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In this track we explore the topic of cloud computing, its past, the future and the interaction with open source. The purpose of this track is to give the audience a sound understanding of the issues around cloud computing, to sort fact from fiction, to dispel some of the myths around cloud and to provide a common framework to understand what is happening in our industry.
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Karsten Wade
(Red Hat/Fedora Project),
Mel Chua
(Red Hat)
Average rating:
(4.75, 4 ratings)
HFOSS, TOS (CMU/RIT), POSSE, UCOSP, and SoaS: what do these acronyms stand for, why is each a model for a type of open source in education interaction that could revolutionize the way the world learns, and what can you do to help?
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Howard Lewis Ship
(TWD Consulting)
Average rating:
(3.83, 18 ratings)
Even if you are successful using open source sofware, there's something special about hardware: It's physical. You can touch it. You build it (not compile it). This is a talk about the Arduino open source physical computing platform; a cheap, useful, fun micro-controller ... and it's loads of fun, even if you break into a cold sweat at the thought of picking up a soldering iron.
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Moderated by:
Rob Lanphier
(Wikimedia Foundation)Panelists:
Todd Crowe
(Todd Crowe Web Design & Development),
Leslie Hawthorn
(Red Hat),
Stormy Peters
(GNOME Foundation),
Donald Smith
(The Eclipse Foundation)
Average rating:
(2.33, 3 ratings)
Many contributors to open source projects do so without financial motivation. It's still reasonable to believe that given the right financial incentives, development communities could achieve more. This panel will explore the different methods for motivating communities with financial incentives and other goodies, and discuss the thorny issues that arise when commerce collides with community.
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Gopinath Ganapathy
(Essentia),
Vel Murugan
(Velammal Educational Trust)
Average rating:
(3.00, 1 rating)
India’s audacious goal to educate 500 million people by 2022 can only be met using an open source approach. We will our experience building and delivering a peer-based, self-paced, community-driven 21st century learning environment using open source and freely available content, sustained by a micro-finance model that completely flattens the hierarchical approach strictly embraced in India.
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Jennifer Pahlka
(Code for America),
Bryan Sivak
(Government of the District of Columbia)
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(4.00, 3 ratings)
If there was ever an opportunity to freely share software, it is among local governments. Come learn explore the opportunity to contribute to an ecosystem around open source civic software and the chance to code the next chapter of American history.
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Robert "r0ml" Lefkowitz
(Independent)
Average rating:
(4.41, 17 ratings)
The title contains the seeds of the paradox: to even ask the question "who wins and who loses?" is to concede that "competition" has already won. The American culture is uniquely competitive and intolerant of collaboration. How can Open Source survive in this climate.
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Jay Pfaffman
(University of Tennessee)
Average rating:
(4.00, 1 rating)
Research suggests that what's keeping computers from being a normal part of school is now having enough hardware. (US average is about 4 kids per computer.) This session will describe technical implementation details as well as reactions from students, teachers, and technical support staffs. In general, the less people know about computers, the more they like Linux thin clients.
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Bryant Patten
(National Center for Open Source and Education)
Average rating:
(5.00, 5 ratings)
... or at least the part of it we call K-12 education? School budgets are tight, schools need to transform into 21st Century Learning Centers and no one is sure how this can happen. Except perhaps the FOSS community. This talk is targeted at FOSS project leaders and community members and will explain how our skills, knowledge and experience can be invaluable to educators in our home towns.
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Tim Bray
(Google, Inc.),
Chris DiBona
(Google, Inc.)
Average rating:
(2.67, 3 ratings)
Got questions about open source and Google? Come and talk with Chris DiBona, Tim Bray, and other Googlers during this free form hour of questions, answers, and general hanging out.
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Chris DiBona
(Google, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.60, 15 ratings)
In this lively discussion we'll give an update on the Google activities over the last year, including an overview of Android, Chrome, ChromeOS, Go and other releases. We will also present a milestone report on the summer of code.
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Tarus Balog
(The OpenNMS Group, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.67, 9 ratings)
The idea of working in open source is appealing to many, but the question remains: how to make money doing it? This presentation will present some of the things learned by a person who has run a pure open source business since 2002 in the hope that it can help and inspire others.
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Bradley Kuhn
(Software Freedom Conservancy),
Karen Sandler
(GNOME Foundation)
Average rating:
(3.67, 12 ratings)
Developers regularly encounter issues with the legal infrastructure of software. Co-presented by a lawyer and a software developer, this presentation is a tightly packed overview on the need-to-know issues of copyrights, patents and trademarks for busy developers who wish to simply know the bare essentials, so they can get on with their work while still remaining well-informed on legal issues.
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Deborah Bryant
(Deb Bryant & Associates),
Joseph Hall
(Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University),
Gregory Miller
(Open Source Digital Voting Foundation)
Average rating:
(4.00, 6 ratings)
The Open Source Digital Voting Foundation is a three-year old non-profit foundation supporting a full time effort called the TrustTheVote Project. Learn about this imperative effort to create publicly owned, accurate, transparent, trustworthy, and secure voting systems using open source methods and a growing stakeholder community of elections officials and domain experts nationwide.
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Robert "r0ml" Lefkowitz
(Independent)
Average rating:
(4.72, 18 ratings)
The GNU Manifesto asserted that software should not be copyrighted. Yet, the very definition is of Open Source software is the nature of the copyright license. To License software is to fail to make it free or open. It is time to make software truly open by placing it in the public domain. To license it is to fail.
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Dries Buytaert
(Acquia)
Average rating:
(4.00, 5 ratings)
In this session, Drupal project lead and Acquia co-founder and CTO Dries Buytaert will share his secrets for building and participating in a thriving open source community and how collaboration amongst communities and non-developer adopters is critical to a healthy and sustainable project.
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Kirrily Robert
(Freebase.com)
Average rating:
(3.80, 10 ratings)
What do open data and open source software have in common? User
rights, licensing, transparency, community, world-changing... open
data shares a lot with the open source movement, but it has new
challenges too. Come learn how open data and open source work
together, and how the open data community is learning from open
source's history and experience.
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Luis Ibanez
(KITWARE Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.00, 6 ratings)
An entire generation of engineers is currently being educated exclusively with proprietary software. As a consequence, these students do not get to learn how hardware and software systems really work. For three years we have been working on changing this by offering a college course on Open Source Software Practices. Come to hear about our experiences and help us make this a better course.
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Heidi Ellis
(Western New England College),
Gregory Hislop
(Drexel University),
Luis Ibanez
(KITWARE Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.50, 2 ratings)
Student contributions to OSS projects have great potential to benefit both projects and students. While student involvement in OSS projects can take effort on the part of the OSS community, student contributions are well worth the effort required. This talk covers the variety of ways that students can become involved in an OSS project as well as the benefits and roadblocks to student involvement.
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Mel Chua
(Red Hat),
Asheesh Laroia
(OpenHatch)
Average rating:
(3.75, 4 ratings)
"Turn someone else's problems into your learning material." How do you expose your project's bugs and tasks to enthusiastic new contributors? We'll be talking about how OpenHatch's software tools and process-creating guidance make it possible to reveal a FOSS project's bug and task needs to budding contributors, students, and educators creating and running FOSS courses.
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