

      {
        "serial": 37256,
        "name": "Office Hour with Michael Enescu (Cisco) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 15:20:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 16:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1579,
        "description": "Now that you\u2019re familiar with cloud computing, along comes the next new thing: Fog computing. Michael will tell you what exactly Fog computing is, how it evolved from cloud compute, and where it\u2019s going. He\u2019ll also talk about network challenges in cloud computing with the Internet of Things, as well as IoT open source projects.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37256",
        "speakers": [172370],
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      {
        "serial": 37259,
        "name": "Modernizing your Cloud with Software Collections",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 15:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1461,
        "description": "Software Collections is a new way to run newer packages on Enterprise Linux (RHEL/CentOS) such as Python, Ruby, PHP, MySQL/MariaDB, and others. Learn how this enables us to use Perl 5.16 and PostgreSQL 9.2 alongside distribution-provided versions (on EL6, Perl 5.10, and PostgreSQL 8.4.). Also learn how we&#x27;ve extended the Perl 5.16 collection with additional packages.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37259",
        "speakers": [180437],
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        ]
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        "serial": 37292,
        "name": "Office Hour with Deb Nicholson (Open Invention Network)",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 16:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 16:50:00",
        "venue_serial": 1580,
        "description": "Wondering how patents and copyright and trademark laws work with free and open source software projects? Deb is ready to share her knowledge. Find out if legislation and recent court decisions about patent trolls will keep you from being sued, and how the landscape likely to change. None of this is legal advice, just good solid background! ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37292",
        "speakers": [130731],
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          "Office Hours"

        ]
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        "serial": 37306,
        "name": "Office Hour with Gian Merlino (Metamarkets) and Fangjin Yang (Metamarkets)",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 16:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 16:50:00",
        "venue_serial": 1548,
        "description": "Gian and Fangjin will talk to you about real-time analytics with open source technologies, including the motivation for the Kafka, Storm, Hadoop, and Druid real-time analytics stack. They\u2019ll discuss implementation details (if you\u2019re interested in trying the stack out at home) and show you how to scale the stack and make it highly available. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37306",
        "speakers": [153566,153565],
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      {
        "serial": 37310,
        "name": "acilos, your Personal Social Valet",
        "event_type": "BoF",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 19:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 20:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1465,
        "description": "In this session, you will discover a new Open Source Personal Social Media Aggregation system called acilos.   ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37310",
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      {
        "serial": 37311,
        "name": "Open Standards vs. Open Source",
        "event_type": "BoF",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 19:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 20:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1463,
        "description": "There is a debate on the relevance of Open Standards when faced with Open Source efforts.  Open Source is an industry force, yet government bodies and others still rely on and give preference to ANSI and ISO standards.  Standards representatives from across the industry will be on hand to discuss possible paths forward that are complementary rather than competitive.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37311",
        "speakers": [],
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      },

      {
        "serial": 37316,
        "name": "Office Hour with Spencer Krum (HP)  and William Van Hevelingen (Portland State University)",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1579,
        "description": "Spencer and William are ready to talk about all things Puppet related. They\u2019ll answer questions about module best practices and testing, using Hiera to manage data, and interfacing with the community. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37316",
        "speakers": [125113,99817],
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      },

      {
        "serial": 37338,
        "name": "Office Hour with Drasko DRASKOVIC (DEVIALET) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 16:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 16:50:00",
        "venue_serial": 1579,
        "description": "If you want to explore that thin line where hardware meets software, stop by and chat with Drasko. He\u2019ll talk to you about electronic prototyping of connected objects for the Internet of Things from a designer\u2019s point of view; discuss open source HW schematic modifications, component sourcing, and production; and weigh in on monitoring, data harvesting, remote control, sensors, and actuators.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37338",
        "speakers": [173105],
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      {
        "serial": 37345,
        "name": "Office Hour with Rob Reilly (Rob Reilly Consulting) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 16:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 16:50:00",
        "venue_serial": 1580,
        "description": "When it comes to hacking micro-controller and nano-computing projects, Rob is your man. He\u2019s ready to discuss all your hacker questions, such as the latest micro-controller trends, the hacker cross-pollination with artists, scientists, engineers, students, and suits, and\u2014of course\u2014how to get started hacking and making.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37345",
        "speakers": [77350],
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      {
        "serial": 37363,
        "name": "Office Hour with Yoav Landman (JFrog) and Baruch Sadogursky (JFrog)",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 10:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 11:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1580,
        "description": "Talk to Yoav and Baruch about all things CI/CD, such as choosing the right build tools, and automating your build, deployment, and distribution process. They\u2019ll discuss the issues of moving to a cloud-based development stack, how to speed up development by dealing with bottlenecks in your CI/CD flow, and distributing software releases all the way to end users.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37363",
        "speakers": [116050,114822],
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      {
        "serial": 37401,
        "name": "Office Hour with Glen Wiley (Verisign, Inc.), Neel Goyal (Verisign, Inc.), Willem Toorop (NLNet Labs), and Allison Mankin (Verisign, Inc.) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 15:20:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 16:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1580,
        "description": "Learn more about getdns for accessing DNS security and other powerful features. Targeted to application developers, getdns provides both basic and advanced DNS capabilities, while requiring little DNS expertise. Glen, Neel, Willem, and Allison will explain how to leverage DNS to create authenticated services with getdns modes. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37401",
        "speakers": [173324,172895,173325,173326],
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      {
        "serial": 37405,
        "name": "Office Hour with Dr. Doris Chen (Microsoft) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1580,
        "description": "Doris is ready to answer any questions you have about developing high performance websites and apps with JavaScript and HTML5. She\u2019ll share tips and tricks for tackling real-world web platform performance problems, including network requests, speed and responsiveness, and optimizing media usage.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37405",
        "speakers": [133360],
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      {
        "serial": 37408,
        "name": "Office Hour with Boyd Stephens (Netelysis, LLC)",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 16:10:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 16:50:00",
        "venue_serial": 1579,
        "description": "Want to learn the intricacies of the money machine and where and when you can hack it? Boyd can help. Find out why staying in total control of your money machine/cash contraption can rival accepting venture capital and angel funding when creating a business. And learn how the Lean Business Model can open up unique opportunities for money machines. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37408",
        "speakers": [138530],
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      {
        "serial": 37409,
        "name": "Office Hour with Benjamin Curtis (Honeybadger Industries) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 14:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1580,
        "description": "If you want to find out more about machine learning, Benjamin is available to discuss several techniques, especially those available as Ruby gems. He\u2019ll talk to you about machine learning with Ruby, scaling Rails with PostgreSQL, and other questions you have on your mind. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37409",
        "speakers": [173396],
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      {
        "serial": 37410,
        "name": "Office Hour with David Quigley (KEYW Corporation) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 10:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 11:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1580,
        "description": "In his ongoing campaign to demystify SELinux, David is ready to tackle any questions you have\u2014including what it was like to work on the SELinux team at the NSA. He\u2019ll gladly talk to you about SELinux Internals and anything he covered (or didn\u2019t cover) in his tutorial, \u201cDemystifying SELinux Part II: Who\u2019s Policy Is It Anyway?\u201d",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37410",
        "speakers": [151833],
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      {
        "serial": 37411,
        "name": "Office Hour with Niklas Nielsen (Mesosphere, Inc.), Connor Doyle (Mesosphere, Inc.), and Adam Bordelon (Mesosphere, Inc.)",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 15:20:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 16:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1579,
        "description": "Niklas, Connor, and Adam are ready to talk to you about the Apache Mesos ecosystem for combining your datacenter servers and cloud instances into one shared pool. Find out how to take control of the datacenter with multi-tenancy and fault-tolerance, how to deploy and manage distributed applications in many languages, and how to migrate existing applications to Mesos using Marathon and Chronos.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37411",
        "speakers": [171598,172973,172898],
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        "serial": 37412,
        "name": "Office Hour with Kelley Nielsen (Linux Foundation, Gnome Foundation) ",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-23 14:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 15:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1548,
        "description": "Learn how Kelley evolved from frustrated retail worker to Linux kernel developer through the Gnome Outreach Program for Women. She\u2019ll talk about the personal ways that outreach and mentoring affect new contributors\u2014and how important introspection and self-knowledge are in the process. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37412",
        "speakers": [140811],
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        "serial": 37476,
        "name": "OpenStack Community Celebrates Four Years",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-22 19:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 20:30:00",
        "venue_serial": 1583,
        "description": "Celebrate OpenStack&#x27;s Birthday\r\n\r\n ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37476",
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      {
        "serial": 37488,
        "name": "Current Best Practices for Building Enterprise Mobile Apps",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 10:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 11:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1460,
        "description": "With current best practices for mobile development, you can create great enterprise applications faster, iterate more often, and future-proof against a fast-changing mobile OS and hardware landscape. This session will look at key considerations for developers building enterprise apps for any device and OS.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37488",
        "speakers": [182198],
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      {
        "serial": 37566,
        "name": "Office Hour with Jason Swartz (Netflix, Inc.) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 14:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1580,
        "description": "Looking to get started with Scala? Jason is on hand to answer questions about this object-functional programming language. Find out how Netflix is using Scala for rapid API development, and why Scala may be useful to you. ",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37566",
        "speakers": [171226],
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      {
        "serial": 37567,
        "name": "Office Hour with Brian Bulkowski (Aerospike)",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-22 15:20:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 16:00:00",
        "venue_serial": 1580,
        "description": "Stop by and chat with Brian about using the Aerospike database in real-time big data-driven applications. He\u2019ll talk to you about subjects including low latency, high throughput applications and cacheless architectures, what does and what doesn\u2019t work when using flash as a storage option, and big data management with Hadoop, Storm, Spark, and NoSQL.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37567",
        "speakers": [148534],
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      {
        "serial": 37578,
        "name": "Office Hour with Francesco Cesarini (Erlang Solutions Ltd), Robert Virding (Erlang Solutions Ltd.), and Marc Sugiyama (Erlang Solutions, Inc) ",
        "event_type": "Office Hours",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 11:30:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 12:10:00",
        "venue_serial": 1580,
        "description": "Think you have the right use case to adopt Erlang or Elixir? Concerned about selling this new technology to management and operations? The Erlang Solutions crew will explain the advantages of the Erlang stack\u2014including when and when not to use it. Find out how to run an Erlang project, support and maintain Erlang clusters, and learn how to introduce Erlang to your organization.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37578",
        "speakers": [10595,174073,173421],
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      {
        "serial": 37581,
        "name": "Open Source Multiplies New Relic Awesomeness",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-22 10:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-22 11:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1463,
        "description": "New Relic believes in the principals of open source. So much so, that we built the New Relic Platform according those principals: by making the SDKs and our plugins open source, we ignited a rapidly growing and rich community of plugin authors. Come hear about our open source strategy, efforts in building community, and see how easy it is to participate.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37581",
        "speakers": [77939],
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      {
        "serial": 37583,
        "name": "Perl Web Development with CGI::Ex::App",
        "event_type": "40-minute conference session",

        "time_start": "2014-07-23 13:40:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-23 14:20:00",
        "venue_serial": 1460,
        "description": "CGI::Ex::App is a lightweight, high performance framework that has been quietly driving million-dollar websites since 2004.  Come see why this application framework might be the perfect fit for you.",
        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37583",
        "speakers": [137347],
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          "Sponsored Sessions"

        ]
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      {
        "serial": 37584,
        "name": "Welcome and Introduction",
        "event_type": "Open Cloud Day",

        "time_start": "2014-07-21 09:00:00",
        "time_stop": "2014-07-21 09:15:00",
        "venue_serial": 1584,
        "description": "Sarah Novotny, OSCON Program Chair, technical evangelist and community manager for NGINX will kick off Open Cloud Day. ",
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        "description": "Tizen is aimed at various profiles, not only mobile. The UI must be scalable and themeable to support these diverse profiles. This presentation will share the technology behind the scalable and themeable Tizen UI which is called EFL (Enlightenment Foundation Libraries). This will reduce development time tremendously to support multiple products and applications.",
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        "description": "The industry needs cloud solutions built on an open, extensible architecture that delivers consistent access to infrastructure, runtimes, and application resources. As customers continue to adopt cloud service-based solutions, they need to avoid vendor lock-in, simplify building of complex cloud environments, and quickly develop cloud-ready applications that drive massively scalable cloud models.",
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        "description": "Enterprise developers want flexible, open architectures to develop cloud-native applications and bring new ideas to market faster. Yet enterprise IT needs to quickly deliver services, applications, and infrastructures in a consistent, secure, repeatable manner. How do you get the agility and flexibility while maintaining control?",
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        "name": "Storytelling on the Shoulders of Giants",
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        "description": "You may not feel like you\u2019re a \u201ccreative person,\u201d but never underestimate where your code could turn up or what stories it might tell. The most unassuming repo can be remixed into something magnificent. ",
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        "description": "RootsDev has created a full function Javascript API that can be used to authenticate and read historical person data with in 30 minutes.  Learn how and why this SDK was built and what open source apps are already talking to it.",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-22 20:00:00",
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        "website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37657",
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        "time_start": "2014-07-23 19:00:00",
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        "venue_serial": 1457,
        "description": "RIT recently announced the first Academic Minor in Free/Open Source Software and Free Culture in the United States (http://boingboing.net/2014/03/06/get-a-wee-degree-in-free-from.html) This session will detail the engagement strategies, metrics of success and failure, and educational resources that made it possible. Patches welcome. Forks encouraged. Teacher, Learner, and Hacker friendly session.",
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        "description": "The Apache CouchDB project and world of open source development has seen a lot of change since 2005. In this talk, Joan Touzet will discuss the change journey the CouchDB community has taken as it has matured, covering advocacy efforts, Bylaws and Code of Conduct, GitHub, marketing efforts, mailing lists, growth of the committer base, and operating within the larger ASF community.",
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        "description": "Join Rackspace and CoreOS as they discuss/examine that developers are beginning to see a new set of disruptive technologies come into play - beyond virtual machine, beyond just configuration management.",
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        "venue_serial": 1549,
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        "name": "Author Book Signing with Harry Percival",
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        "description": "Harry will be at the O&#x27;Reilly Authors booth #719, signing copies of his book, Test-Driven Development with Python.",
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        "description": "The world of cloud and application development is not just for the hardened developer these days. In their session, Phil Jackson, Development Community Advocate for SoftLayer, and Harold Hannon, Sr. Software Architect at SoftLayer, will pull back the curtain of the architecture of a fun demo application purpose-built for the cloud.",
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        "description": "Get up to speed with the Gluster Community - we released 3.5, planned 3.6, created lots of language bindings for GFAPI, and are currently planning the Gluster Software Distribution. Come hear about the latest developments in this BoF and how you can participate and benefit.",
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        "description": "Learn how to build your own cell network and invent cell network applications and mobile services using OpenBTS APIs in a session led by Harvind Samra, co-founder of the OpenBTS project, and Michael Iedema, Senior Engineer at Range Networks.",
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        "description": "Much has been written about the connections between mathematics and music. Come meet and collaborate with your fellow attendees as we engage in another OSCON tradition: Geek Choir! (Yes, there will be singing.)",
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        "bio": "<p>Dan is an open source advocate, community catalyst, software generalist, author and speaker. Most of the time, he&#8217;s hacking with some <span class=\"caps\">JVM</span> language. He leads the Asciidoctor project and serves as the community liaison for Arquillian. He builds on these experiences to help make a variety of open source projects wildly successful, including Asciidoctor, Arquillian, Opal and JBoss Forge.</p>\n<p>Dan is the author of Seam in Action (Manning, 2008) and has written articles for <span class=\"caps\">NFJS</span>, the Magazine, <span class=\"caps\">IBM</span> developerWorks, Java Tech Journal and JAXenter. He&#8217;s also an internationally recognized speaker, having presented at major software conferences including JavaOne, Devoxx, <span class=\"caps\">OSCON</span>, <span class=\"caps\">NFJS</span> / UberConf / <span class=\"caps\">RWX</span>, <span class=\"caps\">JAX</span> and jFokus. He&#8217;s recognized as a JavaOne Rock Star and Java (<span class=\"caps\">JVM</span>) Champion.</p>\n<p>After a long conference day, you&#8217;ll likely find Dan geeking out about technology, documentation and testing with fellow community members over a Trappist beer or Kentucky Bourbon.</p>"
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        "serial": 173281,
        "name": "Mohammad Almalkawi",
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        "url": null,
        "position": "Senior Software Engineer",
        "affiliation": "Quip",
        "twitter": "moh",
        "bio": "<p>Mohammad is a software engineer at Quip. Before Quip, Mohammad was a technical lead on Twitter&#8217;s Mobile team where he was focused on Android platform and mobile tools. Prior to Twitter, Mohammad worked on WinRT Core in the operating systems group at Microsoft. Mohammad studied computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he specialized in real-time embedded systems.</p>"
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        "serial": 108272,
        "name": "Mike Amundsen",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_108272.jpg",
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        "position": "Director of API Architecture",
        "affiliation": "API Academy, CA Technologies",
        "twitter": "mamund",
        "bio": "<p>An internationally known author and lecturer, Mike Amundsen travels throughout the world consulting and speaking on a wide range of topics including distributed network architecture, Web application development, and other subjects.</p>\n<p>In his role of <span class=\"caps\">API</span> architect at Layer 7, Amundsen heads up the <span class=\"caps\">API</span> Architecture and Design Practice in North America. He is responsible for working with companies to provide insight on how best to capitalize on the myriad opportunities APIs present to both consumers and the enterprise.</p>\n<p>Amundsen has authored numerous books and papers on programming over the last 15 years.  His most recent book is a collaboration with Leonard Richardson titled &#8220;RESTful Web APIs&#8221;. His 2011 book, \u201cBuilding Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node\u201d, is an oft-cited reference on building adaptable distributed systems.</p>"
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        "serial": 122599,
        "name": "Ishan Anand",
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        "url": "http://moovweb.com/",
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        "affiliation": "Moovweb",
        "twitter": null,
        "bio": "<p>Ishan Anand is Director of New Products at Moovweb. He has been building and launching mobile products for the iPhone since the day it was released, and his work has been featured on TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb and LifeHacker. Ishan has a solid background in software engineering with a focus on web and native application development for iOS devices and WebKit browsers. Prior to Moovweb, Ishan worked at Digidesign and his expertise was in multi-threaded real-time systems programming for the computer music industry. He holds dual-degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics from <span class=\"caps\">MIT</span>.</p>"
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        "serial": 173201,
        "name": "John Anderson",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_173201.jpg",
        "url": "http://genehack.org/",
        "position": "Director of Technology",
        "affiliation": "Infinity Interactive",
        "twitter": "genehack",
        "bio": "<p>Lapsed biologist turned sysadmin turned programmer turned tech lead. Film at 11.</p>"
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        "serial": 179599,
        "name": "Edwin Aoki",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_179599.jpg",
        "url": null,
        "position": "Technical Fellow",
        "affiliation": "PayPal",
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        "serial": 143135,
        "name": "Yazz Atlas",
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        "url": null,
        "position": "Principle Engineer",
        "affiliation": "Hewlett-Packard",
        "twitter": "EntropyWorks",
        "bio": "<p>Yazz Atlas, who has been involved with open source projects for the past eighteen years, is currently working for the Advanced Technology Group within HP.  His primary focus is replacing him self with a script and deploying OpenStack for the HP Cloud PaaS Core.</p>"
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        "serial": 4429,
        "name": "R Geoffrey Avery",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_4429.jpg",
        "url": null,
        "position": "Computer Scientist",
        "affiliation": "Platypi Ventures",
        "twitter": "rGeoffrey",
        "bio": "<p>For many years a Perl Bioinformatics programmer in Philadelphia for a major pharma company helping scientists load, analyze and view their data.</p>"
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        "serial": 173455,
        "name": "Vishwas Babu",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_173455.jpg",
        "url": null,
        "position": "Architect",
        "affiliation": "Conflux Technologies",
        "twitter": "",
        "bio": "<p>Vishwas Babu is the lead engineer at the Mifos Initiative where he works on building an open technology platform for financial inclusion to the poor. He is also a co-founder of Conflux Technologies Private Limited, an organization based out of Bangalore, India which provides a multitude of financial solutions targeted toward microfinance institutions.</p>"
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        "serial": 108813,
        "name": "Jono Bacon",
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        "url": "http://www.jonobacon.org/",
        "position": "Senior Director of Community",
        "affiliation": "XPRIZE Foundation",
        "twitter": "jonobacon",
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        "serial": 59574,
        "name": "Josh Barratt",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_59574.jpg",
        "url": "http://serialized.net/",
        "position": "Chief Architect",
        "affiliation": "Media Temple",
        "twitter": "jbarratt",
        "bio": "<p>Josh joined leading (mt) Media Temple, a leading LA-based web hosting and cloud services company, as a system engineer in 2003 before making his way up to <span class=\"caps\">CTO</span> and then Chief Architect. Josh&#8217;s world is a blend of computer science, software development, systems administration and the people and processes that tie it all together. Prior to Media Temple, he worked six years as a software engineer and has built everything from large clustered systems to embedded real-time motion control for special effects, and almost everything in between. Though experienced in a number of programming languages and environments, his current happy place is with Python.</p>"
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        "serial": 23017,
        "name": "Rick Barraza",
        "photo": null,
        "url": "http://www.cynergysystems.com/",
        "position": "Senior Experience Architect",
        "affiliation": "Cynergy Systems",
        "twitter": "rickbarraza",
        "bio": "<p>Rick Barraza has been working at the forefront of integrating design and technology for over a decade. A strong voice in the interactive design community, Rick is often engaged in promoting the balance of great experiences, creative technology and business motivators. Rick&#8217;s wide experience across many aspects of both design and development have made him a key asset at Cynergy where he works with a diverse clientele across a broad spectrum of needs- from branding and design to prototype development and experience architecture.</p>"
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        "serial": 180437,
        "name": "Doran Barton",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_180437.jpg",
        "url": "http://fozzolog.fozzilinymoo.org/",
        "position": "Senior Developer, Billing",
        "affiliation": "Bluehost",
        "twitter": "fozzmoo",
        "bio": "<p>Doran is a long-time open source advocate. A Unix user and instructor beginning in the early 1990s, he began using Linux in late 1994. In 1998, he started a consulting company in northern Utah promoting the use of Linux and open source solutions for businesses. His career has been split between systems administration/architecture and development.</p>\n<p>Doran now works as a senior developer at Bluehost, an Endurance International web hosting company. Leveraging his mixed background, he has helped move the company forward in using Software Collections to use more modern versions of Perl and other software on Enterprise Linux distributions.</p>"
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        "serial": 179963,
        "name": "David Baumgold",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_179963.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.davidbaumgold.com/",
        "position": "Developer Advocate",
        "affiliation": "edX",
        "twitter": null,
        "bio": "<p>David Baumgold is a web developer and open source advocate based in the Boston area. He enjoys teaching, learning, and connecting interesting people with each other. He genuinely believes that everything will all work out in the end, somehow.</p>"
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        "serial": 152215,
        "name": "Brent Beer",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_152215.jpg",
        "url": "http://github.com/",
        "position": "Trainer",
        "affiliation": "GitHub",
        "twitter": "brntbeer",
        "bio": "<p>Brent Beer has used Git and GitHub for over 5 years through university classes, contributions to open source projects, and professionally as a web developer. He now enjoys his role teaching the world to use Git and GitHub to their full potential as a member of the GitHub Training team.</p>"
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        "serial": 7969,
        "name": "Brian Behlendorf",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_7969.jpg",
        "url": "http://brian.behlendorf.com/",
        "position": "Managing Director",
        "affiliation": "Mithril Capital Management LLC",
        "twitter": "brianbehlendorf",
        "bio": "<p>Brian Behlendorf is Managing Director at Mithril Capital Management in San Francisco.  His career has been a mix of technology start-up, public policy, and non-profit tech leadership.  Brian serves on the Boards of the Mozilla Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Benetech, three organizations using technology to fight for civil liberties, open technologies, and social impact in the digital domain.  Prior to Mithril, Brian was Chief Technology Officer at the World Economic Forum.  He also served for two years at the White House as advisor to the Open Government project within the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and then later as advisor to Health and Human Services on open software approaches to health information sharing.  Before that he has founded two tech companies (CollabNet and Organic) and several Open Source software projects (Apache, Subversion, and more).</p>"
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        "serial": 170052,
        "name": "Tim Bell",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_170052.jpg",
        "url": null,
        "position": "Infrastructure Manager",
        "affiliation": "CERN",
        "twitter": "noggin143",
        "bio": "Tim Bell is responsible for the <span class=\"caps\">CERN</span> IT Infrastructure Group which supports Windows, Mac and Linux across the site along with virtualisation, E-mail and web services. These systems are used by over 11,000 scientists researching fundamental physics, finding out what the Universe is made of and how it works. Prior to working at <span class=\"caps\">CERN</span>, Tim worked for Deutsche Bank managing private banking infrastructure in Europe and for <span class=\"caps\">IBM</span> as a Unix kernel developer and deploying large scale technical computing solutions."
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        "serial": 173340,
        "name": "Adam Benayoun",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_173340.jpg",
        "url": "http://binpress.com/",
        "position": "CEO",
        "affiliation": "Binpress",
        "twitter": "adambn",
        "bio": "<p>Adam is the co-founder and <span class=\"caps\">CEO</span> of Binpress, a marketplace for commercial open source &#8211; providing a platform for building a profitable business from creating and working on open source projects.</p>\n<p>Adam has launched over 15 web ventures for the past 10 years and utilized numerous open source projects in the process of building his products.</p>\n<p>He studied Animation at the Minshar School of Arts and is an alumni of the 500startups accelerator in Mountain View.</p>"
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        "serial": 173233,
        "name": "Frederic Berg",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_173233.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.sap.com/",
        "position": "Product Owner",
        "affiliation": "SAP AG",
        "twitter": "frdrcbrg",
        "bio": "<p>Frederic is a product owner with 15 years of experience in the software industry living in Heidelberg, Germany. He is passionate about software development and a major driver behind the open sourcing of OpenUI5.</p>"
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        "serial": 137697,
        "name": "Tim Berglund",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_137697.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.datastax.com/",
        "position": "Global Director of Technical Enablement",
        "affiliation": "DataStax",
        "twitter": "tlberglund",
        "bio": "<p>Tim is a teacher, author, and technology leader with DataStax. He is a conference speaker internationally and in the United States, and contributes to the Denver, Colorado tech community as president of the Denver Open Source User Group. He is the co-presenter of various O\u2019Reilly training videos on topics ranging from Git to Mac OS X Productivity Tips to Apache Cassandra, and is the author of Gradle Beyond the Basics. He blogs very occasionally at <a href=\"http://timberglund.com\">timberglund.com</a>, and lives in Littleton, CO, <span class=\"caps\">USA</span> with the wife of his youth and their three children.</p>"
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        "serial": 106355,
        "name": "Andrew Berkowitz",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_106355.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.teamsnap.com/",
        "position": "Chief Product Officer",
        "affiliation": "TeamSnap",
        "twitter": "andrewberkowitz",
        "bio": "<p>Andrew Berkowitz is a founder and Chief Product Officer at TeamSnap.com. He is also Head Coach of ComedySportz Portland, a branch of the international Comedy Improv Theater.</p>"
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        "serial": 3397,
        "name": "Josh Berkus",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_3397.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.pgexperts.com/",
        "position": "CEO",
        "affiliation": "PostgreSQL Experts, Inc.",
        "twitter": "FuzzyChef",
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        "url": null,
        "position": "VP, Conferences",
        "affiliation": "O&#x27;Reilly Media, Inc.",
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        "serial": 179435,
        "name": "Josh Bleecher Snyder",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_179435.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.paypal.com/",
        "position": "Director of Software Engineering",
        "affiliation": "PayPal",
        "twitter": "josharian",
        "bio": "<p>Josh Bleecher Snyder is the Director Of Software Engineering at PayPal. He was a co-founder / <span class=\"caps\">CTO</span> of Card.io, which was acquired by PayPal in 2012. Josh was leading <a href=\"https://www.card.io\">card.io\u2019s</a> technology development. Before card.io, Josh founded Treeline Labs, an iOS software development company, and was a Senior Software Engineer at AdMob where he was the first iOS engineer. Josh dropped out of the Philosophy Ph.D. program at Stanford University (<span class=\"caps\">ABD</span>).</p>"
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        "serial": 2593,
        "name": "Michael Bleigh",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_2593.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.divshot.com/",
        "position": "CEO/Cofounder",
        "affiliation": "Divshot",
        "twitter": "mbleigh",
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        "serial": 143232,
        "name": "Olivier Bloch",
        "photo": null,
        "url": null,
        "position": "Senior Technical Evangelist",
        "affiliation": "Microsoft",
        "twitter": "obloch",
        "bio": "<p>I am Senior Technical Evangelist at Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., looking into interoperability, cross platform and open source development for Microsoft client platforms: Windows Phone, Windows and IE.<br />\nPrior to this role I have been in the embedded space for almost 10 years prior to this, developing, consulting, training and talking about the Internet Of Things, connected devices and other cool and interesting topics in France, in the US and in other places around the world.<br />\nI am not just a geek who loves to play around with the latest gadgets\u2026 well, mostly a geek\u2026 but I love the idea that geeking around with these devices is all about what the consumer and industrial ecosystems are becoming these days.</p>"
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        "serial": 172898,
        "name": "Adam Bordelon",
        "photo": null,
        "url": "http://mesosphere.io/",
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        "affiliation": "Mesosphere, Inc.",
        "twitter": "",
        "bio": "<p>Adam is a distributed systems engineer at Mesosphere and works on Apache Mesos.<br />\nBefore joining Mesosphere, Adam was lead developer on the Hadoop core team at MapR Technologies, he developed distributed systems for personalized recommendations at Amazon, and he rearchitected the LabVIEW compiler at National Instruments. He completed his Master\u2019s degree at Rice University, building a tool to analyze supercomputer performance data for bottlenecks and anomalies.</p>"
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        "serial": 180268,
        "name": "Jay Borenstein",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_180268.jpg",
        "url": null,
        "position": "CS Lecturer",
        "affiliation": "Stanford",
        "twitter": "",
        "bio": "<p>I was born in Southern California. I did my undergraduate and graduate studies at Stanford, specializing in quantitative economics and operations research. I discovered both academic disciplines benefited greatly from computer simulation and I found my passions increasingly directed toward realizing products and experiences through software.</p>\n<p>Another thread in my personal and professional life has been a love for teams of people. I find few things to be as stimulating as a smart and motivated group of people coming together in a common pursuit.</p>\n<p>Combining the above interests, the culture of Silicon Valley (and Stanford itself, for that matter) has been a perfect fit for<br />\n me. After initially working as software engineer for a number of years and then plying the waters in technology management as a <span class=\"caps\">CTO</span>, I founded <a href=\"www.intapp.com\">Integration Appliance</a> in 2000. I stepped down as <span class=\"caps\">CEO</span> and away from day-to-day operations at IntApp in May, 2007 and served on the board through 2012. Today, IntApp is a successful and growing company.</p>\n<p>Part of the reason for stepping away from a mature business is the quest for new challenges. Another part is the desire to get<br />\n back to the root of where many great technologies and ideas emerge; academia. I currently teach computer science at Stanford University and also run Facebook Open Academy as part of a larger Facebook effort to modernize education. I find it very fulfilling to help motivated, bright minds grow and succeed.</p>"
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        "serial": 96208,
        "name": "Joe Bowser",
        "photo": null,
        "url": "http://phonegap.com/",
        "position": "Computer Scientist",
        "affiliation": "Adobe Systems",
        "twitter": "infil00p",
        "bio": "<p>Joe is the creator of PhoneGap for Android and is the longest contributing committer to the PhoneGap and Apache Cordova projects respectively. When he is not contributing to Open Source at Adobe, he spends his spare time working on various hardware projects at home, as well as at the Vancouver Hack Space, which he co-founded.</p>"
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        "serial": 173248,
        "name": "Garth Braithwaite",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_173248.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.garthdb.com/",
        "position": "Open Source Designer and Developer",
        "affiliation": "Adobe",
        "twitter": "garthdb",
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        "serial": 159586,
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        "twitter": "",
        "bio": "<p>Alex Brandt is a cloud developer at Rackspace, helping people build distributed scalable systems with a variety of technologies. An emerging evangelist for all things cloud, he has worked in IT support and solutioning as well as research in the realm of physics. Alex holds a B.S. in computer science and physics from Minnesota State University Moorhead.</p>"
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        "serial": 131404,
        "name": "VM Brasseur",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_131404.jpg",
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        "position": "Founder",
        "affiliation": "shoeless consulting",
        "twitter": "vmbrasseur",
        "bio": "<p>VM is a manager of technical people, projects, processes, products and p^Hbusinesses. In her over 15 years in the tech industry she has been an analyst, programmer, product manager, software engineering manager and director of software engineering. Currently she is splitting her time between <a href=\"http://shoeless-consulting.com\">shoeless consulting</a>, a tech recruiting and management consulting firm, and writing a book translating business concepts into geek speak.</p>\n<p>VM blogs at &#8220;{a=&gt;h}&#8221;:http://anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com and tweets at <a href=\"http://twitter.com/vmbrasseur\">@vmbrasseur</a>.</p>"
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        "serial": 24978,
        "name": "Tim Bray",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_24978.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/",
        "position": "Web Guy",
        "affiliation": "Independent",
        "twitter": "timbray",
        "bio": "<p>Tim has co-founded two companies, helped raise five rounds of venture capital, written over a million words on his blog, edited the official specifications of both <span class=\"caps\">XML</span> and <span class=\"caps\">JSON</span>, worked for Sun Microsystems and Google, and is worried about passwords, Web culture, and tractable concurrency.</p>"
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        "serial": 25862,
        "name": "Michael Brewer",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_25862.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.franklin.uga.edu/people/mbrewer.php",
        "position": "Application Programmer Specialist",
        "affiliation": "UGA: Franklin College OIT",
        "twitter": "operatic",
        "bio": "<p>Michael Brewer is an Application Programmer Specialist for the Franklin College Office of Information Technology at The University of Georgia. He designs database-backed web applications used by thousands of students and faculty and serves on several college and University-wide committees on Web development, best practices, and application security. In 2005, he won an Advising Technology Innovation Award from the National Academic Advising Association for an academic advising application he created and maintains. A speaker at <span class=\"caps\">OSCON</span> in 2011 and 2012, he is also on the board of the United States PostgreSQL Association. He holds dual degrees in Mathematics and Music from The University of Georgia. A member of <span class=\"caps\">ASCAP</span>, he also conducts the oldest continually operating community band in the state of Georgia; he has arranged music for orchestra, band, chorus, and has even composed incidental music for plays and musicals.</p>"
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        "serial": 6845,
        "name": "Joe Brockmeier",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_6845.jpg",
        "url": "http://dissociatedpress.net/",
        "position": "Principal Cloud &amp; Storage Analyst",
        "affiliation": "Red Hat",
        "twitter": "jzb",
        "bio": "<p>Joe Brockmeier is a member of Red Hat&#8217;s Open Source and Standards<br />\n(<span class=\"caps\">OSAS</span>) team, and is involved with Project Atomic, the Fedora Project&#8217;s<br />\nCloud Working Group, and is a member of the Apache Software Foundation.<br />\nBrockmeier has a long history of involvement with Linux and open source,<br />\nand has also spent many years working as a technology journalist.<br />\nBrockmeier has written for ReadWriteWeb, <span class=\"caps\">LWN</span>, Linux.com, Linux Magazine,<br />\nLinux Pro Magazine, ZDNet, and many others.</p>"
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        "serial": 161486,
        "name": "Ethan Brown",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_161486.jpg",
        "url": "http://blogs.popart.com/author/ethanbrown",
        "position": "Software Engineer",
        "affiliation": "Pop Art",
        "twitter": "EthanRBrown",
        "bio": "<p>I work for <a href=\"http://popart.com\">Pop Art</a>, an interactive marketing agency, doing mostly back-end website work. A lot of my current work is in C#/.<span class=\"caps\">NET</span>, but I am shifting a lot of my attention to the Node.js stack (check out my projects on <span class=\"caps\">NPM</span>!). My undergraduate work was in mathematics and computer science, and I have a broad and diverse background in software technologies.</p>"
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        "serial": 90628,
        "name": "Avi Bryant",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_90628.jpg",
        "url": null,
        "position": "Developer",
        "affiliation": "Stripe",
        "twitter": "avibryant",
        "bio": "<p>Avi has led product, engineering, and data science teams at Etsy, Twitter and Dabble DB (which he co-founded and Twitter acquired). He\u2019s known for his open source work on projects such as Seaside, Scalding, and Algebird. Avi currently works at Stripe.</p>"
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        "serial": 148534,
        "name": "Brian Bulkowski",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_148534.jpg",
        "url": "http://aerospike.com/",
        "position": "co-founder, CTO &amp; Product",
        "affiliation": "Aerospike",
        "twitter": "aerospikedb",
        "bio": "<p>Brian Bulkowski, founder and <span class=\"caps\">CTO</span> of Aerospike Inc. (formerly Citrusleaf), has 20-plus years experience designing, developing and tuning networking systems and high-performance Webscale infrastructures. He founded Aerospike after learning first hand, the scaling limitations of sharded MySQL systems at Aggregate Knowledge. As director of performance at this media intelligence SaaS company, Brian led the team in building and operating a clustered recommendation engine. Prior to Aggregate Knowledge, Brian was a founding member of the digital TV team at Navio Communications and chief architect of Cable Solutions at Liberate Technologies where he built the high-performance embedded networking stack and the Internetscale broadcast server infrastructure. Before Liberate, Brian was a lead engineer at Novell, where he was responsible for the AppleTalk stack for Netware 3 and 4.</p>"
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        "serial": 171495,
        "name": "Greg Bulmash",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_171495.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.seattlecoderdojo.com/",
        "position": "Content Developer",
        "affiliation": "Microsoft.com",
        "twitter": "GregBulmash",
        "bio": "<p>Greg Bulmash is an <a href=\"http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/mcdonald.asp\">urban legend</a>, former senior editor at IMDb, and he makes really awesome chocolate cookies.</p>\n<p>During the days, he writes developer documentation for Microsoft, but evenings and weekends belong to Seattle CoderDojo where he somehow brings together dozens and dozens of kids, parents, and volunteers to run a free Saturday morning coding club.</p>"
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        "serial": 169673,
        "name": "Cody Bunch",
        "photo": null,
        "url": "http://professionalvmware.com/",
        "position": "Principal Architect",
        "affiliation": "Rackspace",
        "twitter": "cody_bunch",
        "bio": "<p>Cody Bunch is a Private Cloud / Virtualization Architect, VMware vExpert, and VMware <span class=\"caps\">VCP</span> from San Antonio, TX. Cody has authored or co-authored several OpenStack and VMware books. Additionally he has been a tech editor on a number of projects. Cody also regularly speaks at industry events and local user groups.</p>"
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        "serial": 173431,
        "name": "Eric Butler",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_173431.jpg",
        "url": "http://cedexis.com/",
        "position": "Sr. Director, Products",
        "affiliation": "Cedexis",
        "twitter": "",
        "bio": "<p>Eric leads the Technology team at Webtrends, chartered with creating creative disruptive solutions in the analytics and optimization space. His team is responsible for the newly introduced Webtrends Streams product, among other patent-pending technologies recently released by Webtrends.</p>\n<p>Eric has held technology leadership positions at Webtrends, Jive Software and Intel in his career. He is a runner, follows his kids around playing soccer, and lives in Portland with his family.</p>"
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        "serial": 108884,
        "name": "Paris Buttfield-Addison",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_108884.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.secretlab.com.au/",
        "position": "Serial Entrepreneur and Product Guy",
        "affiliation": "Secret Lab Pty. Ltd.",
        "twitter": "parisba",
        "bio": "<p>Paris is co-founder of Secret Lab Pty. Ltd., leading production and design efforts in the mobile game and app development space. A frequent speaker at conferences, workshops and training sessions, Paris enjoys discussing engineering, product development, design and other facets of the mobile and game development worlds. Recent conferences include Apple Australia\u2019s /dev/world/2013 in Melbourne (and 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012), a keynote at CreateWorld Brisbane 2010 (and a speaker in 2009, 2011, 2012, and 2014), IxDA\u2019s Interaction 11 in Boulder (March 2011), XMediaLab Location-Based Services in Malmo, Sweden (January 2011), a tutorial and a session at <span class=\"caps\">OSCON</span> 2011, <span class=\"caps\">OSCON</span> 2012, <span class=\"caps\">OSCON</span> 2013, linux.conf.au 2011, and many others.</p>\n<p>Paris is currently writing &#8220;Mobile Game Development With Unity&#8221; and &#8220;iOS Game Development Cookbook&#8221;, both for O&#8217;Reilly, and is the co-author of the books &#8220;Learning Cocoa with Objective-C Third Edition&#8221; (O&#8217;Reilly, 2012 and 2014), &#8220;iPhone and iPad Game Development For Dummies&#8221; (Wiley, 2010) and &#8220;Unity Mobile Game Development For Dummies&#8221; (Wiley, 2011).</p>\n<p>Paris is a highly experienced software developer, product and project manager. Key technologies include Objective-C/Cocoa on the Macintosh and iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad platforms, Java on Blackberry and Google Android and C# on Windows Mobile. Open GL ES and Unity are also favourites.</p>\n<p>Paris spent several years leading Meebo Inc.\u2019s mobile strategy in Mountain View, CA; Meebo was one of the world\u2019s fastest growing consumer internet companies and was acquired by Google in 2012. Paris is currently working on his next book, also with O&#8217;Reilly, and has recently submitted a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, focusing on the use of tablets for information management. He is currently co-founder, producer, and occasional programmer at Secret Lab, in Tasmania, Australia.</p>"
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        "serial": 155881,
        "name": "Alejandro Cabrera",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_155881.jpg",
        "url": "https://blog.cppcabrera.com/",
        "position": "Software Developer II",
        "affiliation": "Rackspace Hosting Inc.",
        "twitter": "cppcabrera",
        "bio": "<p>Hey! Nice to meet you. I&#8217;m a developer at Rackspace, and I work on the Openstack Marconi project during the day. I enjoy learning from others and sharing knowledge.</p>\n<p>Great friends, Linux, open source, Python, and Haskell have helped me get to where I am today.</p>"
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        "serial": 63576,
        "name": "Bryan Call",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_63576.jpg",
        "url": "http://incubator.apache.org/projects/trafficserver.html",
        "position": "Technical Yahoo!",
        "affiliation": "Yahoo!",
        "twitter": "",
        "bio": "<p>Bryan Call has been writing code and working with on large scale solutions for 14 years.  He has experience optimizing and profiling projects, including Apache Traffic Server and many internal projects at Yahoo!.</p>\n<p>He came to Yahoo! through an acquisition of a startup and has been working there for the last 12 years.  He has worked on various products and teams, such as WebRing, GeoCities, People Search, Yahoo! Personal, Tiger Team (internal consulting team), Architect in the Platform Group, Architect in the Edge Platform, and now is working in the R&amp;D Systems Group.</p>\n<p>Bryan is also a commiter on the Apache Traffic Server project and instrumental in bring Traffic Server to the Apache Foundation.</p>"
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        "serial": 182198,
        "name": "Darryn Campbell",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_182198.jpg",
        "url": null,
        "position": "Developer lead, RhoMobile suite",
        "affiliation": "Motorola Solutions, Inc.",
        "twitter": "",
        "bio": "<p>Darryn Campbell is the development lead on RhoMobile suite, the cross platform development framework provided by Motorola Solutions.  He has been developing application development frameworks targeted at enterprise since 2008 seeing the product space increase from a small number of niche suppliers to the crowded marketplace we see today.</p>"
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        "serial": 155088,
        "name": "Francesc Campoy Flores",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_155088.jpg",
        "url": "http://golang.org/",
        "position": "Go Developer Programs Engineer",
        "affiliation": "Google Inc.",
        "twitter": "francesc",
        "bio": "<p>Francesc Campoy Flores joined the Go team in 2012 as Developer Programs Engineer. Since then, he has written some considerable didactic resources and traveled the world attending conferences and organizing live courses.</p>\n<p>He joined Google in 2011 as a backend software engineer working mostly in C++ and Python, but it was with Go that he rediscovered how fun programming can be. He loves languages; fluent in four of them, he&#8217;s now tackling a fifth one.</p>"
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        "serial": 6921,
        "name": "Brian Capouch",
        "photo": null,
        "url": "http://www.saintjoe.edu/",
        "position": "Assistant Professor",
        "affiliation": "Saint Josephs College",
        "twitter": "",
        "bio": "<p>Brian Capouch is a longtime open source user, programmer, and hacker.</p>\n<p>He teaches CS using 100% Open Source tools at small Indiana college, run a small wireless <span class=\"caps\">ISP</span>; Asterisk and openWRT are his specialities.</p>"
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        "serial": 109289,
        "name": "Thierry Carrez",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_109289.jpg",
        "url": "http://wiki.openstack.org/",
        "position": "Release Manager",
        "affiliation": "OpenStack",
        "twitter": "tcarrez",
        "bio": "<p>Thierry Carrez has been the Release Manager for the OpenStack project since its inception, coordinating the effort and facilitating collaboration between contributors. He is the elected chair of the OpenStack Technical Committee, which is in charge of the technical direction of the project. He spoke about OpenStack, open innovation and open source project management at various conferences around the world, including <span class=\"caps\">OSCON</span>, LinuxCon and <span class=\"caps\">FOSDEM</span>. A Python Software Foundation fellow, he was previously the Technical lead for Ubuntu Server at Canonical, and an operational manager for the Gentoo Linux Security Team.</p>"
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        "serial": 75349,
        "name": "Piers Cawley",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_75349.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.bofh.org.uk/",
        "position": "Senior Programmer",
        "affiliation": "Thermeon",
        "twitter": "pdcawley",
        "bio": "<p>Piers Cawley started programming Perl in the mid nineties, but recently spent a few years working as a Ruby programmer.</p>\n<p>He&#8217;s currently writing Perl for Thermeon Europe</p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a singer and balloon modeller, and has created custom balloon millinery for Sarah Novotny.</p>"
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        "serial": 123894,
        "name": "Bill Cernansky",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_123894.jpg",
        "url": "http://portlandcomedy.com/",
        "position": "Duke of Tech",
        "affiliation": "ComedySportz",
        "twitter": "",
        "bio": "<p>Bill Cernansky is a veteran Software Configuration Management Engineer at Jeppesen. Bill also performs and teaches improvisation and oversees tech at ComedySportz Portland. In addition, he is arguably the best at jumping over this one thing in his backyard.</p>"
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      {

        "serial": 10595,
        "name": "Francesco Cesarini",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_10595.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.erlang-solutions.com/",
        "position": "Technical Director, Founder",
        "affiliation": "Erlang Solutions Ltd",
        "twitter": "FrancescoC",
        "bio": "<p><strong>Francesco Cesarini</strong> is the founder and technical director of <a href=\"http://www.erlang-solutions.com\">Erlang Solutions Ltd.</a> He has used <a href=\"http://www.erlang.org\">Erlang</a> on a daily basis since 1995, starting as an intern at Ericsson\u2019s computer science laboratory, the birthplace of Erlang. He moved on to Ericsson\u2019s Erlang training and consulting arm working on the first release of the <span class=\"caps\">OTP</span> middleware, applying it to turnkey solutions and flagship telecom applications. In 1999, soon after Erlang was released as open source, he founded Erlang Solutions. With offices in five countries, they have become the world leaders in Erlang based support, consulting, training, certification, systems development and conferences. Francesco has worked in major Erlang based projects both within and outside Ericsson, and as Technical Director, has led the development and consulting teams at Erlang Solutions. He is also the co-author of Erlang Programming, a book published by O\u2019Reilly and is currently co-authoring Designing For Scalability With Erlang/<span class=\"caps\">OTP</span>. He lectures the graduate students at Oxford University. You can follow his ramblings on <a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/FrancescoC\">twitter</a>.</p>"
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        "serial": 837,
        "name": "Scott Chacon",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_837.jpg",
        "url": "http://jointheconversation.org/",
        "position": "Cofounder, CIO",
        "affiliation": "GitHub",
        "twitter": "",
        "bio": "<p>Scott Chacon is a cofounder and the <span class=\"caps\">CIO</span> of GitHub. He is also the author of the Pro Git book by <a href=\"progit.org\">Apress</a> and the maintainer of the Git homepage (<a href=\"git-scm.com\">git-scm.com</a>). Scott has presented at dozens of conferences around the world on Git, GitHub and the future of work.</p>"
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        "serial": 147,
        "name": "Colin Charles",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_147.jpg",
        "url": "http://bytebot.net/blog/",
        "position": "Open source software hacker and entrepreneur",
        "affiliation": "SkySQL Ab/MariaDB Foundation",
        "twitter": "bytebot",
        "bio": "<p>Colin Charles works on MariaDB at SkySQL. He has been the Chief Evangelist for MariaDB since 2009, with work ranging from speaking engagements to consultancy and engineering works around MariaDB. He lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and had worked at MySQL since 2005, and been a MySQL user since 2000. Before joining MySQL, he worked actively on the Fedora and OpenOffice.org projects. He&#8217;s well known within open source communities in Asia and Australia, and has spoken at many conferences to boot.</p>"
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        "serial": 133198,
        "name": "Christopher Chedeau",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_133198.jpg",
        "url": "http://blog.vjeux.com/",
        "position": "Front-End Engineer",
        "affiliation": "Facebook",
        "twitter": "vjeux",
        "bio": "<p>Christopher &#8220;vjeux&#8221; Chedeau is a Front-End Engineer at Facebook. He is passionate about the web and its ability to very easily write great user interfaces.</p>"
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        "serial": 133360,
        "name": "Doris Chen",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_133360.jpg",
        "url": "http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dorischen/",
        "position": "Developer Evangelist",
        "affiliation": "Microsoft",
        "twitter": "doristchen",
        "bio": "<p>Dr. Doris Chen<br />\nhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/dorischen/<br />\nTwitter @doristchen</p>\n<p>Doris is a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft for the Western region of the United States, specialized in web technologies (HTML5, jQuery, JavaScript, Ajax, and Java).  <br />\nDoris has over 15 years of experience in the software industry working in several open source web tier technologies, Java platform, .<span class=\"caps\">NET</span> and distributed computing technologies. She has developed and delivered over 400 keynotes, technical sessions, code camps worldwide, published widely at numerous international conferences and user groups including JavaOne, O\u2019Reilly, WebVisions, SD Forum, HTML5 and JavaScript meetups, and worldwide User Groups. Doris works very closely to create and foster the community around NetBeans, Glassfish, and related technologies. Before joining Microsoft, Doris Chen was a Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems.<br />\nDoris received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles (<span class=\"caps\">UCLA</span>) in computer engineering, specializing in medical informatics.</p>"
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        "serial": 171704,
        "name": "Roger Chen",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_171704.jpg",
        "url": null,
        "position": "Associate",
        "affiliation": "OATV",
        "twitter": "rgrchen",
        "bio": "<p>Roger is an investor at O\u2019Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (<span class=\"caps\">OATV</span>), where he looks for collisions between unmet needs and enabling technologies. He spent his past life as a scientist and engineer, alternating between academia and industry while dabbling in the startup and venture capital world. When he is not tinkering with technology, Roger plays sports and wonders what lies beyond bell curves. Roger has a BS from Boston University and a PhD from UC Berkeley, both in Electrical Engineering.</p>"
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        "serial": 133377,
        "name": "Sara Chipps",
        "photo": null,
        "url": "http://sarajchipps.com/",
        "position": "Developer",
        "affiliation": "Girl Develop It",
        "twitter": "sarajchipps",
        "bio": "<p>Sara Chipps is a JavaScript developer and she blogs <a href=\"http://sarajchipps.com\">here</a>. She is <span class=\"caps\">CTO</span> of Flatiron School. In 2010 she started an organization called Girl Develop It which offers low cost software development classes geared towards women. Girl Develop It has had over 1000 unique students in New York City and now has 25 chapters around the world.</p>\n<p>She enjoys speaking to and meeting with diverse groups from the Girl Scouts to straight up code junkies. Her goal is to inspire more females to see that working with software is fun and glamorous.</p>"
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        "serial": 17417,
        "name": "Wendy Chisholm",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_17417.jpg",
        "url": "http://friendfeed.com/wendyc",
        "position": "Senior Accessibility Strategist and Universal Design Evangelist",
        "affiliation": "Microsoft",
        "twitter": "wendyabc",
        "bio": "<p>I am an author, activist and project manager. I co-wrote &#8220;<a href=\"http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596518738/\">Universal Design for Web Applications</a>&#8221; with Matt May (O&#8217;Reilly, 2008) and edited <a href=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/\">Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0</a> and 2.0&#8211;the basis of most web accessibility policies.  I have <a href=\"http://www.cssquirrel.com/comic/?comic=35\">appeared as Wonder Woman</a> in a web comic with the other <a href=\"http://www.zeldman.com/superfriends/\">HTML5 Super Friends</a> and as myself in interviews on <a href=\"http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/09/23/midmorning2/\">Minnesota Public Radio</a>, Puget Sound Public Radio, and at <a href=\"http://www.igniteseattle.com/2010/02/inclusive-universe-wendy-chisholm/\">Ignite Seattle</a>. In November 2009, I was the <a href=\"http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2009/11/04/geek-of-the-week-wendy-chisholm/\">Seattle PI&#8217;s Geek of the Week</a>.</p>\n<p>I\u2019ve focused on universal design since 1995.  Being both a developer (B.S. in Computer Science) and a Human Factors Engineer (M.S. in Industrial Engineering/Human Factors), I bridge communication between developers and designers. As a Senior Strategist at Microsoft, I help make Bing services and apps accessible.</p>\n<p><em>Photo taken by</em> <a href=\"http://andyfarnum.com\">Andy Farnum</a></p>"
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        "serial": 170054,
        "name": "Andrew Cholakian",
        "photo": null,
        "url": "http://found.no/",
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        "affiliation": "Found",
        "twitter": "andrewvc",
        "bio": "<p>Author of Exploring Elasticsearch, and developer/evangelist at Found.no, Andrew Cholakian is an active member of the Elasticsearch community. Additionally, he is behind several elasticsearch <span class=\"caps\">OSS</span> projects as well, including the popular \u201cStretcher\u201d Elasticsearch library for the Ruby language. He\u2019s also a veteran of multiple startups in the LA area, and is an active member of the local startup community.</p>"
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        "serial": 172534,
        "name": "Robby Clements",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_172534.jpg",
        "url": "http://isotope11.com/",
        "position": "Software Developer",
        "affiliation": "Isotope11",
        "twitter": "robby_clements",
        "bio": "<p>Robby Clements is a software developer for Isotope11. His primary language has been Ruby for the past five years, but he&#8217;s been branching out into Erlang recently and finding it fascinating.</p>"
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        "serial": 6894,
        "name": "John Coggeshall",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_6894.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.coggeshall.org/",
        "position": "Owner",
        "affiliation": "Internet Technology Solutions, LLC",
        "twitter": null,
        "bio": "<p>John Coggeshall is owner of Internet Technology Solutions, <span class=\"caps\">LLC</span>. a high-end web consulting firm based in Michigan. He got started with <span class=\"caps\">PHP</span> in 1997 and is the author of three published books and over 100 articles on <span class=\"caps\">PHP</span> technologies with some of the biggest names in the industry such as Sams Publishing, Apress and O&#8217;Reilly. John also is a active contributor to the <span class=\"caps\">PHP</span> core as the author of the tidy extension, a member of the Zend Education Advisory Board, and frequent speaker at <span class=\"caps\">PHP</span>-related conferences worldwide.</p>"
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        "serial": 141235,
        "name": "C. Aaron Cois",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_141235.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.codehenge.net/",
        "position": "Software Development Team Lead",
        "affiliation": "Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute",
        "twitter": "aaroncois",
        "bio": "<p>Aaron is a software engineer currently located in Pittsburgh, PA. He received his Ph.D. in 2007, developing algorithms and software for 3D medical image analysis. He currently leads a software development team at Carnegie Mellon University, focusing on web application development and cloud systems.</p>\n<p>Aaron is a polyglot programmer, with a keen interest in open source technologies. Some favorite technologies at the moment include Node.js, Python/Django, MongoDB, and Redis.</p>"
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        "serial": 99280,
        "name": "Tina Coleman",
        "photo": null,
        "url": null,
        "position": "Principal Software Architect",
        "affiliation": "Next Century Corporation",
        "twitter": "",
        "bio": "<p>Girl geek, web application development and architecture, agile advocate, community management</p>"
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        "serial": 4710,
        "name": "Damian Conway",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_4710.jpg",
        "url": "http://damian.conway.org/",
        "position": "CEO and Chief Trainer",
        "affiliation": "Thoughtstream",
        "twitter": "",
        "bio": "<p>Damian Conway is an internationally renowned speaker, author, and trainer, and a prominent contributor to the Perl community. Currently he runs <a href=\"http://damian.conway.org\">Thoughtstream</a>, an international IT training company that provides programmer training from beginner to masterclass level throughout Europe, North America, and Australasia. Most of his spare time over the past decade has been spent working with Larry Wall on the design and explication of the <a href=\"http://dev.perl.org/perl6\">Perl 6 programming language</a>. He has a PhD in Computer Science and was until recently an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University, Australia.</p>"
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        "serial": 179595,
        "name": "Danese Cooper",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_179595.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.paypal.com/",
        "position": "Head of Open Source",
        "affiliation": "PayPal",
        "twitter": "DivaDanese",
        "bio": "<p>Danese Cooper has an 22-year history in the software industry and has long been an advocate for transparent development methodologies. Ms. Cooper joined PayPal in February 2014, and has held many leadership roles within the computer science sector. She has managed teams at Symantec and Apple Inc. and for six years served as Chief Open Source Evangelist for Sun Microsystems before leaving to serve as Senior Director for Open Source Strategies at Intel. She advised on open source policy to the R community while at REvolution Computing (now Revolution Analytics), and she served from February 2010 to July 2011 as Chief Technical Officer for the Wikimedia Foundation.  She currently runs a successful consultancy to companies wishing to pursue open source strategies, which has served the <span class=\"caps\">SETI</span> Foundation, Harris Corporation and the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation among other clients. She is a director on the boards of the Drupal Association, and the Open Source Hardware Association, a board advisor for Mozilla and Ushahidi, and has served since 2005 as a Member of the Apache Software Foundation. She was a board member for 10 years at Open Source Initiative.</p>"
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        "serial": 172201,
        "name": "William Cox",
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        "url": "http://www.gallamine.com/",
        "position": "Data Scientist",
        "affiliation": "Distil Networks",
        "twitter": "gallamine",
        "bio": "<p>When William isn&#8217;t busy being a husband and father, he is an electrical engineer specializing in signal processing and machine learning. He&#8217;s worked on underwater robots, radar detection, algorithmic forex, and torpedo tracking.  He tweets @gallamine and blogs at http://gallamine.com</p>"
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        "serial": 182463,
        "name": "Kevin Crocker",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_182463.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.pivotal.io/training#datascience",
        "position": "Consulting Instructor",
        "affiliation": "Pivotal",
        "twitter": "",
        "bio": "<p>Kevin Crocker is a Consulting Instructor at Pivotal. He combines 40 years of technology awareness with 30 years of instructional expertise spanning multiple technologies and disciplines to bring a rich educational experience to his classes.</p>\n<p>His teaching background includes: Statistics; operations research; optimization theory; distance education; adult education; instructional design; <span class=\"caps\">UNIX</span> and Linux operating systems, servers, and scripting; Java; business, banking, and finance; virtualization; and Data Analytics.</p>\n<p>He is a published author and award winning course designer. His guiding principle is: Driven by light bulbs!</p>\n<p>When he&#8217;s not helping people learn leading edge technology he&#8217;s busy with his family, golf, and home brewing special beers.</p>"
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        "serial": 169862,
        "name": "Adam Culp",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_169862.jpg",
        "url": "http://geekyboy.com/",
        "position": "Senior Professional Services Consultant",
        "affiliation": "Zend Technologies",
        "twitter": "adamculp",
        "bio": "<p>Adam Culp, organizer of the SunshinePHP Developer Conference and South Florida <span class=\"caps\">PHP</span> Users Group (SoFloPHP) where he speaks regularly, is a Zend Certified <span class=\"caps\">PHP</span> 5.3 Engineer consulting for Zend Technologies.  Adam is passionate about developing with <span class=\"caps\">PHP</span> and enjoys helping others write good code, implement standards, refactor efficiently, and incorporate unit and functional tests into their projects.  When he is not coding or contributing to various developer communities, he can be found hiking around the United States National Parks, teaching judo, or long distance running.</p>"
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        "serial": 183161,
        "name": "Jim Cupples",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_183161.jpg",
        "url": null,
        "position": "Civic Hacker",
        "affiliation": "Ballot Path",
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        "bio": "<p>Jim is a political science nerd who has minimal tech chops, but a deep love of Open Source. Jim is currently working with college students from around Oregon (especially <span class=\"caps\">PSU</span>) on a project called Ballot Path that will allow users to see all of their elected reps, and how they can replace them. A side project of Ballot Path is creating Open Source <span class=\"caps\">GIS</span> political boundary maps (we have to create many of them from scratch for the smaller elected offices, especially in rural areas), which will hopefully be used by people looking to help shape a world that they want their kids to live in.</p>\n<p>&#8220;Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you, and they who lose today may win tomorrow.&#8221; Cervantes</p>"
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        "serial": 116276,
        "name": "Patrick Curran",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_116276.jpg",
        "url": "http://jcp.org/",
        "position": "Chair, Java Community Process",
        "affiliation": "Java Community Process",
        "twitter": "",
        "bio": "<p>Patrick Curran is Chair of the <span class=\"caps\">JCP</span>. In this role he oversees the activities of the organization&#8217;s Program Management Office including driving the process, managing its membership, guiding specification leads and experts through the process, leading Executive Committee meetings, and managing the <a href=\"http://jcp.org/en/home/index\"><span class=\"caps\">JCP</span>.org web site</a>.</p>\n<p>Patrick has worked in the software industry for more than 25 years, and at Sun (and now Oracle) for almost 20 years. He has a long-standing record in conformance testing, and most recently led the Java Conformance Engineering team in Sun&#8217;s Client Software Group. He was also chair of Sun&#8217;s Conformance Council, which was responsible for defining Sun&#8217;s policies and strategies around Java conformance and compatibility.</p>\n<p>Patrick has participated actively in several consortia and communities including the <a href=\"http://www.w3.org/\">W3C</a> (as a member of the Quality Assurance Working Group and co-chair of the Quality Assurance Interest Group), and <a href=\"http://www.oasis-open.org/\"><span class=\"caps\">OASIS</span></a> (as co-chair of the Test Assertions Guidelines Technical Committee). Patrick&#8217;s blog is <a href=\"http://blogs.sun.com/pcurran/\">here</a>.</p>"
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        "serial": 173396,
        "name": "Benjamin Curtis",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_173396.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.honeybadger.io/",
        "position": "Co-founder",
        "affiliation": "Honeybadger Industries",
        "twitter": "stympy",
        "bio": "<p>Ben has been developing web apps and building startups since &#8217;99, and fell in love with Ruby and Rails in 2005. Before co-founding Honeybadger, he launched a couple of his own startups: Catch the Best, to help companies manage the hiring process, and RailsKits, to help Rails developers get a jump start on their projects.</p>\n<p>Ben&#8217;s role at Honeybadger ranges from bare-metal to front-end&#8230; he keeps the server lights blinking happily, builds a lot of the back-end Rails code, and dips his toes into the front-end code from time to time.</p>\n<p>When he&#8217;s not working, Ben likes to hang out with his wife and kids, ride his road bike, and of course hack on open source projects.</p>"
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        "serial": 108736,
        "name": "Michael Dale",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_108736.jpg",
        "url": null,
        "position": "Developer",
        "affiliation": "Kaltura, Wikimedia",
        "twitter": "michael_dale",
        "bio": "<p>Michael is the lead front end architect for Kaltura Open Source Video Platform. In 2006 Michael Dale co-founded metavid.org an open video community archive of US house and senate floor proceedings. Later he worked on video for Wikipedia. With Kaltura he has worked on HTML5 video for Wikipedia the Internet Archive and dozens of major web properties that make use of Kaltura&#8217;s platform. His work includes work on scalable video delivery across numerous browsers and devices, subtitling, advertising, analytics and video editing in HTML5.</p>"
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        "serial": 172988,
        "name": "Avik Das",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_172988.jpg",
        "url": null,
        "position": "Software Engineer",
        "affiliation": "LinkedIn",
        "twitter": "",
        "bio": "<p>I graduated from UC Berkeley with Bachelor&#8217;s degrees in <span class=\"caps\">EECS</span> and Math, and have since worked at LinkedIn as a software developer. I currently am the lead for the server that powers the LinkedIn iPad application.</p>\n<p>In my free time, I love working out, and when I find the time, I like to dabble in cooking.</p>"
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        "serial": 131890,
        "name": "Jennifer Davidson",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_131890.jpg",
        "url": null,
        "position": "Program Manager",
        "affiliation": "ChickTech",
        "twitter": "jewifer",
        "bio": "<p>Jennifer Davidson is Program Manager for ChickTech, a nonprofit geared toward getting more girls and women interested and retained in technology careers. She is a PhD candidate in Computer Science with a minor in Aging Sciences at Oregon State University. She is currently working on research related to involving older adults in the design and development of open source software. Her research bridges the fields of human-computer interaction, open source software communities, and gerontechnology. She is also the Community Manager for Privly, an open source project related to internet privacy.</p>"
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        "serial": 172536,
        "name": "A. Jesse Jiryu Davis",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_172536.jpg",
        "url": "http://emptysqua.re/",
        "position": "Senior Python Engineer",
        "affiliation": "MongoDB",
        "twitter": "jessejiryudavis",
        "bio": "<p>Senior Python Engineer at MongoDB in New York City. Author of Motor, an async MongoDB driver for Tornado, and of Toro, a library of locks and queues for Tornado coroutines. Contributor to Python, PyMongo, MongoDB, Tornado, and Tulip.</p>"
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        "serial": 173393,
        "name": "Kristen  Dedeaux",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_173393.jpg",
        "url": null,
        "position": "Technical Writer, Editor ",
        "affiliation": "Kristen Dedeaux Consulting ",
        "twitter": "",
        "bio": "<p>Kristen Dedeaux is a technical writer and an open source enthusiast. She has a passion for the written word and enjoys sharing her editorial expertise with others. Throughout her seven-year career as a content manager and editor in the fast-paced financial industry, she has championed several successful training programs and designed numerous writing workshops. Within the past year, she created an internal corporate blog, &#8220;The Writer\u2019s Block: Tips for Better Business Writing&#8221;, which received positive feedback from users across the globe, particularly from software engineers. The fastest red pen in the West, she can wrangle any stubborn sentence into shape.</p>"
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        "serial": 173414,
        "name": "Ethan Dereszynski",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_173414.jpg",
        "url": null,
        "position": "Research Scientist",
        "affiliation": "Webtrends",
        "twitter": "",
        "bio": "<p>Ethan Dereszynski is a research scientist in machine learning and data mining at Webtrends. He earned his PhD in computer science at Oregon State University in 2012. Ethan\u2019s research focuses on the application of machine learning, in particular Bayesian statistics and probabilistic models, to challenging problems across multiple disciplines. Combining work and play, Ethan is also interested in unsupervised approaches for learning models of player behavior in real-time strategy games (read: accepting all challengers at StarCraft). Prior to studying at Oregon State, he received a B.S. in computer science at Alma College, where he minored in Mathematics and English.</p>"
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        "serial": 174072,
        "name": "Henning  Diedrich",
        "photo": null,
        "url": "http://www.eonblast.com/",
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        "twitter": "hdiedrich",
        "bio": "<p>Henning is an entrepreneur, programmer and game designer. He is the Lead Software Engineer / Berlin at SumUp, a European mobile <span class=\"caps\">POS</span> company. Henning is the creator of the Erlang VoltDB driver Erlvolt and a maintainer of the Erlang MySQL driver Emysql. His Open Source contributions for Erlang, Lua, MySQL and VoltDB are direct results of what pieces he found missing for a better game server stack.</p>\n<p>Henning wrote his first games on the C64, develops for the web since Netscape 1.0 and produced his first game server with Java 1.0. He created a language to describe tariffs for <span class=\"caps\">AXA</span> and programmed and produced browser games. He founded Eonblast to create a more immersive online game experience and as official cover for the Time Tuner mission.</p>\n<p>Starting out on a 1MHz <span class=\"caps\">CPU</span>, Henning&#8217;s special interest tends to be speed as an enabler. He has talked about evil performance hacks at the annual Lua Workshop, about his record setting Node.js VoltDB benchmark, and was elected to explain &#8216;Why Erlang?&#8217; to the game developer community at the <span class=\"caps\">GDC</span> Online 2012 (15.000 hits on slideshare.) He also contributed the underrated sed script markedoc to the <span class=\"caps\">OTP</span> stack, which converts markdown to edoc.</p>"
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        "serial": 122516,
        "name": "Renee DiResta",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_122516.jpg",
        "url": "http://reneediresta.com/",
        "position": "Principal",
        "affiliation": "OATV",
        "twitter": "noupside",
        "bio": "<p>Renee DiResta is a Principal at O&#8217;Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (<span class=\"caps\">OATV</span>), where she evaluates seed-stage investments.  Prior to joining <span class=\"caps\">OATV</span> in June of 2011, Renee spent seven as a trader at Jane Street Capital, a quantitative proprietary trading firm in New York City. She is interested in meeting interesting startups, data science, and improving liquidity and transparency in private markets.</p>"
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        "serial": 172973,
        "name": "Connor Doyle",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_172973.jpg",
        "url": "http://mesosphere.io/",
        "position": "Software Engineer",
        "affiliation": "Mesosphere, Inc.",
        "twitter": "nor0101",
        "bio": "<p>Connor Doyle is a software engineer at Mesosphere, focused on developing tools around Apache Mesos. Before joining Mesosphere, Connor worked at the design firm Gensler where he worked on process improvement, internal libraries and distributed architecture in Scala.  He completed his Master&#8217;s degree at the University of Wisconsin &#8211; La Crosse, where his capstone project was a distributed simulator for doing multi-agent learning research.</p>"
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        "serial": 173105,
        "name": "Drasko Draskovic",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_173105.jpg",
        "url": "http://we-io.net/",
        "position": "Embedded Linux Software Engineer",
        "affiliation": "nodesign.net",
        "twitter": "draskodraskovic",
        "bio": "<p>Engineer &#8211; artist, Dra\u0161ko usualy builds computers with operating systems in less than 5 square millimeters. He holds MSc degree in Electrical Engineering and has over 10 years of expertise in embedded systems, semicoductor and telecommunications industry, where he hacked the things beyond the limits.</p>\n<p>Dra\u0161ko earned his reputation in Open Source community by being constantly involved and contributing to several projects dealing with low-level kernel programming and Linux device drivers like WeIO platform, OpenOCD <span class=\"caps\">JTAG</span> debugger or CodeZero L4 hypervisor. He constantly walks on the thin line where hardware meets the software.</p>"
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        "serial": 137149,
        "name": "Clinton Dreisbach",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_137149.jpg",
        "url": "http://github.com/cndreisbach",
        "position": "Software developer",
        "affiliation": "The Iron Yard",
        "twitter": "cndreisbach",
        "bio": "<p>Clojure and Python hacker for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Lead developer on Qu, the CFPB&#8217;s public data platform, and contributor to Clojure, Hy, and other open source projects.</p>"
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        "serial": 123516,
        "name": "Emily Dunham",
        "photo": null,
        "url": "http://github.com/edunham",
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        "affiliation": "Oregon State University Open Source Lab",
        "twitter": "",
        "bio": "<p>Emily is a senior in computer science at Oregon State University. Since joining the <a href=\"http.osuosl.org\"><span class=\"caps\">OSU</span> Open Source Lab</a> in April  2011 a software developer on the <a href=\"http://code.osuosl.org/projects/ganeti-webmgr\">Ganeti Web Manager</a> project, she has worked as an intern at Intel, a teaching assistant in the computer science department, and a systems engineer at the <span class=\"caps\">OSL</span>. She founded the OSL&#8217;s <a href=\"http://devopsbootcamp.osuosl.org\">DevOps Bootcamp</a> outreach program in August 2013, and is involved with the <a href=\"http://lug.oregonstate.edu/\"><span class=\"caps\">OSU</span> Linux Users Group</a> and local <span class=\"caps\">FIRST</span> Robotics competitions.</p>"
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        "serial": 94695,
        "name": "David Elfi",
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        "url": null,
        "position": "Sr. Software Engineer",
        "affiliation": "Intel Corporation",
        "twitter": "",
        "bio": "<p>Certainly, David has gained experience in all the different roles he played at Intel since 2008. Mainly based on Ecommerce products guided by AppUp product, he worked for different product flavors in the areas of web services, consumer experience and mobile application development.<br />\nRecently, he entered in the world of managing data for business analysis in the research of improvements based on data collected from the field.</p>"
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        "serial": 140062,
        "name": "Jonathan Ellis",
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        "url": "http://www.datastax.com/",
        "position": "CTO &amp; Co-founder",
        "affiliation": "DataStax, Inc",
        "twitter": "spyced",
        "bio": "<p>Jonathan is <span class=\"caps\">CTO</span> and co-founder at DataStax. Prior to DataStax, Jonathan worked extensively with Apache Cassandra while employed at Rackspace. Prior to Rackspace, Jonathan built a multi-petabyte, scalable storage system based on Reed-Solomon encoding for backup provider Mozy. In addition to his work with DataStax, Jonathan is project chair of Apache Cassandra.</p>"
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        "serial": 172370,
        "name": "Michael Enescu",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_172370.jpg",
        "url": "http://blogs.cisco.com/openatcisco/",
        "position": "CTO Open Source Initiatives",
        "affiliation": "Cisco",
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        "bio": "<p>Michael Enescu is <span class=\"caps\">CTO</span> of Open Source Initiatives at Cisco, leading open source programs across multiple technologies and product lines. Previously he served as the first Vice President of Product at XenSource (acquired by Citrix) and one of the first employees. He has a broad range of experience having developed and delivered over two dozen enterprise and consumer software products. Previously he was a founding member of the Mobile Web Services group at Palm and a founding member of the Java Content and J2ME teams at Sun. He led the development of first streaming video servers and digital libraries at <span class=\"caps\">SGI</span>. He started his career in storage virtualization at <span class=\"caps\">IBM</span> where he managed the development of the earlier versions of IBM\u2019s core middleware platform product in the WebSphere suite, along with leading development in expert systems, operating systems and virtualization in IBM&#8217;s Storage Products group. Michael has a BS degree from Caltech and MS in Computer Science from Stanford University.</p>"
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        "serial": 169992,
        "name": "Catherine Farman",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_169992.jpg",
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        "position": "Developer",
        "affiliation": "Happy Cog",
        "twitter": "cfarm",
        "bio": "<p>Catherine Farman is a Developer at Happy Cog, where she builds standards-based websites using <span class=\"caps\">HTML</span>, <span class=\"caps\">CSS</span> and Javascript. Catherine has taught responsive web design, Javascript, and Sass courses for Girl Develop It. She\u2019s also helped develop new courses and has written open source curricula to share with other teachers. When she&#8217;s not at a computer she likes to sew and watch soccer.</p>"
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        "serial": 6631,
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        "url": "http://perltraining.com.au/",
        "position": "Managing Director",
        "affiliation": "Perl Training Australia",
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        "bio": "<p>Paul Fenwick is the managing director of Perl Training Australia, and has been teaching computer science for over a decade.  He is an internationally acclaimed presenter at conferences and user-groups worldwide, where he is well-known for his humour and off-beat topics.</p>\n<p>In his spare time, Paul&#8217;s interests include security, mycology, cycling, coffee, scuba diving, and lexically scoped user pragmata.</p>\n<p>*Photograph by <a href=\"http://greenman.smugmug.com/\">Joshua Button</a>.</p>"
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        "serial": 173433,
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        "url": "http://chapterthree.com/",
        "position": "Director of Engineering",
        "affiliation": "Chapter Three",
        "twitter": "mrf",
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        "serial": 1639,
        "name": "Edward Finkler",
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        "url": "http://funkatron.com/",
        "position": "Dead Agent",
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        "bio": "<p>Ed Finkler, also known as <a href=\"https://twitter.com/funkatron\">Funkatron</a>, started making web sites before browsers had frames. He does front-end and server-side work in Python, <span class=\"caps\">PHP</span>, and JavaScript.</p>\n<p>He served as web lead and security researcher at <a href=\"http://www.cerias.purdue.edu\">The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (<span class=\"caps\">CERIAS</span>) at Purdue University</a> for 9 years. Now he&#8217;s a proud member of the <a href=\"http://fictivekin.com\">Fictive Kin</a> team. Along with Chris Hartjes, Ed is co-host of the <a href=\"http://devhell.info\">Development Hell podcast</a>.</p>\n<p>Ed&#8217;s current passion is raising mental health awareness in the tech community with his <a href=\"http://funkatron.com/osmi\">Open Sourcing Mental Illness</a> speaking campaign. He is part of <a href=\"http://prompt.engineyard.com\">Engine Yard&#8217;s Prompt</a> campaign.</p>\n<p>Ed writes at <a href=\"http://funkatron.com\">funkatron.com</a>.</p>"
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        "serial": 152242,
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        "position": "Database Administrator",
        "affiliation": "OmniTI, Inc",
        "twitter": "keithf4",
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        "serial": 181484,
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        "url": "http://www.getchef.com/",
        "position": "Customer Success Engineer",
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        "bio": "<p>Tyler recently joined <span class=\"caps\">CHEF</span> as a Customer Success Engineer &#8211; championing<br />\nbest practices and delightful experiences in automation.  Prior to<br />\nworking at Chef he spent a decade as an engineer for Adobe developing<br />\nand automating commerce services for <a href=\"http://adobe.com\">adobe.com</a> using<br />\na variety of technologies.  He lives in Vancouver, WA and when he&#8217;s not<br />\nprogramming enjoys lacrosse and using his passport.</p>"
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        "serial": 178139,
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        "url": "http://www.intel.com/",
        "position": "Senior Software Engineer, Opensource Technology Center",
        "affiliation": "Intel Corp.",
        "twitter": "dirtycitybird",
        "bio": "<p>Beth &#8216;pidge&#8217; Flanagan is a Senior Software Engineer with Intel&#8217;s Opensource Technology Center. She spends most of her work life hacking on OpenEmbedded and the Yocto Project. She is the release engineer for the Yocto Project, maintainer of the yocto-autobuilder and pilot of the Yocto Blimp.</p>"
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        "serial": 46421,
        "name": "Richard Fontana",
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        "url": "http://www.redhat.com/",
        "position": "Counsel",
        "affiliation": "Red Hat, Inc.",
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        "bio": "<p>Richard Fontana is a lawyer at Red Hat, with particular responsibility<br />\nfor legal issues arising out of the software development process.<br />\nRichard specializes in copyright, trademark and patent issues,<br />\ntechnology transactions, free software/open source issues, computing<br />\ntechnology standards, data privacy and protection, information<br />\nsecurity, and legal matters relating to cloud computing. Richard is the<br />\nsole open source legal specialist at Red Hat, which is the world&#8217;s<br />\nlargest provider of open source-based enterprise software and cloud<br />\nsolutions, and he has been an active and influential public speaker on<br />\nmatters at the intersection of open source, law and policy. In<br />\naddition, Richard is an Individual Member-elected Board Director<br />\nof the Open Source Initiative.</p>"
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        "serial": 2650,
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        "url": "http://www.nealford.com/",
        "position": "meme wrangler",
        "affiliation": "ThoughtWorks",
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        "serial": 132564,
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        "serial": 171201,
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        "serial": 173336,
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        "serial": 156989,
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        "serial": 173325,
        "name": "Neel Goyal",
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        "serial": 179224,
        "name": "Chad Granum",
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        "twitter": "",
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        "serial": 181009,
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        "photo": null,
        "url": "http://www.bluehost.com/",
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        "serial": 171381,
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        "serial": 2397,
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        "serial": 143377,
        "name": "Arun Gupta",
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        "name": "Raymond Henderson",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_182521.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.grassroots.org/",
        "position": "Executive Director",
        "affiliation": "Grassroots.org",
        "twitter": "",
        "bio": "<p>Ray has over 25 years of experience in the business and non-profit sector.  He is the Executive Director of Grassroots.org, a nonprofit organization that helps over 8500 nonprofits accelerate their efforts through the use of technology and serves on the Board of Directors for Fight the New Drug.org.  Previously, he served as the Executive Director of Ohana Makamae Inc, an award winning substance abuse clinic and as Board President of Ma Ka Hana Ka `Ike, a nationally recognized, building and trades program for \u201cat risk\u201d youth in Hawaii.  Prior to his work with non-profits, he worked marketing management for US West Direct, <span class=\"caps\">MCI</span> WorldCom and <span class=\"caps\">MCA</span> Records.  His awards include: 2009 State of Hawaii \u2013 Governor\u2019s Innovation Award for Nonprofits, 2008 Maui- Executive Director of the Year, 2005 Outstanding Community Service Award and 2004 State of Hawaii &#8211; Collaborative Nonprofit Leader of the Year.</p>"
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        "serial": 173093,
        "name": "Ben Henick",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_173093.jpg",
        "url": "http://henick.net/",
        "position": "Sitebuilder At-Large",
        "affiliation": "[sole proprietor]",
        "twitter": "bhenick",
        "bio": "<p>Ben Henick has worked as a freelance web developer for more than fifteen years, catering especially to SMBs with unique project requirements.  He has also fulfilled a number of production contracts relating to sites well-known to technology workers; odds are short that at one time or another, your web browser has rendered a stylesheet that he wrote.</p>\n<p>Ben has fulfilled one contract for O&#8217;Reilly Media, for <em><span class=\"caps\">HTML</span> &amp; <span class=\"caps\">CSS</span>: The Good Parts</em> (2010). He is currently working on three others:</p>\n<ul>\n\t<li><em>The New Beginner&#8217;s Guide to <span class=\"caps\">HTML</span> (\u2026And <span class=\"caps\">CSS</span>)</em> (2014, Atlas-only, free-to-read)</li>\n\t<li><em>No-Nonsense <span class=\"caps\">HTML</span> &amp; <span class=\"caps\">CSS</span></em> (2014)</li>\n\t<li><em>Mastering <span class=\"caps\">HTML</span> &amp; <span class=\"caps\">CSS</span></em> (2014)</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Prior to joining O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s author roster, Ben served a stint as the Managing Editor of the erstwhile <a href=\"http://www.digital-web.com/\">Digital Web Magazine</a> and was active in several volunteer professional education settings, including the Web Standards Project, Evolt, and webdesign-l. He still lurks webdesign-l and the css-d mailing lists, along with other O&#8217;Reilly authors.</p>\n<p>Ben lives in his hometown of Portland, Oregon, and is currently seeking to switch from freelance to fulltime exempt work.</p>"
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        "serial": 161475,
        "name": "Cody Herriges",
        "photo": null,
        "url": "http://puppetlabs.com/",
        "position": "Operations Engineer",
        "affiliation": "Puppet Labs",
        "twitter": "cody_herriges",
        "bio": "<p>Cody Herriges joined Puppet Labs in 2010 and now serves as the current Tech Lead of Systems maintaining Puppet Labs&#8217; public and private cloud platforms, storage, and hardware infrastructure. He started his career in higher education infrastructure management where he deployed his school&#8217;s first x86 virtualization cluster on top of <span class=\"caps\">KVM</span>. It was a world of complicated legacy software needing to fit into a transformed open source world. Needing to maintain all this software eventually taught him the importance of automation.</p>"
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        "serial": 156534,
        "name": "Jason Hibbets",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_156534.jpg",
        "url": "http://opensource.com/",
        "position": "Project manager - opensource.com",
        "affiliation": "Red Hat",
        "twitter": "jhibbets",
        "bio": "<p>Jason Hibbets is a project manager in Corporate Marketing at Red Hat. He is the lead administrator, content curator, and community manager for <a href=\"http://Opensource.com\">Opensource.com</a> and has been with Red Hat since 2003. He is the author of &#8220;The foundation for an open source city,&#8221; a book that outlines how to implement the open source city brand through open government.</p>\n<p>He graduated from NC State University and lives in Raleigh, NC. where he&#8217;s been applying open source principles in neighborhood organizations in Raleigh for several years, highlighting the importance of transparency, collaboration, and community building. In his spare time, he enjoys surfing, gardening, watching football, participating in his local government, blogging for <a href=\"southwestraleigh.com\">South West Raleigh</a>, and training his Border Collies to be frisbee and agility dogs. He heads to the beaches of North Carolina during hurricane season to ride the waves.</p>"
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        "serial": 171822,
        "name": "Bridget Hillyer",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_171822.jpg",
        "url": "http://bridgetconsulting.com/",
        "position": "Software Consultant",
        "affiliation": "Self",
        "twitter": "BridgetHillyer",
        "bio": "<p>Bridget is an independent software consultant of many years. She is on the journey to become a Clojure programmer.</p>"
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        "serial": 6653,
        "name": "Mark Hinkle",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_6653.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.socializedsoftware.com/",
        "position": "Senior Director, Open Source Solutions",
        "affiliation": "Citrix",
        "twitter": "mrhinkle",
        "bio": "<p>Once upon a time, a lot longer ago then he wished Mark Hinkle was born in a small Pennsylvania town and through the most unlikely sequence of events ended up as a technologist involved in the development and evangelism of free and open source software.  Mark has written extensively on open source as the former editor-in-chief of LinuxWorld Magazine and for numerous other publications (Network World, Forbes, Linux.com). He currently is the Senior Director, Open Source Solutions at Citrix Systems where he helps support the Apache CloudStack and Xen.org projects. You can find his blog at www.socializedsoftware.com and you can follow him on Twitter @mrhinkle.</p>"
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        "serial": 122917,
        "name": "Rob Hirschfeld",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_122917.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.dell.com/cloud",
        "position": "Principal Architect, Cloud Solutions",
        "affiliation": "Dell, Inc.",
        "twitter": "zehicle",
        "bio": "<p>With a background in Mechanical and Systems Engineering, Rob Hirschfeld, Sr. Distinguished Cloud Architect at Dell, specializes in operations for large scale, integrated, and innovative cloud systems. He&#8217;s a community elected OpenStack board member, a leader of Dell&#8217;s OpenStack efforts, and founder of the Crowbar project. Rob helps Dell to set strategy for cloud computing, drives innovative cloud solutions to market, and works with customers on their cloud implementations. Rob is a graduate of Duke and Louisiana State University. In addition to cloud technologies, Rob is also known for his passion and expertise on the Agile/Lean process. You can find Rob\u2019s thoughts on cloud innovation at his blog <a href=\"www.RobHirschfeld.com\">RobHirschfeld.com</a> or as <a href=\"http://twitter.com/#zehicle\">@Zehicle</a>. on Twitter.</p>"
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        "serial": 62631,
        "name": "Jeanne Holm",
        "photo": null,
        "url": "http://km.nasa.gov/home/index.html",
        "position": "Chief Knowledge Architect",
        "affiliation": "Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA",
        "twitter": "jeanne_jpl",
        "bio": "<p>Jeanne Holm is the Chief Knowledge Architect at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (<span class=\"caps\">JPL</span>), California Institute of Technology. Ms. Holm leads NASA\u2019s Knowledge Management Team, looking at how to access and use the knowledge gathered over the many missions of the US space agency to support missions and to drive innovation. As a lead for the award-winning <span class=\"caps\">NASA</span> public and internal portals, she was at the helm of NASA\u2019s web during the largest Internet event in Government history\u2014the landing of the Mars Exploration Rovers on the surface of Mars. As the lead implementer for technologies supporting project managers at <span class=\"caps\">NASA</span>, her team\u2019s solutions are helping to drive how people will manage space missions in the future, learn virtually, and share lessons learned. Her latest activities involve the transformation of <span class=\"caps\">NASA</span> into a learning organization through innovative techniques in developing communities of practice and ensuring lessons are shared and embedded across the organization. Ms. Holm chairs The Federal Knowledge Management Group and a United Nations group looking at KM for Space.</p>\n<p>Her degrees are from <span class=\"caps\">UCLA</span> and Claremont Graduate University.  She is an instructor at <span class=\"caps\">UCLA</span> where she teaches internationally and her online and ground-based courses focuses on KM strategies and social networking. She has been awarded numerous honors, including the <span class=\"caps\">NASA</span> Exceptional Service Medal for leadership (twice), the <span class=\"caps\">NASA</span> Achievement Award for her work on the Galileo and Voyager spacecraft, three Webby\u2019s from The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, Competia\u2019s 2003 Champion of the Year, and a best practice from the <span class=\"caps\">APQC</span> for \u201cUsing Knowledge Management to Drive Innovation\u201d.</p>\n<p>Specialties<br />\nDesigning and implementing knowledge architectures, system design and integration, knowledge management practices and systems, knowledge-based engineering, e-learning, instructional design and delivery, social networking analysis, inter-agency and inter-organizational knowledge sharing</p>"
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      {

        "serial": 173380,
        "name": "Johnny Hughes",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_173380.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.centos.org/",
        "position": "Software Engineer",
        "affiliation": "CentOS Project",
        "twitter": "",
        "bio": "<p>CentOS-4 Lead Developer, CentOS-5 updates, CentOS-6 updates. If you are looking for me in the CentOS <span class=\"caps\">IRC</span> channels or Forums I am hughesjr there.</p>\n<p>I first started working with <span class=\"caps\">UNIX</span> in the early 1980&#8217;s with an AT&amp;T 3b2 server.</p>\n<p>I first started working with Linux in 1995 with a Red Hat Linux webserver.</p>\n<p>I retired from the US Navy in 1997 (I spent ~20 years as a Engineering Laboratory Technician on Nuclear Submarines while in the US Navy). Lots of that time I also spent as a <span class=\"caps\">UNIX</span> systems administrator working with AT&amp;T and HP-UX servers.</p>\n<p>Since 1997 I have been a <span class=\"caps\">UNIX</span> (HP-UX, <span class=\"caps\">AIX</span>, Solaris), Windows (NT, 2000, 2003), Linux (Red Hat, CentOS) systems administrator, an Oracle <span class=\"caps\">DBA</span>, a Senior Systems Analyst and a Network Engineer &#8230; and finally now a Software Engineer for the CentOS Project</p>"
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        "serial": 77939,
        "name": "Nathan Humbert",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_77939.jpg",
        "url": "http://nathanhumbert.com/",
        "position": "Senior Software Engineer",
        "affiliation": "New Relic, Inc.",
        "twitter": "",
        "bio": "<p>Nathan Humbert is a Senior Software Engineer at New Relic where he works with an amazing group of people to build software that helps people understand how their software is functioning.</p>"
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        "serial": 159719,
        "name": "Michael Hunger",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_159719.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.neo4j.org/",
        "position": "Developer Evangelist",
        "affiliation": "Neo Technology",
        "twitter": "mesirii",
        "bio": "<p>Michael Hunger has been passionate about software development for a long time. He is particularly interested in the people who develop software, software craftsmanship, programming languages, and improving code.</p>\n<p>For the last two years he has been working with Neo Technology on the Neo4j graph database. As the project lead of Spring Data Neo4j he helped developing the idea to become a convenient and complete solution for object graph mapping. He is also taking care of Neo4j cloud hosting efforts.</p>\n<p>As a developer he loves to work with many aspects of programming languages, learning new things every day, participating in exciting and ambitious open source projects and contributing to different programming related books. Michael is a frequent speaker at industry events and is an active editor and interviewer at InfoQ.</p>"
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        "serial": 164756,
        "name": "Pete Hunt",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_164756.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.petehunt.net/",
        "position": "Software Engineer",
        "affiliation": "Facebook / Instagram",
        "twitter": "floydophone",
        "bio": "<p>Hacker at Facebook, currently leading Instagram.com web engineering. Formerly Facebook Photos and Videos lead.</p>\n<p>Core team on http://facebook.github.io/react/ and http://github.com/facebook/huxley</p>"
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        "serial": 4265,
        "name": "Kirsten Hunter",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_4265.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.princesspolymath.com/",
        "position": "API Evangelist",
        "affiliation": "Akamai",
        "twitter": "synedra",
        "bio": "<p>Kirsten Hunter is an unapologetic hacker and passionate advocate for the development community. Her technical interests range from graph databases to cloud services, and her experience supporting and evangelizing <span class=\"caps\">REST</span> APIs has given her a unique perspective on developer success. In her copious free time she&#8217;s a gamer, fantasy reader, and all around rabble-rouser. Code samples, recipes, and philosophical musings can be found on her blog, Princess Polymath.</p>"
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        "serial": 152299,
        "name": "Vanessa Hurst",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_152299.jpg",
        "url": "http://vanessahurst.com/",
        "position": "CEO",
        "affiliation": "CodeMontage",
        "twitter": "DBNess",
        "bio": "<p>Vanessa is a data-focused developer and the <span class=\"caps\">CEO</span> of <a href=\"http://codemontage.com\">CodeMontage</a>, which empowers coders to improve their impact on the world. She believes computing is one of the most efficient and effective ways to improve the human experience. She founded <a href=\"http://developersforgood.org\">Developers for Good</a> and co-founded <a href=\"http://writespeakcode.com\">WriteSpeakCode</a> and <a href=\"http://girldevelopit.com\">Girl Develop It</a>. Previously, she wrangled data at <a href=\"http://paperlesspost.com\">Paperless Post</a>, Capital IQ, and WealthEngine. Vanessa holds a B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Systems and Information Engineering from the University of Virginia.</p>\n<p>Vanessa&#8217;s work in technology education and social change has appeared on the <span class=\"caps\">TODAY</span> show, <span class=\"caps\">NPR</span>, Al Jazeera America, Entrepreneur, The New York Times, Fast Company, and other media. She serves as a cast member for Code.org, a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring every student has the opportunity to learn to code, which reached over 20 million students in 2013 alone.</p>"
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        "serial": 173235,
        "name": "Mihail Irintchev",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_173235.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.siteground.com/",
        "position": "Head of Software Development",
        "affiliation": "SiteGround",
        "twitter": "irintchev",
        "bio": "<p>Born and living in Sofia, Bulgaria</p>\n<p>Lived in Ohio for a while</p>\n<p>Bachelor&#8217;s degree in CS from the American University in Bulgaria, class of 2003</p>\n<p>MSc from Sofia University &#8211; Electronic Business, class of 2006</p>\n<p>Web developer since 2003</p>\n<p>Co-founder of the BulgariaPHP user group</p>\n<p>Working at SiteGround since 2003</p>\n<p>Interested in history, military vehicles, motorcycles, science fiction, rock&#8217;n&#8217;roll</p>"
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        "serial": 122564,
        "name": "Phil Jackson",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_122564.jpg",
        "url": "http://sldn.softlayer.com/",
        "position": "Development Community Advocate",
        "affiliation": "SoftLayer",
        "twitter": "",
        "bio": "<p>Phil Jackson is Development Community Advocate for SoftLayer. He helps customers and partners integrate with the SoftLayer&#8217;s <span class=\"caps\">API</span>. He also architects the company&#8217;s Drupal websites, writes <span class=\"caps\">API</span> documentation, and maintains the developer blog. Formerly, he was a Sales Engineer building internal tools and providing technical consultation for potential and existing customers. Jackson started his career in webhosting at Ev1Servers where he led the training department. With a passion for technology that started at a young age, he has developed skills in a variety of scripting and programming languages and enjoys sharing his knowledge with the tech community.</p>"
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        "serial": 173189,
        "name": "Daniel Jacobson",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_173189.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.netflix.com/",
        "position": "Vice President of Engineering, Netflix API and Playback",
        "affiliation": "Netflix",
        "twitter": "daniel_jacobson",
        "bio": "<p>Daniel Jacobson is the Director of Engineering for the <span class=\"caps\">API</span> and Playback Services at Netflix, responsible for delivering more than one billion streaming hours a month to Netflix users on more than 1,000 device types. Prior to Netflix, he was Director of Application Development at <span class=\"caps\">NPR</span>, leading the development of NPR\u2019s custom content management system. He also created NPR\u2019s <span class=\"caps\">API</span> which became the distribution channel for getting <span class=\"caps\">NPR</span> content to mobile platforms, member station sites throughout the country as well as to the public developer community. Daniel also co-authored the O\u2019Reilly book, \u201cAPIs: A Strategy Guide.</p>"
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      {

        "serial": 173435,
        "name": "Paul Kehrer",
        "photo": null,
        "url": "http://rackspace.com/",
        "position": "Developer IV",
        "affiliation": "Rackspace",
        "twitter": "reaperhulk",
        "bio": "<p>Paul Kehrer is the crypto expert on the Barbican project, an open source key management platform for OpenStack. He has experience running a public certificate authority as well as doing significant open source work in cryptography by writing and maintaining r509, a ruby library for managing a certificate infrastructure and cryptography, a modern python crypto library.</p>"
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        "serial": 120025,
        "name": "Benjamin Kerensa",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_120025.jpg",
        "url": "http://benjaminkerensa.com/",
        "position": "Community Release Manager",
        "affiliation": "Mozilla",
        "twitter": "bkerensa",
        "bio": "<p>Benjamin Kerensa is an internationally recognized open source evangelist, community manager, writer and speaker who currently is a Firefox Release Manager and Community Manager for Trovebox.</p>"
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        "serial": 182019,
        "name": "Saud Khan",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_182019.jpg",
        "url": "http://twitter.com/bidyut",
        "position": "Software Engineer",
        "affiliation": "Twitter",
        "twitter": "",
        "bio": "<p>Over the past years Saud has worked on upgrading the user experience of Twitter for Android including search, trends and collections. From bringing search suggestions to the amazing photo grid of search results, Saud has worked with the designers to bring advanced search features in a mix of Twitter and Android design paradigm.</p>\n<p>Before that Saud developed a generic call management library used to bring VoIP capabilities in various mobile devices including Android, iOS and Windows CE. Additionally he worked on porting the solution over to myriad of embedded platforms like radio gateways and call boxes.</p>"
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        "serial": 157931,
        "name": "Shashank Khandelwal",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_157931.jpg",
        "url": "http://cfpb.gov/",
        "position": "Software Developer",
        "affiliation": "Consumer Financial Protection Bureau",
        "twitter": "gazeti",
        "bio": "<p>As a Design and Technology Fellow at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Shashank Khandelwal develops software to make consumer financial products work for the American people. He have over eight years of software development experience and his career spans multiple domains, languages and technologies. More recently, Shashank used a data-driven approach to study human health behavior.  He wrote software to collect large-scale social media data, filter, and analyze it using machine learning techniques, and released it as a disease surveillance platform for the academic, private, and government health community. One of his earlier Twitter-based studies has been featured on <span class=\"caps\">NPR</span> (&#8220;What Twitter Knows about Flu&#8221; by Jordan Calmes on October 14, 2011). Previously, he wrote document management software and worked on the vacation packages team at Orbitz (in Chicago). Over the years, he has written software in Python, Java, <span class=\"caps\">PHP</span> and other languages using a variety of tools, applications and libraries.</p>"
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        "serial": 172929,
        "name": "Kevin Kluge",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_172929.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.elasticsearch.org/",
        "position": "VP Engineering",
        "affiliation": "Elasticsearch",
        "twitter": "kevinkluge",
        "bio": "<p>Kevin is Vice President of Engineering at Elasticsearch, which produces open source search and analytics software. Previously Kevin was at Citrix Systems where he was responsible for engineering of Citrix CloudPlatform, powered by Apache CloudStack. Kevin has also held senior engineering positions at several other start-ups, including Cloud.com and Zimbra, and Sun Microsystems. Kevin has a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.</p>"
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        "serial": 144736,
        "name": "Francesca Krihely",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_144736.jpg",
        "url": "http://10gen.com/",
        "position": "Community Lead",
        "affiliation": "MongoDB",
        "twitter": "francium",
        "bio": "<p>Francesca is the Community Lead for MongoDB, managing the fastest growing community in Big Data. In this role she is responsible for managing acquisition and development of new community members and build out open source contributions to MongoDB&#8217;s server and project ecosystem. She holds a BA from Oberlin College in History and Sociology and is a recovering Philosophy nerd.</p>"
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        "serial": 125113,
        "name": "Spencer Krum",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_125113.jpg",
        "url": null,
        "position": "Cloud Engineer",
        "affiliation": "HP",
        "twitter": "",
        "bio": "<p>Spencer is a DevOps Engineer at UTi Worldwide Inc, a logistics firm. He has been using Puppet for 4 years. He is one of the co-authors of Pro Puppet 2nd edition from Apress. He lives and works in Portland and enjoys cycling and Starcraft.</p>"
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        "serial": 6380,
        "name": "Bradley Kuhn",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_6380.jpg",
        "url": "http://ebb.org/bkuhn/",
        "position": "President",
        "affiliation": "Software Freedom Conservancy",
        "twitter": "bkuhn_ebb_org",
        "bio": "<p><a href=\"http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/\">Bradley M. Kuhn</a> is a <a href=\"http://www.fsf.org/about/leadership.html\">Director of <span class=\"caps\">FSF</span></a>, <a href=\"http://sfconservancy.org/about/officers/\">President</a> of the <a href=\"http://sfconsevancy.org/\">Software Freedom Conservancy</a>, and won the <a href=\"http://www.oscon.com/oscon2012/public/schedule/detail/25039\">O&#8217;Reilly Open Source Award at <span class=\"caps\">OSCON</span> 2012</a>.  Kuhn began his work in the Free, Libre and Open Source Software (<span class=\"caps\">FLOSS</span>) Movement as a volunteer in 1992, when he became an early adopter of the <a href=\"http://gnu.org\"><span class=\"caps\">GNU</span></a> /Linux operating system, and began contributing to various <span class=\"caps\">FLOSS</span> projects.  He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator and software developer for various companies, and taught AP Computer Science at <a href=\"http://www.walnuthillseagles.com/\">Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati</a>.  Kuhn&#8217;s non-profit career began in 2000, when he was hired by the <a href=\"http://fsf.org/\" title=\"FSF\">Free Software Foundation</a>. As FSF&#8217;s Executive Director from 2001-2005, Kuhn led FSF&#8217;s <span class=\"caps\">GPL</span> enforcement, launched its Associate Member program, and invented the <a href=\"http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html\">Affero <span class=\"caps\">GPL</span></a>. From 2005-2010, Kuhn worked as the Policy Analyst and Technology Director of the Software Freedom Law Center.  Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science from <a href=\"http://www.loyola.edu/computerscience/\">Loyola University in Maryland</a>, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the <a href=\"http://www.cs.uc.edu/\">University of Cincinnati</a>.  <a href=\"http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/articles/thesis/\">His Master&#8217;s thesis</a> (<a href=\"http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/articles/perljvm.html\">an excerpt from which</a> won the Damien Conway Award for Best Technical Paper at this conference in 2000) discussed methods for dynamic interoperability of <span class=\"caps\">FLOSS</span> languages.  Kuhn has a <a href=\"http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/blog\">regular blog</a> and a microblog (<a href=\"http://identi.ca/bkuhn/\">@bkuhn on identi.ca</a>).</p>"
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        "serial": 170822,
        "name": "Andreas Kunz",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_170822.jpg",
        "url": "http://openui5.org/",
        "position": "Development Architect",
        "affiliation": "SAP SE",
        "twitter": "aku_dev",
        "bio": "<p>Working as Software Developer and Architect at <span class=\"caps\">SAP</span> since 2005, focusing on user interfaces.<br />\nMember of the UI5 (<span class=\"caps\">HTML</span>/JS UI library created by <span class=\"caps\">SAP</span>) development team since its inception and spending considerable time to work around browser bugs&#8230;</p>"
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        "serial": 62981,
        "name": "Lars Kurth",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_62981.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.xen.org/",
        "position": "Director Open Source Programs Office, Community Manager Xen Project",
        "affiliation": "Citrix Systems Ltd",
        "twitter": "lars_kurth",
        "bio": "<p>Lars Kurth had his first contact with the open source community in 1997 when he worked on various parts of the <span class=\"caps\">ARM</span> toolchain. This experience led Lars to become a passionate open source enthusiast who worked with and for many open source communities over the past 15 years. Lars contributed to projects such as <span class=\"caps\">GCC</span>, Eclipse, Symbian and Xen and became the open source community manager for Xen.org in 2011. Lars is an IT generalist with a wide range of skills in software development and methodology.  He is experienced in leading and building engineering teams and communities, as well as constructing marketing, product management, and change programs impacting 1000s of users. He has 17 years of industry experience in the infrastructure, tools and mobile sectors working at <span class=\"caps\">ARM</span>, Citrix, Nokia and the Symbian Foundation.</p>"
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        "serial": 177245,
        "name": "Shadaj Laddad",
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        "serial": 172658,
        "name": "Michael Laing",
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        "serial": 173308,
        "name": "Alex Lakatos",
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        "position": "Mozilla Representative",
        "affiliation": "Mozilla",
        "twitter": "lakatos88",
        "bio": "<p>Alex Lakatos is a Mozilla Representative and contributor to the Mozilla project for the past three years, based in Cluj-Napoca, the heart of Transylvania. He&#8217;s a JavaScript developer building on the open web, trying to push it&#8217;s boundaries every day. You can check out his github profile or get in touch on twitter. When he\u2019s not programming, he likes to travel the world, so it\u2019s likely you\u2019ll bump into him in an airport lounge.</p>"
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        "serial": 137347,
        "name": "James Lance",
        "photo": null,
        "url": "http://www.bluehost.com/",
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        "bio": "<p>James Lance is a developer at <a href=\"https://www.bluehost.com\">Bluehost.com</a>.  He has been developing in Perl for over 10 years. He is also an active member in the <a href=\"http://utos.org\">Utah Open Source</a> community and Core Team member of the <a href=\"http://www.openwest.org/\">OpenWest Conference</a></p>\n<p>When he\u2019s not behind a computer you can usually find a yo-yo in his hand.  He also enjoys Ham radio, camping, and various forms of BBQing (smoking in particular).</p>"
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        "serial": 116050,
        "name": "Yoav Landman",
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        "serial": 172864,
        "name": "Markus Lanthaler",
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        "position": "Developer, Consultant, W3C Invited Expert",
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        "serial": 183609,
        "name": "Walter `wxl` Lapchynski",
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        "name": "Chris Launey",
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        "position": "Director of Cloud Services &amp; Architecture",
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        "twitter": "clauney",
        "bio": "<p>Chris Launey is the Director of Cloud Services &amp; Architecture in the core<br />\narchitecture and engineering group at the Walt Disney Company. His<br />\norganization lives at the intersection of the quickly shifting demands of<br />\na media and entertainment company and the mission of a managed service<br />\nprovider to maintain a stable, scalable, and efficient technology<br />\nplatform. Chris team launched Disney\u00b9s first true on-demand IaaS offering<br />\nand built a service integration platform to cloudify more internal<br />\ntechnology services. His team is now building on that to make pubic<br />\nservices easier to broker and consume for the Walt Disney Company.</p>"
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        "serial": 151665,
        "name": "Mark Lavin",
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        "affiliation": "Caktus Consulting Group",
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        "bio": "<p>Mark is a lead Python/Django developer and technical manager at Caktus Consulting Group in Carrboro, NC. He also runs a small homebrewing website written in Django called brewedbyus.com. He came to Python web development after a few years pricing derivatives on Wall Street. Mark maintains a number of open source projects primarily related to Django development and frequently contributes back to projects used by Caktus. When he isn&#8217;t programming, Mark enjoys spending time with his wife and daughter, brewing beer, and running.</p>"
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        "serial": 152106,
        "name": "Ed Leafe",
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        "url": "http://rackspace.com/",
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        "affiliation": "Rackspace",
        "twitter": "EdLeafe",
        "bio": "<p>Ed has been a developer for over 20 years, and is one of the original developers involved with the creation of <strong>OpenStack</strong>. After leaving the Microsoft world over a decade ago he has been primarily a Python developer, and has spoken as several US PyCons, as well as PyCon Australia and PyCon Canada. He has been working with Rackspace for the past 6 years as a senior Python developer. He also throws a mean Frisbee.</p>"
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        "serial": 74565,
        "name": "Jonathan LeBlanc",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_74565.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.jcleblanc.com/",
        "position": "Head of Global Developer Evangelism",
        "affiliation": "PayPal + Braintree",
        "twitter": "jcleblanc",
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        "serial": 157509,
        "name": "Robert Lefkowitz",
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        "serial": 124700,
        "name": "Janice Levenhagen-Seeley",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_124700.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.chicktech.org/",
        "position": "Executive Director",
        "affiliation": "ChickTech",
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        "bio": "<p>Janice is the Executive Director of <a href=\"http://chicktech.org\">ChickTech</a>. She has a BS in Computer Engineering from Oregon State University and an <span class=\"caps\">MBA</span> from Willamette University. She believes strongly that the diversity and strengths that women can bring will push high tech to even more impressive heights. Her inspiration for creating ChickTech came from her own experiences in computer engineering and the realization that the percentage of women in engineering isn\u2019t going to get higher by itself.</p>"
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        "serial": 161517,
        "name": "Pernilla Lind",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_161517.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.neo4j.org/",
        "position": "Community Manager",
        "affiliation": "Neo4j",
        "twitter": "p3rnilla",
        "bio": "<p>Pernilla is the Community Manager at Neo Technology, the company behind the open source project Neo4j. Pernilla loves to connect and spread the word of graphs and bring new ideas into life. She is an engaging speaker and teacher and hasthe mission in life to spread knowledge about technology.Pernilla spent some times in Kenya with the massai people for a year to build up their infrastructure and engage their community to do income generating activities. Before that she lived in Gambia to help up a womens organization.</p>\n<p>Pernilla is also an engaging member and organizer of Geek Girl Meetup, a network for women in tech in Sweden, where she plans and organizes conferences and meetups. She is always involved in different technoogy ecosystems and loves to meet new people and learn about new cool tech stuff. To be a role model and stand up for peoples right it\u2019s something Pernilla always do.</p>\n<p>Cats, people, philantrophy,  graphs, open data, women in tech, innovation, crazy ideas and Doctor Who are subjects Pernilla can talk about forever.</p>"
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        "serial": 77469,
        "name": "Philip Lindsay",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_77469.jpg",
        "url": "http://rancidbacon.com/",
        "position": "Troublemaker/Artisan",
        "affiliation": "rancidbacon.com",
        "twitter": "RancidBacon",
        "bio": "<p>Philip Lindsay (also known as &#8220;follower&#8221; from <a href=\"http://rancidbacon.com/\">rancidbacon.com</a> ) writes documentation, creates code libraries, develops example projects and provides developer support for companies including <a href=\"http://getpebble.com/\">Pebble Technology</a>, <a href=\"http://sparkfun.com/\">SparkFun Electronics</a>, <a href=\"http://arduino.cc/\">Arduino</a> and other clients.</p>\n<p>Tim O&#8217;Reilly once called Philip a &#8220;troublemaker&#8221; for his early Google Maps reverse engineering efforts.</p>\n<p>He has a particular interest in the areas where design, art, craft and technology intersect.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.labradoc.com/i/follower\">Follow his project logs at Labradoc</a>.</p>"
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        "serial": 173403,
        "name": "Steve Lipner",
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        "url": "http://www.microsoft.com/security/sdl/",
        "position": "Partner Director of Software Security, Trustworthy Computing Security",
        "affiliation": "Microsoft Corp.",
        "twitter": "msftsecurity",
        "bio": "<p>Steve Lipner, Senior Director of Security Engineering Strategy, Microsoft\u2019s Trustworthy Computing Group</p>\n<p>As the senior director of security engineering strategy in Microsoft Corp.\u2019s Trustworthy Computing Group, Steve Lipner is responsible for Microsoft\u2019s Security Development Lifecycle team, including the development of programs that provide improved product security and privacy to Microsoft\u00ae customers. Additionally, Lipner is responsible for Microsoft\u2019s engineering strategies related to the company\u2019s End to End Trust initiative, aimed at extending Trustworthy Computing to the Internet.</p>\n<p>Lipner has more than 35 years experience as a researcher, development manager and general manager in information technology security, and is named as inventor on thirteen U.S. patents in the field of computer and network security. He holds both an S.B. and S.M. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and attended the Harvard Business School\u2019s Program for Management Development.</p>"
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        "serial": 171564,
        "name": "Joshua Long",
        "photo": null,
        "url": "http://spring.io/",
        "position": "Spring Developer Advocate",
        "affiliation": "Pivotal",
        "twitter": "starbuxman",
        "bio": "<p>Josh Long is the Spring developer advocate at [Pivotal](http://gopivotal.com). Josh is the lead author on 4 books and instructor in one of Safari&#8217;s best-selling video series, all on Spring. When he&#8217;s not hacking on code, he can be found at the local Java User Group or at the local coffee shop. Josh likes solutions that push the boundaries of the technologies that enable them. His interests include cloud-computing, business-process management, big-data and high availability, mobile computing and smart systems. He blogs on [spring.io](https://spring.io/team/jlong) or on [his personal blog](http://joshlong.com) and [on Twitter (@starbuxman)](http://twitter.com/starbuxman).</p>"
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        "serial": 141574,
        "name": "Tim Mackey",
        "photo": null,
        "url": "http://www.citrix.com/",
        "position": "Cloud Evangelist",
        "affiliation": "Citrix Systems",
        "twitter": "XenServerArmy",
        "bio": "<p>Tim Mackey is a technology evangelist for XenServer and CloudStack within the Citrix Open Source Business Office and focused on server virtualization and cloud orchestration technical competencies.  When he joined Citrix in 2003, he was an engineer and architect focused on low impact application performance monitoring.  During his tenure at Citrix he has held roles in the XenServer team as an architect, consultant, product manager and product marketing.</p>"
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        "serial": 109140,
        "name": "Anil Madhavapeddy",
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        "url": "http://anil.recoil.org/",
        "position": "Research Fellow",
        "affiliation": "University of Cambridge",
        "twitter": "avsm",
        "bio": "<p>Dr. Anil Madhavapeddy is a Senior Research Fellow at <a href=\"http://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk\">Wolfson College</a> and is based in the <a href=\"http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk\">Cambridge University Computer Laboratory</a>, investigating programming models for cloud computing. Anil was on the original team at Cambridge that developed the <a href=\"http://www.xen.org\">Xen hypervisor</a>, and subsequently served as the senior architect and product director for XenSource/Citrix before returning to academia.</p>\n<p>Anil has a diverse <a href=\"http://uk.linkedin.com/in/anilmadhavapeddy\">background</a> in industry at Network Appliance, Citrix, <span class=\"caps\">NASA</span>, and Internet Vision.  He is an active member of the open source development community with the <a href=\"http:/www.openbsd.org\">OpenBSD</a> operating system and <a href=\"http://github.com/avsm\">more</a>, and the co-chair of this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http://www.cufp.org\">Commercial Uses of Functional Programming</a> conference.</p>"
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        "serial": 173303,
        "name": "Rachel Magario",
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        "position": "Adversity Expert",
        "affiliation": "The Blind Visionary",
        "twitter": "rachelmagario",
        "bio": "<p>Rachel Magario is an Assistive Technology Specialist at Pacer Simon Technology Center. As the first totally blind interaction designer, Rachel is known as a leader and visionary who has triumphed over adversity consistently throughout her life.</p>\n<p>Rachel has presented at <span class=\"caps\">SXSW</span> Interactive and consulted for various companies and universities throughout the United States on accessibility. Rachel has an <span class=\"caps\">MBA</span> with a concentration in Marketing and a Masters in Interaction design from the University of Kansas.</p>\n<p>Magario\u2019s dream is that usability and accessibility can be considered from the start of a project and not as an after thought. She believes this would open the door for access of information and for accessible tools. This shift would allow her and others to pursue their careers of choice and live with the dignity that should be the right of every human.</p>\n<p>Rachel has been involved with accessibility consulting and advocacy since the early 2000s. Throughout the years, Rachel served as an accessibility consultant to several university related projects and non-profit sites that were required to comply with section 508.</p>\n<p>Rachel soon realized through her experience that accessibility issues often involve problems of usability that affect anyone who accesses information. When Rachel started her Masters in Interaction Design, she experienced the lack of accessibility in the design tools that she was using as well as in end products coming out of these tools.<br />\nSince then, Rachel has made her mission to research and develop models and prototypes of accessible user experience. She enjoys working closely with designers and developers to ensure standards are met and to create awareness of the importance of accessible user experience.</p>"
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        "serial": 173324,
        "name": "Allison Mankin",
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        "url": null,
        "position": "Director of Verisign Labs",
        "affiliation": "Verisign, Inc.",
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        "bio": "<p>Allison is the Director of Verisign Labs, a research organization focusing on long-term evolution of the<br />\nInternet infrastructure and on open standards-based prototyping.  She has been active in Internet engineering<br />\nand research for over 25 years, including having served at the Internet Engineering Task Force as an area<br />\ndirector for 10 of those years.  She is best known having co-led the IPng Selection Process at <span class=\"caps\">IETF</span> (long ago).<br />\nPast open source projects include open internet conferencing, multicast and IPv6.  Her research and RFCs have been primarily in the areas of <span class=\"caps\">TCP</span> and <span class=\"caps\">DNS</span> and their security.</p>"
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        "serial": 118998,
        "name": "Jonathon Manning",
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        "url": "http://tothesecretlab.com/",
        "position": "Co-founder",
        "affiliation": "Secret Lab Pty. Ltd.",
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        "serial": 6931,
        "name": "Joshua Marinacci",
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        "url": "http://www.joshondesign.com/",
        "position": "Researcher",
        "affiliation": "Nokia",
        "twitter": "joshmarinacci",
        "bio": "<p>Ask me about <span class=\"caps\">HTML</span> Canvas, mobile apps, and visual design. Or 3D printing and wearable computing.  Or just ask me to rant about Java.</p>\n<p>Josh Marinacci is a blogger and co-author of &#8220;Swing Hacks&#8221; and &#8220;Building Mobile Apps with Java&#8221; for O&#8217;Reilly. He is currently a researcher for Nokia.</p>\n<p>He previously worked on webOS at Palm and JavaFX, Swing, NetBeans, and the Java Store at Sun Microsystems.</p>\n<p>Josh lives in Eugene, Oregon and is passionate about open source technology &amp; great user experiences.</p>"
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        "serial": 173388,
        "name": "Elaine Marino",
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        "url": "http://ladycodersboulder.com/homepage/about",
        "position": "Owner",
        "affiliation": "LadyCoder Productions",
        "twitter": "elaine_marino",
        "bio": "<p>Elaine Marino is a Ruby on Rails coder, marketer and entrepreneur with a 13-year background in strategic marketing and brand-building for Fortune 500 companies. Her ability to communicate effectively, manage large-scale projects, build brands and communities as well as web applications, puts her in a unique position within the software sector. There is a sweet-spot where technology enhances the lives of people and communities &#8212; that is where she thrives.</p>\n<p>She founded LadyCoders Boulder, a 2-day career career conference for 60 women software engineers, hosted at Google Boulder. LadyCoders Boulder provides tangible, real-world advice to women engineers to advance their careers.</p>"
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        "serial": 164144,
        "name": "Will Marshall",
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        "url": "http://www.planet.com/",
        "position": "CEO",
        "affiliation": "Planet Labs",
        "twitter": "wsm1",
        "bio": "<p>Will is responsible for setting the company\u2019s vision and and for architecting the company strategy. Previously, Will was a Scientist at <span class=\"caps\">NASA</span>/<span class=\"caps\">USRA</span> where he served as Co-Investigator for PhoneSat, Science Team member on the <span class=\"caps\">LCROSS</span> and <span class=\"caps\">LADEE</span> lunar missions. He led research projects in orbital space debris remediation. Will has published over 30 articles in scientific publications. Will received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Oxford and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University.</p>"
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        "serial": 5199,
        "name": "Alex Martelli",
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        "url": "http://www.aleax.it/",
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        "affiliation": "Google",
        "twitter": "",
        "bio": "<p>Alex Martelli wrote &#8220;Python in a Nutshell&#8221; and co-edited<br />\n&#8220;Python Cookbook&#8221;. He&#8217;s a <span class=\"caps\">PSF</span> member, and won the 2002 Activators&#8217; Choice Award and the 2006 Frank Willison Award for contributions to the Python community. He works as Senior Staff Engineer for Google. You can read some <a href=\"http://www.aleax.it/\">PDFs</a> and<br />\nwatch some <a href=\"http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=alex+martelli\">videos</a> of his past presentations.</p>"
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        "serial": 173465,
        "name": "Ritchie Martori",
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        "bio": "<p>Ritchie Martori is Node.js and Mobile developer at StrongLoop where he focuses on LoopBack, an open source mobile backend-as-a-service. He previously authored deployd, another mBaaS in use by over 20,000 developers to create their backend APIs, and is a contributor to Angular.js.</p>"
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        "serial": 17378,
        "name": "Matt May",
        "photo": null,
        "url": "http://adobe.com/accessibility/",
        "position": "Accessibility Engineer",
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        "serial": 159772,
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        "serial": 33987,
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        "position": "Director of Partner Integration",
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        "name": "Ryan Richards",
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        "name": "William A Rowe Jr",
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        "serial": 173364,
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        "url": "http://www.projectgado.org/",
        "position": "Founder and Project Manager",
        "affiliation": "Project Gado",
        "twitter": "projectgado",
        "bio": "<p>Thomas Smith is an inventor and entrepreneur, and the creator of the open source Gado 2 archival scanning robot. Hailed by the Wall Street Journal as &#8220;a robot which rescues black history&#8221;, the Gado 2 has been used to digitize 120,000+ images in the archives of the Afro American Newspapers, and is now in use at archives from California to Finland. Mr. Smith currently leads Project Gado, as well as several other ventures.</p>"
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        "serial": 131729,
        "name": "Garrett Smith",
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        "serial": 109116,
        "name": "Chris Smith",
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        "bio": "<p>Chris Smith is a web site architect for Xerox.com by day and transportation geek and City of Portland Planning and Sustainability Commissioner by night</p>"
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        "serial": 81759,
        "name": "Carol Smith",
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        "position": "Program Manager",
        "affiliation": "Google, Inc.",
        "twitter": "fossygrl",
        "bio": "<p>Carol Smith is the Open Source Programs Manager running Google<br />\nSummer of Code. She&#8217;s been at Google as a program manager for 9 years.<br />\nShe has a degree in photojournalism from California State University,<br />\nNorthridge, and is an avid cyclist and bibliophile.</p>"
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        "name": "Nathan Sobo",
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        "serial": 44753,
        "name": "Juhan Sonin",
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        "position": "Artist-programmer",
        "affiliation": "QUT",
        "twitter": "digego",
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        "serial": 175353,
        "name": "Derek Sorkin",
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        "serial": 151991,
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        "name": "Kara Sowles",
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        "url": null,
        "position": "Community Initiatives Manager",
        "affiliation": "Puppet Labs",
        "twitter": "FeyNudibranch",
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        "serial": 172240,
        "name": "Kaushik Srenevasan",
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        "position": "Staff Software Engineer",
        "affiliation": "Twitter",
        "twitter": "",
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        "serial": 131499,
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        "serial": 3476,
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        "serial": 170134,
        "name": "Mark Stanislav",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_170134.jpg",
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        "position": "Security Evangelist",
        "affiliation": "Duo Security",
        "twitter": "markstanislav",
        "bio": "<p>Mark Stanislav is the Security Evangelist for Duo Security, an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based startup focused on two-factor authentication and mobile security. With a career spanning over a decade, Mark has worked within small business, academia, startup, and corporate environments, primarily focused on Linux architecture, information security, and web application development.</p>\n<p>Mark has spoken nationally at over 70 events including <span class=\"caps\">RSA</span>, <span class=\"caps\">ISSA</span>, B-Sides, GrrCon, Infragard, and the Rochester Security Summit. Mark\u2019s security research has been featured on web sites including <span class=\"caps\">CSO</span> Online, Security Ledger, and Slashdot. Additionally, Mark is an active participant of local and nationals security organizations including <span class=\"caps\">ISSA</span>, Infragard, <span class=\"caps\">HTCIA</span>, ArbSec, and MiSec.</p>\n<p>Mark earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Networking and IT Administration and his Master of Science Degree in Technology Studies, focused on Information Assurance, both from Eastern Michigan University. During his time at <span class=\"caps\">EMU</span>, Mark built the curriculum for two courses focused on Linux administration and taught as an Adjunct Lecturer for two years. Mark holds <span class=\"caps\">CISSP</span>, Security+, Linux+, and <span class=\"caps\">CCSK</span> certifications.</p>"
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        "serial": 172899,
        "name": "Nicolas Steenhout",
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        "serial": 138530,
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        "serial": 172656,
        "name": "Simon Stewart",
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        "url": "http://www.facebook.com/",
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        "affiliation": "Facebook",
        "twitter": "shs96c",
        "bio": "<p>Simon works at Facebook as a Software Engineer, where he works as part of the internal tools team. He&#8217;s also the inventor of WebDriver and the current lead of the Selenium project, and co-edits the W3C WebDriver specification.</p>"
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        "serial": 173088,
        "name": "Matt Stine",
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        "url": "http://www.mattstine.com/",
        "position": "Senior Product Manager, Spring Cloud Services for Pivotal Cloud Foundry",
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        "serial": 122293,
        "name": "Deirdr\u00e9 Straughan",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_122293.jpg",
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        "name": "Jason Strimpel",
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        "position": "Staff Software Engineer",
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        "name": "Ruth Suehle",
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        "url": "http://www.opensource.com/",
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        "affiliation": "Red Hat",
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        "name": "Marc Sugiyama",
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        "affiliation": "Erlang Solutions, Inc",
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        "serial": 164229,
        "name": "Nick Sullivan",
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        "affiliation": "CloudFlare",
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        "serial": 153857,
        "name": "Kiyoto  Tamura",
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        "position": "Software Engineer",
        "affiliation": "Facebook",
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        "serial": 41059,
        "name": "James Tauber",
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        "url": "http://jtauber.com/",
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        "affiliation": "edX",
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        "serial": 173285,
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        "url": "http://cternus.net/",
        "position": "Security Researcher",
        "affiliation": "Akamai",
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        "url": "https://stratopan.com/",
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        "affiliation": "Sauce Labs Inc",
        "twitter": "sourishkrout",
        "bio": "<p>Born and raised at the foot of the Alps just outside of Munich in Germany, Sebastian spent his youth listening to David Hasselhoff songs. He wore Lederhosen and eagerly anticipated the day he could legally drink his first stein of beer.</p>\n<p>When daddy put the first computer on his desk in the mid 90s, Sebastian quickly went on to figure out <span class=\"caps\">BASIC</span>, Pascal and C/C++. Rainy afternoons were filled with building websites, countless iterations of Linux kernel makefile tweaks and compiler runs.</p>\n<p>Before joining Sauce, Sebastian finished a degree in Software Development (in Munich), he spent almost a decade building customer information systems making transit information more accessible for people living in large metropolitan areas worldwide. His job commitment and passions for technology eventually made him move to San Francisco in 2009.</p>\n<p>When Sebastian is not busy improving the Sauce experience he likes to take joyrides on his 1961 vespa. He&#8217;s a natural optimist in life and always sees the stein half full.</p>"
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        "serial": 53442,
        "name": "Jim Tommaney",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_53442.jpg",
        "url": "http://infinidb.co/",
        "position": "Chief Technology Officer",
        "affiliation": "InfiniDB",
        "twitter": "InfiniDB",
        "bio": "<p>Jim has extensive experience in leading the development, management, and performance for enterprise data architectures, including clustered, large <span class=\"caps\">SMP</span>, and distributed systems for the retail, web, and telecom industries. He is responsible for the architecture, vision, direction, and technical evangelization of InfiniDB. Jim holds a <span class=\"caps\">BBA</span> from Texas A&amp;M and a Masters in Management Information Systems from the University of Texas at Dallas.</p>"
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        "serial": 172661,
        "name": "Sudhir Tonse",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_172661.jpg",
        "url": "http://sudhirtonse.com/",
        "position": "Manager, Cloud Platform Infrastructure",
        "affiliation": "Netflix",
        "twitter": "stonse",
        "bio": "<p>Sudhir Tonse manages the Cloud Platform Infrastructure team at Netflix and is responsible for many of the services and components that form the Netflix Cloud Platform as a Service.</p>\n<p>Many of these components have been open sourced under the NetflixOSS umbrella. Open source contribution includes Archaius: a dynamic configuration/properties management library, Ribbon: a Inter Process Communications framework that includes Cloud friendly Software load balancers, Karyon: the nucleus of a PaaS service etc. <br />\nPrior to Netflix, Sudhir was an Architect at Netscape/<span class=\"caps\">AOL</span> delivering large-scale consumer and enterprise applications in the area of Personalization, Infrastructure and Advertising Solutions.</p>\n<p>Sudhir is a weekend golfer and tries to make the most of the wonderful California weather and public courses.</p>"
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        "serial": 173326,
        "name": "Willem Toorop",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_173326.jpg",
        "url": null,
        "position": "Software Engineer",
        "affiliation": "NLNet Labs",
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        "bio": "<p>Willem is a developer at NLnet Labs, a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to the development of open-source implementations of open standards.  At NLnet Labs Willem is the  lead developer of the C <span class=\"caps\">DNS</span> utility library: ldns.  Willem has implemented leading edge <span class=\"caps\">DNS</span> functionality for ldns based on new open standards such as <span class=\"caps\">DNSSEC</span> and <span class=\"caps\">DANE</span>.  Our getdns-api implementation utilizes ldns for processing <span class=\"caps\">DNS</span> data.  Another of NLnet Labs C-libraries, libunbound, is used for <span class=\"caps\">DNS</span> resolving.  Besides working on ldns Willem also maintains and develops the perl Net::<span class=\"caps\">DNS</span> and Net::<span class=\"caps\">DNS</span>::<span class=\"caps\">SEC</span> modules and actively researches Path <span class=\"caps\">MTU</span> black holes that hamper <span class=\"caps\">DNSSEC</span> deployment.</p>"
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        "serial": 181972,
        "name": "Joan Touzet",
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        "url": "https://cloudant.com/",
        "position": "Senior Software Development Manager",
        "affiliation": "Cloudant, an IBM Company",
        "twitter": "wohali",
        "bio": "<p>Joan Touzet has been using Apache CouchDB since 2008. She is now a committer and <span class=\"caps\">PMC</span> member for Apache CouchDB, and acts as Senior Software Development Manager at Cloudant, an <span class=\"caps\">IBM</span> Company.</p>\n<p>Her major effort for 2014 is coordinating the merge of Cloudant&#8217;s BigCouch branch back into CouchDB towards a CouchDB 2.0 release. Recently, Joan has given talks at CloudantCON 2014, CouchDB Conf 2013, ChefConf 2013 and PyCon Canada 2012, all of which are viewable on YouTube.</p>\n<p>In her spare time, Joan builds and repairs motorcycles, pilots small aircraft, and composes music for video game soundtracks.</p>"
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        "serial": 172990,
        "name": "Brian Troutwine",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_172990.jpg",
        "url": "http://adroll.com/",
        "position": "Software Engineer",
        "affiliation": "AdRoll",
        "twitter": "bltroutwine",
        "bio": "<p>I&#8217;m a software engineer at AdRoll where I work on soft real-time system in Erlang. I deal with mission-critical systems that operate at large scale. Functional programming and Erlang in particular are my main areas of interest and I&#8217;m becoming increasingly interested in &#8220;large&#8221; embedded systems.</p>\n<p>I graduated in 2010 with a degree in Computer Science from Portland State University. I spoke at Erlang Factory 2014, Bay Area.</p>"
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        "serial": 172607,
        "name": "Eric Tschetter",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_172607.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.druid.io/",
        "position": "Druid Collaborator",
        "affiliation": "Tidepool.org",
        "twitter": "zedruid",
        "bio": "<p>Eric Tschetter is the creator and one of the main Contributors to Druid, an open source, real-time analytical data store. He is currently an individual contributor to Tidepool.org, a non-profit diabetes research organization. Eric was previously the VP of Engineering and lead architect at Metamarkets, and has held senior engineering positions at Ning and LinkedIn.He holds bachelors degrees in Computer Science and Japanese from the University of Texas at Austin, and a M.S. from the University of Tokyo in Computer Science.</p>"
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        "serial": 5060,
        "name": "James Turnbull",
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        "url": "http://www.kartar.net/",
        "position": "VP Services",
        "affiliation": "Docker",
        "twitter": "kartar",
        "bio": "<p>James Turnbull is the author of seven technical books about open source software and a long-time member of the open source community. James authored the <a href=\"http://www.logstashbook.com\">The Logstash Book</a> and <a href=\"http://www.dockerbook.com\">The Docker Book</a>. He also wrote two books about Puppet (<a href=\"http://tinyurl.com/ppuppet2\">Pro Puppet</a><img src=\"http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1430230576&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" /> and the earlier <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590599780?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=puppet0e-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1590599780\">book about Puppet</a> as well as <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430219122?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=puppet0e-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1430219122\">Pro Linux System Administration</a>, <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590596099?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=puppet0e-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1590596099\">Pro Nagios 2.0</a>, and <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590594444?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=puppet0e-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1590594444\">Hardening Linux</a>.</p>\n<p>For a real job, James is VP of Services for Docker. He likes food, wine, books, photography and cats.  He is not overly keen on long walks on the beach and holding hands.</p>"
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        "serial": 169870,
        "name": "James Turner",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_169870.jpg",
        "url": "http://www.oreilly.com/",
        "position": "Contributing Editor",
        "affiliation": "O&#x27;Reilly Media",
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        "bio": "<p>James Turner, contributing editor for oreilly.com, is a freelance journalist who has written for publications as diverse as the Christian Science Monitor, Processor, Linuxworld Magazine, Developer.com and <span class=\"caps\">WIRED</span> Magazine. In addition to his shorter writing, he has also written two books on Java Web Development (MySQL &amp; <span class=\"caps\">JSP</span> Web Applications&quot; and &#8220;Struts: Kick Start&#8221;) as well as the O&#8217;Reilly title &#8220;Developing Enterprise iOS Applications&#8221;. He is the former Senior Editor of LinuxWorld Magazine and Senior Contributing Editor for Linux Today. He has also spent more than 30 years as a software engineer and system administrator, and currently works as a Senior Software Engineer for a company in the Boston area. His past employers have included the <span class=\"caps\">MIT</span> Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Xerox AI Systems, Solbourne Computer, Interleaf, the Christian Science Monitor and contracting positions at <span class=\"caps\">BBN</span> and Fidelity Investments. He is a committer on the Apache Jakarta Struts project and served as the Struts 1.1B3 release manager. He lives in a 200 year old Colonial farmhouse in Derry, NH along with his wife and son. He is an open water diver and instrument-rated private pilot, as well as an avid science fiction fan.</p>"
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        "serial": 173406,
        "name": "Andrew  Turner",
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        "affiliation": "Esri",
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        "serial": 175354,
        "name": "Tim Tyler",
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        "url": null,
        "position": "",
        "affiliation": "Qualcomm",
        "twitter": "",
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        "serial": 86111,
        "name": "David Uhlman",
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        "url": "http://www.clear-health.com/",
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        "affiliation": "clearhealth inc.",
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        "bio": "<p>David Uhlman is <span class=\"caps\">CEO</span> of ClearHealth Inc. and a has been longstanding contributor and entrepreneur in open source technology for 15 years including contributions to Linux, Java, CentOS, and Joomla. He is a frequent speaker and contributor including previous talks at <span class=\"caps\">OSCON</span>, <span class=\"caps\">SCALE</span>, and others.</p>\n<p>ClearHealth Inc is the company associated with the ClearHealth open source project, a practice management and electronic medical record system derived from VA VistA started in 2003 which now has over 18 million patients in more than 1,000 installations including notable large scale systems like Tarrant County TX, The Primary Care Coalition, The University of Texas Medical Branch and numerous Federally Qualified Health Centers (<span class=\"caps\">FQHC</span>) nationwide.</p>"
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        "serial": 173056,
        "name": "Manish Vachharajani",
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        "url": "http://linerate.f5.com/",
        "position": "Senior Architect",
        "affiliation": "F5 Networks",
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        "bio": "<p>Manish was the Founder and Chief Software Architect of LineRate Systems, a high-performance software networking startup that was acquired by F5 Networks in February 2013.</p>\n<p>LineRate Systems&#8217; core technology is based on Node.js and Manish&#8217;s research group&#8217;s work on high-performance networking at the University of Colorado at Boulder.</p>\n<p>Prior to LineRate, Manish dedicated 13 years studying<br />\nsoftware performance on general purpose processors. He co-authored nearly 50 publications on processor performance in a range of fields including optimizing compiler design, on-chip optics, performance modeling, parallel programming, and high performance networking. His work has been recognized by best paper and presentation awards at<br />\ntop-tier conferences, support from the National Science Foundation, and support from industry leaders such as Intel and <span class=\"caps\">NVIDIA</span>.  Manish is currently a Senior Architect at F5 Networks leading the design of the<br />\nLineRate product.</p>"
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        "serial": 76735,
        "name": "Jos\u00e9 Valim",
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        "position": "Engineer",
        "affiliation": "Plataforma Tec",
        "twitter": "josevalim",
        "bio": "<p><a href=\"http://twitter.com/josevalim\">Jos\u00e9 Valim</a> is the creator of the Elixir programming language and member of the Rails Core Team. He graduated in Engineering in S\u00e3o Paulo University, Brazil and has a Master of Science by Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He is also the lead-developer of Plataformatec, a consultancy firm based in Brazil, and an active member of the Open Source community.</p>"
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        "serial": 99817,
        "name": "William  Van Hevelingen",
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        "url": null,
        "position": "Unix Lead, College of Engineering",
        "affiliation": "Portland State University",
        "twitter": "pdx_blkperl",
        "bio": "<p>William Van Hevelingen started with Linux and configuration management as part of the Computer Action Team\u2019s Braindump program at Portland State University. He worked on the Wintel, Nix, and Networking teams as a volunteer and later as a student worker helping to manage hundreds of workstations, servers, and networking infrastructure. William now works full time for the Computer Action Team (TheCAT), which provides IT for the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science at Portland State University, as the Unix Team lead. He helps teach the Unix portion of the CAT\u2019s Braindump program, covering topics like web servers, databases, storage, virtualization, and Puppet. William is a co-author of Pro Puppet 2nd Edition and Beginning Puppet book which is to be released in late 2014.</p>"
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        "serial": 65329,
        "name": "Heather VanCura",
        "photo": "http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/eventprovider/1/_@user_65329.jpg",
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        "bio": "<p>Heather VanCura manages the <span class=\"caps\">JCP</span> Program Office and is responsible for the day-to-day nurturing, support, and leadership of the community. She oversees the <span class=\"caps\">JCP</span>.org web site, <span class=\"caps\">JSR</span> management and posting, community building, events, marketing, communications, and growth of the membership through new members and renewals. Heather has a front row seat for studying trends within the community and recommending changes. Several changes to the program in recent years have included enabling broader participation, increased transparency and agility in <span class=\"caps\">JSR</span> development.</p>"
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        "serial": 183835,
        "name": "Poornima Venkatakrishnan",
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        "url": null,
        "position": "Software Engineer",
        "affiliation": "PayPal",
        "twitter": null,
        "bio": "<p>I am a web developer who is passionate about all things node.js and open source. I am an active contributor/ maintainer of Krakenjs &#8211; Paypal&#8217;s open sourced app framework for express. I like playing with new technologies, solving difficult problems and working on game changing projects. To sum up, I love a good challenge that keeps me on my toes.</p>"
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        "serial": 112672,
        "name": "Alvaro Videla",
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        "url": "http://rabbitmq.com/",
        "position": "Software Developer",
        "affiliation": "RabbitMQ",
        "twitter": "old_sound",
        "bio": "<p>Alvaro Videla works as Developer Advocate for RabbitMQ/Pivotal. Before moving to Europe he used to work in Shanghai where he helped building one of Germany biggest dating websites. He co-authored the book &#8220;RabbitMQ in Action&#8221; for Manning Publishing. Some of his open source projects can be found <a href=\"http://github.com/videlalvaro\">here</a>. Apart from code related stuff he likes traveling with his wife, listening/playing music and reading books.</p>"
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        "serial": 182587,
        "name": "Ryan Vinyard",
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        "affiliation": "Highway1",
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        "serial": 174073,
        "name": "Robert Virding",
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        "url": "https://www.erlang-solutions.com/",
        "position": "Principal Language Expert",
        "affiliation": "Erlang Solutions Ltd.",
        "twitter": "rvirding",
        "bio": "<p>Robert is Principal Language Expert at Erlang Solutions Ltd. He was one of the early members of the Ericsson Computer Science Lab, and co-inventor of the Erlang language. He took part in the original system design and contributed much of the original libraries, as well as to the current compiler. While at the lab he also did a lot of work on the implementation of logic and functional languages, as well as garbage collection.</p>\n<p>Robert&#8217;s passion is language implementation and he created a Lisp Flavored Erlang (<span class=\"caps\">LFE</span>) and Luerl, leveraging his intimate knowledge of the Erlang environment, compiler and VM. He did reactive programming long before it became a buzz word. He is also rumored to be the best Erlang teacher on this planet.</p>\n<p>Robert has worked as an entrepreneur and was one of the co-founders of one of the first Erlang startups (Bluetail). He worked a number of years at the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (<span class=\"caps\">FMV</span>) Modelling and Simulations Group. And he co-authored the first book (Prentice-Hall) on Erlang, and is regularly invited to teach and present throughout the world.</p>"
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        "serial": 46737,
        "name": "Karsten Wade",
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        "url": "http://quaid.fedorapeople.org/",
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        "affiliation": "Red Hat/Fedora Project",
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        "serial": 39928,
        "name": "Ken Walker",
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        "url": "https://kenwalker.github.io/",
        "position": "Shopify Storefront Editor",
        "affiliation": "Shopify Inc.",
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        "serial": 1158,
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        "position": "Developer Advocate",
        "affiliation": "Typesafe",
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        "serial": 6219,
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        "affiliation": "Leading Edge Forum (CSC)",
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        "serial": 173025,
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        "position": "Executive Director",
        "affiliation": "Girl Develop It",
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        "bio": "<p>Corinne is the Executive Director of Girl Develop It, a nonprofit with chapters in 36 cities that exists to offer affordable classes for women to learn web and software development. She moved to Philadelphia in 2011 after graduating from University of California, Santa Cruz.</p>"
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        "serial": 171565,
        "name": "Phil Webb",
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        "affiliation": "Pivotal",
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        "bio": "<p>Phil Webb is a Spring Framework developer and co-creator of the Spring Boot project. Prior to joining Pivotal and relocating to California, Phil worked for a number of UK technology companies.</p>"
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        "serial": 4146,
        "name": "Emma Jane Westby",
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        "bio": "<p>\ufeffEmma Jane Westby (n\u00e9e Hogbin) has been working as a web developer since 1996, and has been participating in <span class=\"caps\">FOSS</span> communities for over a decade. She&#8217;s authored two books on Drupal (including the ever-popular Front End Drupal), and contributed technical reviews, and articles to many more publications. Passionate about information, and knowledge acquisition, Emma Jane teaches Web-based technologies online, at her local community college, and at conferences around the world. She is well-known in the Drupal community for her Drupal socks and their GPLed pattern. In her spare time, Emma Jane crafts, keeps bees, and likes to drink Scotch. You can find her at <a href=\"http://www.emmajane.net\">emmajane.net</a>.</p>"
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        "serial": 141524,
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