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Chander Ganesan
(Open Technology Group, Inc)
Average rating:
(3.94, 16 ratings)
The Django framework is a fast, flexible, easy to learn, and easy to use framework for designing and deploying web sites and services using Python. In this session, we'll cover the fundamentals of development with Django, generate a Django data model, and put together a simple web site using the framework.
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Philip Lindsay
(rancidbacon.com),
Brian Jepson
(O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.64, 14 ratings)
The success of the Arduino physical computing toolkit has lead to a surge of interest in the world of hardware from both software and non-technical people. This workshop will provide an overview of what physical computing is, how Arduino works and how it can be used to add an interactive element to your projects. There will also be an opportunity to set up and use an Arduino board and software.
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Location: D137/138
Moderated by: Mel Chua
Average rating:
(5.00, 2 ratings)
This BoF, run by members of the http://teachingopensource.org community and open to all, hosts discussion on two separate but interrelated topics:
1. Education about FOSS - turning students into FOSS contributors
2. Using FOSS in Education - tools, techniques, and stories.
Anyone interested in open source and education, at any level, discipline, and role, is welcome to participate.
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James Turnbull
(Puppet Labs),
Jeff McCune
(Puppet Labs)
Average rating:
(3.91, 11 ratings)
Puppet is a powerful configuration management tool that makes life easier for people managing systems and applications. This tutorial gives you an in-depth and hands-on introduction to Puppet that is ideal for beginners to Puppet and configuration management.
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Mike Hostetler
(appendTo, LLC),
Jonathan Sharp
(appendTo LLC.)
Average rating:
(3.03, 30 ratings)
JavaScript is not a dirty word. The language itself is quite elegant. However, competing implementations by differing browsers has given it a bad rap. Yet, in this age of Ajax it is a must-have for any successful web application. Join this group of JavaScript gurus, who co-authored the O'Reilly jQuery Cookbook, for a tutorial session covering reliable techniques: intermediate to advanced.
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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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Mary Jane Kelly
(Casaba Security)
Average rating:
(4.00, 12 ratings)
What do you get when you mix fractals, 3D printers, robotics, open source, high-powered lasers, and non-orientable surfaces with wood, plastic, textiles, steel, cloth... and lots of coffee? A completely new range of geek fabricated items and appliances. It’s hacking in real life.
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Denise Paolucci
(Dreamwidth Studios),
Mark Smith
(Dreamwidth Studios)
Average rating:
(3.92, 12 ratings)
With an increasing number of Open Source projects demanding attention, it can be hard to attract qualified contributors. Learn how to convert your community of users into a community of developers, through training, mentoring, and community management, from a project that's been hacking its hackers since day one.
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Jeffrey Osier-Mixon
(Intel Corporation)
Average rating:
(3.78, 9 ratings)
The Beagle Board is a tiny yet powerful self-contained system on a single board, three inches square, created as an open-source hardware board by Texas Instruments. This presentation demonstrates how to boot Linux on the Beagle. It also showcases several ongoing open-source projects, gives an overview of the process of designing your own, and introduces the Beagle Board community.
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Matt Jadud
(Allegheny College),
Christian Jacobsen
(University of Copenhagen)
Average rating:
(4.67, 6 ratings)
This talk will introduce Plumbling, a set of tools to support artists and makers in the programming of low-cost, open-hardware platforms like the Arduino. Plumbing is a library of parallel components written in occam-pi, a small language with a long history.
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Simon Phipps
(Open Source Initiative)
Average rating:
(4.00, 5 ratings)
We've all heard it said: "you can be confident using open source software, because if the company goes away, the community lives on." Does it actually work? We're about to find out. With the acquisition of Sun by Oracle, a number of open source products were quietly dropped. The community response was the creation of ForgeRock.
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Location: E145/E146
Moderated by: Robyn Bergeron
FOSS code is developed in a radically transparent, participative, community-based manner - "the open source way" - which produces spectacular code. But these same FOSS projects are usually marketed traditionally, behind closed doors. What if we applied the principles of open source participation to the marketing of open source itself?
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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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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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Donald Smith
(The Eclipse Foundation)
Average rating:
(2.50, 2 ratings)
Many organizations falsely believe that more downloads, users and/or contributors means a healthier ecosystem. That is akin to saying that planet earth gets "healthier" with more population.
This session presents some measures every OS organization can employ to determine the health and viability of their ecosystem, rather than it's less important variable - size.
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Karl Fogel
(Open Tech Strategies, LLC)
Average rating:
(4.67, 6 ratings)
In 2009, QuestionCopyright.org helped filmmaker Nina Paley release her award-winning feature film "Sita Sings the Blues" under a free license & an open source economic model. The film is now an audience hit, and the free license has resulted in more money for Paley than any traditional distributor could offer. This talk is an in-depth look at how open source is not just for software anymore.
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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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Location: D133
Moderated by: Larry Cafiero
The Fedora Project's Birds of a Feather brings together those who have an interest in Fedora, from the curious novice to the most hardcore user. Attendees can find out about Fedora, discuss various aspects of the project, and network with Fedora users. This BoF is open to everyone.
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Location: D137
Moderated by: Seth Anderson
The University of Kentucky's CECentral.com is an internally-developed learning platform that has been successful by leveraging open-source tools. Using CECentral as a case, this BoF will be a discussion of open source tools, developers and their utility inside academia and specifically, the potential for efficiencies and innovation that may not be possible with other alternatives.
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Moderated by: Johnny Good
The crew from Good Company (OSCON's fab Audio/visual team) is hosting a Music Jam. Bring an instrument (or your voice) and let’s make some music.
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