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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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Fred Trotter
(FredTrotter.com)
Average rating:
(3.73, 11 ratings)
This is an overview of everything going on in Open Source Healthcare Software. If you can only attend one healthcare talk this should be it. Get an overview of what you need to know about this movement, which has it own history (it existed in parallel to the free software movement since the 70's) and is fast becoming the dominant force in Healthcare Informatics.
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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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A. Ali Pasha
(Google)
Average rating:
(3.42, 12 ratings)
Running one of the worlds largest open source services is hard, but it is something that we at Google believe adds a lot of value. This talk will take you through my journey of working with several open source veterans as we built such a service at Google and the benefit we regularly get from a thriving open source 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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Rob Cottingham
(Social Signal),
Alexandra Samuel
(Social Signal)
Average rating:
(3.33, 3 ratings)
As a social media strategy firm, Social Signal told its clients to be open and transparent, and to make information as free as possible. But when they realized they weren't following that advice with their own IP, they launched on an experiment: publishing the recipes to their secret sauces. Hear about what's worked, what hasn't... and how revealing their secrets created a marketing windfall.
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John Koleszar
(Google, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.29, 7 ratings)
With the introduction of WebM video, high quality, royalty-free, open-source video is finally a reality. Already natively integrated into the majority of HTML5 web browsers, WebM’s VP8 video codec is drawing tremendous support from content owners, video encoding tool producers, and hardware vendors, and has been discussed as an open video alternative for the HTML5 specification.
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Keith Bergelt
(Open Invention Network)
Average rating:
(5.00, 2 ratings)
When you receive the dreaded legal letter about intellectual property infringement, what do you need to know so you can determine whether you’re dealing with a patent troll or actual competitor? Keith Bergelt, CEO of Open Invention Network, will discuss four key steps, along with strategies, on how to make the right call.
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Sean Sullivan
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Average rating:
(3.00, 35 ratings)
WebSockets is an exciting new technology that enables bidirectional communication between web applications and server-side processes. Google's Chrome browser already provides WebSockets and developers can expect to see the technology in other browsers in 2010. This presentation will cover the WebSocket protocol, JavaScript API, and server-side implementations.
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Phillip Longman
(New America Foundation)
Average rating:
(3.33, 3 ratings)
The FOSS model brings a fundamental and desperately needed paradigm shift to healthcare. This session will highlight how FOSS cures the chronic underachievement of clinical transformation via “legacy software industry business models” by closely aligning software evolution and adoption with evidence based medicine.
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(2.67, 3 ratings)
The vxVistA.org site uses leading Atlassian Open Source Web Tools including Confluence and JIRA to successfully support and deploy the vxVistA-OS EHR in a unique example of Open Source software web tools underpinning the deployment of the vxVistA Open Source EHR. This collaboration environment fosters an active community of users and developers to inspire innovation and growth.
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