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Matthew Momjian
(Student)
Average rating:
(4.50, 12 ratings)
This talk will introduce the world of 3D animation to novices and beginner users. Using Blender, users will learn how to perform many tasks, including modelling (mesh editing, subsurfing, etc), texturing (procedural and image-based), material design, animation, and lighting. Intermediate users will also learn a lot from this tutorial, as the new version of Blender, 2.6, has significantly changed.
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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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Cloud Computing
Location: Portland 255
Location: Portland 255
Please note: to attend, your registration must include Tutorials.
Ikai Lan
(Google, Inc.)
Average rating:
(2.89, 19 ratings)
Google App Engine is an development & hosting platform that lets you build & deploy web applications on Google's high-traffic infrastructure. You only need to upload your code: no more worrying about machines, storage, scalability! This tutorial introduces attendees to its architecture & various service APIs. In the hands-on lab, you'll build+deploy a real app to the cloud using Python in minutes!
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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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Average rating:
(4.00, 6 ratings)
This hands on tutorial will walk you through the steps of building a Wave robot, from setting up the Python client library through to using the major APIs that Wave provides.
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Location: Portland_Ballroom
Tim O'Reilly
(O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.00, 4 ratings)
Ten years after Tim O'Reilly created the term infoware, have things turned out and in the way he was expecting?
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Average rating:
(4.39, 31 ratings)
If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Would you pitch a project? Launch a web site? Teach a hack? We’re going to find out when we conduct our second Ignite event at OSCON.
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Average rating:
(4.27, 22 ratings)
If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Would you pitch a project? Launch a web site? Teach a hack? We’re going to find out when we conduct our second Ignite event at OSCON.
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Allison Randal
(DrugDev, Inc.),
Edd Dumbill
(Silicon Valley Data Science)
Average rating:
(3.56, 27 ratings)
Opening remarks by the OSCON program chairs, Allison Randal and Edd Dumbill.
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Tim O'Reilly
(O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.82, 44 ratings)
Keynote by Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media.
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Jennifer Pahlka
(Code for America)
Average rating:
(3.62, 40 ratings)
The framework for our country is our laws and our principles. But
increasingly, as a nation, we can't express these principles or uphold
our laws without the right software in place to support them. A new
generation of civic heroes is needed to heed the call to service, and
the Open Source community should lead the way.
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Dirk Hohndel
(Intel Corporation)
Average rating:
(2.24, 37 ratings)
Since the MeeGo project was launched in February of this year, we've made great progress with the launch of MeeGo 1.0, providing developers with a stable core foundation for application development and a rich user experience for Netbooks, and the opening of the handset user experience as part of the MeeGo 1.1 development tree.
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Stormy Peters
(GNOME Foundation)
Average rating:
(3.60, 40 ratings)
We worried about making sure we had free and open source software to use, we worried about privacy, we worried about user rights. And then we handed the keys to our data to "free" web services. How can we ensure that our data is in the hands of web services that will respect our rights? How can free and open source software ideals be applied to web services?
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Dan Morrill
(Google)
Average rating:
(3.44, 25 ratings)
Android is an open-source OS and software stack for mobile devices. Come join the Android Open-Source Lead for a discussion of the Android open source philosophy, and insight into how the project is run.
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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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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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Average rating:
(3.05, 19 ratings)
Admist a number of proprietary alternatives such as Adobe Flash,
Microsoft Silverlight, and Sun JavaFX, the HTML 5 specification now
offers competitive multimedia features that promises a more open
platform for RIA development. What are the tradeoffs? This session
will look at the current state of the art, and then invite a
conversation about the future.
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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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Location: D139/140
Moderated by: Andy Oram, Brian Behlendorf, Deb Bryant, David Riley & Fred Trotter
Average rating:
(4.00, 3 ratings)
A place for people working on open source projects in health care to discuss needs, barriers, and stresses, and for those interested in joining such projects to hook up.
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Jean Paoli
(Microsoft)
Average rating:
(2.32, 38 ratings)
The cloud is all about more connectivity – and interoperability is at the heart of that. Organizations around the world are looking at opportunities to leverage a new wave of cloud technologies. New data sets. New computing power.
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Diane Peters
(Creative Commons)
Average rating:
(3.00, 3 ratings)
OCSON attendees are intimately familiar with the decisions surrounding software licensing: copyleft, attribution, and non-endorsement all mean something when discussing source licenses. With the rise of data as an asset, developers are turning their attention to data, often with the assumption that the same ideas apply. This talk will discuss why that's not the case and what to do about it.
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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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Michael Meeks
(Novell, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.73, 11 ratings)
The MeeGo platform is an exciting new project, unifying the
best of the Moblin and Maemo projects. Come and see how it all stacks
up from Netbook to hand-set, and get excited about the wealth of
usability and possibility.
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Andy McKay
(Mozilla)
Average rating:
(4.50, 2 ratings)
RapidSMS is an open source project for messaging, data collection and co-ordination over SMS. It's used throughout the world for a variety of projects, from fighting child malnutrition and malaria to monitoring elections.
This talk introduces RapidSMS and covers some of the sample applications built with it.
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Paul Fenwick
(Perl Training Australia)
Average rating:
(4.80, 25 ratings)
Technology advances through the creation of new inventions. New creations and research increase the breadth of human knowledge, and make life easier for us all; at least in theory.
In reality, the advance of progress is littered with bad ideas. What's worse, we often build upon such twisted horrors in the creation of new technology.
A humouros look at some of the worst inventions ever made.
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Average rating:
(3.50, 2 ratings)
Take the opportunity to network one last time at this closing event. Say thank you and exchange contact information until next year.
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