Three days in Kualar Lumpur at the MSC OSCON have been exciting. On the hackathon day (first day) I was in the cybersecurity hall to see practical analysis of Web intrusion using Open Source Software (OSS) tools by the Mycert Security group, a non profit security analysis and services provider.
If you think you have a secure website or server then think again. MyCert shared with us their experiences in respect to what they have been observing on the web. The number of daily cyber attacks is unbelievable.
The second day began with a keynote from Anthony Baxter of Google and he expalined how they launched a Google Map site after 6 hours of work during the Victorian Bushfires. The map application, which is called mapvisage shows updates about the ongoing fire. The source code can be found at the mapvisage Google Code site.
Several sessions of presentations then took place including very interesting ones like ‘Next Generation Firefox Mozilla Firefox 3.5 and ‘Surviving the Crisis with Open Source’. You can read about the Firefox presentation on Gen Kanai’s blog, the Director of Marketing Mozilla Japan.
With open source influence, we see even the Redmond giant supporting it. The afternoon keynote was delivered by Oliver Bell (Regional Technology Officer at Microsoft Asia Pacific) highlighting their support and contribution to Open source. More interestingly, they are one of the sponsors for the conference.
After the keynote, the sessions continued with interesting topics on Open source participation, commercializing Open source, Open source standards and lots more. Technical presentations for the developers including virtualization, patterns and frameworks also took place at the Developer room.
Open source is all about collaboration and that’s what today’s Platinum Keynote discussed. Jarish Pillay from Redhat did an excellent job at it.
The afternoon’s keynote – Open Source, Then, Now and the Future – was given by Chris DiBona, the Open Source Programs Manager for Google. Presently, there are over 200,000 open source projects with over 4.9 billion lines of code and development cost of $387 Billion. The numbers are growing exponentially and does not show sign of slowing down any soon.
As always is, interesting sessions went through out the day including topics on Linux capabilities, Security, Open web and more. You may find details of the schedule here and the slides here.
While the MSC OSCON is on its 3rd day, the JavaOne conference commences today and everyone is twittering about it.
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