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OS//OS 2015 will bring software developers, open government champions, changemakers and innovators together from across sectors.

We will celebrate and share global best practices, openly discuss the big challenges head on and build a community of people leading the way in the open source ethos.

Expect inspiring keynote speakers, interactive workshops and plenty of opportunity for connection, participation & open knowledge-sharing with world-leading practitioners and the brightest local minds.

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Thursday, April 16 • 11:30 - 12:30
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Hear leading practitioners share their projects - in quick rapid fire presentations:
- What problem is it solving?
- How did the opportunity arise?
- Why are you doing it?
- What have some of the biggest challenges been? Some of the biggest wins?
- Where to next?

 The following will present in this stream:
  • Koha | Chris Cormack
  • Atom | Nathan Sobo
  • Open Technology Institute | Sascha Meinrath
  • Dragonfly | Trust, but verify | Edward Abraham
  • Gamefroot | Dan Milward
Speakers
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Edward Abraham

Edward has a PhD from Cambridge University, where he studied theoretical physics in the cosmology group led by Stephen Hawking. Returning to New Zealand, Edward worked as an oceanographer for 10 years, researching interactions between the physical and biological environment. In 2006... Read More →
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Chris Cormack

Technical Lead, Team Koha
possibilities. challenges - bespoke open. systems guy - kiwi. Christopher Cormack has a BSc in Computer Science and a BA in Mathematics and Māori Studies. While working for Katipo Communications he was the lead developer of the original version of Koha, which went live at Horowhenua... Read More →
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Sascha Meinrath

Founder, Open Technology Institute
Sascha Meinrath has been described as a “community Internet pioneer” and an “entrepreneurial visionary.” He is Director of X-Lab, focusing on thought-provoking, bold tech policy interventions. He also founded the Open Technology Institute and was named to the “TIME Tech... Read More →
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Nathan Sobo

Lead Atom developer, GitHub
Nathan Sobo is the co-founder of the Atom open-source text editor at GitHub. He is also the author of Treetop, a Ruby-based parser generator based on parsing expression grammars.

Thursday April 16, 2015 11:30 - 12:30 NZST
1.7 Renouf Foyer #2
  Breakout Stream