Aimee Maree Forsstrom

FireFoxOS and the Linux Kernel

1:20pm Thursday 15th January 2015

Aimee has been working in IT since 2000, and has a focus on mobile and web technologies. She has contributed and worked on the OLPC project, Meego, FireFoxOS and on the webside of things Drupal, Joomla, PHPBB, WordPress. Recently she has started playing with Yocto and rolling your own embedded Linux Distros. Her work in Open Source mobile devices saw her join the FireFoxOS Mobile Support team in Mozilla Portland office to assist with reporting technologies.

A world wide public speaker having presented in England, Scotland and Australia this year she added America onto her list with LinuxCon America in Chicago. She regularly helps mentor kids in programming in Australia, England and recently at OSCON in Portland training kids in Python.

An all over uber geek with a deep love of Open Source technologies and how companies and individuals can benefit from not reinventing the wheel.

Loves having long deep discussions about anything Linux and the history of Open Source and how it will eventually save us from the old paradigms of legacy code and forced silos... Will speak 733t for beers...

For more information on Aimee Maree and her presentation, see here.

You can follow her as @aimee_maree and don’t forget to mention #lca2015.

Martin Kealey

Bashing the shell: Advanced Scripting

10:40am Wednesday 14th January 2015

Martin Kealey has been hacking Unixlike systems since the mid 80's, and by now has forgotten how many programming languages he's forgotten. A program is never finished, but it can be elegant, it ought to be useful, and it must be bulletproof.

For more information on Martin and his presentation, see here.

Matthew Garrett

IPMI because ACPI and UEFI weren't terrifying enough

4:35pm Thursday 15th January 2015

Matthew Garrett is a security developer at Nebula and an expert in the field of fourletter specifications (including ACPI, UEFI and IPMI) and the field of four letter words (the use of which would likely be a violation of the LCA code of conduct). These facts are probably not unrelated.

For more information on Matthew and his presentation, see here.

You can follow him as @mjg59 and don’t forget to mention #lca2015.