Many companies have undertaken capability building in use of PHP for applications development. Touted for it's powerful capabilities and easy to learn, PHP has been adopted by programming teams as a primary or secondary choice for development. Defining a structure for PHP development further strengthens the development process and the resulting software for maintenance and enhancements. "Cake is a rapid development framework for PHP which uses commonly known design patterns like ActiveRecord, Association Data Mapping, Front Controller and MVC. It enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications, without any loss to flexibility. " - http://www.cakephp.org


Current Advances in Open Source Security and Honeynet Technologies

The Honeynet Research Alliance is a trusted forum of security research organizations around the world. The goal of the Alliance is to improve the security of the Internet by sharing lessons learned about the most common threats. By deploying honeynet sensors all around the world, we capture attacks in the wild, analyze this information and share our findings. Based on this information, the community can better understand the threats they face and how to defend against them. This presentation will focus on the current advances in open source tools and techniques in threat detection, intrusion analysis and honeynet-based sensors discussed in the 2006 Chicago Honeynet Research Alliance Annual Meeting.


Deploying a thinclient solution with LTSP and Ubuntu

For organizations looking for a cost-effective terminal server solution, Ubuntu offers one of the easiest to setup implementation for LTSP and is based on Project MueKow also known as the next-generation LTSP. This session will discuss on what LTSP is, what you need to implement it, server sizing, and a demo of Ubuntu's LTSP.


Hands on: Webgoat

WebGoat is a deliberately insecure J2EE web application maintained by OWASP designed to teach web application security lessons. In each lesson, users must demonstrate their understanding of a security issue by exploiting a real vulnerability in the WebGoat application.


IPv6: What It Is and Why Governments and Business Ought to Care

A short, non-technical Introduction to the Next Generation Internet and the possibilities it represents for government and business. It will include an overview of the exciting new applications made possible by this new standard. Finally, it will present some ways that today's companies can be part of the inevitable IPv6 revolution.


Using Linux for Backup/Restore of Windows NTFS PCs in a College Computer Laboratory

If Windows got corrupted somehow and a very short time-frame is alloted for the restoration process, a custom-made Linux CD may be used to restore it from local backup.


OpenRules: an open source Business Rules Management Suite

OpenRules uses Excel spreadsheets (and OpenOffice.org Calc) for business rules definition and maintenance, then creates the appropriate Java code.


OWASP top 10 Web Application Vulnerabilities

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Top Ten provides a minimum standard for web application security. The OWASP Top Ten represents a broad consensus about what the most critical web application security flaws are. Adopting the OWASP Top Ten is perhaps the most effective first step towards changing the software development culture within your organization into one that produces secure code.


Ubuntu Server - ready for the enterprise

This session will focus on the benefits of using Ubuntu as a server. Most people have heard of Ubuntu as a desktop platform but very few are aware that Ubuntu also has a server solution and it's great. The session will show the out of the box features of Ubuntu server as well as some deployment and migration strategies.


BOF: Promotion and progression of PHP use in the country

Pre-requisite:

1. PHP Programmers (in-house, freelance)
2. Companies engaged in use of PHP for internal applications
3. Companies engaged in software development with PHP as language option
4. Schools and training institutions that include PHP programming in their course offerings
5. Anybody else generally interested in the promotion and progression of PHP use in the country.


Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Analysis

Demo / discuss / teach on how the latest LIVE CD to be used freely on Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Analysis rather to buy expensive commercial Vulnerability and Penetration Software.


Protecting your privacy in Linux

This topic is about the need for privacy, common vectors on disclosing private information, and the compensating controls organizations and individuals can use to protect their privacy. Free solutions are available for local access, web browsing, emails, files and file systems.


The Open Source Alternative: Using Open Source Business Applications in the Enterprise

In the last two years we've reached a true turning point where Open Source developers are now building applications for real-world business needs. Targeted towards marketing and sales people, finance managers, entrepreneurs, executives and other business professionals--this session gives a high-level overview of leading open source projects out there for customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), Business Intelligence (BI), content management (CMS) and others. Find out how they compare against commercial applications, their advantages and disadvantages, and how your business can benefit with open source TODAY.


Secure VOIP

With the current advances in communication today, it is inevitable that many of our small and big enterprises will go with the current technological trend. This topic actually focuses on one of the most famous method of communication: VOIP. Secure VOIP will discuss how VOIP basically works and why there is a need to secure it.


The International Open Source Network: Consolidating FOSS Advocates through Strategic Networking

The International Open Source Network (IOSN) is a Center of Excellence for FOSS in the Asia-Pacific Region. It shapes its activities around Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) technologies and applications. Via a small secretariat based at the UNDP Regional Centre in Bangkok and three centres of excellence – IOSN ASEAN+3, IOSN PIC (Pacific Island Countries), and IOSN South Asia, based in Manila, Suva and Chennai respectively, the IOSN is tasked specifically to facilitate and network FOSS advocates and human resources in the region. The vision is that developing countries in the Asia-Pacific Region can achieve rapid and sustained economic and social development by using affordable yet effective FOSS ICT solutions to bridge the digital divide.

The International Open Source Network is an initiative of the United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP) AsiaPacific Development Information Programme (APDIP) and supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada. Its ASEAN+3 sub-regional node is based at the UP Manila National Telehealth Center.


Open Source and Health: Opportunities for SMEs in Information Technology

Hospital administrators are now facing significant challenges with the ways they presently manage their data.Health facilities are now taking interest in the benefits of information and communications technology, but are at a loss at how to approach the opportunities strategically. Adding to the interest is the release of recent circulars from Philhealth about their need to maintain electronic logbooks. A recent effort (the Philippine National Health Information Infrastructure) shows an attempt to develop a open framework for electronic transactions between hospitals and Philhelath. Although still under development, the framework demonstrates how FOSS can play a major role in the establishement of open standards in health and in the development of reference implementations.


Customizing SLAX

SLAX is a small, fast, and flexible distribution that lets you run Linux completely from CD-ROM or USB pen drive without installation to hard drive. As such it is ideal for distributing small Linux software applications: companies could use SLAX to send out demo packages to customers; teachers could use it to give out educational software to students. This session introduces SLAX and gives the steps to customize the look of the distribution as well as to load it with customized applications.


Starting up with Ruby on Rails

A brief overview on developing with Ruby and Rails; Its effectiveness in creating web-based applications; how it fits in the whole Web2.0 scheme of things; and lessons learned using Ruby and Rails from a start-up's point of view.


The first step to our Advocacy – Integrate Open Source to our Educational System

For the last 3 years, we were trying to penetrate to the enterprise level projects on both the commercial and the government but the fact still remains that those who fully understand our technology are those technical guys and we don’t realize that the decision makers are mostly non-technical. The challenge we are now facing is how to go around the cliché “People fear what they do not understand” and make them appreciate the true potential of what we can offer. The answer is simple, start with the basics… We educate them.


Problems and Pitfalls with VoIP and How-to Overcome Them

Voice is just a different application that's going to run over IP infrastructure, so all the problems that exist in your other IP applications also exist in this application. This topic will discuss the possible pitfalls and problems with VoIP and how-to overcome them.


Shorewall, OpenVPN, Dansguardian, and Squid, The Linux Advanced Firewall

Shorewall (Shoreline Firewall), a highly secure and customizable cost-effective firewall solution that can match commercial firewall software and firewall appliance.

- The Shoreline Firewall (Shorewall), IP Tables Made Easy
- Benefits and Features (with emphasis on its high level of customizability and easiness of use)
- Installation
- Basic Configuration
- Squid and Dansguardian Integration
- Open VPN integration for VPN connectivity
- Sample configuration for the Netscreen Firewall Appliance connectivity
- Sample configuration for Linksys WRV54G Broadband VPN Router



Bayanihan Linux 4

Brief introduction to the Bayanihan Linux 4 operating system, its history, project goals and objectives.


Alignment of Marketing and Services Strategy for IP-Centric BPOs

The lecture will cover the latest trends in strategic re-alignment of major US telecommunication companies and industry growth opportunities for local BPOs.


Introduction to the Spring Framework

Spring Framework is a Java based open source application framework that helps in the rapid development of Java and J2EE based application.


Business Benefits of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)

Overview of SOA, the business benefits of implementing SOA, things to consider when adopting SOA, quick overview of SOA implementations (Web Services and ESB)


BOF: Filipino Values that make us great and the Open Source System

It will be a discussion on pre-Spanic Filipino values and the contemporary values that make us famous and great in the eyes of the international community.

It will include a discussion about the famous barter trade, the monumental Banaue Rice Terraces, betel nut or "nga nga" chewing, the concept of bayanihan and the Edsa Revolutions.

You have to hear how all of these are connected to the concept of Open Source.