Events and Education, FOSS Edition
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Events
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Unicorn Media ☛ Nerdearla: Homegrown Open Source Conferencing Latin American Style
An open source conference based in Argentina has lately been branching out to include events in Chile and Mexico, with Madrid, Spain in the works for 2025.
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Jiri Eischmann: We’re More Offline at Conferences, and That’s Probably a Good Thing
I’ve just been to two traditional Czech open source conferences – LinuxDays and OpenAlt – and I’ve noticed one interesting shift: the communication on social control media during the conferences has disappeared.
After 2010, we suddenly all had a device in our pocket that we could easily use to share experiences and observations from anywhere. And at least at IT events, people started doing this a lot. Under the hashtag of the given conference, there was a stream of messages from participants about which talks they liked, where they could find a good place to eat in the area, what caught their attention among the booths. The event organizers used this to inform visitors, and the booth staff to attract people to their booth. I remember writing about what we had interesting at our booth, and people actually came to have a look based on that.
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Education
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Yordi Verkroost ☛ From Ideas to Arcade
Attending computer science education conferences always inspires me to develop new curriculum ideas for my students. I went to one of these conferences today and saw some incredible projects other teachers have created.
One idea that caught my attention was combining philosophy and computer science in a module where students not only build a chatbot but also consider its ethical questions. Another project involved a collaboration between a teacher and his student reviving an old gaming library, back to life and learning together in the process.
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Arun Raghavan ☛ GStreamer Conference 2024
All of us at Asymptotic are back home from the exciting week at GStreamer Conference 2024 in Montréal, Canada last month. It was great to hang out with the community and see all the great work going on in the GStreamer ecosystem.
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Rlang ☛ Training Lineup for 2025: January-June
All of our public training courses for the first half of 2025 are now open for registration! Head over to the public courses page on our website to book in and start building your programming skills in the new year! Below is a list of all of our upcoming courses with a description, bookable dates, course level and a link to the course webpage to find out more!
Whether you want to start from scratch, or improve your skills, Jumping Rivers has a training course for you.
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Tor ☛ Get the latest from Tor, join us for State of the Onion 2024 | The Tor Project
Get ready for the 2024 recap of all things Tor: Our annual State of the Onion is less than a week away. It's our virtual two-day event where we share updates from our teams and the Tor community. As in previous years, we are organizing two streams one week apart. So please make sure to save the date for both days!
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