The document discusses open source software and its four core freedoms: the freedom to use software for any purpose, study and modify its code, redistribute copies, and distribute modified versions. It notes that open source allows anyone, including those who don't work for large companies, to contribute ideas to make software better. Examples are given of open source being used for early pharmaceutical research, architecture, emergency shelters, and proposed for making laws more transparent. The conclusion advocates for more open source adoption to allow ideas and innovation to flow freely for positive change.
Ruth Cheesley - Joomla!Day UK - Joomla in your areaRuth Cheesley
A closing keynote encouraging delegates to consider what they can contribute to Joomla! in their local area, through the establishment of Joomla! User Groups (JUGs)
Women in Open Source - Ruth Cheesley - CMS Africa 2014Ruth Cheesley
A talk delivered at the first CMS Africa Summit held in Nairobi on 7-8 March 2014. The talk explored the opportunities for women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics and how Open Source can be a door into a career and/or hobby in these subjects.
Chalk and cheese - how developers and designers can work together and not cru...Ruth Cheesley
A talk given by Ruth Cheesley of Virya Group, at the Innovation Martlesham breakfast on Tuesday, 21st April.
Teams can often be challenging places for developers and designers to work harmoniously - here are some of the tips we've learned - join us on the journey through a project to see how the roles change between the team members to ensure we arrive at the destination together, on time, and with enough fuel in the tank!
CMS Security - Ruth Cheesley - CMS Africa 2014Ruth Cheesley
This talk was delivered at the first CMS Africa summit in Nairobi, Kenya which was held between 7-8 March 2014. The talk explores basic security precautions to take when considering using a Content Management System.
Joomla!Day Switzerland 2013 - Ruth Cheesley - SEO for MythbustersRuth Cheesley
Ruth Cheesley busts some popular myths about SEO in this 30 minute presentation which was delivered at Joomla!Day Switzerland on 21st September 2013 in Bern
DHThis a Peer Review Experiment Adeline Koh Rutgers Jan 2014Adeline Koh
A workshop/presentation on #DHThis (www.dhthis.org), a peer review experiment for the digital humanities by Adeline Koh, Martin Eve, Roopika Risam, Jesse Stommel and Alex Gil
Ruth Cheesley - Joomla!Day UK - Joomla in your areaRuth Cheesley
A closing keynote encouraging delegates to consider what they can contribute to Joomla! in their local area, through the establishment of Joomla! User Groups (JUGs)
Women in Open Source - Ruth Cheesley - CMS Africa 2014Ruth Cheesley
A talk delivered at the first CMS Africa Summit held in Nairobi on 7-8 March 2014. The talk explored the opportunities for women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics and how Open Source can be a door into a career and/or hobby in these subjects.
Chalk and cheese - how developers and designers can work together and not cru...Ruth Cheesley
A talk given by Ruth Cheesley of Virya Group, at the Innovation Martlesham breakfast on Tuesday, 21st April.
Teams can often be challenging places for developers and designers to work harmoniously - here are some of the tips we've learned - join us on the journey through a project to see how the roles change between the team members to ensure we arrive at the destination together, on time, and with enough fuel in the tank!
CMS Security - Ruth Cheesley - CMS Africa 2014Ruth Cheesley
This talk was delivered at the first CMS Africa summit in Nairobi, Kenya which was held between 7-8 March 2014. The talk explores basic security precautions to take when considering using a Content Management System.
Joomla!Day Switzerland 2013 - Ruth Cheesley - SEO for MythbustersRuth Cheesley
Ruth Cheesley busts some popular myths about SEO in this 30 minute presentation which was delivered at Joomla!Day Switzerland on 21st September 2013 in Bern
DHThis a Peer Review Experiment Adeline Koh Rutgers Jan 2014Adeline Koh
A workshop/presentation on #DHThis (www.dhthis.org), a peer review experiment for the digital humanities by Adeline Koh, Martin Eve, Roopika Risam, Jesse Stommel and Alex Gil
Open source meets marketing - Presentation - OpenFest 2019Ruth Cheesley
A presentation at OpenFest 2019 in Sofia, Bulgaria on how the Open Source Marketing Automation platform Mautic enables you to enhance the digital experience for your customers.
Talk given by Ruth Cheesley at JoomlaDay UK 2017.
All too often websites are designed, built and deployed without any thought to how the business will track, capture and use the many sources of data. These sources of data available through many free tools can contribute vital information which allows a business to track sales from their origin and prove what parts of their online presence are delivering a return on investment.
In this talk, Ruth explores the concepts and methodology of planning and building websites with a data-first mentality.
Integrated Marketing Strategies with MauticRuth Cheesley
A case study by Ruth Cheesley of Virya Group. Exploring the use of Mautic as part of an integrated marketing approach at a business to business exhibition. Combining print media, online resources and an interactive game which challenged visitors to test their SEO knowledge.
Automating your marketing workflows in Joomla with MauticRuth Cheesley
In this presentation at JoomlaDagen 2016, Ruth Cheesley explores some of the features that Mautic can bring to your Joomla website, and what this can mean for your marketing workflows.
Fight for the Pixel - Innovation Martlesham - Ruth CheesleyRuth Cheesley
How can developers and designers work together during a project? What processes can help a team work effectively, communicating harmoniously and ensure delivery of a web project on time and on schedule?
Join us on this voyage of discovery to the Pixelles Island!
Custom Fields in Joomla - JoomlaDay UK 2016 - Marco DingsRuth Cheesley
This presentation covers an upcoming feature of Joomla - Custom Fields - and how they can help you to expand the core features of Joomla. Delivered by Marco Dings at JoomlaDay UK 2016.
Time to stop breaking your promises - dealing with 404's, broken URLs and pla...Ruth Cheesley
Change happens - it's inevitable. A URL is a promise, and when you change a site structure, you are responsible for keeping your promises and making sure those URLs are either redirected or killed off.
This presentation runs through how to manage URL changes by running audits, what to do with URLs which have changed and how to properly kill off URLs using the 410 error code.
Focused on Joomla, many of the resources are hosted on the Joomla Community Magazine.
Discovering Joomla! - Find out about Joomla's featuresRuth Cheesley
Want to know more about Joomla! - one of the most popular Content Management Systems in the world? This presentation walks you through some of the key features in the latest version of Joomla, and some of the aspects of the community.
Ruth Cheesley - Joomla World Conference 2014 - How to prove you're worth a mi...Ruth Cheesley
Ruth from Virya Group [http://www.viryagroup.com] explores how you can monitor and track what happens on your websites, and assign monetary values, and use this to confidently quote expected return on investment to your clients? In this talk we will cover how to track conversions on your website using Google Analytics, Adwords and Tag Manager, and how to use this data in your sales process.
A gaze into the crystal ball of Google - social, local and predictive searchRuth Cheesley
Social signals and location awareness are having an ever increasing impact on search engine optimisation and making exciting things happen with predictive search. In this presentation we explore some of the changes happening in search engines, and what this means in real terms for us as consumers and business owners.
Ruth Cheesley - Joomla! World Conference 2013 - What are you trying to say (a...Ruth Cheesley
Search is changing, focusing more on the meaning behind words and resources. Content around the web is connected to other content, people, resources and so forth - connectivity is key to understanding the world in which we live. This talk explores the developments in semantic and predictive search, and explains how this is relevant to businesses.
Ruth Cheesley - Joomla! World Conference 2013 - Is your business intelligent?Ruth Cheesley
How do you know what's really going on with your business if you don't gather and analyse data about your website? This talk covers what information can be tracked, why you might want to analyse the data to inform business decisions, and some useful tools to help you along the way.
Suffolk Internet Marketing & SEO/M Specialists - Ruth Cheesley - Don't get in...Ruth Cheesley
A presentation exploring the key concepts behind the Google Hummingbird update and the factors that SEO, SEM, Copywriting and Internet Marketing specialists need to take away from this update
Ruth Cheesley - Joomla!Day South Africa - Developments in Semantic HTML - Add...Ruth Cheesley
A presentation on how to add semantic information to your website to improve your search engine listings and potentially develop your SEO, ranking position and visibility in search engines.
Ruth Cheesley - Joomla!Day Kenya - Microdata, Authorship, and why you can't a...Ruth Cheesley
SEO is vital in today's economy, and search engines are starting to move towards a contextual, semantic understanding of content. Microdata allows you to insert contextual information into your websites - such as the author, location information, pricing and so forth - which search engines can use to create 'rich snippets' within their listings.
Ruth Cheesley - Joomla!Day Kenya - Joomla 3, The Holy Grail?Ruth Cheesley
Is Joomla! 3.x the holy grail of web design? This presentation explored the features of Joomla! 3.x and how Joomla is responding to changes in web technology.
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/
Open source meets marketing - Presentation - OpenFest 2019Ruth Cheesley
A presentation at OpenFest 2019 in Sofia, Bulgaria on how the Open Source Marketing Automation platform Mautic enables you to enhance the digital experience for your customers.
Talk given by Ruth Cheesley at JoomlaDay UK 2017.
All too often websites are designed, built and deployed without any thought to how the business will track, capture and use the many sources of data. These sources of data available through many free tools can contribute vital information which allows a business to track sales from their origin and prove what parts of their online presence are delivering a return on investment.
In this talk, Ruth explores the concepts and methodology of planning and building websites with a data-first mentality.
Integrated Marketing Strategies with MauticRuth Cheesley
A case study by Ruth Cheesley of Virya Group. Exploring the use of Mautic as part of an integrated marketing approach at a business to business exhibition. Combining print media, online resources and an interactive game which challenged visitors to test their SEO knowledge.
Automating your marketing workflows in Joomla with MauticRuth Cheesley
In this presentation at JoomlaDagen 2016, Ruth Cheesley explores some of the features that Mautic can bring to your Joomla website, and what this can mean for your marketing workflows.
Fight for the Pixel - Innovation Martlesham - Ruth CheesleyRuth Cheesley
How can developers and designers work together during a project? What processes can help a team work effectively, communicating harmoniously and ensure delivery of a web project on time and on schedule?
Join us on this voyage of discovery to the Pixelles Island!
Custom Fields in Joomla - JoomlaDay UK 2016 - Marco DingsRuth Cheesley
This presentation covers an upcoming feature of Joomla - Custom Fields - and how they can help you to expand the core features of Joomla. Delivered by Marco Dings at JoomlaDay UK 2016.
Time to stop breaking your promises - dealing with 404's, broken URLs and pla...Ruth Cheesley
Change happens - it's inevitable. A URL is a promise, and when you change a site structure, you are responsible for keeping your promises and making sure those URLs are either redirected or killed off.
This presentation runs through how to manage URL changes by running audits, what to do with URLs which have changed and how to properly kill off URLs using the 410 error code.
Focused on Joomla, many of the resources are hosted on the Joomla Community Magazine.
Discovering Joomla! - Find out about Joomla's featuresRuth Cheesley
Want to know more about Joomla! - one of the most popular Content Management Systems in the world? This presentation walks you through some of the key features in the latest version of Joomla, and some of the aspects of the community.
Ruth Cheesley - Joomla World Conference 2014 - How to prove you're worth a mi...Ruth Cheesley
Ruth from Virya Group [http://www.viryagroup.com] explores how you can monitor and track what happens on your websites, and assign monetary values, and use this to confidently quote expected return on investment to your clients? In this talk we will cover how to track conversions on your website using Google Analytics, Adwords and Tag Manager, and how to use this data in your sales process.
A gaze into the crystal ball of Google - social, local and predictive searchRuth Cheesley
Social signals and location awareness are having an ever increasing impact on search engine optimisation and making exciting things happen with predictive search. In this presentation we explore some of the changes happening in search engines, and what this means in real terms for us as consumers and business owners.
Ruth Cheesley - Joomla! World Conference 2013 - What are you trying to say (a...Ruth Cheesley
Search is changing, focusing more on the meaning behind words and resources. Content around the web is connected to other content, people, resources and so forth - connectivity is key to understanding the world in which we live. This talk explores the developments in semantic and predictive search, and explains how this is relevant to businesses.
Ruth Cheesley - Joomla! World Conference 2013 - Is your business intelligent?Ruth Cheesley
How do you know what's really going on with your business if you don't gather and analyse data about your website? This talk covers what information can be tracked, why you might want to analyse the data to inform business decisions, and some useful tools to help you along the way.
Suffolk Internet Marketing & SEO/M Specialists - Ruth Cheesley - Don't get in...Ruth Cheesley
A presentation exploring the key concepts behind the Google Hummingbird update and the factors that SEO, SEM, Copywriting and Internet Marketing specialists need to take away from this update
Ruth Cheesley - Joomla!Day South Africa - Developments in Semantic HTML - Add...Ruth Cheesley
A presentation on how to add semantic information to your website to improve your search engine listings and potentially develop your SEO, ranking position and visibility in search engines.
Ruth Cheesley - Joomla!Day Kenya - Microdata, Authorship, and why you can't a...Ruth Cheesley
SEO is vital in today's economy, and search engines are starting to move towards a contextual, semantic understanding of content. Microdata allows you to insert contextual information into your websites - such as the author, location information, pricing and so forth - which search engines can use to create 'rich snippets' within their listings.
Ruth Cheesley - Joomla!Day Kenya - Joomla 3, The Holy Grail?Ruth Cheesley
Is Joomla! 3.x the holy grail of web design? This presentation explored the features of Joomla! 3.x and how Joomla is responding to changes in web technology.
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/
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/
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
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.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
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
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
The Metaverse and AI: how can decision-makers harness the Metaverse for their...Jen Stirrup
The Metaverse is popularized in science fiction, and now it is becoming closer to being a part of our daily lives through the use of social media and shopping companies. How can businesses survive in a world where Artificial Intelligence is becoming the present as well as the future of technology, and how does the Metaverse fit into business strategy when futurist ideas are developing into reality at accelerated rates? How do we do this when our data isn't up to scratch? How can we move towards success with our data so we are set up for the Metaverse when it arrives?
How can you help your company evolve, adapt, and succeed using Artificial Intelligence and the Metaverse to stay ahead of the competition? What are the potential issues, complications, and benefits that these technologies could bring to us and our organizations? In this session, Jen Stirrup will explain how to start thinking about these technologies as an organisation.
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.
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
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.
20. What about the law?
Github – NYSenate Open Legislation Project
Ruth Cheesley
@RCheesley
21. So, why don't lawyers use Github?
TEDGlobal 2012 – Clay Shirky
People with a GitHub account
People experimenting with participation
Lawyers
People with power
Ruth Cheesley
@RCheesley
22. We have a transparent system ...
TEDGlobal 2012 – Clay Shirky
Transparency is openness in
only one direction.
In a truly open society, it needs
to flow both ways.
Ruth Cheesley
@RCheesley
23. In conclusion ...
Be the change you wish to
see in the world
~Mahatma Gandhi
Ruth Cheesley
@RCheesley
24. ● Kubuntu
● Libreoffice
● Gwenview
● GIMP
● Git
With immense gratitude to the following Open Source projects without which this
presentation would be rather less awesome!
@RCheesley
Google.com/+RuthCheesley
ruth.cheesley@viryatechnologies.com
Editor's Notes
Good Afternoon, my name is Ruth Cheesley and I run a company called Virya Technologies based just outside Ipswich, specialising in Open Source technologies.
This afternoon I'm going to explore the topic of Open Source and why I feel it's so important in the world today.
If you are active on Social Media you can tweet me @Rcheesley or on Google+ at google.com/+RuthCheesley – I'm on most networks so please do add me and ping me if you have any questions.
We will have some time at the end for questions, and I'll be around this evening so feel free to catch me later if you would like to chat.
So, let's start off by what we mean when we say 'Open Source'.
- Probably mostly in a development context
- Extensively used in development, coding
- Explore different licenses
- Consider different areas where it could be used
- Fundemental principals
– Four Freedoms by Richard Stallman
- Developed in the early days when closed and proprietary was becoming the norm
- Free as in free speech, free to do as you like, rather than free beer as in costs nothing
- Four freedoms open doors, give opportunities.
- Not all OSS applies the four freedoms at the same level, to the same groups.
- Freedom 0 is the freedom to run the program for any purpose
So this might be that you run it for the purpose it was originally intended, or that you use it in a totally different an innovative way for which it wasn't originally intended.
Look at this from the perspective of the user, and of the developer – some licenses are more restrictive on one or both of these groups.
The next freedom, freedom 1, allows you to be able to see how the program works, delve under the bonnet, understand how it ticks, and change it.
This might be by making bug fixes, or customising to meet your needs (or that of your client), or even completely re-writing entire parts of the code. The fundamental principle here is being able to get in and poke about and do what you like.
The opposite of this can be found, for example, with microsoft products where the source code is a closely guarded secret and this principle is generally not seen at all in proprietary projects.
Freedom 2 gives you the right to redistribute copies so that you can give it to other people.
I remember at University in the heyday of the Sasser infections when everybody seemed to be getting infected, I only ever used free and open source tools to fix people's computers and recover data, so that they could then keep the software and continue to use it themselves after I fixed whatever had been broken.
Analogy – recipe. Anyone can use it to bake a cake, and you can then share it on with your friends and family.
This is where things get interesting – the ability to distribute modified versions of the existing copy, which gives others the ability to benefit from your changes.
So, if we make changes, fix bugs, correct typo's, add functionality, that we can then share that on with others.
In the recipe analogy, I might tweak the recipe to make it vegan, and then share it on with friends, who might tweak it further and share it with their friends, and so it continues.
So you can see, when we are talking about freedom here, we're talking about free as in, free speech – not free beer, unfortunately.
Freedom in the context of Open Source is the freedom we have just talked about – but often people confuse open source software with free software.
The two often do coincide, but they are not always the same thing.
So, you can see how these principles give you the freedom – but there are a wide range of OS licenses which have different levels of what can and can't be done.
For example, with freedom 3, how about redistributing an OS project within a proprietary solution?
GPL – not allowed, must be released as GPL. Other less restrictive licenses do allow you to incorporate into proprietary software
Lots of different licenses
Flikr – Creative Commons – GPL/LGPL – BSD – etc.
So, who of us uses Open Source technologies?
OK so perhaps I'm exaggerating a little bit, but imagine if everything in the world was developed in a proprietary, closed-source environment. Imagine if nobody shared anything with anybody unless it was for a fee. Imagine if no development was shared until it was in a final, polished release (which was paid for), and there was no access to the source code unless you worked for the organisation licensing the software.
Consider all the innovation we see around us which would either not have happened by now, or never have seen the light of day because the people who came up with it were not inspired or supported by this or that open source project, library or code snippet.
So, with this in mind, could we potentially open source everything?
If we did, would it foster a sharing, caring community or cause world-wide chaos?
Let's explore a couple of areas where open source principles have been brought to bear on traditionally proprietary industries, and how they have faired.
Pharma
Instead of operating in secrecy and guarding their work, shared it. Mailed it to friends. Sent it to Oxford crystallographers, who sent back an informative picture
understand better how the small-molecule inhibitor works so potently against Brd4.
40 labs in the US and 30 more in Europe, encouraging these labs to use it, build upon it, and share their findings in return.
Less than a year- JQ1 prevents the growth of leukemia, making affected cells behave like normal white blood cells. Another group reported that multiple myeloma cells respond dramatically to JQ1. Still another found that the inhibitor prevents adipose cells from storing fat, thus preventing fatty liver disease.
Using the old research models, Bradner’s team might have learned that JQ1 affects AML cells in the first year. But it might have been next year before they got to leukemia, and years after that before they realised it also could affect fatty liver. How many years do you think the old approach adds to the development of drugs we need today?Are we willing to allow that to happen? Anyone who has had their lives touched by cancer would, I'm sure, support a move toward a more open source, rapidly evolving pharmaceutical industry over a slow, clunky money-driven system like we have now.
Emergency shelters in Grenada – hurricane relief. Aid was slow, no media attention, destroyed 75% of housing and all the main cash crop of nutmeg.
Shelters were developed over eight years, now using new material, completely waterproof and hurricane-proof.
Installed in Haiti for over a year with no damage sustained.
Cameron Sinclair & Kate Stohr
“How do you improve the living standards of five billion people? With 100 million solutions”14,819 architectural projects1,648,210 people have benefitted from 156 completed projects around the world44,512 members of the OANAFH – pro-bono design, involve and engage the local community, up-skill local people, design for their community. 20Yrs for UN to make flap in tent
One billion live in abject poverty. Four billion live in fragile but growing economies. 1 in 7 people live in slum settlements. By 2020 it will be 1 in 3.
Emergency shelters in Grenada – hurricane relief. Aid was slow, no media attention, destroyed 75% of housing and all the main cash crop of nutmeg.
Shelters were developed over eight years, now using new material, completely waterproof and hurricane-proof.
Installed in Haiti for over a year with no damage sustained.
Kenaf clinic – HIV/Aids visiting doctors
Grows in 2 weeks in circle
Put a roof on top
Eat after the clinic is complete
Track changes in laws
Changes in governments
Engage community in discussions
Track changes in laws
Changes in governments
Engage community in discussions
Track changes in laws
Changes in governments
Engage community in discussions
Emergency shelters in Grenada – hurricane relief. Aid was slow, no media attention, destroyed 75% of housing and all the main cash crop of nutmeg.
Shelters were developed over eight years, now using new material, completely waterproof and hurricane-proof.
Installed in Haiti for over a year with no damage sustained.
So, in conclusion, I really believe that the world needs open source, and the principles of open source have the ability to make a real change in the world.
I would implore you to consider how the work you are doing right now might benefit the wider world, and consider how you can all take the open source concept forward.