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Ottawa Open Source Business Breakfast - July 8th, 2009

in Company, YOW13, OpenOffice

This event is the inaugural open source business breakfast for the Ottawa area. The intention is to bring industry, government, academia, and community together once a month for an enjoyable breakfast of networking, good food, and a couple of short (15 minute) presentations. This event will run Monthly.

Event Date: 
Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Location

TheCodeFactory
246 Queen Street
Ottawa, ON
Canada
45° 25' 12.5292" N, 75° 42' 6.0084" W
See map: Google Maps

Switching barriers between Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org: the user perspective

in Government, SC2009, OpenOffice

Open source adoption is gaining a lot of interest as a research area. Unfortunately, most of current research ignores the user perspective. This talk examines research done on the switching barriers between Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org from the user perspective.

Event: 
Summercamp2009
Speaker: 
Mekki MacAulay

Summercamp/Geocamp 2009 - Ottawa, Canada

in BSD, Community, Company, Database, Drupal, Education, Entrepreneurship, Fedora, Gadgets, Git, Legal, Mylyn, Programming, SC2009, YOW12, EPL, Ingres, Mapserver, GPL, OpenLayers, Perl, Ubuntu, Python, OpenOffice, Code repositories, Databases, Eclipse, FOSSLC, Licenses, Linux, OSGeo, Programming, Web Programming
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Event Description


The Free and Open Source Software Learning Centre (FOSSLC) will be hosting a conference on May 13, 14, and 15 at Algonquin College, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. This event will bring together industry, academia, government, and community to learn about open source. Over 40 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
4) Developing using open source software
5) Legal issues including DRM, Case law, intellectual property
6) Open source in Government

Thank you to our generous sponsors for making this event possible.

Lead Sponsors

Geoconnections Algonquin College Ingres Corporation


Sponsors

DM Solutions Open Concept Consulting TheCodeFactory
Event Date: 
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - Friday, May 15, 2009

Location

Algonquin College Ottawa, ON
Canada
45° 24' 41.6592" N, 75° 41' 53.4984" W
See map: Google Maps

The basics 1

in BSD, Community, Education, Fedora, Programming, YOW1, EPL, Ingres, GPL, Ubuntu, OpenOffice, Eclipse, Licenses, Linux, Programming
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In this inaugural event, we covered introductory talks relating to open source:

Talent First Network - Rowland Few

Business value of Open Source - Andrew Ross

Introductory demo of various things (Ubuntu desktop, GIMP, shell, OpenOffice, etc.) - Andrew Ross

Introduction to Eclipse - Dr. Dwight Deugo

Event Date: 
Thursday, January 10, 2008

Location

Carleton University Ottawa, ON
Canada
45° 24' 41.6592" N, 75° 41' 53.4984" W
See map: Google Maps
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