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.