Sessions at OSCON 2012 about Software on Thursday 19th July

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• Building PhoneGap at Nitobi and then Adobe: Free Software in Small and Large Corporations

  by Brian LeRoux

  Nitobi Software quietly lead a mobile web revolution creating and fostering the PhoneGap project eventually growing it to millions of users worldwide. In late 2011, Nitobi was acquired by Adobe Systems. This talk will go through the transition of small software consultancy working part time on a free software project growing into a small team in a large company dedicated to the same project.

  • Mobile
  • PhoneGap
  • Software

  At 10:40am to 11:20am, Thursday 19th July

  In E145, Oregon Convention Center

• Free the Code: The Case for the US Federal Government to Open Source Software as a Default Position

  by Deborah Bryant and John Scott

  Long-time open source advocate in government Deb Bryant takes off the gloves and talks about legislators and lobbyists, policy wonks and pundits, bureaucrats and and advocates. It's just the fodder you’ll need to get behind a new national technology imperative; recycle US Federal investments in software into the innovation economy while taking control of their own software destiny.

  • Government
  • Open Source
  • Software

  At 2:30pm to 3:10pm, Thursday 19th July

  In E146, Oregon Convention Center

• Web Application Accessibility

  by Alice Boxhall

  There are millions of software users with disabilities worldwide, yet many web application developers aren't aware of the techniques which can be used to make their software accessible. This talk will give an overview of what accessibility means and why it's important to you, a run-down of the technology and techniques for achieving it, and a look at how browsers provide accessibility support.

  • Accessibility
  • Software
  • support

  At 2:30pm to 3:10pm, Thursday 19th July

  In Portland 251, Oregon Convention Center

• Frequently Asked and Infrequently Answered Questions About Software Patents

  by Mishi Choudhary, Deb Nicholson and Justin Colannino

  The intense commercial competition between technology companies is
  driving large volumes of complex and often multi-jurisdictional patent
  litigation. With the de facto possibility of patenting software
  related ideas in various countries, free and open source software
  developers must understand the patent risks inherent in the development
  and distribution of their software.

  • Litigation
  • Patents
  • Software

  At 5:00pm to 5:40pm, Thursday 19th July

  In E145, Oregon Convention Center