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<p>Wiki-Edmcnierney: /* Ed McNierney: No One Wants 3/8-Inch Drill Bits */</p> <hr /> <div>Back to [[FOSS4G2007]]...<br /> <br /> = Introduction =<br /> Eight speakers, five minutes each, [http://www.foss4g2007.org/plenaries/#lightning Lightning Talks] will be presented to the full conference attendance, and should be fast paced, visual, and entertaining.<br /> <br /> = Confirmed Speakers =<br /> <br /> == Schuyler Erle: Latent Semantic Analysis of the FOSS4G 2007 Conference Program ==<br /> * Troublemaker at Large<br /> * Schuyler is a long-time hacker, author, and Free Software activist.<br /> * With the help of a little linear algebra, we can analyze the anonymized program rankings collected before FOSS4G 2007, and infer some conclusions about the nature of the conference and its attendees.<br /> * [http://iconocla.st/photo/portrait/portrait14.jpg]<br /> <br /> == Chris Schmidt: Understanding Software Patents ==<br /> * Software patents are a reality in today's global business environment. Learn how software patents affect you and the software you use and work on, and how open source projects can work together with the community and holders of software patents to protect themselves and their users. <br /> * Chris is a software developer for MetaCarta, Inc. where he works in part on developing OpenLayers, TileCache, and FeatureServer, and working with MetaCarta to create an environment where MetaCarta can foster and contribute to open source geospatial development. <br /> * URL to head shot<br /> <br /> == Ed McNierney: No One Wants 3/8-Inch Drill Bits ==<br /> * Chief Mapmaker, TopoZone.com<br /> * Ed's been a CTO / VP of Engineering kind of guy for almost 30 years, creating spreadsheets, educational children's games, high-performance graphics hardware, and medical imaging software; in 1999 he discovered he lived at the corner of four USGS topographic maps and it was absurdly difficult to put them together into one map, so he invented TopoZone.<br /> * TopoZone started with highly customized, proprietary map-serving software and evolved into one of the largest known MapServer installations. The switch to an Open Source platform made TopoZone revisit and refocus on how the business provided value to customers and what we were really doing on the Web. The result was a valuable learning experience in what all of us are really doing on the Web, and why, and what our customers really care about.<br /> * URL to head shot<br /> <br /> == Arnulf Christl: Title ==<br /> * Title, Organization<br /> * One sentence bio<br /> * One sentence talk summary<br /> * URL to head shot<br /> <br /> == Andrew Turner: Title ==<br /> * [http://highearthorbit.com Andrew Turner]<br /> * Andrew develops several open-source tools such as [http://georss.org/geopress GeoPress] and [http://mapstraction.com Mapstraction], participates in the formulation of light-weight geospatial standards like [http://georss.org GeoRSS] and [http://www.ogcnetwork.net/kml KML], and works for [http://mapufacture.com Mapufacture], building a geospatial aggregation and search service. He also wrote O'Reilly's [http://oreilly.com/catalog/neogeography Introduction to Neogeography].<br /> * Any suggestions for a talk?<br /> * [http://highearthorbit.com/images/AndrewTurner.jpg Andrew Turner Head Shot]<br /> <br /> == Norman Vine: Title ==<br /> * Title, Organization<br /> * One sentence bio<br /> * One sentence talk summary<br /> * URL to head shot<br /> <br /> == Scott Morehouse: Title ==<br /> * ESRI, Director of Software Development<br /> * One sentence bio<br /> * One sentence talk summary<br /> * URL to head shot<br /> <br /> == Peter Batty: The Past, Present and Future of the Geospatial Industry ==<br /> * Currently no fixed abode, most recently CTO of Intergraph<br /> * [http://ebatty.com/bio.htm Peter] has been CTO of [http://www.intergraph.com Intergraph], Founder and CTO of Ten Sails, now [http://www.ubisense.net Ubisense], and VP of Technology at [http://www.gepower.com/prod_serv/products/gis_software/en/index.htm Smallworld], now part of GE, and he is currently [http://geothought.blogspot.com/ blogging] and deciding what to do next.<br /> * This talk will summarize the past, present and future of the geospatial industry in five minutes!<br /> * [http://www.flickr.com/photos/ebatty/1073790619/ A picture of Peter]<br /> [[Category:FOSS4G2007]]</div>

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