January 20-22, 2012, Hilton Los Angeles Airport Hotel

Everyone

Jonathan Thomas

Create Stunning Videos with OpenShot!

Join us in exploring OpenShot Video Editor, and learn how to create your own stunning videos. In this presentation, we will create a short video which tells the story of Steve, a resident of Minecraft, who wakes up to find monsters invading his land. Steve looks for safety in an abandoned cave, and unknowingly stumbles into the real world. As I create this video, you will learn the techniques and tricks to create your own stunning videos with OpenShot. At the end of the presentation, we will watch the final video and upload it to YouTube.

OpenShot Video Editor is a free, open-source video editor for Linux licensed under the GPL version 3.0. OpenShot can take your videos, photos, and music files and help you create the film you have always dreamed of. Easily add sub-titles, transitions, and effects, and then export your film to DVD, YouTube, Vimeo, Xbox 360, and many other common formats.

Audience: 
Everyone
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General

Quim Gil

The Qt Project and the relevance of open development

In this session we will give an overview of the Qt framework and also of the Qt community developing and deploying it in multiple products used by hundreds of millions of people every day. We will give an overview of the Qt 5 plans and development status. We will also explain the motivations to move to fully open model where governance, roadmaping and development is decided by the contributors involved. SCALE 10x comes 3 months after the beginning of the Qt Project as a non-profit organization, a good time to offer a balance.

Audience: 
Everyone
Categories: 
General

Garrett D'Amore

Experiences starting a new Operating Systems Project

The illumos project -- a community fork from the Solaris code base -- is now over a year old, and has grown at a remarkable rate since we first announced it. We will do a brief review of where we came from, and were we hope to go. We will review some of the challenges we have faced, how we have dealt with them, and also talk more about the challenges that remain. As there are not many operating systems projects that start up, and fewer still that are successful, we hope that sharing our experiences will be useful to other projects looking to start up similar communities.

Audience: 
Everyone
Categories: 
Mentoring

Caryl Bigenho

Sugar! SoaS Brings This Sweet Educational Software To Almost Any Computer

When the One Laptop Per Child Foundation introduced its XO-1 laptop to the public by way of the Give One Get One program in 2007 it started a worldwide revolution in educational computing. But the cute little green and white machine wasn't the only thing they introduced that has had an important impact on netbooks and educational computing. Sugar, the software shipped with every XO laptop is a welcome addition to the world of open source software in education (OSSIE). It includes some of the already well known programs such as Scratch, Etoys (Squeak), and TurtleArt (Logo), but many others unique to Sugar. These programs, all open source, are constantly being updated and improved at both OLPC and Sugar Labs, their software spin-off. Realizing a need for more educational software to be made available for use on computers other than the XO, Sugar Labs began working with versions that could be used on other computers running from a usb stick, thus the name Sugar on a Stick (SoaS). This portable version of Sugar includes many of the Sugar programs not available elsewhere. Scratch and Etoys are not included because they can easily be downloaded from their websites. Since their first SoaS release two and a half years ago, code-named Strawberry and based on Fedora 11, they have gone through a total of six fruit-named versions. The current "flavor", code named "Pineapple," is version 6 and is based on Fedora 16. It is available for download from Sugar Labs and from the Fedora Project where it is named: "Discover. Reflect. Share. Learn." This session will explore how participants can get SoaS running on their own computers. We will also take an in-depth look at how to make use of some of the many Activities (programs) on SoaS.

Audience: 
Everyone
Categories: 
Open Source Software In Education

Deb Nicholson

Messaging Free Software

It's easy to talk with people who already "get" you, but how do you open the conversation about free software with someone who's never heard of it? This talk is for people who are interested in refining their message and more effectively sharing their excitement about the free software movement. Messaging starts with relatively easy stuff like your elevator pitch and an FAQ and becomes more advanced when you start thinking strategically about combating negative stereotypes and constantly soliciting feedback. I'll also talk about meeting people part way, using inclusive terms and images, and understanding your audience.

Audience: 
Everyone
Categories: 
Mentoring

Deb Nicholson

Software Patents: What You Can Do

Who is getting sued and for what? What kinds of defensive strategies can help defend Linux, GNU and related projects? Of particular interest to free software contributors, this talk also has plenty of big picture to make it interesting for free software activists and users. I'll go over how the US patent system got to where it is and why it is such a problem for software in particular. We'll talk about what's already been tried and what's currently being done to protect free operating systems. Have you ever wondered what's at stake, how much money is changing hands or who's at risk? Perhaps you'd like to learn more about prior art and how that works? If so, then this talk is for you.

Audience: 
Everyone
Categories: 
General

Tully Foote

Linux Based Personal Robotics

ROS (Robot Operating System) provides libraries and tools to help software developers create robot applications. It provides hardware abstraction, device drivers, libraries, visualizers, message-passing, package management, and more. In building ROS we use Linux both as a platform and a model for development. As a platform Linux provides a great development environment and tools in addition to well packaged libraries which are tested and integrated. As a model for development, the open source community built up around Linux is one of the most productive ways to develop.

Audience: 
Everyone
Categories: 
Developer

Sebastian Dziallas

Undergraduate Education Strategies

FOSS world and academia operate on radically different schedules -- integrating the two together requires a lot of work. But it can be incredibly rewarding, to both parties. This session will articulate how all of us can work together to make these collaborations better -- and more often. Finally, I'll report the latest results from the POSSE workshop that happened this summer, and that's been submitted in an intensive-version on this conference as well. Join us for the revolution!

Audience: 
Everyone
Categories: 
Open Source Software In Education

Ron Toland

Getting Started with Git

Git is arguably the best version control system out there. But habits formed from years of using svn or CVS can trip you up when you switch to using git. Without the right training, you can end feeling like you're constantly fighting git to have it do what you need it to do. This presentation will cover: Git basics, The pitfalls of treating git like svn, Suggested workflow, and Git tricks At the end of the presentation, you'll have a good grasp of what makes git special, and how you can best take advantage of its powerful features.

Audience: 
Everyone
Categories: 
Developer

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