OLF 2011 Talking Points

Keynotes

• Cathy Malmrose - Owner/Founder ZA Reason "The Long-Term Benefits of Your Work - How Free and Open Source Software is Changing People's Lives"
• Bradley Kuhn - Executive Driector, Software Freedom Conservancy "With Software as a Service, Is Only the Network Luddite Free?"
• Jon "maddog" Hall - Linux International, "The Twentieth Birthday of the Linux Kernel", "Free Culture in the year 2031"

OLF Institute

All OLFI classes require a Professional Pass, which is $350, but Linux Basics is only $250. These passes include lunch Friday and Saturday, and a T-shirt.

• Linux Basics - Discounted price ($250 instead of $350), day long class, can purchase laptop for $100 at end.
• LPIC 101 and 102 Cram Session - Day long, exams are offered on Sunday, cost of exam is not included.
• Other all day - FreeBSD for Linux System Administrators; VIM: From Essentials to Mastery
• Morning half-day classes -
  • Apache Server Wizardry
  • Databases: What You Need to Know
  • Practical Photography
  • Introduction to Python for System Administration
• Afternoon Half-Day Classes -
  • mod_rewrite Boot Camp
  • Introduction to Python for System Administration
  • Intro to Arduino Programming
  • Non Obvious Nagios

Medical Track

• Susan Rose MSN RN Faculty, Nursing Informatics -
  • CES and VEHU-Free online medical IT training
  • Pager Be Gone! Better Communications for providers
• Ruth Suehle Red Hat opensource.com/health - Off your Linux machine and into your doctor’s office!
• Adam Goode, Google Pittsburgh, CMU - OpenSlide: Liberating your microscopy from proprietary formats
• Samuel Bowen MD, openmedsoftware.org - Taking OpenEMR to Meaningful Use Certification and Beyond
• Dan Paoletti, Ohio Health Information Partnership - The Vision: By 2015 the Spotlight is on Ohio for the Meaningful Use of Health Information Technology

General Tracks

There are around 30 talks covering a wide range of Linux and OSS-related topics, so everyone is sure to find talks of interest.

Ubucon

Ubuntu goodness all day Friday - Ubuntu in the enterprise, Lo-Co teams,gaming, a live podcast recording, and the famous Bug #1

Cloud Community Day

This all day event Build A Cloud Day will be dedicated to teaching users how to build and manage a cloud computing environment using free and open source software.

Open Source Solutions Stage

This gives companies an opportunity to showcase their Open Source offerings. Among the presenters this year are

• Hewlett-Packard
• IBM
• Op5
• OpenStack
• CloudStack
• Apparatus