Open Source Bridge

Join this interactive session connecting what we know about face-to-face collaboration and how and why it works with what online dialog, games, berry-picking, wayfinding and other large scale activities can accomplish.

Having a successful open-source project is more than putting your code on Github.

Learn how difficult it can be to do emoji right and what you can do to preserve the message and emotions of your users. If you take user input, you owe it to the internet to attend this talk.

Despite all the attention and buzz, Machine learning(ML) is woefully overlooked in the community of free and open source technology. In this presentation, I will examine the still prevalent proprietary legacy of ML, introduce the current open source stack of ML development and applications, and evaluate new proprietary attempts entering ML. Then, I will share with you the strategy recipes that we may need, in a battle to keep the booming field of ML free and open source.

Open source is an incredibly powerful engine for great software, but not so much for making money. Or so they say.

Google Voice may seem like it's performing black magic, but every developer can integrate the same features into their applications today.

Have you been at a talk which sounded great on paper, but was lackluster in delivery? Have you discovered that some presenters can seem to make *anything* interesting? Do you want to know how to hack audiences to convince them that your talk is *freakin' amazing* even though it's content-challenged? Want to use your conference presentation skills to kickstart your career in world domination? BYO tinfoil hat.

Know how you get all those great free tshirts at conferences? Don't you hate how they never seem to fit your feminine figure? Or worse yet, all that's left is sizes that are too big or too small! This talk will show easy modifications and alternative uses for those awesome conference tshirts!

Containerization is an often overlooked option for when one needs to solve a problem typically involving the need to create temporary machines to test things or to logically separate machines. I'm here to show you how you can do all this from your laptop without burning your lap, requiring an hour and a half for installation, or filing bugs against IT folks or forking over cash for more cloud instances. Let me explain why LXC is the best option for testing new software and is also an excellent option for taking advantage of production hardware. Topics covered will be basic concepts, installing, cloning, and destroying containers as well as advanced concepts and stupid tricks.

As data become more abundant, the relationships between data elements become more valuable. Network science is an interdisciplinary study of network representations which allow us to explain, predict and otherwise extract value from relationships in data. I will provide a brief overview of network science, with examples and illustrations using open source tools such as R, Gephi, and GraphChi.

At some point in the past, somehow the idea of open source began to mean that it had to be free. Yet some of the best businesses on the web are built on open source technologies and they earn a decent profit. Is this idea at odds with the open source philosophy? In a word, no. Learn why earning a profit from open source isn't bad, and what you should do to make sure your company is a good open source citizen.

Private properties are not built-in to the JavaScript language, but can be attained through various mechanisms in the language. We will explore tricks to associate private state with objects while taking full advantage of prototypal inheritance.

The age of REST is in full swing for building a modern app but it's starting to show strain: increased development complexity across multiple APIs, managing state in mobile apps, and a reliance on centralizing services to solve problems.

This session will discuss how a developer, administrator(operator) or both, can take advantage from Vagrant and how it helps in modern days multi­environments server provisioning.

Modern regular expression engines have been rapidly adding new features for matching and parsing Unicode strings, providing powerful new tools to add to your toolkit.

Open-source software is available to bring surveys, rankings, ratings, polls, and organizational elections into the digital era. Yet far too often websites and organizations use voting methods that are no better than the single-mark ballots we use in governmental elections. Alas, when innovative developers take the DIY approach, the results are usually disastrous.

Helpful tips about participating in and building open source communities as told through examples of what we can learn about communities from science fiction.

Before there were even computers to program women were making exiciting advances in computing. In the 1800s Ada Lovelace wrote the first computer program. She died before the computer was completed, but when her program was eventually ran it Just Worked™! The gender imbalance in computing is a problem. We all know software engineers are shaping the future. Women need to be part of the discussion.

We provide you an introduction to the Scala programming language through its powerful capabilities to integrating with Java. We will demonstrate how Scala can be an effective means of exploring Java libraries such as JAXB, HttpClient and Hibernate. We will show why Scala is our preferred harness, with capabilities beyond Java, Beanshell or Groovy.

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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