Luis Ibanez
Technical Leader, KITWARE Inc.

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Luis Ibáñez is a Technical Leader at Kitware Inc. He has been working on open source software for more than ten years. He is an expert on medical image analysis. For three years he has been the main instructor of the Open Source Software Practices course at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). He is also editor of the Insight Journal, an Open Access publication that enforces reproducibility of scientific research via the use of open source software.

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1:40pm Thursday, 07/22/2010

Educating the Next Generation of FOSS Developers

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Location: D133

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Luis Ibanez (KITWARE Inc.)

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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. Read more.

2:30pm Thursday, 07/22/2010

Opportunities for Students to Contribute to FOSS Projects

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Heidi Ellis (Western New England College), Gregory Hislop (Drexel University), Luis Ibanez (KITWARE Inc.)

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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. Read more.

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Luis Ibanez Technical Leader, KITWARE Inc.