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In just one year, Sugar went from radically innovative code prototype to something in classroom production use, reliably deployable on RHEL, and sustainable by the part-time, after-school efforts of a single high school student. The secret is leveraging open source communities, and Sugar Labs' Sebastian Dziallas will show you how. We will cover the various open source tools and processes used to b...

Nearly all of the much acclaimed Google innovation efforts include Open Source components, namely Android, GWT, Chrome, Wave and Google APIs. Programs like the Summer of code emphasize the relationsship between the company and the community. Google has released well over 15 million lines of code to over 500 projects, and hosts many more on its platform. In his keynote adress, Chris will outline Go...

The two big growth areas for open source are cloud computing and business applications. Leading Cloud service providers like Amazon and Google are built entirely on open source technologies. Because those platforms are built on open source infrastructure they have a natural affinity for open source applications as well. Indeed, 58 percent of IT executives now use open source for mission-critical a...

Free and Open Source projects present their project within 3-4 minutes each. Über den Autor Elke Moritz: Elke Moritz is one of the founding members of the LinuxTag e. V. She has been one of the organizers of LinuxTag since 1997. She is also a member of the Linux User Group in Kaiserslautern. Elke studied computer science with a minor in economics at the University of Kaiserslautern. After working...

Large Linux distributions like Debian or Ububtu are typically featuring a flat pool of software packages which contains more than 10000 packages with the tendency to grow even larger. This constant increase of size without any visible substructure leads to helpless users who might have problems to pick the relevant pieces for their work on one hand and on the other hand it is hard to assure the qu...

Einerseits fristet die Verwaltung von Finanzen unter den vielfältigen Einsatzgebieten von freier Software eher ein Nischendasein, andererseits ist sie für gewerbliche Anwender und Organisationen eine der bedeutendsten Schlüsselkomponenten beim den Umstieg auf Freie Software. Dabei zeigt sich gerade hier in Deutschland, welche Stärken Freie Software auch auf einem kleinen Anwend...

Linux runs much of the world, with Web applications and enterprise IT increasingly turning to open source to power their infrastructure. But that's infrastructure. For Linux, and open source, to achieve "total world domination," open source needs to follow Apple's lead and focus on interface design as much as infrastructure architecture. This session will address ways that open-source communities...

Free and Open Source projects present their project within 3-4 minutes each. Über den Autor Elke Moritz: Elke Moritz is one of the founding members of the LinuxTag e. V. She has been one of the organizers of LinuxTag since 1997. She is also a member of the Linux User Group in Kaiserslautern. Elke studied computer science with a minor in economics at the University of Kaiserslautern. After working...

Microsoft has signaled strongly in recent years that it is supportive of, and open to, open source software. As the company increases its participation in open source communities and projects, improves interoperability with open source products and platforms, and works with customers looking to optimize their mixed IT environments, an appreciation for open source software has infused deeply into t...

The roots of the so-called and controversial "hacker-paragraph" in the German criminal code (§ 202c StGB) and of "telecommunications data retention", which both created quite a stir in the hacker community, can easily be traced to the European Union's Council Framework Decision 2005/222/JHA of 24 February 2005 on attacks against information systems, the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime (...

Der Referent klärt einige der häufigsten Missverständnisse über Freie Software auf. Es ist seine persönliche "Top Sieben"-Liste aus den letzten sechs Jahren Arbeit für die FSFE: 1) Freie Software ist kostenlos, 2) Mit Freier Software kann man kein Geld verdienen, 3) Freie Software bringt mir nichts wenn ich nicht programmieren kann, 4) Wer Freie Software ändert, muss die Änderungen wieder allen ve...

One of the most important aspects of modern open source projects is the commercial sustainability: is it possible to create a real business on OSS? This question is behind a substantial part of new ventures that are based on open and free software, and has been only recently partially answered by European research projects like FLOSSMETRICS or OpenTTT. The talk will present a short summary of what...

Debian Pure Blends (formerly known as Custom Debian Distributions) are efforts to add some user oriented substructures to the originally flat package pool of more than 22000 packages in Debian. Currently there are some Blends dedicated to certain work fields (Science, Medicine, Education, etc.) as well as language specific Blends (BrDesktop for Brazilian adaptations and EzGo is used in Taiwanese s...

Offizielle Eröffnung des 16. LinuxTag. Über den Autor Nils Magnus: Nils was co-founder of LinuxTag back in 1995 and is today involved as supporting Program Co-Chair. With others, he coordinates the LinuxTag conference planning and is member of the extended board of directors. Having worked as Senior Security Consultant at secunet Security Networks AG, Hamburg, Germany for almost a decade, he works...

Free and Open Source projects present their project within 3-4 minutes each. Über den Autor Elke Moritz: Elke Moritz is one of the founding members of the LinuxTag e. V. She has been one of the organizers of LinuxTag since 1997. She is also a member of the Linux User Group in Kaiserslautern. Elke studied computer science with a minor in economics at the University of Kaiserslautern. After working...

One year ago, I made the first talk about data security. This year; I want to talk about the classification of personal data in your company and the relation of data to the environment. Additionally, there have been changes in the law and I want to cover the new topics (mainly for marketing, but also for all kinds of review within the company itself) about this event: http://events.ccc.de/sigint/2...

This talk will be a summary of contemporary methods for communicating anonymously in the Internet. We will show * who is in actual need of increased privacy protection * which methods exists * what are the limits of these techniques In addition to network layer anonymity we will also explain methods for identifying individuals at the application layer, e.g., during web sessions. about this event:...

Radio spectrum policy has been a field of regulation authorities, ministries, the EU commission, MEPs and all of these are heavily lobbied by the telecoms and broadcasting industries, among others. I will talk about my personal experience in the different levels of radio spectrum lobbying on the European level, and why hackers should get involved in radio spectrum policy. about this event: http://...

Detourning CCTV for the internet, OpenCV about this event: http://events.ccc.de/sigint/2010/wiki/Fahrplan/events/3851.en.html

Ein Vortrag zum Thema "Open data, open government und Transparenz - warum eine freie Gesellschaft offene Daten braucht". Nach einer kurzen Einführung ins Thema "open data, open government und Transparenz" wollen wir die Situation hierzulande diskutieren, unsere neuesten Projekte vorstellen und gemeinsam überlegen wie wir einer offenen und transparenten Regierung im Sinne von "open data und open go...

Nach Hartmut Rosa läßt sich die alte kantische Frage der Ethik: Was sollen wir tun? bruchlos in eine andere überführen: Womit verbringen wir unsere Zeit? Je länger man lebt, desto entscheidender ist eine für den Einzelnen sinnstiftende Antwort auf diese Frage. Der Vortrag versteht sich als Beitrag, der diese Frage und ihren Kontext aufnimmt und vorläufig zu beantworten versucht: Wie funktioniert i...

The presentation deals with the importance of whistleblowing and the hurdels it faces. Starting point is the need for information as a basis of a democracy and the lacks of transparency in several important areas of state, economy and society. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/sigint/2010/wiki/Fahrplan/events/3781.en.html

Most European governments are busy migrating important components of their IT-systems to opensource alternatives. The Netherlands was the first western country to develop a comprehensive policy for its entire public sector in 2007 but is lagging its neighbors in working implementations. The comprehensive policy in the Netherlands is focused on the practical advantages of open systems such as inter...

Is there a relationship between the evolution of Human Computer Interaction, the future of money and the way we eat? Yes, and it comes in threes! This talk explores the striking similarities in the Semantic Web (Web 3.0), Post-Piracy Pop Culture Economics, Natural User Interface Design, Local Food Movements, Rapid Prototyping, Polyamory and other Third Wave points of "Future Shock" to help better...

As new sensing technologies appear in our cities almost overnight, what does it mean to be visible or invisible? What happens when socioeconomic categories determine when, where, and how you're seen? The asymmetry in who is visible, and where, is a long-standing urban problem, but it is now being built into our technologies and our cities. about this event: http://events.ccc.de/sigint/2010/wiki/Fa...