Speaker Feature: Brenda Wallace, David Airlie, Dirk Hohndel

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Brenda Wallace

Brenda Wallace

EQNZ – crisis response, open source style

1:20pm Wednesday 14th January 2015

Brenda Wallace is an Open Source contibutor from Wellington. She likes all the programming languages, but especially the ones beginning with P. Brenda works with the mighty wonderful people at Rabid Tech. Also, she's not a werewolf.

For more information on Brenda and her presentation, see here.


David Airlie

David Airlie

Displayport MST: why do my laptop dockoutputs not work?

2:15pm Wednesday 14th January 2015

David Airlie is the upstream kernel graphics maintainer and work for Red Hat out of their Brisbane office. He is part of the maintainer team for Red Hat Enterprise Linux graphical components. He recently branched into virtualisation for graphics project and is trying to create a fully open source virtualised 3D graphics device capable of supporting modern operating-system requirements. He also gets distracted from this task my many random other graphics projects, of which support for Displayport MST is one.

For more information on David and his presentation, see here.


Dirk Hohndel

Dirk Hohndel

Sustaining Momentum - or the Gap Between User Request and Developer Capacity

3:40pm Friday 16th January 2015

Dirk is Intel's Chief Linux and Open Source Technologist. He has been an active developer and contributor in the Linux space since its earliest days, among other roles, he worked as Chief Technology Officer of SuSE and as Unix Architect at Deutsche Bank. Dirk joined Intel in 2001 and since then has been working in the Software and Services Group with a focus on the technology direction of Intel's Open Source Technology Center and Intel's engagements in open source. His interests range from kernel to user interaction, from massively scalable cloud services to mobile operating systems. He is an active contributor in many open source projects and organizations, various program committees and advisory boards and currently maintains the Subsurface dive log project. Dirk holds a Diploma in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Würzburg, Germany. He lives in Portland, OR, USA.

For more information on Dirk and his presentation, see here.