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=2010 Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS)=
About 1 week ago I attended the Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS) hosted by Seneca College, along with fellow classmates. FSOSS is a major gathering of North American open source developers, businesses, educators, and users. The goal of the symposium is to explore how open source, open standards, and open content are changing technology, the web, the media and arts, education, and business. Being my first time attending FSOSS, I really didn't know what to expect. During my visit I was able to attend 4 presentations (5 if the Between Free Software and Open Standards: the Business Model presentation was not canceled), 2 of which I'll talk in greater detail. The first presentation of the day I attended was on Scene Creator done by Matthew Postil (a fellow BSD student), the second presentation was on Web Audio by our very own professor David Humphrey, after lunch I attended Spencer Kellys Freebase and the semantic web presentation, and lastly Popcorn.js and Open Video presented Scott Downe. Most of the presentations I attended were fairly done well. The Web Audio and Open Video presentations were my favorite and most interesting to me.
==Web Audio==
One of the presentations I attended was our very own Open Source professor David Humphrey. David Humphrey is a web technology developer and a professor in the Seneca School of Computer Studies/Centre for Development of Open Technologies. He is also the Educational Liaison for Mozilla, and the lead developer of the Mozilla Firefox Audio Data API. He presented on Web Audio: One of the remaining frontiers for open web standards is advanced audio. Firefox 4 will include a new Web Audio API, and a W3C Audio Incubator Group has been formed to seed the web standards process. This presentation will explain and demonstrate what the web audio API can do.
===Analysis===
As always, Dave was enthusiastic in his presentation as he is when teaching in the classroom. His knowledge and understanding of Web Audio and Open Source undoubtedly shows his love for Open Source.His presentation drew "wows", a lot of the demos he presented even "wow'd" me, even after all the cool demos hes previously shown us in class. Dave definitely went all out on his presentation. I think Daves passion for Open Source was displayed throughout the presentation but I believe it was shown the most during his conclusion on the future of Open Source, he feels very strongly about the path on which open web, video, and audio are being directed.
==Popcorn.js and Open Video==
===Summary===
A related presentation I attended was former Seneca Student and CDOT developer and researcher, Scott Downe. He presented on Popcorn.js and Open Video: His presentation consisted of an explanation of open video and the community, what he contributed to popcorn.js and mozilla, and HTML5 video vs flash video.
===Analysis===
Open Source is free, this is something Scott emphasized in his presentation -- "Free as in free beer, Free as in free speech". I believe his view on Open Source is that HTML5 will make things simpler and easier to use.
==Comparison==
==Conclusion==