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When Microsoft released Silverlight, a cross platform, cross browser programming model for developing and distributing rich Internet applications (RIA) that use graphics, animations or video, they forgot Linux. But the Mono team corrected the oversight and created Moonlight, the open source implementation. The paper will review the status of the implementation and provide an introduction on how to use Moonlight. It will also discuss how you can use Moonlight in a non Mono context.

Stream: Python

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Over the last 20+ years, Mark has programmed in many languages, but has the most fun programming in Python which he has been using since 1997. He is the creator of the isapi_wsgi adaptor, and a number of Informix Database adaptors for Python Web Frameworks. He is also part of the small development team working on the IronPython Community Edition (http://fepy.sourceforge.net). He is the current convenor of SyPy, the Sydney Python Users Group. If selected to speak, this will be the fourth OSDC he has presented at.