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Presentations: Fundamentals

Equip yourself with all the “need to know” information about working in open source, from choice of programming environment through to managing an open source project

GIMP Demystified

Akkana Peck (*)

Presentation: GIMP Demystified Presentation [GZIP]

Akkana Peck, author of "Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional," will demonstrate how to use GIMP to improve your photographs or create digital art. You'll learn how different image formats compare, basic photo manipulation skills (crop, rescale, and brightness correction), several different selection techniques for cutting objects out of photos, and an assortment of other useful tricks.

Going Open Source: The 20 Most Important Things To Do

Martin Aschoff (AGNITAS AG)

Presentation: Going Open Source_ The 20 Most Important Things To Do Presentation 1 [PDF]

When going open source with your software there are 20 important things you definitely have to do to be successful. Join this session and hear tips and examples from someone who had to learn some of this stuff the hard way.

How I Learned to Love Revision Control

David Gray (OmniTI)

Presentation: How I Learned to Love Revision Control Presentation [PDF]

"Revision control? What's that?" Knowing what I know now, it's scary to look back and ask what might have happened if one hard drive had failed at the wrong time. After reviewing some revision control concepts, we will look at several projects to see how they could have leveraged revision control and what the benefits would have been.

Open Source Software Economics, Standards, and IP in One Lesson

Stephen Walli (CodePlex Foundation)

Presentation: external link

Free and open source software use has grown tremendously both in IT and in software businesses. There is still confusion around what this means for software intellectual property, or how it relates to industry standards. The talk provides context and history to show how the subjects relate to support better business decisions.

Running a Successful User Group

Selena Deckelmann (PostgreSQL), Gabrielle Roth (XO Communications)

If you're interested in starting, currently lead, or are interested in helping with an existing local users group, this talk is for you! Selena Deckelmann and Gabrielle Roth have started two successful user groups in the Portland area and will share their tips with you.

Setting Up a Decent Developer Box for OSS and Linux Community Development

Mark Gross (Intel)

Presentation: external link

Mark Gross will discuss taking a new Ubuntu derivative installation on a laptop and making it a decent developer box for OSS community work. The tools and methods covered will include IRC, procmail, mutt, ctags, build tools, python, pylynt, quilt, git, svn, Email and gmail use for busy mailing lists, checkpatch, debugfs, VIM, and others.

Trac: Project and Process Management for Developers and Sys Admins

Steven Ellis (Red Hat New Zealand)

Presentation: Trac_ Project and Process Management for Developers and Sys Admins Presentation [ODP]

Real world use of Trac, moving beyond software development and into process and work flow management.