Martin Schwenke and Amitay Isaacs

A methodical makeover for CTDB

1:20 pm Thursday 15 January 2015

Martin Schwenke

Martin Schwenke has been developing Open Source software for about 15 years. Before that he did research into functional programming, lectured in computer science and did system administration. His early hacks mostly relate to Emacs. In recent years he has been hacking on CTDB, the Clustered Trivial DataBase used for clustering Samba.

Amitay Isaacs

Amitay Isaacs has been a Linux hacker for the last 20 years and he has been using Linux in Engineering and Scientific Computing. His interests are distributed systems, high performance computing and optimization algorithms. In recent years he has been working on Samba and is the current maintainer of CTDB.

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Bradley Kuhn

Considering the Future of Copyleft: How Will The Next Generation Perceive GPL?

4:35 pm Thursday 15 January 2015

Bradley M. Kuhn is President and Distinguished Technologist at Software Freedom Conservancy and on the Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Kuhn began his work in the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992, when he became an early adopter of the GNU/Linux operating system, and began contributing to various Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects. He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator and software developer for various companies, and taught AP Computer Science at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati. Kuhn's nonprofit career began in 2000, when he was hired by the FSF. As FSF's Executive Director from 20012005, Kuhn led FSF's GPL enforcement, launched its Associate Member program, and invented the Affero GPL. From 20052010, 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 Loyola University in Maryland, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Cincinnati. His Master's thesis discussed methods for dynamic interoperability of Free Software languages. Kuhn has a blog at http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/, a microblog at http://identi.ca/bkuhn/, and cohosts the audcast, Free as in Freedom at http://faif.us/.

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Ben Kero

When Everything Falls Apart: Stories of Version Control System Scaling

1:20 pm Friday 16 January 2015

Ben has been a community systems administrator at the OSU Open Source Lab, where he helped and administered dozens of highprofile open source projects. He also has ample experience participating in the OSU Linux User’s Group as their official Safety Officer, and as part of the Open Source Education Lab which aims to integrate Open Source software and ideologies into the university curriculum. Ben also played a role in the inception and coordination of the local Beaver Bar Camp.

After graduating with a degree in Computer Science and Business Administration, he joined Mozilla as a systems administrator. Mozilla gave him the opportunity to diversify his skillset to operate on the scale of hundreds of millions of users.

In his spare time Ben is an avid embedded computer enthusiast and has spent countless nights toiling over tiny computers while cursing at them to work correctly. He enjoys the intersection of lifestyle and computers constructing things like homemade electric bicycles, restoring vintage hardware, electronics repurposing, wearable computers, and novel home automation.

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