Monday, February 8, 2010

Case Studies Presentation - 13 Feb, 2010

Hi Folks,

We'll be starting Semester 2 Case Study module this Saturday, 13 February, 2010 at 10am (Room KE 3-008).

I just got confirmation from our speakers and it promises to be a very interesting session. Three members of the Open Source Software community in Ireland will be coming in to discuss open source software from strategic and technical perspectives.

  • Laura Czajkowski
Founder of OSSBarCamp, Laura will start the session with an introduction to OSS, the Ubuntu Community and how to get involved.
- Laura Czajkowski's blog
  • Patrick O’Connor & Paul O’Malley,
Patrick and Paul will give a presentation entitled, "How to teach your boss to FLOSS" (demonstrating the value of contributing to and using FLOSS in your organisation and then how to successfully integrate FLOSS practices into your organisation’s IT).
- Patrick O'Connor's blog
- FLOSS on Wikipedia
  • Declan McGrath
Declan will finish off the session with a presentation on Ruby, OSS Development and OSS in Ireland

I recommend you do some preparation before the session researching current trends within open source software and give some consideration as to how it might be exploited within your organisations, pros/cons, etc., and furthermore, how OSS could be relevant to your dissertation. There will be ample opportunity for discussion and debate.

As this is our first day back, we will not be doing an afternoon session.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Regards,
Colman