Speaker and Session Details

by Sander van der Waal on 5 January 2010

Introduction

Scott Wilson

10:00 - 10:30 Presentation : Introduction to Wookie

11:30 - 12:30 Practical Session : Building a ToDo widget

Biography

Scott Wilson is Assistant Director of CETIS, the JISC’s innovation support centre for interoperability and standards in the UK higher and further education sectors. As well as working on Apache Wookie (Incubating), Scott is a contributor to W3C, the Open Web Foundation, CEN and other standards organisations. Prior to working in CETIS, Scott worked in the commercial software sector, in areas such as CRM, Business Intelligence, and Criminal Intelligence.

Ross Gardler

10:30 - 11:15 Practical Session : Building a basic widget using Open StreetMaps

Biography

Ross Gardler is manager of OSS Watch and a long time open source software developer, both to support his academic life and previous commercial sector activities. He is an active contributor to a number of open source projects and is a Vice President of the Apache Software Foundation. Membership is a meritocratic status awarded to those who contribute to the health and vitality of one of the most significant and longest running open source foundations in the world.