LibrePlanet 2023 Recap
A recap of the LibrePlanet 2023 conference, and a reflection on the free software movement for ed-tech in higher education.
Tag: events
FOSDEM 2020
A summary of the Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting, which was held in Brussels on February 1st and 2nd, 2020.
Notes from Grace Hopper Connect @ Google 2018
The Grace Hopper Celebration is a yearly event to highlight the contributions of women to computing. In lieu of jumping on a plane to Houston this year, I instead attended the first Grace Hopper Connect @ Google event in NYC.
Notes from Wagtail Space US
This month, I attended and presented at the first Wagtail Space conference/sprint in the USA. Wagtail Space USA, led by the parent company Torchbox, took place on June 14th–16th at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. This post is summary of the event.
Google@Columbia AR and VR Demonstration
In late February, Emerging Technology Consortium at Columbia hosted an interactive workshop featuring Google AR and VR technologies. Google showcased a few of their products that could potentially be implemented in teaching and learning.
Go at CTL
Go, a systems programming language developed and open sourced by Google, has emerged as a very important language for interesting infrastructure projects such as Docker and Prometheus. It's worth keeping a close eye on the Go community to stay updated on those kinds of projects. This post outlines how, where, and why we use Go at CTL.
CockroachDB Talk Notes
These are notes from a talk by Stephen Kimball about a promising new open source database. While ambitious in its priorities, it seems like CockroachDB developers have chosen a solid set of design goals and have a workable strategy for achieving them.
Reflections on the Open Analytics Summit
Back in June, I attended the one-day Open Analytics Summit. We aren't really doing much with analytics or big data here at CCNMTL (yet), but there are many conversations and projects happening around campus and I wanted to get a better sense of the kinds of value these methods are yielding.
Ricon East 2013 Talk Summaries
Back in May, Anders attended the Ricon East, "a distributed systems conference by and for engineers, developers, scientists and architects". The distributed data-store Riak was featured prominently at the conference but the event was intended more as a conference on distributed systems in general spanning academia and industry.