Special Events History

Previous Open Source special events:

• Winter 2019
  • Chris Tyler spoke at the GTALUG in March on FPGAs for Fun, Acceleration, and Profit!

• Fall 2018
  • Free Software and Open Source Symposium - FSOSS 2018 - October 25-26, 2018, Seneca@York Campus

• Fall 2016
  • Free Software and Open Source Symposium - FSOSS 2016 - October 27-28, 2015
  • * Free workshop: Building a Server Side Swift API for Games - November 8, 2016 - CDOT room T1009/DB1009.
  • * CDOT Public Talk series -- Mondays at 2 pm in CDOT room T1009/DB1009

• Fall 2015
  • Free Software and Open Source Symposium - FSOSS 2015 - October 29-30, 2015

• Fall 2014
  • Free Software and Open Source Symposium - FSOSS 2014 - October 23-24, 2014

• Winter 2014
  • CDOT Open House - March 27, 2014 - CDOT, First Floor, TEL Building
  • Open Source Special Interest Group - First meeting - January 30 2014 @ 5PM, T2107, Seneca@York Campus
  • Graphics - Raspberry Pi Toronto Meetup - February 13 2014 @ 7 pm, Seneca@York Campus
  • Raspberry Pi Meetup - Sensors on the Pi - - January 9 2014 @ 7 pm, Seneca@York Campus

• Fall 2013
  • Raspberry Pi Meetup - Python on the Pi - December 12 2013 @ 7 pm, Seneca@York Campus
  • CDOT Faculty & Student Open House - November 21 2013 @ 1:30-4:30 pm, Seneca@York Campus, CDOT Main Hallway
  • Raspberry Pi Meetup - Controlling Motors with the Pi - November 14 2013 @ 7 pm, Seneca@York Campus room T1009
  • Raspberry Pi Meetup - Help New Users Set Up their Pi - October 10 2013 @ 7 pm, Seneca@York room T1009
  • Free Software and Open Source Symposium - FSOSS - October 24-25 2013, Seneca@York Campus

• Fall 2012
  • Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS) 2012 - October 25-26. fsoss.ca
  • Hacklab T.O. presented Rob Bishop - Raspberry Pi Foundation - December 3, 2012 - 7 pm - Seneca@York

• Winter 2012
  • Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix 14 Release Event - Feb 22, 2012

• Fall 2011
  • Free Software and Open Source Symposium - http://fsoss.ca/ - October 27-29, 2011 at Seneca@York.

• Winter 2011
  • FUDCon Tempe 2011 - January 28-31, 2011 - Twelve SBR600 students and grads, faculty, and researchers attended the Fedora Users and Developers conference in Tempe AZ.
  • Gnome Documentation Hackathon - March 17-22
    • Gnome lunchtime talk - Friday, March 18, 12 noon in room T1009

• Fall 2010
  • Guest speakers: September 28 - Armen Zambrano Gasparnian and John Ford from the Mozilla buield team visited SBR600.
  • 9th Annual Free Software and Open Source Symposium - FSOSS 2010
    • October 28-29, 2010 at Seneca@York
    • Watch http://fsoss.ca for details!
    • FSOSS 2010 Plug Computing Workshop page

• Winter 2010
  • Guest Speaker Dennis Gilmore, Red Hat Release Engineer, Spacewalk - teleconferenced with the SBR600 on March 17, 2010 on Koji configuration. The audio recording and slides will be available soon.

• Fall 2009
  • Guest speaker Jesse Keating, Fedora Release Engineer, Red Hat, teleconferenced with the SBR600 class on Thursday, September 17. The audio recording is available.
  • Thursday, October 8: Guest speakers Ben Hearsum and Armen Zambrano Gasparnian, Mozilla Build Team, visited the SBR600 and DPS909/OSD600 classes.
  • Free Software and Open Source Symposium - FSOSS 2009
    • Thursday October 29 (Workshops) & Friday October 30, 2009 (Presentations) at Seneca@York
    • Part of the Toronto Open Source Week
  • Fedora Users and Developers Conference - FUDCon Toronto 2009 - December 5-7, 2009 (Saturday-Monday) at Seneca@York

• Winter 2009
  • CDOT Open House for SCS Faculty - Wedneday, April 29
  • COE Presentations - Friday, April 24
  • Lawrence Mandel, Software Developer IBM Rational Software - Feb 24 - Topic: Eclipse Plug-in Architecture - Techniques for developing Eclipse WTP
  • Angel Vera, Eclipse WTP Project Team Committer - Feb 17 - Topic: WTP - API Concepts and Roles Server Tools Architecture; Techniques to find the source code for a specific bug
  • LUX trip to FUDConF11 - Jan 8-12, Cambridge/Boston MA (MIT) -- See text summary and video links on the FUDCon barcamp schedule

• Fall 2008
  • Fedora 10 Release Party -- November 26, 6-10 pm -- CDOT room T1009
  • Guest Speakers: Tom Wisniewski and Anton Kuznetsov - speaking to the LUX Program - Nov 6 - 5-7 pm
  • Free Software and Open Source Symposium - FSOSS 2008 - Oct 23-24
  • Guest Speaker: Andrew Overholt, Red Hat - Oct 7 - S2149 (LUX) - Video: Part 1, Part 2
  • IRC Chat with Paul Frields, Fedora Project Leader - Sept 11 - Log/Transcript of Chat Session
  • Mozilla Developer Days Toronto - Sept 15-16

For upcoming Special Events, see the Main Page.