Open Source Bridge

The web is ubiquitous, having beaten out a litany of competing technologies, and many “native applications” rely on web-based back-ends. From desktop to mobile, to watches, virtual reality headsets, and cars -- the web is a core set of technologies with vast reach. This makes familiarity with web technology a valuable asset for many, many people. Whether you’re a software engineer, marketer, project manager, junior web developer, or student -- you will leave this session with the forest, the trees, and a compass for navigating all of it.

Established OSS projects have complex communities that must (at least) try to work together. Presentation of my experience with OpenEMR's and other projects successes and failures and interact with the audience to share their own experiences.

Much of the interest in MindRider stemmed from Spencer Lowell's great photo in Wired UK. Since it came out, many people have sent me great comments, saying things along the lines of "Women represent!" or "POCs (People of Color) represent!" or "Filipinos represent!" This has meant a lot. Women and people of color are still underrepresented in both tech and cycling domains, and I've come to think of the MindRider photo, and the ensuing response, as a personal counterbalance to the aggressive, intolerant, exclusionary discourse that still plagues these domains, and especially plagues the startup sector that overlaps both. Some people call this "brogrammer talk." I've witnessed it in my time at MIT, and while I've noticed that most people don't talk or think this way, the loudness of the intolerant minority can have insidious, stressful effects on the rest of the community.

This workshop focuses on building a continuously delivered pipeline using Node.js (however easily transferable to Ruby/Rails/Java/Scala/.NET etc.).

This is a hands on workshop where you can bring your laptop and learn how to deploy an application to the event cloud. Bring your own app, or deploy an open source civic engagement application from a supported collection. The tooling is Packer, Terraform, and Chef Zero with a CLI in Ruby. If you know the steps to get your code running on a server, we'll show you how to go to cloud with bootscripts and custom resources available.

Attackers only need to be right once, but developers have to be right all the time. Secure software development practices are essential.

displayfs is a virtual filesystem for driving a framebuffer over a network. The primary use case is giving demos without exposing your laptop's workspace and compromising your privacy.

This talk is an introduction to parallel programming and design patterns. It will go over different styles of parallelism and parallel primitives. This is a language agnostic talk with the goal of getting listeners comfortable.

Pytest provides a simple and fast way to write testcases for Python based project.

As a major benchmark and trend-setter in machine learning and statistics, R, a free and open source statistical computing language, has much to offer to anyone interested in machine learning, statistics, or numerical computing. In this tutorial, I will share with the audience the vast ecosystem around R, and get the listeners started right away with some of the most widely used machine learning algorithms. You don't have to be a statistician or computer scientist to use R - its concise syntax and expressive nature will only make you want to use it more and more for machine learning and other computing tasks!

There are simple rules to understand when building products from open source software. Product teams (from engineering to marketing) need to understand these rules to participate best in open source project communities and deliver products and services to their customers at the same time. These rules hold regardless of whether the vendor created and owns the project or participates.

Learn how to do test automation for your applications in a cool way using Gauge, an open-source tool from ThoughtWorks.

With the right skills, tools and software, you can protect yourself and remain secure. This session will take attendees from no knowledge of open source web security tools to a deep understanding of how to use them and their growing set of capabilities.

1. How to contribute in improving quality of open source software 2. Get inspiration how to create test harness for your application 3. How to alter your software development model to produce bug-free code. 4. Altering your development model to match SW quality standards. 5. Study the technology, know the feature well and use your experience 6. Know the point when it is time to report a bug 7. How to troubleshoot the issues.

Learn how to use Postgres to explore a JSON data set.