Speaker Feature: John Dickinson, Himangi Saraogi
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Submitted on 2014-10-15 18:41
John Dickinson
Herding Cats: Getting an open source community to work on the same thing.
2:15pm Thursday 15th January 2015
John is a familiar sight around the world, he has spoken at many conferences, summits, and meetups, including the OpenStack Summit, OSCON, and LinuxConf Australia.
He is Director of Technology at SwiftStack. SwiftStack is a technology innovator of private cloud storage for today s applications, powered by OpenStack Object Storage.
For more information on John and his presentation, see here. You can follow him as @notmyname and don’t forget to mention #lca2015.
Himangi Saraogi
Coccinelle: A program matching and transformation tool
1:20pm Wednesday 14th January 2015
Himangi finds contributing to open source a great learning platform and she herself has been contributing to Linux kernel and has submitted and had many patches accepted.
She has experience with tools like checkpatch, sparse and coccinelle.
For more information on Himangi and her presentation, see here. You can follow her as @himangi99 and don’t forget to mention #lca2015.