Opening Plenary & State of the Feather
Lars Eilebrecht & Jim Jagielski

Opening Keynote - Data Management in the Cloud
Raghu Ramakrishnan

We are in the midst of a computing revolution. As the cost of provisioning hardware and software stacks grows, and the cost of securing and administering these complex systems grows even faster, we're seeing a shift towards computing clouds. Clouds are essentially services accessed over a network, and offer developers scalable, robust computing infrastructure on a "pay as you go" basis, with the ability to dynamically adjust the amount of "rented" resources, and thereby, the bill. For cloud service providers, there is efficiency from amortizing costs and averaging usage peaks. Internet portals like Yahoo! have long offered application services, such as email for individuals and organizations. Companies are now offering services such as storage and compute cycles, enabling higher-level services to be built on top. In this talk, I will discuss Yahoo!'s vision of cloud computing, and describe some of the key initiatives, highlighting the technical challenges involved in designing hosted, multi-tenanted data management systems.

Lunch Session: Behind the Scenes of The Apache Software Foundation
Lars Eilebrecht

This presentation will give you everything you always wanted to know about the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), but were afraid to ask. It will show you that there is more than just the Apache web server, and provide you with information on how the ASF works. The difference between membership and committership, who decides what, how elections take place, the technical infrastructure, project management committees, and the philosophy behind the incubator. Come and see behind the scenes of the Apache Software Foundation and its many projects.

Lunch Session: Sponsoring the ASF at the Corporate and Individual Level
Jim Jagielski

As an independent, non-profit organization, The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) does not receive government funding. We rely each year on the generous support from corporations, foundations, and private individuals to help offset day-to-day operating expenses such as bandwidth and connectivity, servers and hardware, legal and accounting services, marketing and public relations, general office expenditures, and support staff. Through the ASF Sponsorship Program, we can bolster continued growth across the ASF's 59 Top-Level Projects, 24 projects in the Apache Incubator, 20 initiatives in Apache Labs, community relations activities, and more. This session will provide participants with an overview of the ASF Sponsorship Program, the best methods for an organization or individual to support The ASF, and how you can get involved by "giving back" to one of the most compelling communities in Open Source..

Keynote: Open sourcing the analyst business - turning proprietary knowledge inside out. Or... how and why we became OSI-compliant
James Governor

James will talk about changes in media-driven business models, the move to a service economy for analysis, licensing issues, internet coordination and collaboration, how RedMonk grew its business by learning from, consulting with, and championing open source technology and approach.

Apache Pioneer's Panel - 10 years of The Apache Software Foundation
Lars Eilebrecht, Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Jim Jagielski, Sally Khudairi, and Cliff Skolnick (moderated by Danese Cooper)

2009 marks the 10th Anniversary of The Apache Software Foundation. What started as a formalization of methods of collaboration for the world's most popular Web server has grown into a very popular watering hole on the savanna of Web-aware software development. Join several pioneering ASF members in this very special panel where we'll hear stories from the early days of the Apache Way.

Lunch Session: The Apache Way
J Aaron Farr

Apache prides itself on its emphasis of community driven development. But in practice, how does this work? Aaron Farr shares lessons learned from the inner working of the Apache Software Foundation -- from its principles and practices, to the people and businesses around it.