This document outlines a meeting for Rails for Charity, an organization that builds open source web applications to help improve society. The agenda includes introducing members, discussing the mission to create technology for social good, identifying areas for contribution like healthcare and education, and benefits like resume building. Members will pitch ideas and form teams to iteratively develop working versions, with tools like GitHub, Pivotal Tracker, Travis CI, and Heroku. Diverse skills are welcomed to collaborate on challenging problems with a direct social impact.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion - Who decides what's next?Alex Nusselt
Introduction to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion during Macromedia Mentoring Program KickOff 2021
Focusing on industrialization, digitization and a changing society
I think 2016 was the year of open source angst. We're caught between discussions about open source sustainability and accelerating corporate open source projects. I tackle the two open source vectors most people discuss: community and corporate engagement. The real problem, however, is the democratization of software and the growing skills gap as the demand for software goes up. This talk was given at SCaLE 15X (http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/15x/presentations/trouble-open-source-software).
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion - Who decides what's next?Alex Nusselt
Introduction to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion during Macromedia Mentoring Program KickOff 2021
Focusing on industrialization, digitization and a changing society
I think 2016 was the year of open source angst. We're caught between discussions about open source sustainability and accelerating corporate open source projects. I tackle the two open source vectors most people discuss: community and corporate engagement. The real problem, however, is the democratization of software and the growing skills gap as the demand for software goes up. This talk was given at SCaLE 15X (http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/15x/presentations/trouble-open-source-software).
Corporate profile of the Silicon Straits group, an innovation tribe in Asia Pacific that is building a better platform for designers, engineers & entrepreneurs to get together, be inspired, make things and start or grow companies.
Silicon Straits has offices in Singapore, Ho Chi Minh City and Yangon, and oversees investments in the United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Manifesto: Anil Gupta - Honey Bee NetworkSTEPS Centre
The STEPS Centre Symposium, 26 September 2009, focused on our Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto project. This presentation by Anil Gupta of the Honey Bee Network and Indian Institute of Management, was one of those given at the event. For more information see: www.anewmanifesto.org
Is social good the next killer app? SXSW 2015.Eve Simon
Core conversation from SXSW 2015:
Something sexy happened at SXSW 2014 that didn’t involve Lady GaGa: an unprecedented number of do-gooding Geekerati showed up, wanting to change the world. Does this mean that social good has “made it”, or just become the latest trend to generate lots of hype but little impact? Shiny new platforms, brands and tools promise game-changing technologies & society-saving outcomes, but do they get us any closer to actually solving the world’s most challenging social problems?
It’s time we put the SXSW community to work doing what it does best - leading industry innovation. Come to this session ready to get your hands dirty exploring what authentic, lasting social change could really look like.
http://schedule.sxsw.com/2015/events/event_IAP32981
Why Social is key to drive your Digital Innovation StrategyGerrie Smits
My talk at Social Media Summit 2015. Social is a Canary in the Coalmine. We can learn from the effects it has had on communications as well as from the culture that the social media companies cultivate.
Corporate profile of the Silicon Straits group, an innovation tribe in Asia Pacific that is building a better platform for designers, engineers & entrepreneurs to get together, be inspired, make things and start or grow companies.
Silicon Straits has offices in Singapore, Ho Chi Minh City and Yangon, and oversees investments in the United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Manifesto: Anil Gupta - Honey Bee NetworkSTEPS Centre
The STEPS Centre Symposium, 26 September 2009, focused on our Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto project. This presentation by Anil Gupta of the Honey Bee Network and Indian Institute of Management, was one of those given at the event. For more information see: www.anewmanifesto.org
Is social good the next killer app? SXSW 2015.Eve Simon
Core conversation from SXSW 2015:
Something sexy happened at SXSW 2014 that didn’t involve Lady GaGa: an unprecedented number of do-gooding Geekerati showed up, wanting to change the world. Does this mean that social good has “made it”, or just become the latest trend to generate lots of hype but little impact? Shiny new platforms, brands and tools promise game-changing technologies & society-saving outcomes, but do they get us any closer to actually solving the world’s most challenging social problems?
It’s time we put the SXSW community to work doing what it does best - leading industry innovation. Come to this session ready to get your hands dirty exploring what authentic, lasting social change could really look like.
http://schedule.sxsw.com/2015/events/event_IAP32981
Why Social is key to drive your Digital Innovation StrategyGerrie Smits
My talk at Social Media Summit 2015. Social is a Canary in the Coalmine. We can learn from the effects it has had on communications as well as from the culture that the social media companies cultivate.
Tech4Good, Tech4All, and Digital Inclusion3Play Media
In this webinar, Debra Ruh, CEO of Ruh Global Impact and advocate for accessibility, will explore how emerging technologies like AI, wearables, robotics, and others, can support people with disabilities if they are made accessible and the repercussion for all if these programs and campaigns are not accessible.
A paradigm shift in Education by Web2.0 technologiesLukas Ritzel
a webcast presentation done by lukas ritzel during World conference of AIAER on
Higher education: Need for priAm variate reforms, August 03-05, 2009 Organized by
Lovely School of Education, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab and supported by IMI University Centre, Luzern, Switzerland
Wikibrands - Looking Under the Hood, What Makes Winning, Engaged Brands Tick ...Sean Moffitt
Keynote presentation by Sean Moffitt of Wikibrands at ACA360 conference - October 6, 2011 (Association of Canadian Advertisers) - also at www.wiki-brands.com
Key chapters;
- 10 Immutable Laws/Inconvenient Truths
- 10 Wikibrand Success Factors
- 10 Smart Bets on the Futiure
Essentials of Social Learning & Digital Literacy for the enterpriseLetsConnect
What is digital literacy within the context of Enterprise Social Networks and why is it important?
How does a social learning program looks like (practical examples)?
How to leverage a company-wide collaborative platform for learning purposes?
Veteran Founded. Located in San Jose California.
Johnny Lee Clarke is the founder of CityLab, my team leads vocational training development for jobs that are projected to be in high demand, in fact, McKinsey Global Institute research supports that belief, estimating that the impact of the Internet of Things on the global economy might be as high as $6.2 trillion by 2025.
Metanomics is a weekly Web-based show on the serious uses of virtual worlds. This transcript is from a past show.
For this and other videos, visit us at http://metanomics.net.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
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.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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.
6. RFC Motive
• We want to fix the social problems that surround us
through the use of our skills (Technology) and give
something back to the society.
• We want to incubate, foster, develop, mentor and
support web based software projects which could
potentially have a social impact.
• Provide a platform for people to share/pitch their
social impacting ideas, get help and be helped for
achieving their goals.
• We want to make Silicon Valley the starting point for
such a unique open source initiative.
7. We have built hundreds of open
source projects and tools
Now its for us to build &
maintain complete end to end
web based open source
applications.
8. Areas where we can contribute
Most of Silicon Valley is focused on building products
for the top 1% of the world's population.
Do you think we can sell
an apple iPod or even
coca-cola to them ?
Most of the world is not 16-29 year old males. There's a
whole range of perspectives that go underrepresented in
Silicon Valley. There are a lot of women out there.
Older folks. Also, it might be hard to imagine, but
there are a lot of kids not growing up on video games.
Source: http://www.quora.com/Silicon-Valley/What-are-some-things-Id-be-
shocked-to-learn-about-the-outside-world
9. continued...
Most of the world needs solutions to problems
we rarely talk about, in areas like health
care, agricultural production, sustainable
construction, citizen activism and
empowerment, childhood education, affordable
transportation, community solidarity and
efficacy, etc.
In short, there are lots of simple ideas that
we can implement and make a difference.
10. Benefits for us?
Self satisfaction. You know that you are
giving back to the society.
Open source projects shine well on your
resume. A contributor of a large open
source project is more impressive than an
individual contributor in a corporate one.
Collaborate and learn.
Work on latest technologies apart from your
job.
11. continued...
Meet people from various backgrounds. Work
on projects which have a direct impact.
Work on challenging problems and whacky
ideas.
If not us, who will?
12. How will we do it?
Anyone who has an idea would pitch.
Members will vote on each idea and form
teams to work on those ideas.
The code will be open sourced.
Friendly competition among the teams.
Take Baby steps.
Build a working version 0.1 in 2 weeks
Deploy on heroku (heroku.com)
13. continued...
Meet again, get feedback & assimilate new
members into the picture
Iterate continuously & get Beta out in 2
months.
Spread the word.
Monitor user engagement.
Reshuffle teams...
Keep iterating...
14. Tools & Services
Github - For Source Control & Issue
Tracking
Pivotal Tracker - For Project
Management
Travis CI - For Continuous
Integration
Heroku - For Deployments
15. Who do we need?
Everyone!
Artists, Businessmen, Designers, Developers,
Editors, Evangelists, Marketing, Sales,
Lawyers, Writers, QA, etc...
In short, anyone who is passionate about
charities and open source and wants to
contribute.