Schedule

 

Barcamps

CS2, SQ1, SQ2, Alcoves

Techtalks

Civic Suite 1

Makerfest

Civic Suite 3

Installfest

LionHarbour 2 | Capital E

Hackfest

LionHarbour 1

8:30am

Registration on level 2
Mini-muffins and coffee on arrival
Enter LCA competition

 

9.00am

Kids welcome & competition entry
Fun and games
Hosted by OLPC and SHDH

9.30am

Welcome to Software Freedom Day 2009 (Civic Suite 1)

9.45am

Scheduling of Barcamp sessions + Techtalks in Civic Suite 1
Start-ups enter competition

Makerfest begins

Installfest begins in Lion Harbour Lounge 2

10.00am

SF Books - Read any good ones? (CS2)

Open Source CMS What's best for what purpose and security - risk if not upgrade? (SQ1)

Git (SQ2)

Solar network and global distributed power generation - Matt McGoffin

 

Introduction to using free software for kids, students and parents
Carl Klitscher

 

Student welcome & competition entry
Introduction to DigitalNZ APIs & the work of OLPC
Digital NZ & OLPC

10.30am

What are these distributions and how should I choose one? - Stuart Yates

11.00am

Getting FLOSS into Organisational Procurement process (CS2)

Open source OIS - build nice maps for the web (SQ1)

Wanting to build an open source online tool to enable community organisation and resilience

Starting free software projects - Francois Marier

Students makerspace
Hosted by the makers. Option for students to also attend installfest

Introduction to Linux
Jethro Carr

Programming with Scratch
Nat Torkington

 

11.30am

Startup lightning talks

How free software grows my business

12.00pm

LUNCH and prize draw for LCA ticket (Anteroom - lunch room)

1.00pm

Open source in education - LTSP, thin clients in schools. Overcoming resistance to OSS in schools (CS2)

NZOSS - why join? And Public Sector Remix (SQ1)

Careers in free software
Panel discussion

   

Making music with Audacity
Carl Kitscher & team

 

2.00pm

Open Government 2.0 - Transparency and beyond (CS2)

Davical - Cal Dav Server (SQ1)

epub - books for mobile phones (SQ2)

Use of FOSS in game development industry - Cameron Hart

Kids Makerspace
Hosted by the makers

Getting up to speed with Silverstripe
Will Rossiter & Simon Welsh

Creative 3D Design using Blender
Lance Flavell

 

2.30pm

The use off FOSS at Weta - Adam Shand

3.00pm

AFTERNOON TEA and winners announcement for kids competition and makers competition (Anteroom - lunch room)

3.30pm

Kids and students - the future of technology and other exciting topics (CS2)

Freedom in the cloud - Web 2.1, Distributed Open source, Private data (SQ1)
Saving lives with free software - Sahara disaster management system (SQ2)

What's new with Firefox and HTML - Chris Double

       

4.00pm

Techtalk 7

4.30pm

WRAP UP and prize draw for student competition and startup competition (Lion Harbour Lounge 1 and 2)

5.00pm

NETWORKING session - Macs Brewery

Legend

All

Student programme

Kids programme

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Our Sponsors

Confirmed Gold 2010 sponsors:

CWA New Media
Catalyst
Amberdms
silverstripe

Confirmed Bronze 2010 sponsors:

3MONTHS

We are still looking for organisations to sponsor the event for 2010 and provide giveways. There will be an opportunity for sponsors to have a presence at the event. If you would like to help out then please contact Ruth McDavitt

2009 Sponsors

A big thanks to all sponsors and organisers of Software Freedom Day09 in Wellington.