FSOSS (Free Software and Open Source Symposium) @ Seneca College, Toronto in 2014 is the thirteenth iteration hosted by Seneca College’s Center for Development of Open Technology (CDOT). The two-day event is hosted at the Seneca@York campus for the discussion of open source issues and the development of open source technologies and ideas. Speakers are invited from all over the world with the goal of providing open source alternatives for every aspect of computing. This year, FSOSS guides audience to explore the different ways in which open source is being used around the world to enhance various sectors of industry such as education, emerging hardware, and software. Three keynote speakers are invited for this year’s conference. They are David Humphrey (CDOT Researcher for Mozilla Foundation), Bob Young (Red Hat, Inc. Co-Founder) and Chris Aniszczyk (Head of Open Source at Twitter). And thirty-five speaker have presented at the conference.

Chris Aniszczyk is the Sr. Engineering Manager of Open Source at Twitter. He has been leading Twitter’s open source efforts through the creation of open source programs, managing inbound and outbound licensing of open source software and pushing for the evolution of Twitter’s open source strategy. He also sits on the Eclipse Foundation’s board of directors, having co-founded Code9 Consulting in 2008.