ApacheCon is a week of open source goodness straight from the source of the Apache Software Foundation, featuring 15 intense training classes over two days followed by three days of more than 50 sessions by the creators of open source software such as the Apache webserver, Tomcat, Lucene, Wicket and more.

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Speaker Bio

Chris Chabot

Chris Chabot works for the biggest domain registrant, website and blog hosting service in The Netherlands, who got the idea that the web is better when it's social. As such he became the author of the PHP port of the Shindig project. Before the recent trip to the (open) social world Chris has always worked with his passion, connected computers and people, ranging from dialup system software for international transport companies in the early 90's to more recently, some of the leading Web 2.0 sites in The Netherlands.

20:30-21:30
Apache Shindig
Shindig is a new project in the Apache incubator that is becoming the reference implementation for OpenSocial and gadgets infrastructure. This project aims to make it easy for a new social website to become a "container" for OpenSocial applications, and is making rapid progress. Come learn about the project's infrastructure, see a demo, and find out how to get involved. Q&A very welcome.