Changes

For the past eight years, Seneca College has hosted the annual FSOSS, the Free Software and Open Source Symposium. It is a two day program event in which students, professors and developers are given the chance to present their work, research and views on anything open source. It is held at [http://www.senecac.on.ca/ Seneca College's] [http://www.yorku.ca/web/index.htm York University] campus and attracts hundreds of individuals from a wide range of backgrounds. Every year the talks vary greatly; from documentation, legal issues, tools and standards to 3D and mobile development. Not only are the speakers highly qualified, but often many seasoned professionals from different fields can be found among the audience. This creates a wonderful opportunity for Seneca's students to mingle and discuss current issues on open source with these experts. Like last year's FSOSS, this year's had a gamut of talk topics. I had the pleasure of listening to several of them, all of which were very interesting. However, because I am considering making a career from open source development and because I have a strong interest in real-time graphics, there were two talks I felt were especially relevant to me. These were [http://fsoss.senecac.on.ca/2009/node/138 Al MacDonald's] talk on [http://processingjs.org/ Processing.js] and [http://fsoss.senecac.on.ca/2009/node/126 Khalid Baheyeldin's] presentation on making a profit using open source software.