Fossetcon 2015

November 19-21, 2015

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3 Day Event

Fossetcon is a 3 day event focusing on a variety of free and open source training and speeches.

Great Venue

The Hilton Lake Buena Vista is located on Disney property offering several entertainment options.

Speakers

Featuring speakers from a wide range of Free/Libre and Open Source disciplines new and old.

After Party Event

Fossetcon also hosts an after party networking event for attendees, speakers and exhibitors.

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Our Speakers

Quality content delivered from wide range of speakers.

Dr. Richard Stallman

Keynote

Dr. Richard Stallman launched the free software movement in 1983 and started the development of the GNU operating system (see www.gnu.org) in 1984

Ruth Suehle

Keynote

Ruth Suehle is the community leadership manager in Red Hat’s Open Source and Standards group, which supports upstream open source software communities and their projects.

Salvi Pascaul

Keynote

Salvi Pascual has been working for more than ten years programming, designing and leading multidisciplinary teams.

Marina Zhurakhinskaya

Keynote

Marina Zhurakhinskaya is a Senior Outreach Specialist focused on community diversity and inclusion at Red Hat and a board member at the Ada Initiative.

Ben Ilegbodu

Ben is currently a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer at Eventbrite, focusing primarily on front-end web development. He received his B.S. and M.S.

Josh Simmons

Josh Simmons is an armchair philosopher, open source web developer, and community manager at O'Reilly Media covering open source and web technology.

Heidi Waterhouse

Heidi is an experienced technical writer with a passion for usability, utility, and chewy Sweet Tarts.

Scott Suehle

Scott Suehle is currently the Community Manager for Cumulus Networks.

Mykel Alvis

Mykel Alvis has been a developer for over 34 years, primarily in assembler, C, Java and Groovy.

Boyd Stephens

Boyd Stephens is the founder of the information technology firm Netelysis where he is currently a member of the firm's networking services development team.

Dru Lavigne

Dru Lavigne is the lead documentation writer for the PC-BSD and FreeNAS projects.

Dmitri Pal

Dmitri Pal is an Engineering Director at Red Hat.

Jim Wildman

I have been actively employed as a Unix system administrator, system architect and manager since 1985.

James Shubin

I'm the guy who writes The Technical Blog of James: https://ttboj.wordpress.com/

Frank Cash

JavaScript developer interested in the Internet of Things.

Federico Lucifredi

The Ceph Storage Product Management Director at Red Hat, formerly the Ubuntu Server PM at Canonical, and the Linux "Systems Management Czar" at SUSE.

Spencer Krum

Spencer (nibalizer) Krum has been a system operator since 2010. 

Christopher Neugebauer

Christopher is an Australian programmer who lives in the Tasmanian city of Hobart.

Vicky Brasseur

VM (aka Vicky) is a manager of technical people, projects, processes, products and businesses.

Brandon Johnson

DBA, math enthusiast, programmer, scuba diver, cave diver, mountain climber, world explorer.

Chuck Aurora

Chuck Aurora is a Software Support Engineer for Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. since 2013, where he provides enterprise-grade support for ISC's BIND 9 and ISC_DHCP software.

Sandro Mathys

As the MidoNet Community Manager at Midokura, Sandro is busy with growing the user and contributor base and with enabling contributors to collaborate more easily and efficiently.

Travis Carlson

Systems Architect focused on Server-side/Back-end Processes and Application Integration. One of the original developers of the Mule ESB (mulesoft.org)

Rob "drtorq" Reilly

Rob Reilly is a technology consultant, writer and speaker.

Matthew Closson

Software Developer interested in C, Ruby, BSD, Cryptography, Libre Software and Internet Insecurity.

Deb Nicholson

Deb Nicholson wants to make the world a better place with technology and social justice for all.

Benjamin Kero

Ben is a senior software engineer at Red Hat working on the OpenStack project. Previously he held similar titles at Mozilla, Intel, and Google.

Mike Herchel

Mike Herchel is a front-end developer at Lullabot, and has been fortunate to work on some of the largest Drupal projects in the world.

Carol Smith

I am a program and community manager at Google currently overseeing the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program.

Tim Mackey

Tim Mackey is an evangelist and community manager for XenServer within the Citrix Open Source Business Office and is focused on server virtualization and cloud orchestration technical compe

Andrew Poland

Systems Engineer with a focus on Design and development of web based applications and cloud infrastructure automation.

Jose Antonio Rey

José Antonio Rey is a community contributor who has been actively participating since 2011.

Ted Gould

Ted Gould works for Canonical on the Ubuntu Snappy Core team ensuring that the next generation of connected devices is built on solid foundations.

Ibis Arrastia

Ibis is an out-of-the-box thinker with more than two decades of software development experience, with an emphasis in product innovation and eCommerce.

Donnie Hamlett

Donnie Hamlett is a Technical Product Marketing for Manager for iQuate, the owner of Recruit4Cloud placement services and the founder and current President of the OpenStack Central Florida

Robinson Tryon

Robinson is a Free Software evangelist and hacker currently working as a QA Engineer for The Document Foundation (TDF), the German non-profit behind LibreOffice and the Document Liberation

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WHAT TO EXPECT

Fossetcon is not a GNU/Linux conference, nor is it a *BSD conference. Fossetcon can be more described as a *nix(Unix like) conference that focuses primarily on Free/Libre and Open Source Software and the systems that run it - whether it be hardware or software.


Fossetcon aims to provide the needed resources of training, knowledge and collaborative efforts to aid our community in all of our endeavors. Fossetcon is a great way to elevate your career path by gaining access to free training and certifications . We're looking for speakers, volunteers and hackers to help engage our communities by providing a venue full of like minded individuals.

Expect Fossetcon to be a FUN event full of diverse people, forward thinkers and great companies that all contribute to free software and the communities surrounding it. 

Fossetcon is a 3 day event that has the following format:

Day 0 Thursday: Breakfast, Lunch & Training.

Day 1 Friday: Breakfast, Keynotes, Expo Hall & Speaker Tracks

Day 2 Saturday: Breakfast, Keynotes, Expo Hall & Speaker Tracks

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$99 / month
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Group rate available 3 days pre and post conference
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$10 off of hotel parking
2 minute walk to Downtown Disney
Free shuttle to Disney Parks
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Free shuttle to shopping outlets
Two Heated Outdoor Pools and Jacuzzi's
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Fossetcon 1.0 will be held at the Hilton Lake Buena Vista which is located in Beautiful Downtown Disney. This year Fossetcon will take place on Disney Property within a 2 minute walk from Downtown Disney.

Hilton Orlando Lake Buena Vista‎

1751 Hotel Plaza Boulevard, Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830

1-407-827-4000

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