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July 9th, 2009 - 2:16 pm
I’d love to hear someone from Google coming to talk to us about GoogleWave. I believe google-wave is the future of the internet messaging (if we can use that term) and that more people should be aware of how to ride the waves.
Never heard of it? Take a look at http://wave.google.com/ and see for yourself. If you have a bit of time to kill watch the whole screencast, some parts are very impressive.
I’d also like to hear what you guys think about it
July 13th, 2009 - 11:20 am
How about hearing from a non-Linux FLOSS operating system?
I grew up on Linux and that’s what I spend my days on. I’ve only briefly used non-Linux FLOSS operating systems. How about we get a FreeBSD fan or OpenSolaris fan. I’d like to hear advocacy from from them and hear what their OS can do that one just can’t do with linux?
July 13th, 2009 - 11:24 am
Tell the hackers about FLOSS tools for non-hacking.
I’m a hacker. I’m a programmer. Hence if you ask me what’s a good open source editor or web server, I know about it. However what if someone asks me about a good open source accountancy programme? Or video editor? I’m not even sure if there are any good FLOSS tools for that.
How about someone who’s used FLOSS in the business / office setting explain if / how to run it all on FLOSS?
July 13th, 2009 - 11:31 am
Legalities and FLOSS.
I’m an Ubuntu user in Ireland. There are some legal issues with using some FLOSS, such as MP3 decoders, Mono, encryption, DRM. However I don’t know anything about the state of the law in Ireland. I know in the USA they have the DMCA which can cause legal troubles if you want to read your DVD, whereas in Ethiopia they don’t recognise any forgien copyright, so you can legally copy MS Windows CDs.
What’s the state of play in Ireland? Are software patents in force? What about things like DRM?
July 13th, 2009 - 11:41 am
+1 google wave +1 how FLOSS stands legally in Ireland +1 demos of open source tools. I saw a great demo of PiTiVi (open source video editor) last week.
July 13th, 2009 - 11:44 am
I’m interested in desktop applications that can have their interfaces modified like web ones. For example with css or javascript.
Also data storage technologies like CouchDB. MySQL, Drizzle.
I want to hear more from people earning money from working on Open Source Technologies. Whether using them or hacking on them. How can more people follow in their footsteps?
July 13th, 2009 - 1:34 pm
PostgreSQL – this much undervalued database definitely needs to be talked about. Also, CouchDB and the paradigm shift it requires would be nice to see.
July 13th, 2009 - 3:08 pm
Brag about some massive pile of data you had to use / process and explain how.
Have you done something cool with some large corpus of data? Want to brag about it and explain what you had to do? Did you take wikipedia and count the number of naugty words in it? How did you do that? Have you done something else with lots of data? Do a word count on project gutenberg? Count the length of all the motorways in OpenStreetMaps?
There’s lots of people and companies who do this sort of thing professionally (eg search engines, large online retailers), but have many people done it themselves at home on normal home hardware?
July 13th, 2009 - 3:09 pm
Is there anyway someone could do a talk or demonstration on securing the desktop edition running ssh beyond the defaults? Perhaps port knocking and some form of deny.hosts/fail2ban/IDS etc?
July 14th, 2009 - 10:23 am
Document Automation
How do we create beautiful documentation for open source software quickly and painlessly? How do you ensure that the code examples in your tutorial are correct and STAY correct? How can you seamlessly integrate output from open source tools into your research paper or business report?
I’ve been working on several open source tools to address these issues and will be happy to demo them and discuss their possibilities and implications.
July 14th, 2009 - 10:56 am
Well id like to give a talk on launchpad. I can give a preview of some of the GNOME 3.0 features too which would be interesting.
July 14th, 2009 - 11:07 am
I will probably give a demo of PiTiVi for the lightning talk.
July 14th, 2009 - 11:20 am
Suggested a talk on security already, if someone could explain /var/log/auth.log too it would be great.
July 14th, 2009 - 11:34 am
I wonder what designer types would be interested in seeing.
July 17th, 2009 - 10:54 am
Any open content creators about?
July 17th, 2009 - 12:41 pm
It would be great to hear someone from Mozilla talk about HTML5 and the Open Video standards etc.
July 26th, 2009 - 6:28 pm
Hmmm another talk I can do is on google wave, I can even do a demo. I think there are loads of demos I can do. So maybe I can show off all the new stuff that I can. So I can show Gnome-Shell, Google wave, Gnome-Zeitgeist and maybe give a demo of launchpad as well. Or maybe focus on one area? Anyone have any opinions on this?
July 30th, 2009 - 12:42 pm
Is anyone interested in Open Source Machine Translation?
July 30th, 2009 - 2:04 pm
@Jim Regan Machine translation? Can you elaborate on that? Translating amoung human languages? Sure that sounds kinda cool.
July 30th, 2009 - 2:04 pm
How about another Tog ‘talk’?
July 30th, 2009 - 4:24 pm
How about something on Linux in the SME – how would one run a SMEpurely on FLOSS and where are the challenges?
July 30th, 2009 - 4:53 pm
@Rory: Yes, translating between human languages.
I’m a developer with Apertium (http://www.apertium.org) – Open Source Rule Based MT, but I can also cover Moses (http://statmt.org/moses/), OS Statistical MT. Either way, it would include some details of working with large amounts of data, as you requested earlier
I think ‘higher level’ detail would be more appropriate: what the different types of MT are, how they work, common pitfalls (‘When Good Translators Go Bad!’), and some details about open source tools in the various categories. What do you think?
July 31st, 2009 - 10:37 am
Bernhard, great question! I hope to have some speakers there that will look at just that topic in fact! hope to see you there!
July 31st, 2009 - 11:20 am
@Jim Oh that sounds interesting.
I’d come to that talk if you did it 
August 5th, 2009 - 3:17 pm
@Jim I am of course interested in MT, and would be nice to meet you in person
August 5th, 2009 - 3:20 pm
@Rory I have written a tool to extract grammatical relations among words from corpora.
You feed my thing a huge pile of texts and then you can ask it things like: what adjectives are the most used ones with the noun ‘bastard’? What nouns are most used as the object of ‘hit’?
It’s quite neat and the results are usually fun
Let me know if you are interested!
August 7th, 2009 - 2:48 pm
How about a talk on innovations in open source P2P projects, Modern incarnations of freenet or new directions that OS&P2P are going in?
The direction that Opera Unite (http://www.opera.com/) is taking by allowing local machines to act as a host for a range of services is interesting.
August 19th, 2009 - 2:04 pm
+1 Google Wave
+1 Machine Translation
+1 FOSS legalities
Promising line-up so far!
September 9th, 2009 - 10:03 am
A deep dive into Blender 2.5 would be great
February 11th, 2010 - 10:58 am
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