Linux-Ottawa (OCLUG) Wiki - history:speaker

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Lucas Smithen Talks given: 2007.04.03 2007 AGM: Transgaming/Cedega

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Patrick Naubert Talks given: 2007.03.06 March Meeting: Xen and virtualization

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Bart Trojanowski [bart's smaller mug] Bart Trojanowski is a Linux kernel hacker, currently self employed working for clients seeking Linux development and consulting services (www.jukie.net). When not hacking Linux drivers and embedded systems, he enjoys playing with his two kids.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Steve Lecomte and Stephan Monette Talks given: 2007.02.06 February Meeting: Asterisk and VoIP

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Randal Leavitt Talks given: 2008.10.07 October Meeting: Versions and Conversions 2007.02.06 February Meeting: Fractal Poetry

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Michael Richardson Michael Richardson is a self-taught programmer and consultant, and has been involved with network security systems since 1988. After working in nearly every aspect of Ottawa hightech, Michael was a founding employee at Milkyway Networks in 1994, and Solidum Systems Corporation in 1998. While at Milkyway Networks, Michael was responsible for developing the VPN components of the BlackHole firewall, the policy engine, and all kernel components. Solidum designed and sold hardware…

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Andrew Clunis Talks given: 2007.01.02 January Meeting: Comipz/Beryl 2007.06.05 June Meeting: One Laptop per Child

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Ian! D. Allen Ian! D. Allen: {{:/phpwikidata/themes/MacOSX/images/http.png}}http:%%//%%www.idallen.com/ Ian! D. Allen currently has a day job as professor of Computer Studies at the Algonquin College Woodroffe Campus. At night, in between marking Bourne shell scripts, he writes Perl and shell scripts to automate things on his Linux desktop and does volunteer sysadmin and web work for his hobbies, e.g.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Ken Webb Ken Webb has worked for over 25 years in the Ottawa high tech and consulting community. He was an employee of ObjecTime for several years where he became intimately familiar with the UML 2 concepts. He is the author of a published book, Oracle Distributed Systems: A C programmer's development guide. He has a BA in Cognitive Science from Carleton University, and an MSc from the Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems program (Informatics Department) at the Univerity of Sussex in England. He i…

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Matthew Awad Sales Manager, Mooney's Bay Computers Talks given: 2006.11.07 November Meeting: Linux out of the box

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Brian Shouldice and John Selwyn Talks given: 2006.11.07 November Meeting: National Capital Freenet and Linux

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Satellite Forces Talks given: 2006.10.03 October Meeting: Implementing a Corporate Services Network Using Linux

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Bruce Badger Bruce Badger is an enthusiastic technologist and the Founder and President of OpenSkills.org, a global non-profit association of professional individuals. His strong technical leadership skills have contributed to his success of a wide range of IT projects, over a period of more than 25 years. He has built and deployed many systems and libraries over the past 10 years, preferring to develop software using Smalltalk, a pure Object Oriented language. Bruce is currently focusing on th…

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Randy MacLeod Randy MacLeod has worked at Nortel for six years. For the past three years, he has been developing linux-based embedded systems. Previous to Nortel he spent 10 years doing computer systems development in several particle and nuclear physics labs. He worked at QNX Systems and is microkernel infected. He has been involved in linux since 1995 and fondly remembers the Redhat IPO. Despite being a born-again Californian, he lives in Ottawa.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Ian Ward Ian Ward's blog and a number of open source projects are hosted at . He has studied Computer Science at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa. He was first introduced to Linux in 1999 while working at Corel. Ian is available for software work on a contract basis. See

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Peter Schaffter Peter Schaffter is the author of the mom macro set for groff, and, as such, is part of the development team responsible for re-vitalizing Unix's powerful and flexible troff typesetting system. A novelist, classical pianist, composer and champion of free software, he currently lives in Gatineau, Quebec.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Kyle McMartin Kyle is an nth-year electrical engineering student at Carleton University. For fun (ha) he contributes to various projects, and maintains a few bits and pieces of Linux. Talks given: 2006.03.07 March Meeting: Efficient Use of GIT

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Robert Bernier Robert Bernier, a systems engineer, is a graduate of several postsecondary institutions including Retter College, Lakehead University, and the University of Regina. Robert is the PostgreSQL Business Intelligence Analyst for SRA America, a subsidiary of Software Research America (SRA) which is one of the oldest software houses in the world today (established 1965).

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

John C. Nash Retired Professor of Management at U of Ottawa. * 2006 - May -- Pres. of OCLUG -- Now I'll have to learn more about Linux! * 2007 - Mar -- have learned a lot, including how much still to learn. Talks given: 2012.12.06 December Meeting:

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Dave O'Neill Dave (dmo@{various different domains} and dave0 on #oclug) develops server-side software for fun and profit. He is currently employed by Roaring Penguin Software where he develops anti-spam software in C, Perl, and PHP. Occasionally, you may find useful information on

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Don Kelly Don Kelly is an Ottawa-area programmer with a decade's worth of time in the software industry. His first exposure to Linux and free software was in the early 1990's while trying to run PennMUSH on an donated 486. For those who might wonder: his preferred editor is Emacs.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Tyler Tidman Tyler Tidman has been wireless since shortly after his birth and has been hacking his own internal firmware for over 30 years. In his spare time, he tries to install Linux on his wife and two cats. Talks given: 2007.09.04 September Meeting:

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Bryan Larsen Talks given: 2007.09.04 September Meeting: Bembed

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Dmitriy Korovkin Talks given: 2008.01.08 January Meeting: Integrating Nokia Linux based PDAs (Nokia 770 in my case) with cell phones 2007.09.04 September Meeting: USB Webcam Support in the Linux Kernel

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David Skoll David Skoll is the founder and president of Roaring Penguin Software Inc. and an avid Asterisk fan. Talks given: 2007.11.06 November Meeting: Remind: The UNIX Geek's Ultimate Calendar Tool 2008.10.07 October Meeting: Saving a Bundle with Asterisk and Open-Source

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Herbert Hartwig Graduated 2 yr Electronics Technician, Algonquin College UOVC 15 Years as a field service Technician for NCR/ATT 1 Year as Director of Networking for Magi Data Consulting 3 Month as Production Manager at iStar 4 Years as President of Storm Internet 2 Years as Chief Operations Officer of Storm Internet 4 Years and currently Chief Technology Officer of Storm Internet

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Pat Suwalski Talks given: 2007.11.06 November Meeting: ASUS eeePC: Low Cost, High Value Laptop

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Brenda J. Butler Brenda is a software designer, currently working for Fidus Systems. Past accomplishments include teaching system administration and programming at Algonquin College and contributing to the OCLUG as attendee, speaker and organizer. Talks given:

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Ven. Chunen Rampal, ino Ven. Chunen Rampal provides Computing and IT support at the Zen Centre of Ottawa. He is always searching for ways to provide access to the Teachings of Zen Master Anzan Hoshin using non-proprietary formats, and increase reliability for the end-users.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Jeff Fouchard Jeff Fouchard is a level two technician supporting Ubuntu Linux for Dell Inc. He has been with Dell since February 2006, and supporting the consumer Linux project since its inception. Jeff has been using Linux since Red Hat 4.2. Talks given:

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Russell McOrmond Talks given:

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Jean-Francois Messier I work in IT Security in the Federal Government. I've been heavily involved in firewall management, DNS maintenance and upgrade for Canadian Goverment-owned domains. I have been managing BIND-based DNS servers since 1998. I'm doing less right now, although I now manage my own domain using a web interface, which I will demonstrate. I was also involved in PKI since 1998, and cryptography. I'm rather limited in the level of details I can disclose, of course, by the nature of …

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Josh Bush I'm a contributor to Neverball ( and ). I've been involved in a lot of local F/OSS awareness raising in Tasmania and have been behind our initiative to bring better resource sharing and encourage interaction between our F/OSS communities. I work as a sys admin/it consultant.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Aleks Essex [Aleks Essex] Aleks Essex is a doctoral candidate at the University of Ottawa with a background in information security and its applications to electronic voting. He is a member of Votegrity Labs, an American-Canadian research group focused on the development of

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Dru Lavigne and Doug Inkster Dru Lavigne is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Source Business Resource, a free monthly publication covering open source and the commercialization of open source assets. She is founder and current Chair of the BSD Certification Group Inc., a non-profit organization with a mission to create the standard for certifying BSD system administrators. A prolific author, she pens the popular FreeBSD Basics column for O'Reilly and is author of BSD Hacks and The Best…

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Roland Renaud Roland has been using Emacs for over 20 years for software development, sysadmin, reading and sending email, documentation, etc... Talks given: 2009.05.05 May Meeting: New to Linux BOF summary 2011.03.01 March Meeting: Gnews 2015.03.05 March Meeting: Emacs 2010.04.01 2010 AGM:

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Brian Tiffin Talks given: 2008.09.02 September Meeting: OpenCOBOL 2008.08.05 August Meeting: The REBOL thinking environment

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

tbd tbd is a speaker we call upon when we don't yet have a real speaker for the meeting or when there are multiple speakers for a panel discussion or BOF. Talks given: 2010.01.07 January Meeting: Future Topics 2011.12.01 December Meeting: Job hunting in High Tech 2009.04.07 2009 AGM:

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Steve Lusk Talks given: 2009.08.04 August Meeting: SED - stream editor; i18n and l10n 2008.12.02 December Meeting: Shamir's Secret Sharing 2009.09.03 September Meeting: SED stream editor - part 2

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Robert Echlin Talks given: 2009.06.02 June Meeting: Linux Distributions 2013.01.03 January Meeting: My first newsletter (in Linux) 2017.10.05 October Meeting: Git services: GitLab beats GitHub 2008.12.02 December Meeting: Sprucing up Apache directory listings

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Charles Nadeau Talks given: 2009.02.03 February Meeting: Backup to tape and how to deduplicate files beforehand

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Marcus Leech Marcus is a 30-year veteran of the software engineering, telecom and networking industries. He has worked in a number of different roles in the industry, most recently in the CTO Office at Nortel Networks. He is past chair of the Ottawa Carleton Unix Users Group, which eventually morphed into OCLUG. He has chaired security-related working groups in the IETF, including Authenticated Firewall Traversal, and ITRACE

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Alan German Alan has been using Ubuntu Linux and a variety of open-source applications for the past three years, and is currently one program away from being Microsoft free. He has been doing a little Wine tasting of late, looking to find the right vintages for both his Windows' application and the Wine translator that will produce the perfect blend.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Samantha Burton Samantha Burton, a MA Mass Communication student at Carleton College and Project Coordinator of Jamii OLPC . Talks given: 2009.04.07 2009 AGM: Jamii OLPC

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Andrew Ross Andrew Ross is President of FOSSLC (Free and Open Source Software Learning), a non profit organization dedicated to improving lives with open source. He is also a Director of Engineering for Ingres Canada where he leads a team of developers working on geospatial support in Ingres.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Richard Guy Briggs Talks given: 2014.04.03 April Meeting: Annual General Meeting 2009.05.05 May Meeting: Regular Expressions 2010.03.04 March Meeting: Intermediate Digital Photography with Linux 2014.02.05 February Meeting: GPG Update 2015.04.02 April Meeting: The mutt email client

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Eric Brackenbury Small business computing for manufacturing retail purposes. Now moving to Linux for the last two years. http://www.brackenbury.ca Talks given: 2009.06.02 June Meeting: Linux Distributions 2010.03.04 March Meeting: Introduction to Digital Photography with Linux 2010.12.07 December Meeting: Gnews 2010.06.03 June Meeting:

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Richard Hagemeyer Talks given: 2009.06.02 June Meeting: Linux Distributions

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Ed Philpott Talks given: 2009.06.02 June Meeting: Linux Distributions

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Peter Bowen Peter has been working with Linux and open source for the past decade. He is currently an engineering manager at Novell working on SUSE Studio and Linux appliances. Having moved to Ottawa three years ago, he is still getting used to the Canadian winters.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Mike Keller Talks given: 2009.09.03 September Meeting: Music Production Distros

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Jeff Green Talks given: 2010.01.07 January Meeting: Group51.org 2009.11.05 November Meeting: Future Topics

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Clayton Smith Talks given: 2009.12.03 December Meeting: Myth TV 2012.06.07 June Meeting: Raspberry Pi

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Matthew Bastian Matthew Bastian is a flight test engineer with the National Research Council of Canada. When he's not busy flying on research aircraft, he writes real time airborne data acquisition software. Talks given: 2010.02.04 February Meeting:

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Glenn Henshaw Glenn Henshaw has been developing embedded systems since the days of the Intel 8085. While most of these devices have run proprietary operating systems, his more recent developments have focused on Linux embedded in telecommunications routers and financial devices.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Lisa Lovchik Talks given: 2010.05.06 May Meeting: Disk Partitioning

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

John Sebastien Taylor Talks given: 2010.05.06 May Meeting: Ubuntu 10.04 - what's new?

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Boris Shingarov Talks given: 2010.06.03 June Meeting: GNU Lilypond

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

various Talks given: 2010.09.07 September Meeting: An intro to R 2011.02.01 February Meeting: Gnews 2010.08.05 August Meeting: GNews and Tips 2011.04.05 April Meeting: Gnews 2014.05.01 May Meeting: Open mike time (lightning talk) 2015.04.02 April Meeting: Annual General Meeting 2015.08.06 August Meeting: Browser security 2011.01.04 January Meeting:

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Gary Jones Talks given: 2010.08.05 August Meeting: GIMP

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Paul Gilbert Bank of Canada Talks given: 2010.09.07 September Meeting: UseR! 2010

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Mark Lord Mark has been hacking the Linux kernel for fun and food since 1992. He is the original author of the Linux IDE subsystem, the hdparm drive tuning utility, and other assorted open source goodies. His consultancy, Real-Time Remedies Inc, has provided Linux development, mentoring, and support to companies around the world since 1996. When not rock-climbing or globe-trotting, he is often found working with SATA controllers in the new libata subsystem, or hacking USB devices to manage the …

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Craig Miller Craig Miller is the author and current maintainer of expect-lite, an automation project. He developed the tool in 2005 and convinced his employer to open-source it in 2007. He has been a dedicated Linux and open-source user for over 10 years, is Red Hat certified and has been active in the LinuxPPC (powerpc) community.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Dru Lavigne Dru Lavigne is a network and systems administrator, IT instructor, author and international speaker. She has over a decade of experience administering and teaching Netware, Microsoft, Cisco, Checkpoint, SCO, Solaris, Linux and BSD systems. She is author of BSD Hacks, The Best of FreeBSD Basics, and The Definitive Guide to PC-BSD.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

David Sampson Talks given: 2010.12.07 December Meeting: Computers for Communities 2010.11.02 November Meeting: POSTPONED - Computers for Communities

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Robert P. J. Day Robert P. J. Day is a long-time Linux and open source professional trainer, having taught for numerous companies including Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, Global Knowledge and Protech Training, as well as delivering his own custom courseware. These days, Rob concentrates primarily on training in the areas of Linux kernel programming, embedded Linux, device drivers and OpenEmbedded and the Yocto Project.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Alan Kearns Canada's Career Coach Alan is Canada's Career Coach and the Head Coach and founder of CareerJoy™. He is one of Canada's foremost experts on all things relating to careers. Alan was educated as an Optician, and made a career transition into the recruitment industry. He was one of Canada's most successful recruiters and founder of TalentLab. Having made a career transition himself and recognizing the gap in the market for professionals who were looking for unbiased professional advic…

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Christian Meloche Chris started his first company at age 14, worked for Foreign Affairs Canada, based in Paris where he managed Signet 1 for Africa and the Middle East, he was also Director International IT for Netscape. Chris has a BA in Philosophy from the University of Ottawa. He has been using Linux for 12 years, Unix for 18 and computers forever.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Darcy Whyte Darcy Whyte is the inventor of the Drewbot and the Squirrel Model Airplane, a software trainer and software developer. Talks given: 2012.03.01 March Meeting: The Drewbot 2012.05.03 May Meeting: Wordpress for professionals

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Guy Quesnel Talks given: 2012.11.01 November Meeting: Creating an Oracle Database Cluster in VirtualBox

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Ian Gorman Ian has a lot of experience at applying experience outside of its original box. He has solved problems in Economics, Math, Computer Science, logic based controllers, bicycles, and human relations, generally mixing in information from at least one other discipline or computer language to make it work, or work better. His experience with computers includes Linux, Mac, and several server OSes from IBM, Sun, and others. He has worked with drivers, parsers,

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Scott Murphy [Scott Murphy] Scott has been haunting server rooms and using/administrating Unix and Unix like systems for more than 30 years now. His background includes IT infrastructure, system administration, deployments and migrations, security and management. He is currently working as a consultant for the federal government.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Pedro Sanchez Pedro writes scripts in Linux for Wind River Systems. He automates processes involved in creating training documents, and creating bootable Linux USB sticks with specific content for use in training seminars. Talks given: 2012.12.06 December Meeting:

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Michael Soulier I am a professional software developer, who has been in the industry of software development for over ten years, starting with Nortel as my first job out of University, and eventually moving to Mitel, working on developing and porting VoIP applications on the Linux platform. I specialize in Unix systems programming and Web applications, primarily, but I have dabbled in many things and I learn quickly.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Aaron Wilcox Talks given: 2014.04.03 April Meeting: Annual General Meeting 2016.02.04 February Meeting: LibreOffice Master Documents 2016.04.07 April Meeting: AGM 2013.01.03 January Meeting: Controlling Distributed Network Computing Client Using D-Bus Signals 2015.05.07 May Meeting: FIRST Robotics Competition

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Pascal St.-Jean Pascal St-Jean is on the admin board of the Tiki Software Association. Pascal's business, Citadel Rock, focuses on Tiki consulting services and delivering Online Community and Enterprise Social Network solutions to clients by combining the power of open source software such as Tiki, BigBlueButton and Kaltura.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Cody Somerville Cody Somerville is a Software Systems Engineer at HP where he works to drive innovation and integration of cloud computing technology. Prior to joining HP, Cody was an engineer at Canonical - the commercial sponsor of the Ubuntu project - where he designed and implemented the image building, software package repository management, and release infrastructure used by the Professional Engineering and Services group to deliver Ubuntu pre-installed on millions of devices. Cody is als…

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Sean Rickerd [Sean Rickerd] Sean is currently a sales engineer with SUSE, having held that position since March of 2013. Prior to that, Sean has worked at Headstrong and Rocket Networks. Talks given: 2013.08.06 August Meeting: SUSEstudio 2013.08.06 August Meeting: Overview of the BTRFS

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Alex Pilon [silhouette] Alex is a 3rd year, software engineering student at Carleton. He has been using Linux since October of his first year. Vim over emacs, favours C, awk, shell scripting and Python. Started out on Arch although disillusioned now. His career interests are in networking and security and is currently doing a co-op term at GENBAND.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Renato Carrara Renato has enjoyed a varied career in the high tech industry, holding roles such as SysAdmin, ASIC design support, project management and managing memories for large ASIC designs. As an expatriate Brazilian, he brings an interesting perspective to Canadian winters.

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Jérôme Jacovella-St-Louis [Jérôme Jacovella-St-Louis] Jérôme Jacovella-St-Louis is the Founder & CTO of Ecere Corporation. Jérôme has over 20 years of software development experience with: * Software design, architecture and implementation * Object-oriented programming

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Peter Sjöberg [Peter Sjoberg] Peter works as a senior systems administrator with Hewlett-Packard where he currently maintains and develops the automation of RedHat server builds and maintenance with the help of kickstart and custom in house programs. Besides Computers he is also interested in small electronic projects and photography.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Samir Hussain [Samir Hussain] Samir has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from University of Ottawa. He has been using Linux since 2000 and has participated in the Ottawa Canada Linux User Group, Ottawa Python Authors Group and GOSLING (Getting Open Source Logic INto Governments).

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Adam Saunders [silhouette] I'm a lawyer working in Ottawa, and one of the main services I provide is legal advice regarding open-source software. I've been published frequently by LWN.net, and I've been on newsstands around the world in the magazine Linux Voice. I run Fedora on my work laptop and use lots of open-source software to get my work done.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Patrick Malcom Patrick Malcolm, President of NetRunner is a trusted educator to clients like: the Department of National Defence, Canadian Security Establishment, IBM, The Royal Bank of Canada, the RCMP High Tech Crime Unit, Canadian Police College. An entertaining and knowledgeable storyteller, Patrick combines compelling storytelling with technical facts that engage and give participants a memorable experience.

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Kelly Kendrick [Kelly Kendrick] Survivor of Nortel, Altera and Workstream, Kelly has had a varied career as a systems administrator. He has recently finished a stint with Elections Canada and is looking for his next opportunity. Talks given: 2015.12.03 December Meeting:

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Isaac Tamblyn [Isaac Tamblyn] Isaac Tamblyn is a staff scientist with the National Research Council of Canada. His research is in the area of computational nanoscience. Talks given: 2017.02.02 February Meeting: Deep Neural Networks

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Dianne Skoll [Dianne Skoll] As founder and president of Roaring Penguin Software Inc., Dianne Skoll directs the business vision and technological direction of the company. With more than 20 years' experience in technology management, custom software development, network design/security and more, Dianne ensures that Roaring Penguin remains focused on high-quality, high-performing solutions to real enterprise needs.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Bruce Davis [Bruce Davis] Bruce has been an IT professional since 1998 and has had experience with personal computers since 1980. He is a generalist, with experience in hardware, personal systems, servers, networks, Microsoft operating systems since DOS 5 and various distributions of Linux.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-29T23:44:15+00:00

Gwyneth Morrison [silhouette] Talks given: 2017.06.01 June Meeting: UEFI Lessons