Sessions tagged with 'open_data'

Is Your Data Free?
Stormy Peters (GNOME Foundation)
Presentation: Is Your Data Free_ Presentation [PDF]
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?
Open Cloud, Open Data
Jean Paoli (Microsoft)
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.
Open Source, Open Data
Kirrily Robert (Freebase.com)
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.
Python & Finance: US Government Mandates, Financial Modeling, and Other Snakes in the Grass
Diane Mueller (ActiveState), Trent Mick (ActiveState)
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Python _ Finance_ US Government Mandates, Financial Modeling, and Other Snakes in the Grass Presentation [PDF]
The recent US SEC proposal addressing the lack of transparency of asset-backed securities by adding disclosure requirements to include Python financial models reflects a need for Open Tools to work with Open Data to ensure transparency in Government. This session discusses why Python is a good fit for the SEC's proposal & the Open Source challenges ahead for the financial ecosystem.
Writing an Open Source Definition for Open Data
Moderated by: Russell Nelson
We all know what is open source -- it complies with the OSI Open Source Definition. But what is Open Data? Let's bang out a definition of Open Data.
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  • Google
  • Facebook
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