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Lightning Talks

Openmind Lightning Talks are 5-minute talks in a sixty-minute time slot. We will have room for ten talks. Lightning Talks will be presented back to back with strict enforcement of the 5-minute time limit.

Lightning talks are short presentations designed to be a fun, interesting and compact way for many ideas to be communicated in a short space of time. The point is to make a point, and explain it as quickly as possible. Lightning Talks don't have Question and Answer periods. If people want to talk further, they'll catch you in the Openmind Club, in the hallways or contact you after the conference.

Openmind Team will select the talks that best fit to the themes of Openmind 2008. So please think about giving an accurate description of what you are going to talk about. The selected presenters will get a free registration for the Openmind Conference.

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Proposals (11)

We have developed a public beta solution to enable any S60 or Internet tablet to be an active web service provider on the Internet. The purpose of this pitch to challenge developers to find out new ways to utilize this unique enabler, which is available today.

The Tekes-funded ORE (Open Rendering Environment) project headed by Laurea Univ. of Applied Sciences is bringing BURP (http://burp.boinc.dk) technology to Finland. The project aims to further the development of the technology and to promote the use of both it and the open source program Blender in Finnish universities and companies.

Generally speaking, publicly distributed rendering does not offer you the same security as closed render farms do. However, services like BURP offer an inexpensive (or rather - free) alternative to maintaining an expensive render farm.

Food for thought:

What do you think could be the future impact on the audio-visual field and how would you use the service? For example, could ORE and similar projects drive market leaders Newtek and Autodesk in to offering their customers the possibility of doing publicly distributed rendering in the future?

The goal of the GeoClue project is to make creating location-aware applications as simple as possible. The lightning talk will include an overview of Geoclue and some ideas for application developers.

** Problem definition **
If we want to make applications more usable, we'll need to give the apps more context -- more information about what the user is doing, what she likes/dislikes, who she knows, and where she is. This is a fairly difficult problem and should be solved at system level, not by individual applications: Geoclue tries to be the solution to the 'where' part of the problem.

** GeoClue features **
- APIs for getting current status (e.g. current address) and for geocoding
- Modular, allows third party data providers
- Designed with mobile devices in mind
- Open source (LGPL)
- Current implementations use web services, GPS, GSM and WLAN positioning.

More information: http://geoclue.freedesktop.org

Midgard 2 is a new version Midgard CMS. It provides growing number of tools and advanced framework for web developers. Midgard enables developers to create web services faster on a mature platform and focus the work on creating the service.

Open Source Solutions are an important part of IBM's strategy. Hear the facts behind this statement. We see that Open Source Solutions enable our clients to achieve higher levels of interoperability, cost efficiency and quality. Local strategy is to network and partner with OSS communities.

VTT has developed an Eclipse-compatible open source tool chain to support architecture-centric, quality-driven software development. The tool chain consist of six, well-integrated OS tools. Hear how this approach can multiply productity in software development.

Read more on the tool chain and the research behind it at:
http://www.vtt.fi/qada/tools.htm
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/doc.do?f_id=1386301

Most of the new rich internet application (RIA) development tools rely on JavaScript or browser-plugins with the user interface logic running on web-browser. Unfortunately client-side RIA lacks support for many of the best software engineering practices and are prone to security problems.

IT Mill Toolkit is an Open Source framework for building RIA-like user interfaces in Java. The user interface logic runs completely on server and thus avoids many security pitfalls of client-side RIA. Building on widely adopted Java-platform opens easy integration to countless Java-libraries and gives developers first-class tools to work on.

For more information, see:
http://www.itmill.com/

Free software has been deployed in mobile devices for some time now. Many projects/groups are promising a lot, but usually have proprietary components, not much openness on the hardware side and limited amount of community participation, making them strictly speaking more glorified application development kits than open source platforms.

Openmoko is bringing a true free software mobile phone platform to reality. The hardware schematics and CAD files are free and the currently produced Neo FreeRunner phones run on 100% free software on the main CPU. The products are not yet mass-market ready, but the work being done brings us a complete phone software stack and ability to design also new hardware and products in addition to software.

Via freesmartphone.org this work is being developed for more general usage, and Debian is already implementing parts of this "FSO" stack. With Debian comes 15 years of other community and technical experience. Ubuntu Mobile is partially covering the mobile internet browsing devices (MIDs) from the same angle and Ubuntu itself being based on Debian, we might see interesting convergence of these truly community-based free hw/sw platforms.

NorfelloCMMS® OS is an open source CMMS application. It enables organizations to manage labor, equipment and service requests via web based user interface.

Plasma framework is now working in Linux, MS Windows and OS X. What are mini applications and what they can do? The future of desktops, no matter what is the size of device, use environment and language you like, small is beautiful again!

Most conferences are organized and provided from the top down. Social technologies, peer-production and open innovation models provide new opportunities for people to organize events from the bottom up.

We believe that progress is hindered when key insights are not shared effectively from events where people meet and share ideas. There is also room for improvement in the quality of events. Bantora is about to change this.

We are building together with major industry partners a completely new way for developers to take part in organizing events collaboratively.

At this session, you will be one of the first to hear what a new upcoming web-based service has under the hood to make developers' lives easier and how we plan to promote cross-pollination of ideas across industries and developer subject areas.

Bantora!

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