User:Dhhodgin/FSOSS 09

Free Software & Open Source Symposium

Introduction

This years FSOSS featured talks by more than 20 different individuals on a broad range of topics. The talks are spaced out in 4 different rooms with one per hour. This means that I was only able to attend 6 talks which made it a bit hard to choose which ones would be most beneficial to me. In the end I went with the following lineup:

• 9AM - Creating a Twitter Widget using Processing.js
• 10AM - Ranking the Bugs: Predicting Which Will Get Fixed
• 11AM - A View from the Gallery: JVM Alt, Languages
• 1PM - Coping at the scale of Mozilla: Open Tools
• 2PM - Open Source for Fun and Profit: Making a Career
• 3PM - 3D in the Browser... More than just Doom

I'm going to discuss the two talks which are the most closely related to my project in this course which were the Twitter widget in processing.js and the 3D in the browser with canvas and whats being done with these technologies.

Requirements

Your report must be 2,500 words and include:

• Summaries of two talks.
  • What was each talk about?
  • What was the speaker's main point?
  • What was the speaker's background and point of view?
• Analysis of each speaker's views on open source. He/she may not mention it explicitly. You must listen and try to understand based on what they are saying, and perhaps not saying.
• Comparison of the points made by the presenters.
  • What can you say about open source in the light of the points they made?
  • Do the speakers have similar views of open source or do they disagree?
  • How so?
• Conclusion about your views on open source
  • Does the picture of open source you've seen presented in these talks challenge or confirm your own views about what open source is and how it functions?