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Flourish 2008 - Kevin Harriss - An Introduction to Foresight Linux

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:00:01 GMT

A guided tour on the features of Foresight Linux and what separates it from the pack of other distributions. Benefits include the latest and greatest desktop applications and the revolutionary package manager Conary. This talk took place at Flourish 2008.

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Flourish 2008 - Louis Suarez-Potts - Why OpenOffice.org and the OpenDocument Format are Important

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:15:01 GMT

Louis Suarez-Potts talks about the OpenDocument Format. This talk took place at Flourish 2008.

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Flourish 2008 - Duncan Murdoch - The R Project: Open Source Statistical Computing

Mon, 12 May 2008 06:54:10 GMT

n this talk, Dr. Murdoch gave a brief description of R and discussed the history of R including those aspects of the project that have led to its success. Dr. Murdoch then focused on some particularly interesting aspects of R, including statistical graphics and the Sweave scheme for literate programming with LaTeX and R. Finally, Dr. Murdoch discussed the short and long term plans for R. This talk took place at Flourish 2008.

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Flourish 2008 - James Gray - IBM's Open Source Strategy: Turning Threat into Opportunity

Mon, 12 May 2008 03:57:08 GMT

For a commercial software company, open source is often seen as a threat to software revenue streams but it can also be an opportunity. This presentation focused on IBM's open source strategy as part of a larger business model. The talk began with a timeline of IBM's involvement in the open source movement and examined some of the decisions that were made at key stages. The talk reflected upon at the effects that open source has had on the IBM software portfolio and on specific customer engagements where "free" products have been selected over "for fee" products. The talk ended with a short discussion on both the positive and negative impacts of open source software and what the future may hold for open source. This talk took place at Flourish 2008.

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Flourish 2008 - James Bottomley - Hacking the Linux Kernel for Fun and Profit

Mon, 12 May 2008 01:27:23 GMT

The linux kernel may seem like a daunting place for people who are (or even for people who are not) new to hacking Open Source operating systems. This talk gave an overview of getting into kernel hacking, which areas of the kernel (and its APIs) might be more amenable to a bit of fine tuning and how to go about getting involved (including mailing list etiquette and all the important business of figuring out whom to pay attention to and whom to ignore). By the nature of the speaker, the talk was focused on kernel device drivers. The talk was rounded out with anecdotes about the best kernel contributions. This talk took place at Flourish 2008.

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Flourish 2008 - Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman, Google - Do You Believe in the Users?

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:36:27 GMT

Too many programmers have forgotten about the lost art of customer service. All software has users, though most developers have forgotten how to respect them, trust them, or "sell" their software to in an exciting (but honest!) manner. This talk will focus on anecdotes and strategies for keeping software design uncomplicated, making software fast, and putting usability above programming convenience. We'll also focus on the importance of keeping a healthy illusion of simplicity, while allowing abstractions to deliberately leak for power-users. This talk is from Flourish 2008.

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Flourish 2008 - Bruce Perens - Innovation Goes Public!

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:10:55 GMT

Open Source provides much of the software infrastructure for many of the world's largest companies and organizations: Merrill Lynch, Google, Pixar, Amazon, the City of New York and probably you - although you might not know it. Innovative products like Linux, Firefox and Apache are the market-leaders in their sectors. There are tens of thousands of Open Source programs used for just about everything! But the economics of Open Source are non-intuitive: How can you make money by giving software away? Why did IBM de-emphasize AIX, after spending billions, in favor of Linux, the product of a loose collaboration of programmers that it can never control? How can the world's greatest city trust Open Source to help manage its jails? This talk took place at Flourish 2008.

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