ApacheCon EU 2014: Full Schedule

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10:30am CET

Mobile Productivity - Louis Suárez-Potts, Age of Peers, Inc. & Peter Kelly, UX Productivity

Despite the success of Android and the rise of Tizen and Firefox OS, there seems to be no good open productivity tool on mobiles, inexplicable, given the interest and given the enormous population about to start using mobiles daily, as their default computing device.

But first: Mobiles are not desktops. To exploit the plusses offered we must abandon legacies, such as huge library dependencies, GUI toolkits designed in the 90s, and application architectures whose main effect now is to slow things down and make the mobile user think she is using a bad laptop, at best.

Mobile’s strengths start with the obvious: its mobile. But it also offers a simpler, more direct experience. For the developer at Apache, a mobile productivity tool, such as we have designed with UX Write, can leverage the code and open standards that annul vendor lock-in and obsolescence, while still providing acce

Speakers

Peter Kelly

CEO, UX Productivity

Peter Kelly is the Founder & CEO of UX Productivity, an small software development company focusing on mobile productivity solutions. He is the developer of UX Write, a word processor for the iPad. Peter is currently based in Chiang Mai, Thailand.Prior to starting UX Productivity... Read More →

Louis Suárez-Potts

Community Strategist, Age of Peers, Inc.

Louis Suárez-Potts is the community strategist for Age of Peers, a consultancy he co-founded in 2011. He also participates on the Project Membership Committee for Apache OpenOffice. From 2000 to 2011, Suárez-Potts was the Community Manager for OpenOffice.org, a role that entailed... Read More →

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

Business, Experience Level - Any | Mobile/Flex, Experience Level - Any

11:30am CET

Building Cordova Applications With Apache Flex - Christofer Dutz, Codecentric AG

In this talk I give an overview over the Flex project's efforts in optimizing the new Falcon compiler in a way that it is able to not only produce Flash applications, but also Html and JavaScript applications from the same code-base. I will lay special emphasis on how this hybrid approach makes it easy to build Cordova applications while utilizing the full stack of features and tools developers are usually used to: Type-Safe development, Unit-Testing, Integration-Testing. Code Coverage, Debugging an application from within the IDE.

Speakers

Christofer Dutz

Senior IT Consultant, codecentric AG

Likes to swim outside the mainstream. He is really passionate about walking new paths. Some times this means making a new technology useable for the masses or by creating new combinations of established strategies. His solutions are usually unconventional but simple, highly efficient... Read More →

Monday November 17, 2014 11:30am - 12:20pm CET
Petofi

Developer, Experience Level - Intermediate | Mobile/Flex, Experience Level - Intermediate

1:40pm CET

Cordova And Firefox OS - Html5 For The Mobile Web - Jason Weathersby, Mozilla

Firefox OS is an open source operating system for mobile phones designed entirely around HTML5, Javascript, CSS and open web standards. Recently Firefox OS has been integrated into Cordova and offers another option for multiplatform mobile developers. By leveraging the inherent advantages of web development and giving developers access to hardware through web standards, we can make an open and affordable mobile web a reality. In this talk Jason Weathersby from Mozilla will show how Firefox OS works, how to build and debug apps for it, and how end users will benefit from this open alternative to other platforms.

Speakers

Jason Weathersby

Technical Evangelist, Mozilla

Jason Weathersby is a Technical Evangelist for Mozilla, evangelizing Firefox OS. He is also a committer on the BIRT project at the Eclipse Foundation, and has co-authored several books and written many articles on BIRT integration. He is a proponent of HTML5, the Open Web and Open... Read More →

Monday November 17, 2014 1:40pm - 2:30pm CET
Petofi

Developer, Experience Level - Intermediate | Mobile/Flex, Experience Level - Intermediate

2:40pm CET

Apache DeviceMap - Werner Keil, Creative Arts & Technologies

We experience a growing number of mobile phones, tablets, phablets, smart TV and similar devices flooding the market almost every day.
Capturing the specification of each device is a tough job. If you want to create a comfortable user experience you need dynamic content according to hardware and browser specifications of your device. That’s the reason why Device Description Repositories (DDR) exist.

Apache DeviceMap is a collaborative effort to create a comprehensive open-source and open-data repository of device information, images and other relevant information for all types of mobile devices, smartphones, tablets, smart TV, etc.. Much of the code was donated from the OpenDDR project, and participants come from many different companies.

The project began in January 2012, later that year OpenDDR contributed DDR APis for Java and. NET. Ongoing steps are a common device repository, a storage structure and maintenance of device data by the Apache community.

Speakers

Werner Keil

CATMedia UG & Co. KG

Werner Keil is a Cloud Architect, Jakarta EE and Microservice expert for the public sector. Helping Global 500 Enterprises across industries and leading IT vendors. He worked for over 30 years as IT Manager, PM, Coach, SW architect and consultant for Finance, Mobile, Media, Transport... Read More →

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

Developer, Experience Level - Beginner | Mobile/Flex, Experience Level - Beginner

3:50pm CET

An Introduction To Apache Flex - Justin Mclean, Class Software

Apache Flex is an open source framework for easily building applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop.

In this talk I'll give a brief history of Apache Flex, cover the main features of Apache Flex including recent releases, it's UI XML markup language, component hierarchy, binding, event bubbling, skinning and other major features of the framework.

I'll show a simple Flex application and how easy it is to make MVC architecture web browser application and convert with few simple modifications from a web browser based application to one that runs on the desktop and in a mobile device.

Finally I look at some of the other more recent directions the project is evolving in with FlaconJX a ActionScript to JavaScript cross compiler, FlexJS a new JavaScript based framework and ant for Air an utility for making cross platform user friendly installers from ant scripts.

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 →

Monday November 17, 2014 3:50pm - 4:40pm CET
Petofi

Developer, Experience Level - Intermediate | Mobile/Flex, Experience Level - Intermediate

4:50pm CET

Unit Testing Apache Flex Applications - Justin Mclean, Class Software

FlexUnit has finally cleared Adobe's legal team been donated to the Apache Flex project and made it into it's first release.

In this session I go though how to efficiently unit test an Apache Flex application. I'll start with the basics by showing how to write and run simple Flex Unit tests. Then moving on to how to refactor your code so that it is testable and show several methods to pragmatically test your application. I'll cover a few more advanced topics including asynchronous unit testing, testing event dispatch and UI testing with FlexUnit. Finally for a bit of fun I'll show how FlexUnit can be used in Jenkins and the build status shown via Open Source Hardware Arduino traffic light shield.

Speakers

Justin Mclean

Founder, Class Software

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

Developer, Experience Level - Beginner | Mobile/Flex, Experience Level - Beginner

9:00am CET

The Municipality Of Trieste Apache OpenOffice Migration - Davide Dozza

In 2013 the Municipality of Trieste (Italy) decided to migrate to Apache OpenOffice. The main goal was to adopt ODF as the document standard format for all the 1800 users on about 1550 PCs.
A change management approach, with a focus on the users to lower the changing barriers has been used. Davide Dozza will present the project activities and how technical, human resources and organization issues have been faced and addressed.
Moreover challenges on Apache OpenOffice adoption in enterprise environment will be discussed.

Speakers

Davide Dozza

He received the Dr.Eng. and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 1985 and 2000 respectively. After working at R&D Department at Datalogic, Italy, he joined the University of Bologna as Ph.D. Student collaborating with ST Microelectronics on research on integrated... Read More →

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

OpenOffice, Experience Level - Any | Operations, Experience Level - Any

10:00am CET

The OpenOffice Localization Community - Andrea Pescetti, Apache OpenOffice PMC

The sun never sets on the OpenOffice localization community. Volunteers from all continents help translating OpenOffice, its documentation and its website into dozens of languages.
We'll discuss the localization of OpenOffice both as a community story and a technical story. The community was restarted from scratch at Apache and welcomes new volunteers on a regular basis. Tools were developed and extended at Apache to help translators, with benefits for all Apache projects.

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 10:00am - 10:50am CET
Petofi

Developer, Experience Level - Intermediate | OpenOffice, Experience Level - Intermediate

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

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

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

1:30pm CET

Anatomy Of An Apache OpenOffice Extension - Pedro Giffuni, Apache Software Foundation

Developing code within the huge, and sometimes daunting, Apache OpenOffice code can sometimes be very difficult, specially if you only want to add a very specific piece of code that few people want.
As part of an ongoing effort to improve the Operation Research capabilities within Apache OpenOffice, I will try to document the different parts of an Apache OpenOffice extension.

Apache OpenOffice supports a framework called UNO, Universal Network Objects, for developing extensions. Extensions can be written in C/C++, Python or Java.

The UNO documentation is somewhat sparse and most of the developers end up taking some existing extension and use it as a template to write their own. This introductory talk will consider the characteristics behind UNO and will provide the basics to write such applications.

Speakers

Pedro Giffuni

Developer, Apache OpenOffice - FreeBSD

I am a Mechanical Engineer and I have a M. Sc. in Industrial Engineering but I have always been a hobbyist on computers and Networking. Since my University days (late mid-90's), I have been using FreeBSD actively in system administration. I am a FreeBSD and Apache OpenOffice developer... Read More →

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

Developer, Experience Level - Intermediate | OpenOffice, Experience Level - Intermediate

2:30pm CET

Doing The Write Thing: Document Editing Made Mobile - Louis Suárez-Potts, Age of Peers, Inc. & Peter Kelly, UX Productivity

At the Denver ApacheCon last April, I presented on the evolution of OpenOffice, and the need for a good quality, compatible solution for mobile devices.

Participants suggested establishing a project in Apache Labs to address this problem. It would depart from existing architectures but could reuse some elements from OpenOffice where appropriate. It would be lightweight, portable, and independent of legacy code.

A good starting point would be UX Write, developed by Peter Kelly. It only runs on iOS at present, but most of the code is cross-platform, and could be made to work on Android and other systems. Peter and I have discussed the idea of open-sourcing parts of the app under the Apache 2.0 license. The app uses HTML natively, and WebKit for displaying documents on-screen, and supports import/export of .docx, export of LaTeX, and could be further extended to support ODF.

Speakers

Peter Kelly

CEO, UX Productivity

Louis Suárez-Potts

Community Strategist, Age of Peers, Inc.

Tuesday November 18, 2014 2:30pm - 3:20pm CET
Petofi

Business, Experience Level - Any | OpenOffice, Experience Level - Any

3:50pm CET

How to Turn Your Favorite Programming Language Into An AOO Macro Language - Rony Flatscher, WU Vienna

Apache OpenOffice (AOO) defines a scripting framework that can be exploited to add any programming language to Apache OpenOffice as a macro language. This presentation introduces the necessary overview and knowhow to become able to assess the effort to add your own favorite programming language to AOO. Although the AOO scripting framework is implemented in Java it is possible to add non-Java-implemented programming languages as demonstrated with the programming ooRexx which is itself implemented in C++. In addition all scripting languages that support Java's "javax.script" framework could be added to AOO using AOO's scripting framework.

Speakers

Rony Flatscher

University Professor, WU Vienna

Rony G. Flatscher has been working as an Information System ("Wirtschaftsinformatik") professor at the WU Vienna (with 25,000 business students one of the largest of its kind) where he has been trying to empower the students with IT and IS skills to help them be more productive in... Read More →

Tuesday November 18, 2014 3:50pm - 4:40pm CET
Petofi

Developer, Experience Level - Any | OpenOffice, Experience Level - Any

4:50pm CET

LDAP Testing: Does It Have To Be A Nightmare? - Emmanuel Lecharny, Symas

When it comes to testing the LDAP part of an application, it's usually a task that is seen as a punishment by many developpers. The JNDI API does not help, nor does the fact most of the time, you have to reset your LDAP server between each test.

We will expose a better way to do LDAP based tests.

Apache Directory Server has some revert mechanisms that spare developers the need of resetting the LDPA server between tests. We also have a full annotation based solution to initialize a LDAP server in unit tests.

Apache LDAP API is way simpler than JNDI and has extended features that makes it easer to use for any Java developper.

We will present those features with simple tests and some more complex.

Speakers

Emmanuel Lecharny

Architect, Symas

Emmanuel LÃ©charny is an Apache Member, former chairman of the Apache Directory project. He is currently working for Symas. He has been working on Apache Directory project for more than 10 years.

Tuesday November 18, 2014 4:50pm - 5:40pm CET
Petofi

Developer, Experience Level - Beginner

9:30am CET

Lizard - Clustering An RDF Triplestore - Andy Seaborne, Epimorphics Ltd

This is the story of building a clustered SPARQL database. Demand on
triplestores is growing, both in terms of scale and reliable operation.
Replication and clustering are needed for fault tolerant operation and for
larger datasets. Server replication of a single machine database only get so far.
It is easier to have a system designed to harness the capabilities of
several machines in one system. The goal of ""Lizard"" is to provide a solid
platform for triplestore operation.

In this presentation, Andy will describe how ""Lizard"" takes the Apache Jena
TDB database design and extends it to cluster operation. The talk will
cover the core principles of the TDB design and SPARQL execution, the
choices to be made in the ""Lizard"" design that rework the system for a
medium scale cluster system, and report of the current status.

Speakers

Andy Seaborne

Andy works on infrastructure for linked data graph systems. He was lead editor for SRARQL, the RDF Query Language. Andy developed the ARQ query engine which is released as part of Apache Jena where he is a committer. He has spoken at conferences and at developer events about linked... Read More →

Wednesday November 19, 2014 9:30am - 10:20am CET
Petofi

Developer, Experience Level - Intermediate | Linked Data, Experience Level - Intermediate

10:40am CET

Manage Linked Media With Apache Marmotta - Thomas Kurz, Redlink GmBH

The integration of multimedia assets on the web with structured (linked) data promises further opportunities for digital market places regarding findability and recommendations. The new W3C standards for Media Annotation, Media Fragment UIRs and Linked Data Platforms build a stable base for this purpose. Thomas Kurz shows how to use the Linked Data Platform Apache Marmotta in combination with the Red5 Media Server as a backend for the storage and retrieval of Linked Media. In his talk he is going to show extensions for a seamless integration of media streaming for Non-RDF resources and spatio-regional media fragment retrieval with SPARQL.

Speakers

Thomas Kurz

Co-Founder, Salzburg Research

Thomas Kurz is co-founder of Redlink GmbH, Senior Researcher at Salzburg Research, and contributor to Apache Marmotta. Thomas is working mostly on Open Source projects within large-scale National and European research projects like KiWi, SNML and MICO. He presented his work in many... Read More →

Wednesday November 19, 2014 10:40am - 11:30am CET
Petofi

Developer, Experience Level - Intermediate | Linked Data, Experience Level - Intermediate

11:40am CET

Open Annotation Support For Apache Stanbol - Rupert Westenthaler, Salzburg Research

Open Annotation is an W3C working draft that uses RDF to (formally) describe - annotate - associations between related resources. In this presentation Rupert Westenthaler will show how Apache Stanbol can be configured to use an Annotation Model compatible to this recommendation; This presentation will first provide an overview on Open Annotation and present strengths and weaknesses of it when used for the Stanbol Enhancer. The second section will present the Open Annotation compatible annotation model for the Stanbol Enhancer. and how this model is generated based on the currently used one. The final section will show how to configure Stanbol to use the new model and conclude with a demonstration.

Speakers

Rupert Westenthaler

Researcher, Salzburg Research

Rupert Westenthaler is co-founder of Redlink GmbH, Researcher at Salzburg Research and contributor to Apache Stanbol as well as some other Apache projects. Rupert is a Software Engineer specialized on applied research. His main interests are Natural Language Processing, Information... Read More →

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

Developer, Experience Level - Intermediate | Linked Data, Experience Level - Intermediate

2:00pm CET

Quadrupling Your Elephants - RDF And The Hadoop Ecosystem - Rob Vesse, YarcData

The Hadoop ecosystem is excellent in providing a large variety of data processing paradigms and supports a wide variety of data formats. However support for RDF within this ecosystem is often non-existent or confined to academic research which has yet to make the jump to production ready systems. In this talk I will present several projects I've been involved in both inside and outside the ASF which are looking at bringing production ready RDF support to the Hadoop ecosystem.

Speakers

Rob Vesse

Software Engineer, YarcData

Rob Vesse is a Software Engineer at YarcData (part of Cray Inc) working on their Urika Graph Analytics platform. He is their resident RDF, SPARQL and Semantic Web expert having been heavily involved in these areas for the past 5 years. Currently he is a committer and PMC member on... Read More →

Wednesday November 19, 2014 2:00pm - 2:50pm CET
Petofi

Developer, Experience Level - Intermediate | Linked Data, Experience Level - Intermediate

3:00pm CET

Towards a Commons RDF Library - Sergio Fernández, Redlink GmbH

In the Java world there is an historical incompatibility issue between the two major RDF toolkits: Apache Jena and OpenRDF Sesame. But behind this effort there is a completely different approach than before. This library does not pretend to be a generic API wrapping those libraries, but a set of interfaces for the RDF 1.1 concepts that can be used to expose cores concepts using common Java interfaces. In the initial phase commons-rdf is focused on a subset of the core concepts defined by RDF 1.1 (URI/IRI, Blank Node, Literal, Triple, and Graph). In particular, Commons RDF aims to provide a type-safe, non-general API that covers RDF 1.1. In a future phase we may define interfaces for Datasets or Quads.

Counts in core contributors from both Jena and Sesame, But it will live or die on its own merits!

The working repository can be found at http://github.com/wikier/commons-rdf

Speakers

Sergio Fernández

Software Engineer, Redlink GmbH

I'm a Software engineer specialized in innovation, with a focus on Data Architectures. My interests include Distributed Architectures, Data Integration, Linked Data and System Engineering. I've worked as software engineer and project manager in different industries, but always somehow... Read More →

Wednesday November 19, 2014 3:00pm - 3:50pm CET
Petofi

Developer, Experience Level - Intermediate | Linked Data, Experience Level - Intermediate