ApacheCon EU 2014: Full Schedule

Register Now for ApacheCon Europe 2014 - November 17-21 in Budapest, Hungary.

10:30am CET

Apache CouchDB State Of The Union - Jan Lehnardt, ASF

This talk is an overview over the past 24-36 months of the CouchDB project. Join us on a riveting tour through a near-death experience and a phoenix from the ashes-like rebirth of the project as well as major technological improvements. You will learn where Apache CouchDB stands today and where it is, boldly, going.

With the departure of its lead developer and the abandonment of the project by the company founded by three of the original CouchDB developers, many felt that CouchDB is dying. This couldn’t be further from the truth and this talk explains what happened and how CouchDB is more alive than ever and has a bright future ahead of it!

Speakers

Jan Lehnardt

CEO, Neighbourhoodie Software

Jan Lehnardt is the PMC Chair and VP of Apache CouchDB, co-creator of the Hoodie web app framework based on CouchDB as well as the founder and CEO of Neighbourhoodie Software. Heâ€™s the longest standing contributor to Apache CouchDB.

Monday November 17, 2014 10:30am - 11:20am CET
Tas

Couch, Experience Level - Beginner | Wildcard, Experience Level - Beginner

2:40pm CET

Apache JSPWiki - Siegfried Goeschl, ASF

Welcome to Apache JSPWiki - a Java-based Wiki using Java Server Pages (see http://jspwiki.apache.org). The presentation starts with a technical overview of Apache JSPWiki and turns to settting up JSPWiki for different environments & requirements. These environments range from your personal "Wiki On A Stick" running from an USB stick (including native launchers) up to a work-group setup deployed on a in-house server with integrated Lucene search.

Speakers

Siegfried Goeschl

Senile Software Engineer, Independent Consultant

I'm currently an ASF member, Apache Turbine and JSPWiki Project Management Committee (PMC) member. Over the last 10 years I was also Apache Commons Committer & PMC working on commons-email & commons-exec, Apache XMLRPC commmitter, Apache Isis & JSPWiki mentor and Apache Maven contributor... Read More →

Monday November 17, 2014 2:40pm - 3:30pm CET
Tohotom

Content Services, Experience Level - Beginner | Wildcard, Experience Level - Beginner

2:40pm CET

CouchDB Replication: A Robust Sync Architecture For The Mobile World - Jan Lehnardt, ASF

Modern IT is mobile, but existing technologies are struggling to address the unique issues of our mobile infrastructure. From portable laptops to tablets and rarely connected phones, the demands from end user devices for our IT infrastructures are not only novel, they are hard. Apache CouchDB has been designed from the ground up to address all relevant issues. This talk will explain the challenges of the mobile world, where huge latency, intermittent connectivity and limited device capacity and computing power long for smart technology that solves it all and how CouchDB is the super hero that saves the day. We’ll look into mobile web and native apps, the fundamentals of data syntonisation, and how sync is the foundation for robust Offline First architectures and user experiences.

Speakers

Jan Lehnardt

CEO, Neighbourhoodie Software

Monday November 17, 2014 2:40pm - 3:30pm CET
Tas

Couch, Experience Level - Intermediate | Wildcard, Experience Level - Intermediate

3:50pm CET

RTFM? Write a Better FM! - Rich Bowen, ASF

Ever notice that the projects most likely to tell you to RTFM tend to have the worst FM? That's because the virtues of a docs team - Dilligence, Patience, and Humility - happen to be the virtues of kinder politer people, too.

Come learn some tips of writing better documentation, providing better end-user support, and just possibly growing your project community.

Rich has been doing Open Source documentation for 20 years, and some folks say he's kind of good at it.

Speakers

Rich Bowen

Principle Evangelist, Open Source, AWS

Rich has been doing open source since before we called it that. He's a member and director at the Apache Software Foundation, and has been active on major open source projects including the Apache HTTP Server, Perl, PHP, Wordpress, and OpenStack. He's an Open Source Evangelist at... Read More →

Monday November 17, 2014 3:50pm - 4:40pm CET
Dery/Mikszath

Community, Experience Level - Any | Wildcard, Experience Level - Any

4:50pm CET

Secure Your Hadoop Cluster With Apache Sentry - Xuefu Zhang, Cloudera

Apache Hadoop users can drive adoption within their organization by implementing Apache Sentry Role Based Access Control (RBAC). This talk will discuss the current security problems Apache Hadoop's ecosystem, with a focus on authorization primitives in the context of Apache Hive and Apache SOLR, and how Apache Sentry addresses those problems. Apache Sentry's architecture and internals will be also be discussed, and the Apache Sentry roadmap and latest development will be given.

Speakers

Xuefu Zhang

Software Engineer, Uber Technologies

Xuefu Zhang has over 10 year’s experience in software development. Earlier this year he joined as a software engineer in Uber from Cloudera, where he spent his main efforts on Apache Hive and Pig. He also worked in the Hadoop team at Yahoo when the majority of the development on... Read More →

Monday November 17, 2014 4:50pm - 5:40pm CET
Arany

Big Data, Experience Level - Intermediate | Wildcard, Experience Level - Intermediate

9:00am CET

Apache Incubator: The Gateway Into The “Apache Way” And A Continual Mentoring Venue - Suresh Marru, ASF & Roman Shaposhnik, Pivotal

New projects enter the Apache Software Foundation through the Incubator program. Wealth of IPMC members guide the podlings teaching the Apache Way. Mentors and incubator community assist in learning through the releases process, albeit sometimes in a hard way. As the podlings graduate and enter into a self-governance mode, the priority of making stringent releases and the vigor of community engagement is often diluted. This talk will cover the perspective of those incubating project members who later came back to the incubator to help others learn from mistakes they made. Pay it forward or perverse sense of payback -- you’ll be the judge. Either way, Apache Incubator is a unique project under the ASF umbrella that brings together a diverse set of members all bound by the same goal: keep the “Apache Way” spirit alive in the projects joining the foundation and graduated projects.

Speakers

Suresh Marru

Suresh Marru is a Member of the ASF and is the PMC chair of the Apache Airavata project. He directs the Science Gateways program within the flagship US Cyberinfrastructure: Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). Suresh focuses on promoting Apache Way in science... Read More →

Roman Shaposhnik

Director of Open Source, Linux Foundation

Apache Software Foundation and Data, oh but also unikernels

Tuesday November 18, 2014 9:00am - 9:50am CET
Dery/Mikszath

Community, Experience Level - Beginner | Wildcard, Experience Level - Beginner

9:00am CET

Subversion With Local Branches (And More) - Branko Čibej, WANdisco

Apache Subversion is one of the most widespread version control systems currently in use. Whilst it has many useful features — and several well-known deficiencies — one of the most often repeated criticisms against it is that it is not "distributed" (or, more properly, "decentralised"), since is has a central repository and does not provide local branches and similar features of most popular DVCS. In this presentation, we'll discuss the Subversion developers' plans for introducing some of these features into Subversion.

Speakers

Branko Cibej

Director of Subversion, WANdisco

Brane has been a Subversion developer and PMC member for 14 years, having joined the project soon after it started. Two years ago he began working on the project full-time as Director of Subversion at WANdisco. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and a regular speaker... Read More →

Tuesday November 18, 2014 9:00am - 9:50am CET
Kond

Software Development, Experience Level - Beginner | Wildcard, Experience Level - Beginner

11:20am CET

Podling Post-Mortem: Looking Back On Incubation And Lessons Learned - Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier, Red Hat

As part of the Apache CloudStack project, I had a chance to see first-hand some of the good and bad choices made during Apache CloudStack's incubation. We'll take a look at a successful graduate more than a year after its exit from the Incubator, and where things went well and where they didn't go so well. Also will have plenty of advice for companies/projects looking to join the ASF.

Speakers

Joe Brockmeier

Head of Community, Percona

Joe Brockmeier is Head of Community at Percona. Brockmeier has been involved in open source for more than 20 years, is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, and has previously worked at Red Hat, Citrix, and SUSE. He also has an long history in the tech press and publishing... Read More →

Tuesday November 18, 2014 11:20am - 12:10pm CET
Dery/Mikszath

Community, Experience Level - Any | Wildcard, Experience Level - Any

11:20am CET

OpenOffice At Apache: 2014 And Beyond - Andrea Pescetti, Apache OpenOffice PMC

It's already two years since OpenOffice graduated as a Top Level Project at Apache. We have more than 100 million downloads and a stable, working community at Apache. In an overall "state of the project" talk, we will see what we accomplished so far, what worked, what can be improved, what Apache gave to OpenOffice and what OpenOffice gave to Apache. Then we will see what can be accomplished in the medium-term future and how the community resources can be used to those aims.

Speakers

Andrea Pescetti

Member, Apache OpenOffice PMC

Andrea Pescetti has been active in free and open source software communities since 2001. He is currently serving as member of the Apache OpenOffice PMC, and helping the project as a volunteer, mainly in the Release Management and Localization fields. In his ordinary work activity... Read More →

Tuesday November 18, 2014 11:20am - 12:10pm CET
Petofi

OpenOffice, Experience Level - Any | Wildcard, Experience Level - Any

1:30pm CET

Open Development In The Enterprise - Bertrand Delacretaz, Adobe

Open Development is often mentioned in open source circles nowadays, as a way to make projects really open, sustainable and meritocratic rather than based on people's titles or hierarchical ranking.
Does this model have its place in the enterprise? Can we apply the open source governance models to enterprise projects, where you'd usually expect a strictly hierarchical decision making process?
The open collaboration methods used by the some development groups at Adobe demonstrate that this is not only possible, but brings measurable benefits in terms of agility, employee satisfaction and quality of the final product.
This talk describes the key elements that make this possible, and provides pointers to developers or project leaders to start using such a model in their own projects.

Speakers

Bertrand Delacretaz

Principal Scientist, Adobe

Bertrand Delacretaz works as a Principal Scientist in the AEM R&D team at Adobeâ€™s Basel office, using open source tools to create world-class content management and digital marketing systems. Bertrand is an active member and current Director of the Apache Software Foundation... Read More →

Tuesday November 18, 2014 1:30pm - 2:20pm CET
Kond

Software Development, Experience Level - Any | Wildcard, Experience Level - Any

3:50pm CET

Contributing To CouchDB - Jan Lehnardt, ASF

Become a Hero!

Open Source projects are only as good as the people that work on them. A project's first objective should be to increase its developer base. Consequently, this talk invites you to learn what little it takes to make a meaningful contribution to CouchDB.

This talk is a tour through the CouchDB Apache project and wider community. It explains the way the peoject works and where it can be improved, and how.

One of the bigger stumbling blocks for contributors is CouchDB's implementation language Erlang. However, there is plenty to do without ever touching Erlang and we'll show you what you can do.

Finally, if you are not afraid to dive in, we'll give you a gentle introduction to CouchDB's Erlang implementation.

Speakers

Jan Lehnardt

CEO, Neighbourhoodie Software

Tuesday November 18, 2014 3:50pm - 4:40pm CET
Dery/Mikszath

Community, Experience Level - Beginner | Wildcard, Experience Level - Beginner

4:50pm CET

Apache Stratos Roadmap And Strategy - Lakmal Warusawithana, WSO2 Inc

Apache Stratos is a highly-extensible Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) framework that helps run Apache Tomcat, PHP, and MySQL applications and can be extended to support many more environments on all major cloud infrastructures. For developers, Stratos provides a cloud-based environment for developing, testing, and running scalable applications. IT providers benefit from high utilization rates, automated resource management, and platform-wide insights, including monitoring and billing.

This session will focus on the roadmap for Apache Stratos and how it can become a disruptive force in the current PaaS market.

Speakers

Lakmal Warusawithana

Senior Director Developer Relations, wso2 inc

Lakmal Warusawithana is the Senior Director - Cloud Architecture of WSO2. Lakmal has a long history of working in open source, cloud, and DevOps technologies and has been Vice President of Apache Stratos PaaS Project. Lakmal is an architect for containerization and deployment orchestration... Read More →

Tuesday November 18, 2014 4:50pm - 5:40pm CET
Dery/Mikszath

Cloud, Experience Level - Intermediate | Wildcard, Experience Level - Intermediate

11:40am CET

Internet Of Things - Justin Mclean, Class Software

CPUs that cost thousands a decade ago are now cost a few dollars. The Arduino platform has lowered barriers to entry so that people with minimal tech knowledge can create special purpose computers capable of changing the world. Open Source Hardware is in autonomous drones, 3D printers, DNA replicators, satellites, city-wide sensor networks, smart houses and wearable computers. In this talk I'll take you through what Open Source Hardware is and isn't, OSW licensing, recent advances in OSW, show a range of projects and demonstrate what's possible now, and warn about some the threats (lack of protocol standards and vendor lock in to name two) that may hinder the growth of Open Source Hardware.

Speakers

Justin Mclean

Founder, Class Software

Justin Mclean has more than 25 years experience in developing web based applications and is involved in the open source hardware movement. He runs his own consulting company Class Software and has spoken at numerous conferences in Australia and overseas including previous ApacheCon... Read More →

Wednesday November 19, 2014 11:40am - 12:30pm CET
Huba

Wildcard, Experience Level - Beginner