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July 16, 2010 (Friday) JEC 3117 at noon Rensselaer Center for Open Source Software (RCOS) http://rcos.rpi.edu invites you for a talk
July 9,2010 (Friday), JEC 3117 at noon Rensselaer Center for Open Source Software (RCOS) http://rcos.rpi.edu invites you for a talk
April 2nd (Friday) 4:00 pm JEC 3117 Talk on
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Abstract: Marcus Hanwell participated in the Google Summer of Code program in 2007 as a student, and acted as a mentor in 2008 and 2009. He will present an overview of the Google Summer of Code program, why you should get involved and an overview of what is involved. Student applications are due by April 9.
Febraury 24, 2010 (Wednesday) 8:45-10:00 pm Free Software Talk by Richard Stallman (FSF) DCC 308
Copyright vs Community
Copyright developed in the age of the printing press, and was designed to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by the printing press. But the copyright system does not fit well with computer networks, and only draconian punishments can enforce it. The global corporations that profit from copyright are lobbying for draconian punishments, and to increase their copyright powers, while suppressing public access to technology. But if we seriously hope to serve the only legitimate purpose of copyright--to promote progress, for the benefit of the public--then we must make changes in the other direction.
February 5, 2010, (Friday) 4:00 -5:00 pm Talk by Mairin Duffy, (Red Hat) JEC 3117
How to get involved in an open source Linux operating system: Fedora
Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that showcases the latest in free and open source software. Fedora is always free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute. It is built by people across the globe who work together as an open community that welcomes anyone to join. Mairin Duffy, an RPI CS alum from Red Hat, will talk about what makes Fedora different from other Linux-based operating systems and how you can get involved in Fedora.
Decmber 7th , 2009, (Monday) 4:00-500 pm Talk by Mr. Wille Walker,(Gnome Foundation) Troy 2012
"Free Open Source Software for Everyone: An Introduction to GNOME and GNOME Accessibility"
The leader of the GNOME Accessibility project, Willie Walker, will provide an introduction to the GNOME project with a focus on the free open source solutions being developed for people with disabilities.
The talk will also include a general discussion of the GNOME project, including how it is sustained and governed and what the community culture is like. Willie will also talk about the tools used to help people collaborate at a distance and how you can become involved.
Please join us on December 7th at 4pm at TROY 2012.
November 20, 2009, 4-5:00 pm Talk by Dr. Chris Mackie (Mellon Foundation ) Talk to the Open Source Software Practice Class by Dr. Christopher J. Mackie, Associate Program Officer, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Host: Rensselaer Center for Open Source Software ( RCOS )
Date: Friday, November 20, 2009 . 4:00 p.m.
Location: Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies - Bruggeman Conference Center
Title: On the Value of Open-Source, Scholarly Information Technology Designed by and for Scholars
Abstract: Higher education institutions routinely deliver technology services to their faculty that are designed, built, owned, and governed by others, whether enterprise IT professionals, academic technologists, computational scientists, or outside vendors. Would scholars work differently, and perhaps better, if scholarly technology services were designed.and owned, and governed.collaboratively, across institutions, by and for those they were intended to serve? What institutional and scholarly resources and commitments would such projects entail? Over the past decade, the Program in Research in Information Technology (RIT) of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has conducted an intensive philanthropic effort to explore these and other, related questions, resulting in more than 50 funded open source software projects which have grown to an aggregate capitalization of approximately $250m, achieving a current user-base of thousands of higher education institutions and tens of millions of faculty, staff, and students worldwide, supported by more than a dozen commercial vendors ranging from IBM to small, higher-education-specific firms. Mackie will provide an overview of RIT.s activities and methodologies and review selected, currently funded projects, focusing particularly on projects directly supporting the delivery of shared technology services in support of research, teaching, and learning. His analysis will focus on two issues: the strategic importance of institutionally sustained, shared technology services in an era of scientific .cyberinfrastructure. projects; and the implications of open source models for ensuring and sustaining faculty ownership and governance of their supporting technologies.
Christopher J. Mackie is Associate Program Officer in Research in Information Technology at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He holds Ph.D. and Masters degrees from Princeton University, a Masters degree from the University of Michigan, and an A.B. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A computational modeler by training, he has also published in the fields of regulatory theory, social research methods, and energy, education, and health policy. His most recent academic work involved the application of advances in social and affective neuroscience and psycholinguistics in order to model the emergence of human identity; in the furtherance of that project, he spent several years teaching computers how to feel. Earlier, Mackie held management positions in corporate healthcare as well as non-profit information technology, and served as an I.T. consultant to domestic and international NGOs.
David Doria (RPI) on Open Content
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Alex Radocea (RPI) on his summer 2010 experiences in winning the Security Contest
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July 16, 2010 (Friday) JEC 3117 at noon Rensselaer Center for Open Source Software (RCOS) http://rcos.rpi.edu invites you for a talk
Title: Building Free Software for Society http://hfoss.org
Speaker: Prof.Ralph Morelli, Trinity College, Hartford, CT http://www.cs.trincoll.edu/~ram/
Location: JEC 3117 Time: 7/16/2010 noon
Abstract: Free and open source software (FOSS) is software that is licensed to be shared and remixed freely. The Humanitarian FOSS project (HFOSS) is a collaborative effort among undergraduate computing departments aimed at building FOSS that serves the community in some way. This talk will provide an overview of the HFOSS project, its history and goals, and will focus on several of the projects that HFOSS participates in or has initiated.
July 9,2010 (Friday), JEC 3117 at noon Rensselaer Center for Open Source Software (RCOS) http://rcos.rpi.edu invites you for a talk
Title: Educating the Next Generation of FOSS Developers
Speaker: Luis Ibanez (kitware) http://www.kitware.com/company/team/ibanez.html
Location: JEC 3117 Time: 7/9/2010 (Friday) Noon
Abstract: An entire generation of engineers is currently being educated exclusively with proprietary software. As a consequence, these students do not get to learn how hardware and software systems really work. For three years we have been working on changing this by offering a college course on Open Source Software Practices. Come to hear about our experiences and help us make this a better course.
April 2nd (Friday) 4:00 pm JEC 3117 Talk on
Google Summer of Code: Program Overview
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Marcus Hanwell, Kitware
Abstract: Marcus Hanwell participated in the Google Summer of Code program in 2007 as a student, and acted as a mentor in 2008 and 2009. He will present an overview of the Google Summer of Code program, why you should get involved and an overview of what is involved. Student applications are due by April 9.
Febraury 24, 2010 (Wednesday) 8:45-10:00 pm Free Software Talk by Richard Stallman (FSF) DCC 308
Copyright vs Community
The bus arriving from Syracuse is running late. Hence the talk starts only at 8:45 pm. Talk is on
Copyright developed in the age of the printing press, and was designed to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by the printing press. But the copyright system does not fit well with computer networks, and only draconian punishments can enforce it. The global corporations that profit from copyright are lobbying for draconian punishments, and to increase their copyright powers, while suppressing public access to technology. But if we seriously hope to serve the only legitimate purpose of copyright--to promote progress, for the benefit of the public--then we must make changes in the other direction.
February 5, 2010, (Friday) 4:00 -5:00 pm Talk by Mairin Duffy, (Red Hat) JEC 3117
How to get involved in an open source Linux operating system: Fedora
Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that showcases the latest in free and open source software. Fedora is always free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute. It is built by people across the globe who work together as an open community that welcomes anyone to join. Mairin Duffy, an RPI CS alum from Red Hat, will talk about what makes Fedora different from other Linux-based operating systems and how you can get involved in Fedora.
Poster
Decmber 7th , 2009, (Monday) 4:00-500 pm Talk by Mr. Wille Walker,(Gnome Foundation) Troy 2012
"Free Open Source Software for Everyone: An Introduction to GNOME and GNOME Accessibility"
The leader of the GNOME Accessibility project, Willie Walker, will provide an introduction to the GNOME project with a focus on the free open source solutions being developed for people with disabilities.
The talk will also include a general discussion of the GNOME project, including how it is sustained and governed and what the community culture is like. Willie will also talk about the tools used to help people collaborate at a distance and how you can become involved.
Please join us on December 7th at 4pm at TROY 2012.
November 20, 2009, 4-5:00 pm Talk by Dr. Chris Mackie (Mellon Foundation ) Talk to the Open Source Software Practice Class by Dr. Christopher J. Mackie, Associate Program Officer, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Host: Rensselaer Center for Open Source Software ( RCOS )
Date: Friday, November 20, 2009 . 4:00 p.m.
Location: Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies - Bruggeman Conference Center
Title: On the Value of Open-Source, Scholarly Information Technology Designed by and for Scholars
Abstract: Higher education institutions routinely deliver technology services to their faculty that are designed, built, owned, and governed by others, whether enterprise IT professionals, academic technologists, computational scientists, or outside vendors. Would scholars work differently, and perhaps better, if scholarly technology services were designed.and owned, and governed.collaboratively, across institutions, by and for those they were intended to serve? What institutional and scholarly resources and commitments would such projects entail? Over the past decade, the Program in Research in Information Technology (RIT) of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has conducted an intensive philanthropic effort to explore these and other, related questions, resulting in more than 50 funded open source software projects which have grown to an aggregate capitalization of approximately $250m, achieving a current user-base of thousands of higher education institutions and tens of millions of faculty, staff, and students worldwide, supported by more than a dozen commercial vendors ranging from IBM to small, higher-education-specific firms. Mackie will provide an overview of RIT.s activities and methodologies and review selected, currently funded projects, focusing particularly on projects directly supporting the delivery of shared technology services in support of research, teaching, and learning. His analysis will focus on two issues: the strategic importance of institutionally sustained, shared technology services in an era of scientific .cyberinfrastructure. projects; and the implications of open source models for ensuring and sustaining faculty ownership and governance of their supporting technologies.
Christopher J. Mackie is Associate Program Officer in Research in Information Technology at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He holds Ph.D. and Masters degrees from Princeton University, a Masters degree from the University of Michigan, and an A.B. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A computational modeler by training, he has also published in the fields of regulatory theory, social research methods, and energy, education, and health policy. His most recent academic work involved the application of advances in social and affective neuroscience and psycholinguistics in order to model the emergence of human identity; in the furtherance of that project, he spent several years teaching computers how to feel. Earlier, Mackie held management positions in corporate healthcare as well as non-profit information technology, and served as an I.T. consultant to domestic and international NGOs.