The Tech Ed Revolution Club at the University of Guyana held a TechEd Talks event on 23 September, 2017. The purpose of the event was for students to discuss their exploration of emerging technologies. The Ministry of Public Telecommunications sponsored the event. I was asked to talk about Free and Open Source Software. The audience included high school students, and the Minister of Public Telecommunications, Ms Cathy Hughes

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Thank you..
The TechEd Revolution Club at the
University of Guyana organised an event.
The event consisted of a series of
presentations from students and others
related to emerging technologies.
I am grateful to the to the TechEd Club for
inviting me to this event. I enjoyed being
among them.

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Free and Open Source
Software
TechEd Talk ‘17
University of Guyana
23 September, 2017
Vidyaratha Kissoon
Email : Vidyak1@gmail.com

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We will talk about ..
● The definition of Free and Open
Source Software, and why we should
consider FOSS
● Examples of Free and Open Source
Software
● Anything else you want as the time
allows..

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Software development
Source Code
Programme in binary
Compiliation

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Licensing...

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FREE and open source software..
the freedoms..

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Free and OPEN SOURCE Software
● Free redistribution of the software
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Source code is available
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Derived works must be covered by a similar license
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Integrity of author's code must be preserved
● No discrimination against users
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No discrimination against fields of endeavour
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Distribution of license
● License must be technology-neutral
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License must not be specific to a product
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License must not restrict other software

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Free and Open Source software
● FOSS as a movement – ‘old’ and
emerging technologies
● FREE means the four freedoms
● Some can be free as in $$$$
● Not all ‘Free as in $$$$’ software is FOSS
● Some products are available with FOSS
versions, pay for services, additional
features

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Why we should consider FOSS..
● Draft Policy for FOSS Use in Public Sector in Guyana
https://github.com/Vidyaratha/FinalDraftFOSSPolicy
● Adherence to intellectual property rights, avoiding piracy
● Security, Reliability/Stability of many products
● Open standards and vendor independence
● Reduced reliance on imports, re-allocate costs for learning
and adaptation
● Development of local software capacity
● Localisation

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Some F/OSS examples
● Operating Systems – Linux (Ubuntu, Linux Mint,etc ), FreeBSD
● Databases - MySql, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
● Web servers – Apache
● CMS/Web development– Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla, Django
● Elearning – Moodle,
● TTCS OS for Windows - http://www.ttcs.tt/osswin/
● Multimedia – VLC
● Graphics – GIMP, Inkscape, Blender (animation!)
● Design – BRL-CAD, FOSSCAD community, Blender
● Productivity – LibreOffice, OpenOffice, Koffice, Abiword

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Geographic Information Systems
● QGIS
● Other software on
the OSGeo project
● (OpenStreetMap)

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Nano Technology - Tomviz

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UAVs/Drones
● Example : Dronecode
● Different industry players, governed under Linux Foundation
● Projects for comms, flight code, simulation, ground control,
hardware , developer APIs

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Productivity - LibreOffice

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Artificial Intelligence
● TensorFlow
(Google)
● Caffe
● Apache Spark Mlib
● Apache Mahout
● ..and others

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Big Data
● R language and
environment
● Apache – Hadoop,
Samoa
● RapidMiner

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Thanks.. questions,comments?