Open Source Bridge

BOF to go with the "My Grand Experiment" Talk. http://opensourcebridge.org/sessions/115

People involved in the Google Summer of Code 2009 and those interested about Google Summer of Code getting together and hanging out!

Panel: Organization, coordination, and implementation of a volunteer community open source project: http://rosecityresource.org (by PDX Drupal UG)

Large-scale web projects use sophisticated staged deployment systems, but the prospect of setting these up can be daunting. Using virtualization and automated configuration puts the benefits within easy reach even for small projects. David Brewer explains how Second Story uses Linux, VMware Server, and AutomateIt to grease the wheels of development on their museum-sector projects.

Make the text you see in the Terminal window more legible and readable by finding, customizing and designing your own font!

This session is for developers who want to learn about the Android platform. Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications. We’ll discuss the Android toolset and platform API’s.

The problem: you're using a modern dynamic language not known for speed, and you've identified a bottleneck. Write it in C? Does that give you the shakes? There are other language options available...

This talk briefly explains the overall architecture of Parrot and teaches the skills needed to get started hacking in Parrot.

We're using a variety of gems to build an ambient sensing tool to watch user activity over urban environments. The acts_as_solr gem to help provide faceted search, carrot2 to perform clustering and topic analysis, the twitter gem to fetch user activity in the first place.

Can you perform simple arithmetic? Do you know how to program well enough to open and read files? Then you can write a Bayesian classifier, one of the machine learning techniques for predicting categories, most famous for its use in spam filters. Let's demystify this impressively-named but ultimately simple process.

Learn about several computer vision techniques and how to put them together to form an entry-level object classifier.

In 2002 people wanted to build a database to track creative works; we built that database and it's called the Web.