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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. I will then do a comparison on how these two talks related to each other. Finally I give my views on open source and a summary of my experience at FSOSS.

Having just recently switched my major project to work on processing.js I decided this was one presentation I could not miss out on. This talk was given by Al MacDonald who is a freelance web consultant. His website is [http://hyper-metrix.com/ Hyper-Metrix.com]. Al began his talk with an introduction into what [http://processingjs.org processing.js ] is. He explained that processing is a language for creating 2D and 3D graphics, animations, and interactive applications.<br />

[http://www.processing.org Processing ] is a language that was built to be run and parsed on a native JAVA client. So processing 'sketches' would be created and then run on the JAVA client which would process them and create the graphics, animations, text, etc in a window. Then a man by the name of [http://ejohn.org/ John Resig ] came into the picture and started work on creating a port of processing for JAVA to processing for JavaScript. The idea was to be able to allow those sketches of animations, graphics, and interactive apps to be able to be drawn in a web browser without any plugins or extensions to install. Simply put a way to animate and 'interactify' the web and allow processing creations to 'just work' in modern browsers for users.<br />

This presentation was given by [http://cleung.wordpress.com/ Catherine Leung] who is a professor at Seneca College in the School of Computer Studies, where she teaches in the game development and programming areas. Cathy's talk was about a project she has been working on called [http://www.c3dl.org c3DLC3DL]. C3DL is a JavaScript library that will provide a set of classes for rendering 3D objects in the browser. Currently it requires an up to date browser such as Firefox 3.5 in order to run. Canvas 3D is available as an add-on for Firefox 3.5 or higher and can be downloaded at [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=Canvas+3d&cat=all addons.mozilla.org]. Cathy demonstrated an application called Motionview which allows previewing of raw down sampled motion capture data in the browserby using the C3DL library. Motionview was developed through a partnership between [http://navarra.ca/ The purpose of Motionview is to reduce Navarra Group], [http://www.bedlamgames.com/ Bedlam Games], [http://www.coredp.com/ CORE], and Seneca College and was supported by the expensive cost of 'clean up' in motion capture animation scenes when sometimes certain points in the animation are wrong[http://www.omdc.on.ca/site11.aspx Ontario Media Development Corporation].<br />

=Comparisons=Requirements==The most obvious comparison that can be observed from these two talks is how new strides are being made in the ability to create highly enriched content for the web. The ties of these two projects to open source is also something to take notice of. Both of these projects rely on an open source community to help contribute, test, develop for , and maintain. Both presenters focused on the importance of community in open source projects, the ability for people to give back to the community to keep it healthy, and on how taking part in the community helps raise awareness for these projects which will ultimately create a richer and fuller web experience for everyone.<br />

Your report must =My views on open source=My own personal view on open source is in two different directions. I think there is something to be said for the ability for student developers to gain an incredible amount of experience and knowledge from open source projects and seasoned developers. I've learned a lot from Al MacDonald just in the last few weeks about JavaScript and he's always been willing to help out on IRC anytime he'2,500 words''s available. So in one way I think open source gives great opportunities to students for experience and also it gives people a way to mold their favorite open source apps into exactly what they want in an application. What I mean by this is if I decide I want a certain feature in my favorite open source project there' s nothing stopping me from implementing it and adding it to the program. By giving enough time and include:providing quality code can get you a piece of software that is to some degree customized exactly how you want it.<br/>

* Summaries of two talks.** What was each talk about?** What was I do tend to look at the speaker's main point?** What was open source community from the speakerother side as well though. The corporate side. Sometimes I's background ll sit back and point think 'wow all this work thousands of view?* Analysis of each speaker's views people are doing for free to improve and build on ''open source'this product is making people for this company richer than astronauts'. He/she may not mention While their is nothing wrong with that it makes me wonder how they can do it explicitly. You must listen and try to understand based on what So I wonder exactly how it is some of these corporations make the money they are saying, and perhaps not sayingdo.* Comparison One of the points lectures I attended at this years FSOSS was all about how to make money at open source. Unfortunately the presentation lacked a lot of details on specifics and exactly how much money is being made at different organizations. If I could put in one request for presentation ideas at next years FSOSS I'd love to see more presentations on how to make money with open source. Judging by the presentersturnout for that presentation I think it's a wildly popular topic with a lot of people actually.<br/> ** What can you say In the end it's all about open source in the light experience and the ability to be part of the points they made?** Do community and also to be part of the speakers have similar views of software design process as well. Everyone loves free as a price point too let's not forget about that. Someday if I run my own software company I would like to be able to go open source or do they disagree?with my applications as a way to give back to the community.** How so?* =Conclusion =I think this years FSOSS was a successful experience for me personally. I got a chance to speak to a few of the presenters and learn a good deal more about your views the projects they are working on . The ranking the bugs presentation was very informative in terms of statistics and it taught me a lot about writing quality bug reports to increase the chanes my bug would get fixed. The processing.js presentation had lots of information I hadn't yet learned on the background of processing and processing for the web. It also had the best 'open sourcecool'factor of all the presentations in terms of spawning new ideas for features in web sites I design in the future. Cathys C3DL and Motionview presentation helped me draw the comparisons between processing for the web and C3DL and canvas in HTML5. Motionview is a really interesting piece of software and i'** Does ve always had an interest in motion capture and CGI in movies and how its done. It was nice to connect a lot of the dots between all the presentations I got to see this year. I think the picture of veiws on open source you've seen I saw presented at this years FSOSS were in these talks challenge or confirm your line with my own views about what open source is and how I perceive it as a community for free thought and also as potential place for profit off free software distribution if your business models suits it functions?.