2010 Annual Working Group August 2-5 · Washington, D.C.

Join us at our second working group (WG2) in D.C. 2-5 August 2010 to discuss life, liberty, and the pursuit of open source.

Location: Washington, D.C. at the Waterview Conference Center

Dates: August 2-5, 2010
Aug 2 - Opening Reception
Aug 3 - Talks Day; Ignite Evening
Aug 4 - Talks/BarCamp Day; BarCamp Evening
Aug 5 - BarCamp

Lodging: Hotel Palomar Arlington, 1121 19th Street North.
The hotel is connected to the Conference Center. We have a special government rate of $170.00 plus taxes. Call and ask for reservations and the group code is Mil-OSS.

Registration Conference price includes talks, socials, meals/snacks, and BarCamp. WIFI will be available throughout the meeting space. Space is limited to ~175.

Entire Event - $450
Entire Event (Speaker) - $350
BarCamp Only $75

Keynote & Guest Speakers

Cyber Challenges in
a Hierarchical Culture
Lt. Gen. Robert J. Elder, Jr. Ret

CompanyCommand & PlatoonLeader Forums and MilSuite
Lt. Col. Nate Allen
Division Chief, Business Synchronization and Governance, Office of Business Transformation

Open Source Cyber
Weaponry
HD Moore,
Rapid7/Metasploit

Guests

Homeland Open Security
Technologies (HOST)
Douglas Maughan,
Program Manager, DHS S&T Cyber Security R&D Program

Update on DoD
OSS Policy
Daniel Risacher,
DoD CIO Office

Update on Keeping it Stupid Stupid
Major James D. Neushul
I MEF Future Operations, Commo / IMO

Cloud/IT Talks

Open Source Application Health Monitoring System John Emerson, President, Avenue Open, Inc.	Java Provisioning In The Cloud Adrian Cole, Opscode, Inc.	Tactical C2 SOA Suite - Enterprise Support Michael Howard, QinetiQ North America	Big Bad PostgreSQL: BI on a Budget Theo Schlossnagle, OmniTI
Datacenter Automation and Compliance with Puppet Teyo Tyree, Puppet Labs	The Enterprise Guide to Drupal for Gov 2.0 Michael Walsh, Acquia	Open Source Web Content Management in Government with Plone Ken Wasetis, Contextual Corp.	Open Source Configuration Management in the Clouds John Willis, Opscode, Inc.

OSS Project Talks

Open Software Defined Radio on Low Cost Hardware Philip Balister, OpenSDR	Introducing MilSuite: Facebook-Style Collaboration across the DoD Jason Bock, Symbolic Systems Inc.	Build an MLS Desktop Without Really Trying Gunnar Hellekson, Chief Technology Strategist, Red Hat Inc.	OSSIM and OMAR in the DoD/IC Mark Lucas, RadiantBlue Technologies Inc.
Eureka Streams Brian Mayo and Steve Terlecki, Lockheed Martin	BRL-CAD: An Open Source Perspective Sean Morrison, BRL-CAD Open Source Project Lead, U.S. Army Research Laboratory	Update on Forge.mil Aaron Lippold, Defense Information Systems Agency	CONNECT: An Open Source Platform for Promoting Military Health David Riley, CONNECT Initiative Lead
DISA's Open Source Corporate Management Information System (OSCMIS) Jeff Smart, Georgia Tech Research Institute	Custom, COTS, and OSS & An Architecture for Market-Driven Orchestration Al Williams, The Boeing Company

Cyber Security Talks

The Next Generation Open IDS Engine Suricata and Emerging Threats
Matt Jonkman,
Open Information Security Foundation/Emerging Threats.net

OSS Security War Chest: An Inventory of Useful tools and Capability Gaps
Chris Smoak,
Georgia Tech Research Institute

Open Source Software and Security
David A. Wheeler,
IDA

Geospatial Talks

Importance of WS-Addressing and
WS-Reliability in DoD Enterprises
Jared Ladner,
Geocent

Advancing Open Source Geospatial Software for the DoD/IC
Eddie Pickle,
OpenGeo

Geospatial Searching and
Indexing with Apache Lucene
Paul Williams,
Geocent

Business Talks

Open Technology
Research Consortium
Joshua L. Davis,
Georgia Tech Research Institute

.org to .com: Going from Project to Product
David D. Egts,
Principal Architect, Red Hat Inc.

OZONE & OWF: A Community-wide GOTS initiative and its transition to GOSS
Jason Kahn, Department of Defense
and
Tina Coleman, Next Century Computing

Reaching It's Potential:
How to Make Government-Developed OSS A Major Player
Perry McDowell,
NPS.edu

Miscellaneous Talks

Analysis of Competing Hypotheses Matthew Burton, competinghypotheses.org	USIP Open Simulation Platform Ronald "Skip" Cole, United States Institute of Peace (USIP)	Senior Leadership Adapting to Social Platforms and Army, Hello Joomla! Kane McLean, BRTRC \| Strategy & Communications	IaaS to PaaS - The Evolution of Warfighter Application Development and Hosting Trey Oats & Aaron Pestel, Net-Centric Command & Control Engineering and Navigation
Hackin' Devices and Ruby Kit Plummer, Dozer Software/Operational Systems, Inc.	Towards a Virtual Open Systems Engineering Environment Drew Pihera, Georgia Tech Research Institute	How-To & General Q/A for MIL-OSS John Scott	How and Why Python is Used in the Model of Real-World Battlefield Scenarios Eric Silverman, ALATEC Inc.
Using Git to Overcome Traditional VCS Limitations Donnie Smith, Georgia Tech Research Institute	The Open Source Image Management 10k Matthew Wycoff, SecureForce

Ignite Talks

Fighting Forks: When Open Source Disappears into the Pentagon Gunnar Hellekson, Chief Technology Strategist, Red Hat Inc.	Pushin' His Barcamp Ideas Major James D. Neushul I MEF Future Operations, Commo / IMO	Hackin' Excel with Ruby Kit Plummer, Dozer Software/Operational Systems, Inc.	Open Source Continuous Integration Patrick Reynolds, Kitware Inc.
Devops: Why Should You Care John Willis, Opscode, Inc.	Improving Performance on Federal Contracts Using Scrum & Agile Paul Williams, Geocent

Bar Camp

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