It’s been over twenty years since Linux birth and it grown up to become the most successful collaborative endeavor of all time. Linus’ little project now cumulatively powers more servers, mobile phones and other embedded systems than any other operating system. Linux runs our economy and touches the lives of literally every single human being on the planet in one way, shape or form. Time Magazine named Linux Torvalds the 17th most influential man of the century 20th century. No longer do we have to defend the viability of Linux it’s been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. So where do we go from here? We’ll explore how the Linux and open source community can build upon their success for the betterment of technology and the world around them.
OSCON 2013 - Keynote - Creating Communities of InclusionMark Hinkle
Free and open source software is equal parts technology and humanity. Beyond the coding standards, development environments and essential parts of delivering free software the ideals that drive this movement are powerful. This is a reflection on the lessons gleaned from successful F/LOSS communities and a call to action to spread their ideals to other endeavors such as medicine and government.
From Software to Manufacturing: how the open, agile and p2p revolution is com...Codemotion
The principles of open design, agility and cooperation are slowly coming out of the software world to conquer the real world of tangible objects and production. This talk will try to recap about most important emerging initiatives and will give an overall idea of the opportunities that the future will bring for individuals and businesses.
Keynote address at SFSCon in Bolzano, Italy, explaining how the topology of society has changed to make collaboration and free software the key to innovation.
Building a Movement to Divest from Fossil Fuels and Invest in New Energy Solu...EPIPNational
The Divest-Invest commitment is a powerful demonstration of values that shows the world and policymakers that we want real climate solutions now. Divest-Invest moves catalyzes capital away from fossil fuels and towards a clean energy future. It’s an exciting example of the power of an idea whose time has come. Not only have participating funders moved beyond their own specific agendas to engage with a community in a shared collective goal, but they’re also working in solidarity with faith based groups, universities, schools, hospitals, individuals, cities, and civil society in general to achieve it.
Speakers: Jenna Nicholas, CEO of Phoenix Global Impact
and Chris Rurik, next-generation director of The Russell Family Foundation
Recorded on August 19, 2013
SPEAKERS:
• June Holley, Principal, Network Weaver Consultants Network and author of The Network Weaver Handbook
• Nadia Owusu, Senior Associate for Knowledge and Organizational Development, Living Cities
• Tamir Novotny,Senior Policy Associate, Living Cities and EPIP-NY Steering Committee Member (Moderator)
Open-Sourcing Social Change: Engaging networks for social justice and leadership development
Our nation's social and economic challenges often appear intractable because so many policies, practices, and institutions interact in complex ways that yield inequitable results. As a result, social justice organizations are increasingly realizing that no one institution or sector is capable of addressing these problems on its own. With this challenge in mind, nonprofits, social enterprises and even governments are experimenting with strategies to "open-source social change" by mobilizing networks, co-creating innovative solutions to seemingly intractable problems, sharing learnings from their work in real time, and engaging with non-traditional partners. During this webinar, we will examine what it means to open-source social change, explore examples of this work in practice, discuss ways to enact this approach in members' own work, and identify the opportunities this approach creates for leadership development for emerging practitioners of social justice work.
OSCON 2013 - Keynote - Creating Communities of InclusionMark Hinkle
Free and open source software is equal parts technology and humanity. Beyond the coding standards, development environments and essential parts of delivering free software the ideals that drive this movement are powerful. This is a reflection on the lessons gleaned from successful F/LOSS communities and a call to action to spread their ideals to other endeavors such as medicine and government.
From Software to Manufacturing: how the open, agile and p2p revolution is com...Codemotion
The principles of open design, agility and cooperation are slowly coming out of the software world to conquer the real world of tangible objects and production. This talk will try to recap about most important emerging initiatives and will give an overall idea of the opportunities that the future will bring for individuals and businesses.
Keynote address at SFSCon in Bolzano, Italy, explaining how the topology of society has changed to make collaboration and free software the key to innovation.
Building a Movement to Divest from Fossil Fuels and Invest in New Energy Solu...EPIPNational
The Divest-Invest commitment is a powerful demonstration of values that shows the world and policymakers that we want real climate solutions now. Divest-Invest moves catalyzes capital away from fossil fuels and towards a clean energy future. It’s an exciting example of the power of an idea whose time has come. Not only have participating funders moved beyond their own specific agendas to engage with a community in a shared collective goal, but they’re also working in solidarity with faith based groups, universities, schools, hospitals, individuals, cities, and civil society in general to achieve it.
Speakers: Jenna Nicholas, CEO of Phoenix Global Impact
and Chris Rurik, next-generation director of The Russell Family Foundation
Recorded on August 19, 2013
SPEAKERS:
• June Holley, Principal, Network Weaver Consultants Network and author of The Network Weaver Handbook
• Nadia Owusu, Senior Associate for Knowledge and Organizational Development, Living Cities
• Tamir Novotny,Senior Policy Associate, Living Cities and EPIP-NY Steering Committee Member (Moderator)
Open-Sourcing Social Change: Engaging networks for social justice and leadership development
Our nation's social and economic challenges often appear intractable because so many policies, practices, and institutions interact in complex ways that yield inequitable results. As a result, social justice organizations are increasingly realizing that no one institution or sector is capable of addressing these problems on its own. With this challenge in mind, nonprofits, social enterprises and even governments are experimenting with strategies to "open-source social change" by mobilizing networks, co-creating innovative solutions to seemingly intractable problems, sharing learnings from their work in real time, and engaging with non-traditional partners. During this webinar, we will examine what it means to open-source social change, explore examples of this work in practice, discuss ways to enact this approach in members' own work, and identify the opportunities this approach creates for leadership development for emerging practitioners of social justice work.
On the digital frontier, we are facing the consequences of technology advances - like fire, we can suffer or we can harness. We can choose how we want to civilize the frontier for a future for our children, or let others decide for us. its hard work, but we have to lean into the future to understand that it can bring, and where we can steer it to a better one for those coming after. As our ancestors have done for us.
2 - Building bridges with Ansible AutomationKangaroot
Fighting too many fires and no time for innovation? What is Ansible Automation and how can I scale my IT automation, manage complex deployments and speed productivity.
This is our group presentation about Google company for Business Ethics and Law (BLE H215) class. Our group focus on Google's culture and value at a workplace, Ethics and Compliance, research on how Google practices "Doing Good and Making a Profit" as well as complies with the UN Compact Principals.
As sensor networks permeate our world, instead of humans feeding the machine, our own devices start to converse, and enrich our understanding of our reality. This is the Social Hardware.
Distributed Software Development: Make It Run / Make It Right, Make It StickJeff Langr
Slides for a 45-minute talk around distributed experiences, including a few tips and a recommendation for using mob programming to help cohere a distributed team.
Activists and change makers across the board need tools and skills of effective and creative communication strategies to build awareness, to generate public opinion and for political education. TMNC in collaboration with Media for Change, madhesiyouth.com organized a program on how technology helps activism. The program looks at various strategies and tools in mainstream and new social media that can be used by activists and change makers. It was specifically designed for those working on building awareness through campaigns and propaganda on issues of human rights, environment, social and political justice.
Presenter: Saroj Ray
Dates: October 7th 2017
Place: Pasa Yard, Patan, Lalitpur, Kathmandu, Nepal
As the world’s problems become more interconnected and complex, there is an increasingly large role for engineers to play in the realm of innovation, both in the business and social sector. Speaking to the students of the DEEP Summer Engineering Academy, I go through various case studies of social innovation.
Future of Cities Summit RE·WORK 5th December in London > ‘Unplugging the Smart City’ Conference paper
Dr Igor Calzada will present on 4th December in London ‘Unplugging the Smart City’ conference paper in the Future Cities Summit Re·Work as a consequence of the joint research ‘Unplugging > Beyond Hyper-Connected Societies’ funded partially by The Oxford Research Center in Humanities and the article published at the Journal of Urban Technology ‘Unplugging > Deconstructing the Smart City’.
The conference will focus on an overview of the impact of being digitally connected on citizens:
Technology is never neutral as Williams (1983) stated. We should identify critically how to evolve as society and human beings by keeping smartly connected rather than being self-deterministically forced to be hyper-connected. Even though some dark side effects of the technology can be identified (Ippolita, 2008), the conference aims to draw on a critical social innovation pathway as a transition towards alternative digital humanities practices for our daily life. Nevertheless, there are plenty of pending questions about this subtle notion, that the conference will clustered as #Unplugging.
According to the Journal of Urban Technology, the article will be available at their website from 8th January 2015.
Meanwhile, here this is the presentation I delivered today in London. To reference use this:
Calzada, I. & Cobo, C. (2014) Unplugging: Deconstructing the Smart City, Journal of Urban Technology, DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2014.971535. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2014.971535 (In print)
Douglas Arellanes - Find a way or make one: Transforming the news media by sh...Rockit Conference
It's no secret that news organizations worldwide are facing challenges when dealing with digitalization. One approach that is gaining popularity worldwide is to use the open source model of technical development in new and innovative ways. This talk will present the work of Sourcefabric, a Czech nonprofit institute which makes open source tools for news organizations, but will also talk about other interesting initiatives worldwide.
By Epi Ludvik Nekaj, Crowdsourcing Week. Presented at CSW Summit Arctic Circle 2015. Learn more and join us at our next event: www.crowdsourcingweek.com
Open source has not only taken over most fields of computing, its methodology has spread to many other domains too. So are there any big challenges left for the next generation of coders? Edward Snowden's revelations indicate what needs to be done: adding strong crypto to a new generation of free software programs that give us back our freedom.
presentation given at South Tyrol Free Software Conference on November 18, 2011. It explores how the new world of abundance creates and requires new kinds of open, digital innovation. It also looks at some of the possible business models for companies based around open data.
On the digital frontier, we are facing the consequences of technology advances - like fire, we can suffer or we can harness. We can choose how we want to civilize the frontier for a future for our children, or let others decide for us. its hard work, but we have to lean into the future to understand that it can bring, and where we can steer it to a better one for those coming after. As our ancestors have done for us.
2 - Building bridges with Ansible AutomationKangaroot
Fighting too many fires and no time for innovation? What is Ansible Automation and how can I scale my IT automation, manage complex deployments and speed productivity.
This is our group presentation about Google company for Business Ethics and Law (BLE H215) class. Our group focus on Google's culture and value at a workplace, Ethics and Compliance, research on how Google practices "Doing Good and Making a Profit" as well as complies with the UN Compact Principals.
As sensor networks permeate our world, instead of humans feeding the machine, our own devices start to converse, and enrich our understanding of our reality. This is the Social Hardware.
Distributed Software Development: Make It Run / Make It Right, Make It StickJeff Langr
Slides for a 45-minute talk around distributed experiences, including a few tips and a recommendation for using mob programming to help cohere a distributed team.
Activists and change makers across the board need tools and skills of effective and creative communication strategies to build awareness, to generate public opinion and for political education. TMNC in collaboration with Media for Change, madhesiyouth.com organized a program on how technology helps activism. The program looks at various strategies and tools in mainstream and new social media that can be used by activists and change makers. It was specifically designed for those working on building awareness through campaigns and propaganda on issues of human rights, environment, social and political justice.
Presenter: Saroj Ray
Dates: October 7th 2017
Place: Pasa Yard, Patan, Lalitpur, Kathmandu, Nepal
As the world’s problems become more interconnected and complex, there is an increasingly large role for engineers to play in the realm of innovation, both in the business and social sector. Speaking to the students of the DEEP Summer Engineering Academy, I go through various case studies of social innovation.
Future of Cities Summit RE·WORK 5th December in London > ‘Unplugging the Smart City’ Conference paper
Dr Igor Calzada will present on 4th December in London ‘Unplugging the Smart City’ conference paper in the Future Cities Summit Re·Work as a consequence of the joint research ‘Unplugging > Beyond Hyper-Connected Societies’ funded partially by The Oxford Research Center in Humanities and the article published at the Journal of Urban Technology ‘Unplugging > Deconstructing the Smart City’.
The conference will focus on an overview of the impact of being digitally connected on citizens:
Technology is never neutral as Williams (1983) stated. We should identify critically how to evolve as society and human beings by keeping smartly connected rather than being self-deterministically forced to be hyper-connected. Even though some dark side effects of the technology can be identified (Ippolita, 2008), the conference aims to draw on a critical social innovation pathway as a transition towards alternative digital humanities practices for our daily life. Nevertheless, there are plenty of pending questions about this subtle notion, that the conference will clustered as #Unplugging.
According to the Journal of Urban Technology, the article will be available at their website from 8th January 2015.
Meanwhile, here this is the presentation I delivered today in London. To reference use this:
Calzada, I. & Cobo, C. (2014) Unplugging: Deconstructing the Smart City, Journal of Urban Technology, DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2014.971535. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2014.971535 (In print)
Douglas Arellanes - Find a way or make one: Transforming the news media by sh...Rockit Conference
It's no secret that news organizations worldwide are facing challenges when dealing with digitalization. One approach that is gaining popularity worldwide is to use the open source model of technical development in new and innovative ways. This talk will present the work of Sourcefabric, a Czech nonprofit institute which makes open source tools for news organizations, but will also talk about other interesting initiatives worldwide.
By Epi Ludvik Nekaj, Crowdsourcing Week. Presented at CSW Summit Arctic Circle 2015. Learn more and join us at our next event: www.crowdsourcingweek.com
Open source has not only taken over most fields of computing, its methodology has spread to many other domains too. So are there any big challenges left for the next generation of coders? Edward Snowden's revelations indicate what needs to be done: adding strong crypto to a new generation of free software programs that give us back our freedom.
presentation given at South Tyrol Free Software Conference on November 18, 2011. It explores how the new world of abundance creates and requires new kinds of open, digital innovation. It also looks at some of the possible business models for companies based around open data.
Anthropological fieldwork in Ubuntu LinuxAndreas Lloyd
an antropological fieldwork in a computer operating system exploring how Ubuntu developers' shared use and development of the Ubuntu Linux system shapes their community.
Keynote All Things Open - Open Source: The Punk Rock of the 21st CenturyMark Hinkle
It's easy to draw a comparison between open source software. Many bands self-produced recordings (like software developers) and distributed them through informal channels (like open source projects)….technical accessibility and a DIY spirit are prized in punk rock(as we see in open source)…….Punk rock is meant to be our freedom(as in free software). We're meant to be able to do what we want to do…. The issue of authenticity is important in the punk subculture—the pejorative term "poseur" is applied to those who associate with punk and adopt its stylistic attributes but are deemed not to share or understand the underlying values and philosophy…. At the end of the 20th century, punk rock had been adopted by the mainstream, as pop punk and punk rock bands such as Green Day, the Offspring and Blink-182 brought the genre to widespread popularity. Open source is enjoying that same popularity in the 21st century.
Controlling Anarchy in the Ecosystem: Centralized Content for the Internet o...Tomas Puig
Description: The internet of things has seen the number of connected devices skyrocket in the last few years. But being connected does not mean that the devices have content that people want to actually see, use, and experience. We will explore the trend of using centralized content delivery systems to drive the internet of things and provide compelling experiences for all.
Cours sur les fondements des réseaux sociaux. Découverte et première approche. Présentation des outils de veille et de gestion des réseaux sociaux dans le cadre des ressources humaines et de la vente.
Moogfest 2014 keynote Conscious-Technology, The Millennium Project, and an In...Jerome Glenn
We are merging with technology. We will become “Conscious-Technology” beings.
Google Glass, Internet of Things, heart pacemakers, the works! Voice recognition and voice synthesis with artificial intelligence imbedded through the built environment will make inanimate objects seem conscious. We will import advance tech in and on our bodies and export our consciousness to technology. These imports/export will seem to merge into a continuum of consciousness and technology. The quality of this merger will depend on how well we can blend our mystic-self with our technocratic self, as individuals and as a species. By mystic I simply mean one whose primary focus is improving life by enhancing consciousness; by technocrat I simply mean one whose primary focus for improving life is with new technologies and policies. We are all part mystic and part technocrat, but we tend to be more of one than the other. Seeking harmony, balance, synergy between the two seems right to me. Like the musician, instrument, and music merge in a great performance.
Merging the attitudes of the mystic toward life with the technocratic’s knowledge of life makes life work and be worthwhile.
Arts, media, and music technologies can be designed and used from a mystic attitude. Experiencing performances of such technologies should enhance our consciousness. From such enhanced consciousness new technologies can be conceived. And so on to become a more aesthetic future conscious-technology civilization.
The explosive, accelerating growth of knowledge in a rapidly changing and increasingly interdependent world gives us so much to know about so many things that it seems impossible to keep up. At the same time, we are flooded with so much trivial news that serious attention to serious issues gets little interest, and too much time is wasted going through useless information.
Library Users of the Future... Or, projecting outward from that fringe of res...James Baker
Deck for a talk I gave at the Anybook Oxford Libraries Conference, Oxford University, 24 June 2015.
Notes at https://gist.github.com/drjwbaker/6c5011d595cabfa70e97
A talk delivered by James Baker at the Anybook Oxford Libraries Conference 2015 - Adapting for the Future: Developing Our Professions and Services, 21st July 2015.
Similar to Linuxcon Europe 2013 | Keynote: We Won What's Next (20)
"Is serverless another passing technology fad or the new standard for application deployment in cloud computing?” It’s a good question and the topic of this presentation. We will discuss the current state of serverless computing and the many considerations before investing time and resources in serverless infrastructure.
For many, data center priorities have shifted from absolute uptime and performance to ”move fast and break things” as espoused by Silicon Valley, a great mantra for those with limited legacy systems and a greenfield of new products. Though the question for many enterprises though is "How does serverless integrate into their existing data center strategy?"
The discussion will not only explain the state of today’s growing serverless landscape but how you can integrate your existing data center with a cloud-native serverless architecture.
Triangle Kubernetes Meet-Up - Serverless is FaaS-tasticMark Hinkle
Talk Delivered 3/19/2019 - Serverless can be misleading as a descriptor. Serverless infrastructure actually runs on servers. However, the “server-less” reference comes from the fact that serverless abstracts the complexity of running servers away from the software developer which enables them to develop software without having to worry about the scaling, redundancy and overall infrastructure design. This is called Function-as-a-Service or Faas for short.
For the purposes of this talk, we’ll discuss serverless technologies where someone else is providing serverless infrastructure. Popular serverless platforms include Amazon Web Services Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Microsoft Azure Functions.
The presentation will also discuss the software that can be used to deliver Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) that enables serverless, including serverless frameworks like Knative, Kubeless, OpenFaaS, and Oracle’s fn.
Finally, we’ll cover what a cloud-native application might look like including the use cases and design patterns that serverless is geared towards providing.
Serverless is FaaS-tastic - Columbia Open Source Meet-Up Mark Hinkle
Serverless can be misleading as a descriptor. Serverless infrastructure actually runs on servers. However, the “server-less” reference comes from the fact that serverless abstracts the complexity of running servers away from the software developer which enables them to develop software without having to worry about the scaling, redundancy and overall infrastructure design. This is called Function-as-a-Service or Faas for short.
For the purposes of this talk, we’ll discuss serverless technologies where someone else is providing serverless infrastructure. Popular serverless platforms include Amazon Web Services Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Microsoft Azure Functions.
The presentation will also discuss the software that can be used to deliver Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) that enables serverless, including serverless frameworks like Knative, Kubeless, OpenFaaS, and Oracle’s fn.
Finally, we’ll cover what a cloud-native application might look like including the use cases and design patterns that serverless is geared towards providing.
Serverless is FaaS-tastic - All Things Open Meet-upMark Hinkle
Serverless can be misleading as a descriptor. Serverless infrastructure actually runs on servers. However, the “server-less” reference comes from the fact that serverless abstracts the complexity of running servers away from the software developer which enables them to develop software without having to worry about the scaling, redundancy and overall infrastructure design. This is called Function-as-a-Service or Faas for short.
For the purposes of this talk, we’ll discuss serverless technologies where someone else is providing serverless infrastructure. Popular serverless platforms include Amazon Web Services Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Microsoft Azure Functions.
The presentation will also discuss the software that can be used to deliver Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) that enables serverless, including serverless frameworks like Knative, Kubeless, OpenFaaS, and Oracle’s fn.
Finally, we’ll cover what a cloud-native application might look like including the use cases and design patterns that serverless is geared towards providing.
Keynote - Open Source 101 - How JavaScript Became a Legitimate Open Source En...Mark Hinkle
JavaScript has been a primary language of the browser for many years but at the same time become a first-class enterprise application platform as well. Driven by a need for applications that can scale to handle extreme workloads that are exchanging data and a vibrant open source community developing best-of-breed software for web, mobile, and IoT JavaScript is currently the most widely developed programming language on the planet.
Cloud 2.0 - How Containers, Microservices and Open Source Software are Redefi...Mark Hinkle
Led by the rocket like success of Amazon Web Services cloud computing is a paradigm shift in the way we host and deploy infrastructure. Organizations are consuming cloud infrastructure across multiple cloud providers both inside their data center and the data centers of others. The advent of highly portable workloads via containers (e.g. Docker) and discrete units of computing delivered by microservices are enabling organizations (like Netflix) to deploy complex multi-layered products and services at breakneck speeds.
This talk will give an overview of the major cloud services and the open source software (e.g. OpenStack, Apache CloudStack) that can be used to deliver and manage cloud computing infrastructure(e.g. Puppet, Chef, Ansible). The discussion will cover the evolution of cloud computing and how that sets the stage for realizing the agility, flexibility and power of cloud computing.
Attendees should expect to learn about the leading technologies in cloud computing, strategies for using open source software to create/manage cloud computing services and to gain an understanding how current developments are providing a way to create a single cloud fabric that best serves their individual needs.
Presentation on the current state of cloud computing and the role that open source, containers and microservices are playing in the cloud.
Presented to Florida Linux Users Exchange on April 9th, 2015
Cloud 2.0: Containers, Microservices and Cloud HybridizationMark Hinkle
In a very short time cloud computing has become a major factor in the way we deliver infrastructure and services. Though we’ve quickly breezed through the ideas of hosted cloud and orchestration. This talk will focus on the next evolution of cloud and how the evolution of technologies like container (like Docker), microservices the way Netflix runs their cloud) and how hybridization (applications running on Mesos across Kubernetes clusters in both private and public clouds).
RICON 2014 - Build a Cloud Day - Crash Course Open Source Cloud ComputingMark Hinkle
This crash course is designed to give an overview of cloud computing architecture and the open source software that can be used to deploy and manage a cloud computing environment.
Topics to be discussed in this session will include virtualization (KVM, LXC, and Xen Project), orchestration (Apache CloudStack, Eucalyptus, Open Nebula, and OpenStack), and storage (GlusterFS, Ceph, and others). The talk will also provide insight into how to deliver Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and what technologies can be used to compliment this evolving cloud computing paradigm.
Systems administrators and IT generalists will leave the discussion with a general overview of the options at their disposal to effectively build and manage their own cloud computing environments using free and open source software and understand the capabilities and benefits of a host of technologies.
All Things Open : Crash Course in Open Source Cloud Computing Mark Hinkle
Very few trends in IT have generated as much buzz as cloud computing. This session will cut through the hype and quickly clarify the ontology for cloud computing. The bulk of the conversation will focus on the open source software that can be used to build compute clouds (infrastructure-as-a-service) and the complimentary open source management tools that can be combined to automate the management of cloud computing environments.
The session will appeal to anyone who has a good grasp of traditional data center infrastructure but is struggling with the benefits and migration path to a cloud computing environment. Systems administrators and IT generalists will leave the discussion with a general overview of the options at their disposal to effectively build and manage their own cloud computing environments using free and open source software.
CloudOpen 2014 - Mixing Your Open Source Cloud CocktailMark Hinkle
Add two parts virtualization, one part orchestration add a little networking shake and pour. Unfortunately cloud computing isn’t that easy but then again not all clouds are the same and tastes may vary. This talk will discuss how the varying open source technologies like OpenStack, Docker, LXC and others can be mixed together to make something that appeals to the needs of a wide variety of users. There’s also no problem in abstaining from building your own cloud but still benefiting from the open source tooling to maximize the benefits of the public cloud.
Fossetcon: Crash Course on Open Source Cloud ComputingMark Hinkle
This crash course is designed to give an overview of cloud computing architecture and the open source software that can be used to deploy and manage a cloud computing environment.
Topics to be discussed in this session will include virtualization (KVM, LXC, and Xen Project), orchestration (Apache CloudStack, Eucalyptus, Open Nebula, and OpenStack), and storage (GlusterFS, Ceph, and others). The talk will also provide insight into how to deliver Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and what technologies can be used to compliment this evolving cloud computing paradigm.
Systems administrators and IT generalists will leave the discussion with a general overview of the options at their disposal to effectively build and manage their own cloud computing environments using free and open source software and understand the capabilities and benefits of a host of technologies.
[Updated with new Docker projects]
Bay Area Open Source Meet-Up: Things I Learned about Open Source The Hard Way Mark Hinkle
Mark Hinkle runs the Citrix Open Source Business Office and has spent 20 years working with open source communities and delivering open source software. Topics covered in this presentation will include the benefit of his mistakes and successes both in evaluating open source ad an end-user and in delivering enterprise solutions based on open source software.
OSCON 2014 - Crash Course in Open Source Cloud ComputingMark Hinkle
This crash course is designed to give an overview of cloud computing architecture and the open source software that can be used to deploy and manage a cloud computing environment.
Topics to be discussed in this session will include virtualization (KVM, LXC, and Xen Project), orchestration (Apache CloudStack, Eucalyptus, Open Nebula, and OpenStack), and storage (GlusterFS, Ceph, and others). The talk will also provide insight into how to deliver Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and what technologies can be used to compliment this evolving cloud computing paradigm.
Systems administrators and IT generalists will leave the discussion with a general overview of the options at their disposal to effectively build and manage their own cloud computing environments using free and open source software and understand the capabilities and benefits of a host of technologies.
Keynote Devops Days Amsterdam - Hacking IT, Culture over Code Bringing Devops...Mark Hinkle
The term DevOps has crossover over from a culture movement around improved IT delivery to a buzzword co-opted by headline minded journalists and companies who want to reinvent their antiquated practices by acquiring new talent. This presentation will talk about DevOps the movement, desired outcomes from DevOps practices and how to bring those practices to your organization especially those with entrenched practices that lack the agility, automation and other benefits of DevOps.
ApacheCon 2014; Let Me Help You. Don’t Fear the Man with the Free T-ShirtsMark Hinkle
The Apache Way™ is an incredible process for developing software as good or better than any other software development methodology. While we do a great job producing software that powers the Internet we often don’t do everything we can do to promote that technology, encourage new users and get more awareness of the work we do. This talk will outline considerations for how to promote a project and track progress and drive adoption to help insure the viability of the project and sell your boss on how to allow him to invest more of your time and company resources to help develop your Apache project.
Interop - Crash Course In Open Source Cloud ComputingMark Hinkle
This will be an overview of the open source software that can be used to deploy and manage a cloud computing environment. The session will include information on storage, networking(e.g. OpenDaylight) and compute virtualization (Xen, KVM, LXC) and the orchestration(Apache CloudStack, OpenStack) of the three to build their own cloud services.
Great Wide Open: Crash Course Open Source Cloud Computing - 2014Mark Hinkle
Very few trends in IT have generated as much buzz as cloud computing. This session will cut through the hype and quickly clarify the ontology for cloud computing. The bulk of the conversation will focus on the open source software that can be used to build compute clouds (infrastructure-as-a-service) and the complimentary open source management tools that can be combined to automate the management of cloud computing environments.
The session will appeal to anyone who has a good grasp of traditional data center infrastructure but is struggling with the benefits and migration path to a cloud computing environment. Systems administrators and IT generalists will leave the discussion with a general overview of the options at their disposal to effectively build and manage their own cloud computing environments using free and open source software.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
3. I'm doing a (free) operating
system (just a hobby, won't be big
and professional like gnu) for
386(486) AT clones.
Linus Torvalds
July 3, 1991
comp.os.minix
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4.
5.
6.
7. Sources: Ohloh and Donnie Berkholz of RedMonk
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8. Bubby Raymer invited people
to his wedding using Git on Github.
Most significant others
will probably not think
this is as cool as we do.
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15. OPEN SOURCE IS NOT A ZERO-SUM GAME
…the future of technological innovation is
not stealing limited resources away from one
another, but creating new resources — and
new opportunities to create new resources —
together in a rich ecosystem.
Allison Randal
Open Source Hacker
@allisonrandal
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16.
17.
18.
19. The CERN LHC creates well
over 30 petabytes of data a
year that is analyzed by
physicists.
This would not be possible
without a massive computer
network utilizing open source
software.
Professor Emeritus Peter Higgs of the University of Edinburgh
Pictured with the LHC project. Image courtesy of CERN.
22. The Six Million Dollar Meme
Imagine with me for a moment if other technology
in your lives advanced at the same pace as
prosthetic arm technology has advanced. Like
your telephone or your Mercedes…
Jonathan Kuniholm
Open Prosthetic Project
@kuniholm
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23. Maybe we need a “Moore’s Law” in Healthcare…
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25.
26. • Tuberculosis is a pandemic ranking second only to HIV as the
leading killer infectious disease of adults worldwide.
• 1/3 of the world’s population is currently infected with TB
• Today’s first-line TB drugs are over 47 years old
• Diagnostics (chest x-rays & sputum microscopy) are over 100 years
old)
• Tuberculosis drugs are not particularly profitable…
27. The Biological Expression Language (BEL) is a
language for representing scientific findings in the life
sciences in a computable form.
Open Source Drug Discovery aims to
provide affordable healthcare for
neglected diseases.
28. I'm doing a (free) green energy
project (just a hobby, won't be big
and professional like Linux) but I’d
like to create more power than I
consume.
The Next Linus Torvalds?
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29. I'm doing a (free) clean water
project (just a hobby, won't be big
and professional like Linux) but I’d
like to help develop a method to
make drinking water in underdeveloped countries.
The Next Linus Torvalds?
LinuxCon EU 2013 | We Won, What’s Next? by @mrhinkle
30. I'm doing a (free) medical
research project (just a hobby,
won't be big and professional like
Linux) but I’d like to help find a
better treatment for rheumatoid
arthritis.
The Next Linus Torvalds?
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34. {clean energy}
OPEN GOVERNMENT
NEW VACCINES
{CURE CANCER}
REDUCE FOSSIL FUEL DEPENDENCE
<PREVENT AUTISM>
END POVERTY
REGROW LIMBS
| RENEW FISHERIES |
| REDUCE POLLUTION | WORLD PEACE
IMPROVE ECONOMIC STABILITY
END WORLD HUNGER
CLEAN DRINKING WATER
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STOP GLOBAL WARMING
DRUG DISCOVERY
35. Thank You
And I work on open source at Citrix.
http://open.citrix.com
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Editor's Notes
My name is Mark Hinkle and I work on open source at Citrix. We are active in the Apache CloudStack Cloud Computing Community. (www.cloudstack.org)The Linux Foundation’s Xen Project (the open source hypervisor) and Open Daylight projects. (www.xenproject.org and www.opendaylight.org)We also operate XenServer as an open source project as well. (www.xenserver.org)
And it all started with one guy and his hobbyComp.OS.Minix- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.os.minix/dlNtH7RRrGA/SwRavCzVE7gJ
Server 2013 Enterprise End User Report - http://www.linuxfoundation.org/publications/linux-foundation/linux-adoption-trends-end-user-report-2013Top 500 Release – June 2013, Category Operating system Family - http://www.top500.org/statistics/list/Desktop Chromebook passes back-to-school sales test Windows and Macs fail - http://betanews.com/2013/09/26/chromebook-passes-back-to-school-sales-test-windows-and-macs-fail/Laptops running Chrome OS provided "all the growth" in the otherwise troubled U.S. retail PC market during back-to-school buying season, according to NPD. Otherwise, overall PC sales fell 2.5 percent, with desktops down 5 percent and notebooks off by 2 percent. Mac laptop sales sank 3 percent and Windows notebooks by 6 percent. Chromebook sales topped 175,000 units.Mobile 187.4 http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130807005280/en/Apple-Cedes-Market-Share-Smartphone-Operating-Systemhttp://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24257413
Server 2013 Enterprise End User Report - http://www.linuxfoundation.org/publications/linux-foundation/linux-adoption-trends-end-user-report-2013Top 500 Release – June 2013, Category Operating system Family - http://www.top500.org/statistics/list/Desktop Chromebook passes back-to-school sales test Windows and Macs fail - http://betanews.com/2013/09/26/chromebook-passes-back-to-school-sales-test-windows-and-macs-fail/Laptops running Chrome OS provided "all the growth" in the otherwise troubled U.S. retail PC market during back-to-school buying season, according to NPD. Otherwise, overall PC sales fell 2.5 percent, with desktops down 5 percent and notebooks off by 2 percent. Mac laptop sales sank 3 percent and Windows notebooks by 6 percent. Chromebook sales topped 175,000 units.Mobile 187.4 http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130807005280/en/Apple-Cedes-Market-Share-Smartphone-Operating-Systemhttp://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24257413
Server 2013 Enterprise End User Report - http://www.linuxfoundation.org/publications/linux-foundation/linux-adoption-trends-end-user-report-2013Top 500 Release – June 2013, Category Operating system Family - http://www.top500.org/statistics/list/Desktop Chromebook passes back-to-school sales test Windows and Macs fail - http://betanews.com/2013/09/26/chromebook-passes-back-to-school-sales-test-windows-and-macs-fail/Laptops running Chrome OS provided "all the growth" in the otherwise troubled U.S. retail PC market during back-to-school buying season, according to NPD. Otherwise, overall PC sales fell 2.5 percent, with desktops down 5 percent and notebooks off by 2 percent. Mac laptop sales sank 3 percent and Windows notebooks by 6 percent. Chromebook sales topped 175,000 units.Mobile 187.4 http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130807005280/en/Apple-Cedes-Market-Share-Smartphone-Operating-Systemhttp://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24257413
Source: http://www.ohloh.net/p & http://www.ohloh.net/repositories/compare25,000 of the 65,762 projects tracked on Ohloh use GitGitHub will hit 5 million users this year:http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/2013/01/21/github-will-hit-5-million-users-within-a-year/#ixzz2hokGtRVq36% of Eclipse developers use eclipse Eclipse Community Survey Report 2013http://www.slideshare.net/IanSkerrett/eclipse-survey-2013-report-final
Bubby Raymer invited people to his wedding using Git on Github. https://github.com/rayber/wedding
These toys inspired the curiosity of my generation. Erector Sets(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erector_Set), Science Fair Kits (from Radio Shack), model rockets , compound microscopes and even the Commodore Vic-20 that we meticulous hand-typed programs into from the backs of computer magazine. These“toys” inspired my generation and they inspired me to learn and share my ideas.
The problem was that my neighborhood was tiny and only a small group of friends from my small home town shared my interests, we had our interactions on Saturdays and very occasionally after school….
Today’s emerging scientists and engineers benefit much more advanced “toys” build on open source influenced by Linux and the methods …Today’s kids have access to 3-D printers, Android devices and hackable hardware like Raspberry Pi and Arduino processors…and today’s kids are connected to a much greater extent.
Our developing minds have access to a greater pool of knowledge and ideas and a mechanism for them to share…
The difference between proprietary software and open source is that if you go down the proprietary road it’s rare that your contributions can help the users of another project be successful.What’s different about open source is that it’s not a Zero-Sum Game. In open source that’s par for the course. Sometimes we get competitive on who has the best open source project. I liken this to fraternities at a college but in the end we all cheer for the same football team on Saturday. Together we all win. I work on Xen Project and XenServer and we rely on QEMU, so does KVM both communities benefit from that upstream both communities help contribute back feedback that makes QEMU better. I work on Apache CloudStack and we work with Ceph, Gluster, Scalr, Puppet, Chef, Zenoss, Riak CS, Xen, KVM, Open vSwithc to integrate their technologies and give feedback to make them better. Lot’s of you work on OpenStack. Both projects contribute to a broader ecosystem that is better for everyone. Inspired by a TechCrunch interview - http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/21/linuxcon-open-source-is-an-ecosystem-not-a-zero-sum-game/
Arduino- http://www.arduino.cc/Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.Arduino can sense the environment by receiving input from a variety of sensors and can affect its surroundings by controlling lights, motors, and other actuators. The microcontroller on the board is programmed using the Arduino programming language (based on Wiring) and the Arduino development environment (based on Processing). Arduino projects can be stand-alone or they can communicate with software running on a computer (e.g. Flash, Processing, MaxMSP).Arduino creator explains why open source matters in hardware, tooBeagle Board – BeagleBoard.orgBeagleBoard.org is the result of an effort by a collection of passionate individuals, including several employees of Texas Instruments, interested in creating powerful, open, and embedded devices. We invite you to participate and become part of BeagleBoard.org, defining its direction.MinnowBoard – www.minnowboard.orgMinnowboard is an online commmunity dedicated to the support of Open Hardware utilizing Intel processorsOpen Compute – http://www.opencompute.org/The Open Compute Project Foundation is a rapidly growing community of engineers around the world whose mission is to design and enable the delivery of the most efficient server, storage and data center hardware designs for scalable computing. We believe that openly sharing ideas, specifications and other intellectual property is the key to maximizing innovation and reducing operational complexity in the scalable computing space. The Open Compute Project Foundation provides a structure in which individuals and organizations can share their intellectual property with Open Compute Projects.Raspberry Pi - http://www.raspberrypi.orgThe Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video. We want to see it being used by kids all over the world to learn programming.Open Source Hardware - http://www.oshwa.org/The Open Source Hardware Association is Coming Soon! It will be a non-profitorganization (status pending) working to spread the love of open source hardware. We’reworking out details, and as soon as we know, you’ll know!
Before it was set up, Talea's 2,500 residents would make their calls from the "caseta," a house or shop that has a land line and charges a per-minute fee. There was little privacy, and international calls cost more than a dollar a minute. It was even worse for incoming calls, which required a runner to answer and tell townsfolk when someone was looking for them.Using simple radio receivers, a laptop and relatively inexpensive Internet technologies, the people of the Zapotec village of Talea de Castro have leapfrogged into the 21st century by setting up what amounts to their own mini-telecom company -- one capable of handling 11 cell phone calls at a time at a small fraction of what they used to pay.OpenBTS The Talea de Castro residents used OpenBTS - http://openbts.org/ to manage their network.OpenBTS is a Unix application that uses a software radio to present a GSM Um interface to handsets and uses a SIP softswitch or PBX to connect calls.(You might even say that OpenBTS is a simplified form of IMS that works with 2G feature-phone handsets). The combination of the global-standard GSM air interface with low-cost VoIP backhaul forms the basis of a new type of cellular network that can be deployed and operated at substantially lower cost than existing technologies in many applications, especially rural cellular deployments and private cellular networks in remote areas. OpenBTS is a product of Range Networks and is distributed in multiple versions under multiple liceneses. This site supports the OpenBTS public release, a subset of the OpenBTS commercial release, distributed under AGPLv3.
We are also at a tipping point for the sharing of scientific knowledge…and growing rapidlyScience Metrix - http://www.science-metrix.com/eng/news_13_08.htmThree new Science-Metrix reports on the availability of open access scientific literature and data are now available for download. These reports highlight the faster than previously thought growth of open access to scientific literature, showing that around 50% of papers published in 2011 are now available online for free. This is nearly twice the level estimated in previous studies and confirms the global shift towards open access to research findings.
The Higgs boson was first proposed in 1964The theory of what would ultimately be called the Higgs field was first proposed in three Physical Review Letters papers written by six people on three independent teams, all published in 1964. The researchers’ theories explained the “broken symmetry” of particle masses, and also showed why photons, the particles that carry the electromagnetic force, have no mass while W and Z bosons, the purveyors of the weak nuclear force, can be massive. The Higgs mechanism effectively unified the weak and electromagnetic forces. These papers laid the groundwork for the later development of the Standard Model of particle physics. Until recently there was no Way to capture, manipulate and analyze that data.http://www.techradar.com/us/news/software/the-technology-behind-cern-the-hunt-for-the-higgs-boson-1119595Experiments, or 'events', within LHC produce a lot of information. Even after discarding around 90% of the data captured by its sensors, original estimates reckoned that LHC would require storage for around 15 petabytes of data a year. In 2011, LHC generated around 23 petabytes of data for analysis, and that figure is expected to rise to around 30PB for 2012, or double the original data budget.The technology behind CERN: the hunt for the Higgs bosonhttp://www.techradar.com/us/news/software/the-technology-behind-cern-the-hunt-for-the-higgs-boson-1119595Experiments, or 'events', within Large LHC produce a lot of information. Even after discarding around 90% of the data captured by its sensors, original estimates reckoned that LHC would require storage for around 15 petabytes of data a year. In 2011, LHC generated around 23 petabytes of data for analysis, and that figure is expected to rise going forwardAround 10,000 physicists across the world work on CERN-related projects, two thirds of whom are attached to the largest experiments, ATLAS and CMS. Analyzing the data produced by LHC is a challenge on multiple levels.ROOT(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROOT)is the go-to software framework for High Energy Physics (HEP) and particle analysis. It is written in C++ It runs on Ubuntu Linux. It is published under the GPL and LGPL CERN can sponsor open source software such as Disk Pool Manager (DPM) - https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Disk_Pool_Manager, which is used for looking after storage clusters.The UK project for the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid project leverages Scientific Linux and a the ability to fork, copy and right to run 8 or 16 copies of the same app to conserve memory. Much of this grid Is running on Scientific Linux which And the incredible physics of smashing protons together is just the start of the work; it's what happens afterwards that requires one of the biggest open source computing projects in the world.
In 1912, D.W. Dorrance manufactured the first split hook design because he was dissatisfied with the terminal devices available. He traveled the country showing his innovation to physicians, prosthetist, and amputees alike. His clever and efficient innovation caught on to become a standard in functional terminal devices for amputees. The hook is still manufactured today by the Hosmer company. Photo from IEE Spectrum: | Winner: The Revolution will be Prosthetized - http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/medical-robots/winner-the-revolution-will-be-prosthetized
This is probably the most important lesson I learned from open source community and it has nothing to do with software. It has to do with making the world better in a much more personal way….I first heard about Jonathan’s project back at a Barcamp in Raleigh many years ago and it struck me as interesting. Jon is a mechanical engineer who lost his arm in Iraq and was fitted with a prosthesis. His contention is that these prosthesis are not designed by amputees and the technology for his mechanical hook is over 100 years old.Last year I thought about it a lot. You see I was stuck in a hospital last summer and couldn’t be at OSCON. I learned first hand that unlike the software I used that the medical field isnt’ as malleable. At 6’ 1” wheelchairs aren’t made for someone whose legs are locked out in casts or braces. The solution is to strap them on with bungee straps or velcro. Around that same I was watching a lot of TED talks from my hospital bed and saw Jonathon’s talk and realized the opportunity for collaboration, in his field and all of medicine. Taking our skills in collaboration and applying them to new industries should be our goal as much as making open source software. The impact we can make on the world is so much greater than even the amazing things open source has done for software. Jon is a PhD candidate in biomedical engineering at Duke University, in the lab of Dr. Rob Clark, working on grasp control for the DARPA Revolutionizing Prosthetics 2009 program. Jon has degrees in industrial design and mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University, and is a graduate of Dartmouth College. His work at Tackle is currently limited to Tackle's help with the fledgling Shared Design Alliance and its Open Prosthetics Project, started by Jon and the rest of the Tackle partners following Jon's injury as a Marine in Iraq.Excerpt from the TedxChapelHillhttp://videos.liftconference.com/video/2953743/jonathan-kuniholm-open
Server 2013 Enterprise End User Report - http://www.linuxfoundation.org/publications/linux-foundation/linux-adoption-trends-end-user-report-2013Desktop Chromebook passes back-to-school sales test Windows and Macs fail - http://betanews.com/2013/09/26/chromebook-passes-back-to-school-sales-test-windows-and-macs-fail/Laptops running Chrome OS provided "all the growth" in the otherwise troubled U.S. retail PC market during back-to-school buying season, according to NPD. Otherwise, overall PC sales fell 2.5 percent, with desktops down 5 percent and notebooks off by 2 percent. Mac laptop sales sank 3 percent and Windows notebooks by 6 percent. Chromebook sales topped 175,000 units.Mobile http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130807005280/en/Apple-Cedes-Market-Share-Smartphone-Operating-System
http://www.popularmechanics.com/home/how-to-plans/backyard-genius-2011-the-years-10-best-diy-creations#slide-1Put away your baking soda volcano—this kid built an animatronic hand. For his high school science fair project, Easton LaChappelle studied anatomical drawings to better understand finger joints and movement, then created a wirelessly controlled mechanical hand. The fingers are constructed of flexible wire tubing, while the "wrist" is reinforced with Lego bricks. Fishing wire runs through the tubing from the fingertips to five independent servos, providing the hand's motion. Next, LaChappelle sewed flex sensors into a standard athletic glove and wired them up to a custom Arduino controller board and shield. The shield sends wireless signals to a receiver on the animatronic hand. The whole setup works without a computer interface and costs only around $350. "Some strength is lost because of the materials I used," LaChappelle says, "but I can pick up a full can of soda with it."
Easton LaChappelleArduinoboards Linux
Open Drug Discovery https://docs.google.com/viewer?pid=sites&srcid=b3NkZC5uZXR8b3NkZG5ld3Zlcmlzb258Z3g6NjBlOGVkMjIyZDgxOGE2Nw&docid=74853ac8ad90830d19579a3d712ab0c3%7C18ccb33a616a6d689f9aaf1eece3df25&chan=EgAAAGiMjlC1wXJ73t%2BSmw44Tuy7ws/EVUxSL0VrfUf/phEe&a=v&rel=zip;z2;About+TB.pdf
OpenBEL - http://www.openbel.org/OpenBEL powers SBVImprover Challenge 3. The goal of the Challenge is to perform peer review of a massive number of networks for lung biology. The key is using OpenBEL to represent the biology in a consistent open format that can be turned into a computationally tractable model. Today, biological networks play a fundamental role in systems-based approaches to biology, pharmacology, and toxicology. With the shift from low-throughput technologies such as single gene PCR to the system-wide evaluation of transcriptomes, the size and number of datasets being deposited into databases has grown exponentially, as has the number of published scientific articles. Biological networks clearly and concisely encapsulate this large existing knowledge base. By depicting causal and correlative relationships (edges) between biological entities (nodes) in a way that is both computable and human-readable, biological networks provide a top-down view on collected data. This can aid the focused generation of hypotheses prior to the investigation of specific pathways. The network models were derived from data-driven approaches together with information captured from peer-reviewed literature. This resulted in 50 networks representing various aspects of lung biology.Open Source Drug Discovery - http://www.osdd.net/about-us/What-is-OSDDOpen Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) is a CSIR led team India Consortium with global partnership with a vision to provide affordable healthcare to the developing world by providing a global platform where the best minds can collaborate & collectively endeavor to solve the complex problems associated with discovering novel therapies for neglected tropical diseases like Tuberculosis, Malaria, Leishmaniasis etc.The success of Open Source models in Information Technology (For e.g., Web Technology, The Linux Operating System) and Biotechnology (For e.g., Human Genome Sequencing) sectors highlights the urgent need to initiate a similar model in healthcare, i.e., an Open Source model for Drug Discovery. OSDD is currently focused on the discovery of novel drugs for TB and Malaria. OSDD collaboratively aggregates the biological, genetic and chemical information available to scientists in order to use it to hasten the discovery of drugs. This will provide a unique opportunity for scientists, doctors, technocrats, students and others with diverse expertise to work for a common cause. OSDD is a translational platform for drug discovery, bringing together informaticians, wet lab scientists, contract research organizations, clinicians, hospitals and others who are willing to adhere to the affordable healthcare philosophy agreeing to the OSDD license.
We are providing the blueprint for the future of technology. Through our open source culture. Tools for massive collaboration. And Linux a platform for innovation.
We are providing the blueprint for the future of technology. Through our open source culture. Tools for massive collaboration. And Linux a platform for innovation.
We are providing the blueprint for the future of technology. Through our open source culture. Tools for massive collaboration. And Linux a platform for innovation.
Linux is arguably the largest collaborative effort in human history.Imagine if the same level of collaboration could be applied to other problems other than software and what kind of changes we could enact in our world. If I learned anything from the open source community is that mass collaboration on hard problems are much more solvable when we include the input from the largest groups. That’s why I’d like to see the open source community share their methods and values with other industries beyond software to solve none IT problems.