Open Web Vancouver 2009

Speakers & Sessions

KEYNOTE - On the Pirate Party

Rickard Falkvinge
KEYNOTE - Women in Open Source

Angela Byron
Open Messaging on the Open Internet

David Ascher
Openness in the Era of Social Web

Chris Messina
The Future of Web Applications

Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer
On Vancouver's Open Standards, Open Data, Open Source Initiative

Andrea Reimer and David Eaves
Sinatra

Blake Mizerany
Tor: Anonymous Communications for the Dept. of Defense... and You

Jacob Appelbaum
Drupal: Under the Hood

Angela Byron
Squinty Eyes

John Boxall
The Smart Platform

James A. Duncan
"How Did Other Organizations Incorporate the Principles of Open Source, Data and Standards into an Existing IT Structure?" Workshop with City of Vancouver

Shari Wallace, Director, IT, City of Vancouver
Open Source Business

Liza Kindred
Open Data and Semantic Web Community Barn Raising

Boris Mann
Sometimes You Need to Rewrite the Code...

Karoly Negyesi
Identi.ca: Open Source Microblogging with Laconica

Evan Prodromou
Performance Tuning MySQL

Morgan Tocker
Powering the Open Web with Drupal

James Walker
Javascript Mobile Development using PhoneGap - I Can't Believe it's Not Native!

Brock Whitten
A8Ning - Open Web Testing

Luke Closs
Hacking with Android: A Gateway to the Open Mobile Web

Joe Bowser
From Community to Municipal Hall. Bowen Island: the Development of Web Based Tools for Citizen Engagement.

J. Dumbrille, S. Cole, P. Rawsthorne, M. Groen
Open Web / Open Mind - Meditation in a Connected World

Keith Grennan
What does Green Building have to do with Software Development?

Kalin Harvey / Brenda Martens
The Mobile Web and the Public Sphere: Challenges and Affordances

Jean Hébert
Open Books, Open Minds, Open Source

Djun Kim, Ph.D.
How and Why to Extend Firefox in Javascript (and Thunderbird, Komodo, and Songbird)

Graham King
Documenting Dissent

Franklin López
Cross Domain Web Mashups with JQuery and Google App Engine

Andy McKay
Collapsonomics 101 - Finding Opportunity Amidst The Chaos

Scott Nelson
Breaking Vancity's Digital Divide

Irwin Oostindie
Sita Sings the Blues - a Look at Copyleft in the Field

Kaitlin Duck Sherwood
Building Castles in the Clouds

Drew Smith
Tum Tum: Glorious Explorations of Open Web Technologies, for Make Benefit Freedom of Salmon Fish Nation

Tum Tum, the Friendly Salmon
Crafting Better Open Source User Experiences

Rick Vugteveen
Momentum Magazine and the Open Web

Wendell Challenger and Amy Walker
Hackerspaces: Making, Sharing, Hacking and Doing Things

Joe Bowser and other members of VHS