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{
	"speakers": [{
		"name": "Cecilia Donnelly",
		"title": " ",
		"image": "cecilia-donnelly.png",
		"descriptions": [{
			"description1": "Cecilia Donnelly is a developer and project manager at <a href=\"http://opentechstrategies.com\">Open Tech Strategies</a>, a consulting company that helps organizations use open source to achieve their goals.  Cecilia is particularly experienced with and interested in the technology needs of community-based non-profits."
		}],
		"schedule": [{
			"title": "Open source development for non-technical organizations",
			"start": "Friday 2:00PM",
			"end": "Friday 2:50PM",
			"location": "Illinois B",
			"descriptions": [{
				"description1": "Community organizations, non-profits, and governmental agencies are not primarily focused on building and maintaining software, but can benefit greatly from participating in open source software development.  These kinds of organizations often have difficulty contracting for software development and taking full advantage of these benefits.  This talk discusses best practices for non-technical organizations who need to procure and maintain custom software, and why open source is often a good choice for them."
			}]
		}]
	},
		 {
		"name": "Chris Thoburn",
		"title": " ",
		"image": "chris-thoburn.png",
		"descriptions": [{
			"description1": "Chris Thoburn (<a href=\"https://twitter.com/runspired\">@runspired</a>, <a href=\"http://runspired.com\">http://runspired.com</a>) is a Javascript Engineer at <a href=\"https://isleofcode.com\">[IsleofCode]</a>, author of over a dozen Open Source Ember.js addons for helping deliver maintainable and performant cross-platform applications, and maintainer of Hammer.js."
		}],
		"schedule": [{
			"title": "The Real Value of Frameworks",
			"start": "Saturday 10:00AM",
			"end": "Saturday 10:50AM",
			"location": "Illinois B",
			"descriptions": [{
				"description1": "Do frameworks limit creativity, or enable it?  Do they really have steep learning curves, and if they do, is the learning worthwhile?",
				"description2": "This talk will focus on the real value of the Javascript framework Ember.js, standards, and how it's rigorous approach to finding better primitives is enabling a new era of performant cross-platform applications making use of occlusion, recycling, concurrency, and multi-threading."
			}]
		}]
		}, {
		"name": "Christopher Manning",
		"title": "",
		"image": "christopher-manning.jpg",
		"descriptions": [{
			"description1": "Christopher Manning works at Civis Analytics as a Senior Staff Engineer. He spends his time improving the software platform, promoting open-source, and providing technical guidance."
		}],
		"schedule": [{
			"title": "How to Effectively Build Software Using Open-Source",
			"start": "Saturday 3:00PM",
			"end": "Saturday 3:50PM",
			"location": "Illinois B",
			"descriptions": [{
				"description1": "Building a software product with a team at a startup requires effectively utilizing the limited time and resources at your disposal. In this talk, I will discuss the pros and cons of using open-source software to build a product at a startup, a process for maintaining the software you use, and lessons learned from relying on open-source software."
			}]
		}]
	}, {
		"name": "Daliah Saper",
		"title": "To use or not to use? The Legal Implications of Using Open Source Software",
		"image": "daliah-saper.jpg",
		"descriptions": [{
			"description1": "Daliah Saper has handled many high profile cases (including one she argued before the Illinois Supreme  Court) and is regularly interviewed on national tv, radio, and in several publications including Fox News, CNN, CNBC, ABC News, 20/20, The New York Times, and the Chicago Tribune.  She has repeatedly received the honor of being named a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers magazine, is recognized as a leading Media and Entertainment lawyer by Chambers and Partners, featured on the covers of TheXemplar magazine and Chicago Lawyer Magazine, profiled by the Chicago Law Bulletin,  and has been nominated for the prestigious ATHENA Young Professional Leadership Award. Most notably, in 2012, Law Bulletin Publishing Company selected Daliah Saper as a “40 under 40,” an incredibly competitive list of accomplished attorneys selected from thousands of qualified nominations.  She serves as an Adjunct Professor of Entertainment Law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. As a litigator she handles cases involving trademark and copyright infringement, trade secret misappropriation, online defamation, domain name squatting, and commercial disputes. As a transactional lawyer she helps clients choose the right business entity, drafts bylaws and operating agreements as well as sweepstakes and contest rules, negotiates contracts and licenses including website terms of use and privacy policies, and provides comprehensive trademark and copyright counseling."
		}],
	"schedule": [{
			"title": "To use or not to use? The Legal Implications of Using Open Source Software",
			"start": "Friday 1:00PM",
			"end": "Friday 1:50PM",
			"location": "Illinois A",
			"descriptions": [{
				"description1": "Navigating an Open Source License: All Open Source licenses are not the same! Blindly assuming it's ok to incorporate open source code into your project could expose you and your company to big legal headaches. Attend this session to understand the myriad of ways you may (or may not ) license and distribute open source software. "
			}]
		}]

	}, {
		"name": "Derek Eder",
		"title": "",
		"image": "derek-eder.jpg",
		"descriptions": [{
			"description1": "Derek Eder has been building websites in Chicago since 2005. He is the owner of DataMade, LLC, an open government and open data web consulting company, co-founder of Open City, a collective that makes civic apps with open data, and organizer for the Open Gov Hack Night, a weekly event for building civic technology with open data."
		}],
	"schedule": [{
			"title": "Open Source and Civic Technology",
			"start": "Friday 4:30PM",
			"end": "Friday 5:20PM",
			"location": "Illinois A",
			"descriptions": [{
				"description1": "Open source is cool, but can it improve the lives of everyday people? Can it improve the way we interact with our government and hold it accountable?",
				"description2": "Yes, it can. <a href=\"https://twitter.com/derekeder\">Derek Eder</a> will talk about the role that open source has played in the open government and civic technology movements in Chicago through his work with <a href=\"http://datamade.us\">DataMade</a>, <a href=\"http://opencityapps.org\">Open City</a>, and <a href=\"http://chihacknight.org\">Chi Hack Night</a>. He'll show off some of the open source civic applications he's worked on including <a href=\"http://lookatcook.com\">Look at Cook</a>, <a href=\"https://www.councilmatic.org\">Councilmatic</a> and the <a href=\"http://derekeder.com/searchable_map_template\">Searchable Map Template</a>."
			}]
		}]
	}, {
		"name": "Dru Lavigne",
		"title": "",
		"image": "speaker-holder.png",
		"descriptions": [{
			"description1": "Dru Lavigne is the lead documentation writer for the PC-BSD and FreeNAS projects. She is author of BSD Hacks, The Best of FreeBSD Basics, and The Definitive Guide to PC-BSD. 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, and serves on the Board of the FreeBSD Foundation."
		}],
	"schedule": [{
			"title": "ZFS 101 (aka ZFS is Cool and Why You Should be Using It)",
			"start": "Friday 10:00AM",
			"end": "Friday 10:50AM",
			"location": "Illinois A",
			"descriptions": [{
				"description1": "This presentation introduces some of the cool features provided by the ZFS filesystem. These features include built-in software RAID, the ability to self-heal data corruption, copy-on-write, low-overhead snapshots, support for multiple boot environments, and more. It then demonstrates how these features are incorporated into the graphical user interfaces of FreeNAS (an open source storage system) and PC-BSD (an open source desktop/server)."
			}]
		}]
	}, {
		"name": "Evan Miller",
		"title": "Democracy in Open Source",
		"image": "evan-miller.jpg",
		"descriptions": [{
			"description1": "A graduate of Williams College and the University of Chicago, Evan Miller earned his 15 minutes of Hacker News fame with Chicago Boss, the disgruntled Erlang web framework. He currently earns his keep with Wizard Pro, a data visualization and predictive modeling tool for Mac, and maintains his open-source karma with Hecate: The Hex Editor From Hell."
		}],
	"schedule": [{
			"title": "Democracy in Open Source",
			"start": "Saturday 11:00AM",
			"end": "Saturday 11:50AM",
			"location": "Illinois A",
			"descriptions": [{
				"description1": "Is open source software good for democracy? Stallman's free software movement began with explicitly democratic goals -- the protection of user freedom -- but now we're facing the depressing reality that open-source software can just as easily be used to spy on entire societies and deny individuals their rights. In this desultory talk I'll explore the role of democratic values in open-source software development, from individual motivations to collective decision-making processes, as well as the role that software developers as a profession are currently playing in the construction of a worldwide Red-Pill dystopian drone-strike hellscape."
			}]
		}]
	}, {
		"name": "Greg Baugues",
		"title": " ",
		"image": "greg-baugues.jpg",
		"descriptions": [{
			"description1": "Greg serves as a developer evangelist for Twilio, where his mission is to inspire and equip developers to change communications forever. He moved to this great city of Chicago 11 years ago this month and lives in Logan Square with his wife, 1.5 year old daughter, and a dog that text selfies."
		}],
	"schedule": [{
			"title": "WebRTC: Changing the Future of Communications",
			"start": "Friday 5:30PM",
			"end": "Friday 6:20PM",
			"location": "Illinois A",
			"descriptions": [{
				"description1": "WebRTC is a set of open source APIs that allow developers to build real-time voice calling, video chat and P2P file exchanges in the browser without external plugins. In this talk you'll learn the history of WebRTC, the limitations of WebRTC, and how to add video chat to your web application in ten minutes using the WebRTC based Twilio Video."
			}]
		}]
	}, {
    "name": "Ian McLeod",
    "title": " ",
    "image": "ian-mcleod.jpg",
    "descriptions": [{
      "description1": "Ian McLeod is a developer in the Open Source and Standards group at Red Hat.  He is a regular contributor to the Fedora project, with a focus on the fedora Cloud interest group and release engineering.  He is also the primary upstream developer for Image Factory, a tool used to build Cloud, Docker and Vagrant images for Fedora, CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux."
    }],
  "schedule": [{
      "title": "Linux Charcuterie: How Distribution Sausage is Made",
      "start": "Friday 1:00PM",
      "end": "Friday 1:50PM",
      "location": "Illinois B",
      "descriptions": [{
        "description1": "This talk will take a look at the entire chain of building a distribution from start to finish. We'll look at how source is packaged and built, and then complex combinations of packages are joined together to make a cohesive Linux distribution that successfully installs and runs in a diverse set of environments - from aging x86 hardware to public cloud environments, Linux containers, and immutable systems."
      }]
    }]
  }, {
		"name": "Jim Campbell",
		"title": " ",
		"image": "jim-campbell.jpg",
		"descriptions": [{
			"description1": "Jim is the co-organizer of the Chicago GNU/Linux User Group, a member of the GNOME Foundation and contributor to the GNU MediaGoblin project. By day, he works as an HR systems analyst at a large hospital in the city. He encourages use and development of Free, Libre and Open Source software, and thinks that the, \"Year of the free software desktop,\" is the year that you use free software on your desktop."
		}],
	"schedule": [{
			"title": "GNOME and Free Software in 2016: Freedom and Capability",
			"start": "Saturday 4:00PM",
			"end": "Saturday 4:50PM",
			"location": "Illinois B",
			"descriptions": [{
				"description1": "GNOME is a desktop computing environment with a full suite of applications and utilities. It is also free software, and is designed in a manner that respects your freedom and privacy. But if regular users and developers don't find these applications useful and enjoyable, all of that freedom is for naught. This presentation will look at where GNOME (and other free software projects) are succeeding at bringing a fully capable and enjoyable computing platform to users, and where we have room to improve. This session is geared toward regular laptop users and software developers, and provides a reasonable and compelling justification for running free software on your computer."
			}]
		}]
	}, {
		"name": "Jonathan Rentzsch",
		"title": "Back to the Future",
		"image": "jonathan-rentzsch.jpg",
		"descriptions": [{
			"description1": "Wolf Rentzsch has been writing Apple software since 1993 and web software since 1998. He’s spoken at conferences across the world and even ran his own conference, C4, right here in Chicago for four years. His passion is to make software better."
		}],
	"schedule": [{
			"title": "Back to the Future",
			"start": "Friday 11:00AM",
			"end": "Friday 11:50AM",
			"location": "Illinois A",
			"descriptions": [{
				"description1": "We tend to view history and progress in a straight line, each thing building on the past. But that’s not simply the case. For example, we forgot the cure to scurvy. The standard lament is that, for computers, everything was invented in the 1960s. Fortunately that’s only 85% true. But it’s way more true than most programmers think. Wolf will provide examples of tech from the 60, 70s, and 80s that finally went mainstream and promising old tech that should move into the mainstream."
			}]
		}]
	}, {
		"name": "Luke Westby",
		"title": "",
		"image": "luke-westby.jpg",
		"descriptions": [{
			"description1": "Luke is a JavaScript developer at Raise with experience on the front-end and in Node. At work he spends much of his time building UIs with React, Redux, and Redux Loop, and developing services with Node and Hapi. Outside of work he is an active member of the Elm community, maintaining builtwithelm.co and several open source packages including elm-http-extra and elm-verbal-expressions. He loves contributing to the Elm community by answering questions in the Elm Slack, writing blog posts, and organizing the Chicago Elm Meetup. When he's not thinking about code he likes to play the guitar, speed-run Metroid Fusion, and watch far too much TV with his girlfriend."
		}],
	"schedule": [{
			"title": "Applications as Fractals: The Elm Architecture",
			"start": "Saturday 11:00AM",
			"end": "Saturday 11:50AM",
			"location": "Illinois B",
			"descriptions": [{
				"description1": "The Elm Architecture is the officially prescribed design pattern for building applications with Elm. Compared to the traditional MVC architecture it can be described as MVU - Model, View, Update. Reactivity is a built-in construct in Elm and so Elm allows us to strip away all of the control associated with a controller and focus entirely on how we update the model given a change in our system.",
				"description2": "In this talk Luke will explain how the Elm architecture arises from Elm's Signals, Tasks, Tagged Unions, and stateless view functions. He will demonstrate how we can use these language constructs to represent every discrete piece of functionality as an equally discrete model, view, and update function, and how to compose them to build larger applications out of smaller ones.\n We will see how the Elm architecture allows us to scale to any level of complexity with ease by building our applications as fractal structures with components fully contained by other components - not just their presentation,\n but their model and business logic as well.",
				"description3": "Some understanding of functional programming and in particular functional reactive programming will help to get the most out of this talk, but the general concepts work in other languages and paradigms too (although certainly not as well)."
			}]
		},
		{
			"title": "Friendly Functional Programming For The Web",
			"start": "Saturday 2:00PM",
			"end": "Saturday 2:50PM",
			"location": "Illinois B",
			"descriptions": [{
				"description1": "With the introduction of RxJS, React, Cycle, Immutable, Flow and TypeScript, and many of the new syntax features of ES6+, building JavaScript applications is evolving toward the functional reactive paradigm. The real benefit of functional programming, however, comes from using a truly functional language. Unfortunately, pure functional programming still seems to have an overly-mathematical stigma in the front-end community that can be discouraging to newcomers. Elm aims to fix all of this.",
				"description2": "Elm is a pleasant compile-to-JS language that marries the productivity of the JavaScript environment with the productivity and guarantees of a functional language. In Elm, every value is immutable, every function is stateless and concise, every DOM update is virtual, and every app is guaranteed free from runtime exceptions. Additionally, it provides this power in a way that is accessible and easy for people who are new to functional programming to get started and become productive quickly.",
				"description3": "In this talk, Luke will demonstrate all of the beauties of Elm, its syntax, tools, community, and hopefully convince you that the web is moving toward what Elm already provides. He will demonstrate some syntax and show some examples; cover all of the ways that Elm can make functional programming for the browser a nicer experience for anyone."
			}]
		}
	]
	}, {
		"name": "Martin O'Shield",
		"title": " ",
		"image": "martin-o'shield.jpg",
		"descriptions": [{
			"description1": "Martin O'Shield, founder of WindyCitySDR,  accepted to both ​IBM​'s​ Global Entrepreneur & IBM Cloud for Start Ups Programs​, Intel Tech Provider Gold, Microsoft Partner, and as of yesterday, accepted to Facebook's Telecom Infrastructure Project, <a href=\"https://telecominfraproject.com\">telecominfraproject.com</a>, Implementing SDR / SDN / NFV / MEC"
		}],
	"schedule": [{
			"title": "How to create 2G through 5G, & BEYOND,  Software Defined Radio / Mobile Phone Networks",
			"start": "Friday 11:00AM",
			"end": "Friday 11:50AM",
			"location": "Illinois B",
			"descriptions": [{
				"description1": "Software-defined radio (SDR) is a radiocommunication system where components that have been typically implemented in hardware (e.g. mixers, filters, amplifiers, modulators/demodulators, detectors, etc.) are instead implemented by means of software on a personal computer or embedded system.",
				"description2": "Today, utilizing Open Source Software, you can create 2G - 5G, and BEYOND, Software Defined Radio Networks!"
			}]
		}]
	}, {
		"name": "Pat Riehecky",
		"title": "",
		"image": "pat-riehecky.jpg",
		"descriptions": [{
			"description1": "Pat Riehecky holds an MA in Historical and Systematic Theology, a BA in Philosophy, and works at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.  He has a variety of duties at Fermilab, though he is most fond of Scientific Linux.  His support work at Fermilab ranges from Workstations, to Control Rooms, to Data Acquisition systems.  He is passionate about open source and giving code back."
		}],
	"schedule": [{
			"title": "Where does Scientific Linux Flourish!",
			"start": "Friday 10:00AM",
			"end": "Friday 10:50AM",
			"location": "Illinois B",
			"descriptions": [{
				"description1": "Scientific Linux is a Fermilab sponsored project.  Our primary user base is within the High Energy and High Intensity Physics community.  However, our users come from a wide variety of industries with various use cases all over the globe – and sometimes off of it!  This talk covers a little bit about the history of Scientific Linux, where Scientific Linux is used, our mission, our goals, and our future direction."
			}]
		}]
	}, {
		"name": "Phil Gomes",
		"title": " ",
		"image": "phil-gomes.png",
		"descriptions": [{
			"description1": "By day, Phil Gomes is a Senior Vice President of U.S. B2B Digital for Edelman, the world's largest PR firm. Among other things, he tries to infuse the world of corporate communications with the spirit and ethos of open source and online communities. He is the first in the public relations industry to actively write about the potential impact of blockchain technology. In 2012, he founded Corporate Representatives for Ethical Wikipedia Engagement (CREWE), dedicated to helping companies and Wikipedians find common ground in developing accurate articles. "
		}],
	"schedule": [{
			"title": "The Most Interesting (Non-Financial) Uses of Blockchain Technology",
			"start": "Saturday 1:00PM",
			"end": "Saturday 1:50PM",
			"location": "Illinois B",
			"descriptions": [{
				"description1": "From a communications perspective, blockchain technology has the potential to be more transformative than social media was in the early 2000s. However, with the media's the focus on finance (and the baseless phobia around bitcoin), many of the most compelling use cases get ignored. This talk cuts through the fear and hype, delivering a compelling vision for use cases and the future of communications on the Internet."
			}]
		}]
	}, {
		"name": "Raymond Hightower",
		"title": "Get Ready for Parallel Programming, Featuring Parallella",
		"image": "raymond-hightower.jpg",
		"descriptions": [{
			"description1": "Raymond T. Hightower is the founder of WisdomGroup, a software company that builds apps for the web and for mobile. WisdomGroup organizes the ChicagoRuby user group and the WindyCityRails annual conference. Hightower holds a BSCS from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His first experience with open source happened at UIC, and he is grateful to the University for the introduction. Details: <a href=\"http://rayhightower.com/\">RayHightower.com</a>."
		}],
	"schedule": [{
			"title": "Get Ready for Parallel Programming, Featuring Parallella",
			"start": "Friday 2:00PM",
			"end": "Friday 2:50PM",
			"location": "Illinois A",
			"descriptions": [{
				"description1": "Speed matters. For certain problems, parallel computing blows away the serial style we learned in school. What’s a cool way for serially-trained developers to explore parallelism? Consider Parallella: An 18-core, credit card sized computer that developers can use to start learning parallel computing today. Parallella runs Linux, the hardware is open source, and you can buy it online for $150. This talk will feature a Parallella running a Ruby on Rails app with parallel processing behind the scenes. Example source code will be available on GitHub. You can start learning parallel computing today."
			}]
		}]
	}, {
		"name": "Richard Cross",
		"title": "DevOps Engineer at HERE",
		"image": "richard-cross.jpg",
		"descriptions": [{
			"description1": "Richard Cross is a DevOps Engineer for HERE’s Automotive Cloud group. He studied High Energy Physics at UW Madison where he was deeply involved in large scale computing projects and the web. After completing his Ph.D. in 2001, he worked at Bank of America on their corporate online banking website and several private cloud infrastructure projects. He joined HERE in 2014 shortly after completing his M.B.A. at the U. of C. Booth School of Business. His focus is in cloud infrastructure with the goal of designing and deploying systems which will securely provide safety data simultaneously to 10,000,000 cars.",
      		"description2": "He has a passion for entrepreneurship and is currently developing software to improve conferences management.  You can find out more about Richard at <a href=\"https://swiftcheckin.com/about-us\">swiftcheckin.com/about-us</a>."
		}],
	"schedule": [{
			"title": "Using the Automotive Cloud to Improve Safety",
			"start": "Saturday 3:00PM",
			"end": "Saturday 3:50PM",
			"location": "Illinois A",
			"descriptions": [{
				"description1": "Cars are now shipping with sensors and internet connectivity.  At HERE, we are building cloud services designed to gather data and distribute it to improve safety.  Learn how the Internet of Cars will make driving safer both for human drivers and self-driving cars.  The development of a Digital Transportation Infrastructure promises that more drivers will be able to drive more efficiently and comfortably in the future.  Since this system needs to be rapidly scalable, I will discuss features of the cloud and the DevOps toolkit that make delivery of Automotive Cloud Services a reality today."
			}]
		}]
	}, {
		"name": "Robert Landley",
		"title": " ",
		"image": "rob-landley.png",
		"descriptions": [{
			"description1": "Rob Landley has been a geek since childhood, a Linux geek since 1998, and an embedded Linux geek since 2001. (This is because he breaks everything, and likes reducing the complexity in his system so there are less layers to drill through when debugging it.) He no longer maintains BusyBox, or his own fork of tinycc, but does still maintain Firmware Linux. He knits chain mail, co-founded two combination science fiction convention/Linux expos, has more cats than are strictly necessary, and sometimes refers to himself in the third person when writing biography entries."
		}],
	"schedule": [{
			"title": "The three waves: Hobbyists, Employees, and Bureaucrats (oh my)",
			"start": "Saturday 2:00PM",
			"end": "Saturday 2:50PM",
			"location": "Illinois A",
			"descriptions": [{
				"description1": "Organizations from IBM to linux kernel development go through three stages of development: the for-profit side calls them startup, core business, and diversified conglomerate. Each stage is powered by different people (see the title) pursuing different goals (change, growth, stability) and operating in very different ways. The transitions between stages are particularly challenging (which is part of the reason 80% of all startups fail, and many open source projects fork or fizzle out).",
        "description2": "This talk combines elements of The Mythical Man-month, The Innovator's Dilemma, and the computer history book Accidental Empires to explain how Microsoft lost its technical edge long ago, why Google created \"Alphabet\", why neither IBM nor Xerox Parc could keep hold of the PC, and the relationship between the Linux Foundation and actual Linux development."
			}]
    },
    {
      "title": "Embedded Linux From Scratch",
      "start": "Saturday 4:00PM",
      "end": "Saturday 4:50PM",
      "location": "Illinois A",
      "descriptions": [{
        "description1": "How to compile the smallest, simplest Linux system capable of rebuilding itself under itself entirely from source code, and of building conventional Linux From Scratch under the result. Covers toolchain creation and cross compiling, embedded libc and command line, kernel configuration, init scripts and simple system configuration, and booting the result under qemu or kvm to perform native compiling under emulation, plus some performance tricks with distcc."
      }]
		}
  ]
	}, {
		"name": "Sarah Sexton",
		"title": "",
		"image": "sarah-sexton.png",
		"descriptions": [{
			"description1": "Sarah Sexton is a dedicated advocate for technology, committed to highlighting strengths and seeing more women and minorities get involved in video game development. She is a co-founder of Voxelles, a group for women developers in Chicago. She is most passionate about diversity, inclusion, and communicating clearly. Her responsibilities at Microsoft include speaking to user groups, writing code, blogging and tweeting about Microsoft services, and reaching out to the development community and students. She helps student, community, and startup developers find success on Windows. She works with them via local user groups and speaking at conferences and universities about anything ranging from Unity 3D, BizSpark, to coding advice for apps and games."

		}],
	"schedule": [{
			"title": "Building Your First Node.js App and Publishing to Azure",
			"start": "Friday 3:00PM",
			"end": "Friday 3:50PM",
			"location": "Illinois A",
			"descriptions": [{
				"description1": "Learn how to build your very first Node.js app on open source software and publish it online directly from GitHub. Follow me on my personal journey from when I first heard about Node, to learning what it was, downloading the appropriate tools, building something with it, and finally publishing it to Azure. You’ll leave with some basic knowledge about Node, how to get started building your first Node app, and how to share it with the rest of the world.",
				"description2": "What is Node.js, and Where is it Strongest? Setting up your Node environment. Create your first Node app. Continuously Integrate from GitHub to Azure."
			}]
		}]
	}, {
		"name": "Steven Maguire",
		"title": "Zero to 26,000: My Journey into Open Source",
		"image": "steven-maguire.png",
		"descriptions": [{
			"description1": "Steven Maguire is a builder of teams, software architect, and product designer living in Chicago, IL. He is currently using his powers to help mail delivery suck a little bit less as VP of Technology at Earth Class Mail. Prior to that he held technical leadership roles at several startups and medium sized companies."
		}],
	"schedule": [{
			"title": "Zero to 26,000: My Journey into Open Source",
			"start": "Saturday 1:00PM",
			"end": "Saturday 1:50PM",
			"location": "Illinois A",
			"descriptions": [{
				"description1": "At the beginning of 2015 my Github profile was completely empty and I communicated a goal of contributing to one new open source project per month throughout the year. Over the next 12 months my profile grew to include over 40 public repositories, composed mostly of well tested, well documented, easily implemented, framework agnostic PHP libraries. Additionally, I was welcomed into the prestigious League of Extraordinary PHP Packages, where I eventually contributed to the core for two very popular libraries. Today, my individual packages have been downloaded and utilized over 26,000 times and I'd like to spend about an hour sharing some interesting details of this journey with you, and hopefully inspire you to begin getting involved in the open source community; it's not as scary as it may seem."
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      "description1": "I’m a senior at UIC and the founder of Career Podium. Career Podium is an interactive platform that young professionals can use to connect to employers. The purpose of our platform is to attract passionate candidates to employers. In my free time, I enjoy traveling and reading non fiction books to improve as a person."
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      "title": "Overcoming Defeat: Using it as motivation.",
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        "description1": "Being the founder of Career Podium is my first time as a leader. Prior to Career Podium, I was shy and never took the chance to put myself out there. I was always afraid of hearing no, that it limited my potential. To add to that, I was rejected from over 50 different companies last summer. The reason I didn't have any confidence was because I didn't know what I was passionate about. With Career podium, I now have something that allows for me to wake up everyday with energy. Throughout my talk, I would like to share my journey, and how I was able to help guide Career Podium to where it is today."
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      "description1": "Troy Dawson is currently a senior software engineer working in the productization section of the Red Hat OpenShift project. Prior to working for Red Hat, Troy worked for Fermilab for 18 years where he was one of two lead developers of Scientific Linux and Fermi Linux."
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        "description1": "After a brief background of RHEL Clones (history, legal, fun stories), I'll tell how you can build your own, or use someone else's Clone. Most important I'll talk about projects, both huge and small, that can, and do, use RHEL Clones."
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			"description1": "Vijay K. Gurbani is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories' End-to-End Mobile Network Research department in Nokia Networks. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics, a M.Sc. in Computer Science, both from Bradley University; and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology.",
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				"description1": "We define corporate open source (COS) as applying the precepts and methodologies prevalent in the open source development community for creating industrial-strength software projects in a corporation for internal use. It may seem that open source style development - using informal processes, voluntary assignment to tasks, and having few financial incentives - may not be a good match for commercial environments. Our work not only demonstrated that under the right circumstances corporations benefit from open source development techniques, but it also laid the groundwork for the research initiative now called \"Inner Source\", or the applications of best practices and culture from the open source domain applied to internal corporate software development efforts."
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		"general": [{
				"Qusetion": "What is Flourish!?",
				"Answer": "Flourish! is a <strong>student-led</strong> conference hosted at the University of Illinois at Chicago. This year will mark the conference's <strong>ninth</strong> year.  We are proud to help promote the use of open source and provide a gathering place for open source enthusiasts in the Chicagoland area. The Flourish! conference is <strong>FREE</strong> to attend and there will be free T-Shirts to those who register before March 12th. We really appreciate everyone for coming to Flourish! Conference for the past several years and we hope to bring another great and educating year!"
			},

			{
				"Qusetion": "Do I need to register?",
				"Answer": "Yes. You have the option to register online before or during the conference.  If you choose to register before March 12, 2016, we will be counted in our order for conference T-shirts.  You will be able to pick up T-shirts when checking in at the conference. Any unclaimed T-shirts after noon on Saturday will be given to those who want one.  We ask that you register as soon as possible, so that we can guage our needs for food, swag, and T-shirts."
			}, {
				"Qusetion": "Is the conference free?",
				"Answer": "Yes! We welcome students, staff, and open-source enthusiasts alike to join us at Flourish!.  When registering for the conference, you have the option to register for free or as a donation ticket.  Donations will be used to support Flourish! for the next year."
			}, {
				"Qusetion": "Will food be provided?",
				"Answer": "Yes. We will do our best to cater to your needs considering our limited budget.  We ask that you do register beforehand, so we can better guage our needs in ordering food.  There are also various restaurants on West on Taylor Street, South on Halsted Street as well Greek Town just a few blocks North of the conference."
			}, {
				"Qusetion": "I want to volunteer! How do I get involved?",
				"Answer": "We have bi-weekly meetings at UIC.  Please email <a href=\"mailto:volunteer@flourishconf.com\">volunteer@flourishconf.com</a> for more details.  You can also subscribe to our planning listserv to get the most up-to-date information of planning meeting and logistics. Instructions for listserv subscriptions and other methods of contact can be found on our <a href=\"contact.html\">contact page</a>."
			}, {
				"Qusetion": "I'm a company! I have questions!",
				"Answer": "Thank you for your interest.  We ask that you direct questions to <a href=\"mailto:info@flourishconf.com\">info@flourishconf.com</a>. Thanks!"
			}
		]
	}, {
		"type": "<hr>Travel:",
		"comment": "Flourish! 2016 will be held in the 3rd Floor Conference Center in Student Center East at the University of Illinois in Chicago",
		"subcomment": "3rd Floor Conference Center - 750 S Halsted Street Chicago, IL 60607",
		"general": [{
			"Qusetion": "Coming from O'Hare International Airport",
			"Answer": "Take the CTA Blue Line towards Forest Park. Take the Blue Line until you arrive at UIC-Halsted.  From the station, walk South along Halsted Street until you arrive at 750 South Halsted Street."
		}, {
			"Qusetion": "Coming from Midway International Airport",
			"Answer": "Take the CTA Orange Line towards Loop 'L'.  Take the Orange Line until you arrive at LaSalle/Van Buren.  From that stop, walk South to the CTA LaSalle Blue Line (one block) to transfer.  Take the CTA Blue Line towards Forest Park.  Ride the Blue Line for two stops until UIC-Halsted.  From the station, walk South along Salsted Street until you arrive at 750 South Halsted Street."
		}, {
			"Qusetion": "Coming from Ogilvie Transportation Center",
			"Answer": "From the Ogilvie Transportation Center, Head West on West Washington Boulevard toward North Clinton Street. Turn left onto North Clinton Street and walk one block to the intersection of Madison and Clinton. Wait at the bus stop for bus #60 towards Cicero/24th Place.  Take the bus until you reach Halsted and Polk. You should arrive near the Jane Addams Hull House Museum.  Cross the street at the intersection of Halsted and Polk to arrive at Student Center East."
		}, {
			"Qusetion": "Coming from Union Station",
			"Answer": "From Union Station, Use the Clinton and Jackson exit. Wait for CTA bus #60 at the bus stop on the opposite side of the street.  Board bus #60 towards Cicero/24th Place.  Take the bus until you reach Halsted and Polk. You should arrive near the Jane Addams Hull House Museum. Cross the street at the intersection of Halsted and Polk to arrive at Student Center East."
		}, {
			"Qusetion": "Coming by car (parking)",
			"Answer": "Visitor parking is available at a few locations around Student Center East.  You may use the Halsted Street Partking Structure at the corner of South Halsted Street and West Taylor Street. Standard parking fees may apply.  Lot 4 directly East of Student Center East is available. Standard parking fees apply at Lot 4.  Lot 5C at the corner of West Roosevelt Boulevard and South Morgan Street is available as well.  Standard parking fees may apply at Lot 5C."
		}, {
			"Qusetion": "Additional Resources",
			"Answer": "<ul><li><a href=\"http://maps.uic.edu/\">UIC Campus Map</a></li><li><a href=\"\">Visitor's Guide</a></li></ul>"
		}]
	}]
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