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Open Tech 2008

5th July 2008

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OpenTech 2008 Provisional Schedule

Main Room Upper Hall Seminar Room
10:00am Doors Open
10:30am Session 1
  • Rembrandt, Pr0n and Robot Monkeys
  • Living with Chaos
  • What the Frog's Eye Tells the Future
  • No2ID and the Open Rights Group: State of the Nation
  • From E-Business to G-Business
  • Solar Hot Water and Open Source IT
  • Quick look at Edenbee
click on a talk to see its abstract here
11:30am Session 2
  • Sponsor Presentation: TiddlyWiki Tales
  • Android and the Open Handset Alliance
  • Social networks and FOAF
  • Here's the UK EFF

Audio (hosted by ORG).

  • Energy awareness
  • AMEE - The World's Energy Meter
  • Aerial Heat Maps
  • Welcome to WikiClimate
click on a talk to see its abstract here
12:30pm Lunch
1:30pm Session 3
  • Power to the people - one year on from the Power of Information Report
Audio
  • Overthrowing Government Using Open Source (Slides)
  • Tracking Arms Dealers with Python and Bits of String
Audio
  • OpenID and Decentralised Social Networks
  • Distributed, Federated, Partial
  • The Web is Agreement
Audio
click on a talk to see its abstract here
2:30pm Session 4
  • Planning Alerts
  • 3 Years of OpenStreetMap
  • Opening Data
Audio
  • Linux for the Non-Computer Literate
  • Aptivate: Digital Tools for the Developing World
  • Enabled by Design
Audio
  • From Stealth Mode to Open Source in 90 days
  • No Comply: or Why the Paranoid Android Approach to Security is a Bad Idea
click on a talk to see its abstract here
3:30pm Break
4:00pm Session 5
  • mySociety: Putting Freedom of Information Online
  • mySociety: Travel Time Maps
Audio (includes thank yous (slides) from the organisers and the announcement of TalkToNUS.com)
  • Proof by Overwhelming Notation
  • Home Automation - First Steps
  • Current Cost
Audio
  • Publishing with Microformats
  • Power of Information: Rewiring the London Gazette with RDFa
Audio
click on a talk to see its abstract here
5:00pm Session 6
  • Finding Good TV on the Interwebs with RDF and REST
  • The Bastard Child of Baird and Berners Lee
  • Data Portability, Your Other Rights Online
  • Free the Data, Read the Data!
  • Open Knowledge: Promises and Challenges
click on a talk to see its abstract here
6:00pm Break
6:15pm Session 7
  • Security Discussion with Ben Laurie and Friends
  • Intro to Hadoop
  • Guardian.co.uk: building for the open web
  • Telling Social and Environmental Stories Using Online Video
  • We Tell Stories
click on a talk to see its abstract here
7:15pm Close

After the event, ORG are hosting a keysigning. More details

As ever, the final lineup may be subject to change due to 'openness' beyond our control.

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