Category Archives: FSOSS

Processing, Mozilla, and Seneca a year later

By david.humphrey | Published: October 28, 2010
It’s FSOSS eve, which always puts me in a storytelling mood.  Tomorrow I’ll be giving a talk on Web Audio, and demonstrating a lot of the things that are possible with our new audio API in Firefox 4.  I’ve been getting demos ready today, and I was reflecting tonight on just how many of them [...]
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How to go to a tech event (as a student)

By david.humphrey | Published: October 26, 2009
This week there are a whole bunch of open source events in the city, one of which is our own FSOSS.  Over the years Chris and I have been involved in running this and many other tech events at Seneca.  In that time we’ve had hundreds (literally) of industry and open source people come and [...]
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Catching up on DXR blogging

By david.humphrey | Published: October 23, 2009
<@taras> you should blog that < andrew> you should blog more about that project My students have a first release due today by midnight, and all day I’ve been watching attachments go up on bugs and demos getting posted online.  It’s been really cool to watch how far many of them have gotten with their 0.1 release [...]
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FSOSS 2009 is next Friday Oct 30

By david.humphrey | Published: October 21, 2009
Chris has just posted about the final set of presentations for FSOSS 2009, happening next Friday October 30.  This year, after more years of running or working on FSOSS than I can remember, I’m going to finally get to attend and participate as a speaker.  Taras and I will be wowing the crowd with talk [...]
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FSOSS 2008 Wrap-up: Toward Open Source Education

By david.humphrey | Published: October 31, 2008
I’ve finally recovered enough from last week’s FSOSS to sit down and write a bit about it.  The event was a real success, and I had a great time attending and participating.  This year I focused on speakers and content instead of logistics, which meant I got to actually attend the talks, imagine!  Hats off [...]
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CCoup

By david.humphrey | Published: October 21, 2008
It’s nearly FSOSS-eve, and I’m in the mood for telling a story.  One of our speakers this year is an FSOSS-alumni, Marcus Bornfreund, the project lead for Creative Commons Canada.  I first heard Marcus speak three years ago, when he gave the opening keynote at FSOSS.  It was the first year that FSOSS was starting [...]
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FSOSS, teaching open source, and golf

By david.humphrey | Published: October 21, 2008
In two days I get to watch a year’s worth of work burst into life.  FSOSS, the open source event I help run, is happening on Thursday and Friday, and for the first time in some years, I’m actually getting to speak!  I’ll be part of a panel on Teaching Open Source from the perspective [...]
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Mozilla Toronto DevDays and FSOSS

By david.humphrey | Published: August 28, 2008
I’m back from a mostly offline summer, and it’s busy already! First, we’re hosting Mozilla’s Toronto DeveloperDays on Monday Sept 15 and Tuesday Sept 16.  In the past Developer Days have often been a chance for existing Mozilla developers to have some face to face time, but not the right place to go if you’re new.  [...]
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What’s there if you know how to look

By david.humphrey | Published: June 16, 2008
Proving once again why he’s a unique voice in the open source community, David Eaves layers an interesting geopolitical analysis on the Firefox 3 download campaign. By the way, you know it’s tomorrow, right?
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Not-so-secret Sauce

By david.humphrey | Published: June 11, 2008
We’ve just opened the general Call for Proposals for Seneca’s seventh annual Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS).  FSOSS is the most fun you’ll have over two days of talks aimed at foss developers, educators, and users.  It’s a great way to get to reach the foss community, and I hope you’ll consider submitting [...]
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