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The Free and Open Source Learning Centre (FOSSLC) is a non-profit organization driven by industry, academia, and community. It provides conferences, webcasts, online videos, and workshops teaching skills with open source software. FOSSLC is a neutral and friendly place to learn about open source development, the business of open source, and meet people from the open source community. Read more about FOSSLC

On top of the blogs, FAQs, stories, and related links you find here we also have roughly 300 hours of Videos available that have been viewed over 50,000 times. As well, please see our listing of upcoming Events.

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Which open source license is best? See the verdict

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Demo video - free video capture utility (Freeseer v1.9.5)

This short demo video showcases the free video capture utility, Freeseer. Freeseer is designed for screen casting and capturing presentations. It captures from a variety of sources including USB devices like webcams/vga capture devices, firewire devices such as camcorders, and local desktop.

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Andrew Ross
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Git in One Hour

Git in One Hour by Scott Chacon

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Don't condemn top developers to a life of managing

Submitted by aross on Fri, 03/19/2010 - 10:27

Most of the time I like my work - as you can probably tell, I feel injecting some passion into your work is important. The way I see it I'm going to be spending decades doing this stuff, so I may as well enjoy it. Like anyone though, I have things that nearly make me pull my hair out, and have had moments longing to try something else out. Read on if you dare (care?).

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PyCon 2010:Hg and Git : Can't we all just get along?

PyCon 2010:Hg and Git : Can't we all just get along? by Scott Chacon

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The corruption fighting secret open source geeks know

Submitted by aross on Tue, 03/16/2010 - 13:11

One might argue that trying to legislate against greed is pointless and harmful. No matter how much time, effort, and thought you put into legislation to prevent these issues it is likely to keep happening. And thus all you've really accomplished is penalizing everyone else that are ethical and play by the rules. What is the solution?

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[German] Java Application Server

FOSSLC e.V. freut sich in Zusammenarbeit mit der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. Vertreter der großen Java Application Server in Ilmenau begrüßen zu dürfen. Vorträge über Apache Geronimo, JBoss AS, WebLogic und WebSphere versprechen einen spannenden Nachmittag mit Einblicken in die Technik der Application Server und JEE.

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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
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ERF
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SC2010: the year open source invades the capital

Event Description


The Free and Open Source Software Learning Centre (FOSSLC) will be hosting our flagship annual conference on Saturday, August 14th, 2010. The event will take place at the University of Ottawa Campus, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. This event will bring together industry, academia, government, and community to learn about open source. Over 30 talks during the conference will cover technical, legal, and business aspects of open source use in private industry, community, and government. This event is relevant to technical and non-technical audiences. This event is relevant to all industries as 85% of businesses already use open source today. Talks will be a mix of skill levels with emphasis on approachable material suitable for beginners making this an excellent learning opportunity.

We have chosen themes to encourage cross pollination of ideas and talent.

Themes:
1) Education using open source software
2) Business and ecosystem development using open source principles
3) Developing open source software, and developing using open source
4) Free and open source software for Geospatial systems
5) Legal issues including Licensing, DRM, Case law, intellectual property
6) Open source in Government

Talks will represent the Eclipse, OSGeo/FOSS4G, Drupal, Perl, FreeBSD/BSD, Linux, Python, Asterisk, Ingres, Wordpress, and other communities.

Read more for instructions on how to submit a talk proposal, registration, accommodations, and travel details.

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Saturday, August 14, 2010
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CANADA

How to set up freeseer to capture vga (record presentations)

Freeseer is open source software that lets you record presentations such as full motion demos, or slide presentations. What makes it unique is that it is capable of capturing video from a vga capture device, webcam, or camera using firewire. The following video shows you how to set up for vga capture.

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Most popular computer languages used by big brains

Submitted by aross on Fri, 03/05/2010 - 09:23

I was recently listening to a FLOSS Weekly podcast (episode 100, congratulations!) interviewing Chris DiDona from Google. One of the items he spoke of that resonated with me was his/their practice of deciding who they wanted to reach and focusing on that audience even if it meant delaying or forgoing contact with others. DiBona explained that to him, it seemed Google was the place Computer Scientists go to practice Computer Science. Thus, though it would be nice to reach other people such as open source enthusiasts, their real desire was to reach computer scientist practitioners. The rate of innovative product development, focus on algorithms and performance, and more demonstrate that nurturing Computer Scientists is a key part of Google's success. Thus I found it very interesting to see the languages chosen by entrants in Google's AI challenge organized by the University of Waterloo. Read on the see the list.

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