DC-Schedule

Schedule: Welcome to the GOSCON DC schedule. The conference format will include three tracks: Managament, Mission, and the Open Technology Forum.  A table view of the schedule is below.  You can also visit our sessions page for an agenda view or visit the speakers page for a full roster of our speakers.

Management: The management track will focus on global issues for senior management and their key strategic, planning, procurement, contracts and legal staff to understand more about what it means and what it takes to adopt the use open source software and its collaborative model in support of their agencies program objectives.

Open Source Supporting the Mission: The mission track will highlight how open source is being used to support agency's missions and goals across government. Start your morning with our Mission Ignite Session showcasing agency projects and programs. An ignite session is a series of short presentations with up to 20 slides per presentation. It's sure to be a wake-me-up!

Open Source Technology Forum: GOSCON's newest track, the Open Source Technology Forum, is geared to those who want to understand the underlying technology issues such as security, migration, middleware and, of course, cloud computing. It is designed for both technology and mangement personnel.

Hands On Technology Labs: These special 2 hour sessions will take a deeper dive into several technology topics and include some hands-on work for attendees. 

Click on session titles for more information including abstracts and presenters.

Click Here to Download a PDF Version of the Program.

GOSCON Program Tracks:
  Management Open Source in the Mission Open Technology Forum Hands On Technology Labs
7:30 AM Registration Begins
8:40 AM Breakfast Keynote: David M. Wennergren, Dep Asst Sec of Defense for Information Management and Technology / Deputy CIO US Department of Defense
9:10 AM Open Source Basics for Management:

Open Source 101 for Managers

Organizational Readiness: Skillset, Migration, Stakeholders

Evaluating the Total Cost of Open Source

Mission Ignite: An Ignite session of Examples of Open Source Supporting Agency Missions Open Source in the Cloud Hands-on with JBoss SOA
Platform
9:35 AM
10:00 AM
10:25 AM BREAK
10:50 AM Management and Evaluation of Open Source Projects:

Who do I call? Understanding the IT Ecosystem

Sustainability of Open Source

Open Source in Mission Critical Operations (Panel) Security Experts on Open Source
11:15 AM
11:30 AM  
12:00 PM Lunch Keynote: Dr. David Boyd, Director, Command, Control and Interoperability, S&T Directorate, DHS
1:30 PM Procurement and Acquisition of Open Source Software:

Open Source as an Agency Strategy

Procuring an Open Source Project

Open Source's Critical Role when Data must be Shared Migrating your Agency to Open Systems to Improve Efficiency and Reduce Risks Hands-on
with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
2:00 PM
2:45 PM BREAK
2:55 PM Legal Issues around Open Source - Using, Sharing and Releasing:

Legal Issues with Open Source Software

Releasing Open Source Software to Other Agencies and the Public

Open Source in Public Safety and Healthcare Open Source
Middleware (panel)
3:20 PM
3:40 PM Does Government Need a Shared Development Platform? (Panel) Open Source Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing    
4:00 PM WRAP UP

 

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