The Future is Open 2019
26 October 2019 - RIT's FOSS initiative at the MAGIC Center
Join us on Saturday, October 26th at 10am-5pm at the RIT MAGIC Spell Studios to discover free and open source software and culture in the RIT community. Event is free, but please RSVP here for ordering enough food!
The ideas behind the creation and distribution of intellectual and creative works without (or with more flexible) IP rights restrictions are not new. But they have taken hold in the age of the Internet. Free and Open Source Software and Free Content have moved from an obscure niche filed to the center of how work gets done. Silicon Valley software companies have Open Source offices that manage home-grown FOSS projects and the enterprise contributions to external projects. Open Designs and Open Content are emerging in everything from prosthetics creation to arts and game production. Open Science practices are fueling new efforts across the disciplines. Humanitarian organizations are using open data and cloud services to help disaster victims, map school connectivity, and more.
Speakers
Remy DeCausemaker
Open Source Office Director, Twitter; SOIS ‘15
Yasmin El-Glaly
Software Engineering Faculty
Nando Ellis
Middleware Consultant, Red Hat; Computer Science '15
Jenn Kotler
User Experience Designer, Space Telescope Science Institute; Medical Illustration ‘14
Nate Levesque
Software Engineer, Datto; Software Engineering '16
Jessica Lieberman
Digital Humanities & Social Sciences Faculty & Program Director
Mohammed Wiem Mkaouer
Software Engineering Faculty
Will Nilges
RIT Student
Mike Nolan
Open Source and Ethical AI Mentor, UNICEF; New Media Interactive Development ‘15
Brian Regan
Lead Game Producer, Second Avenue Learning
Jeffery Russell
RIT Student; President, RIT Linux Users Group
Daniel Schneiderman
Co-Chair, Maker Faire Rochester; Information Technology '12
Jonathan Schull
President, e-NABLE
Victoria Van Voorhis
CEO, Second Avenue Learning
Brendan Whitfield
Sr. Autopilot Software Engineer, Tesla; New Media Interactive Development ‘15
Steven Yi
Interactive Games & Media Faculty
Tim Zabel
RIT Student; Vice President, RIT Linux Users Group
Schedule
How FOSS courses kick-started our careers
Jenn Kotler
Brendan Whitfield
Mike Nolan
Nando Ellis
Wegmans Theater
e-NABLE: a NONO (non-organization of non-organizations) making free open-source 3D-printed prosthetics
Jonathan Schull
MSS-2150
5 Years Working as a Designer - from Corporate Tech to Open Science
Jenn Kotler
MSS-2175
Making software that hopefully won't ruin society. (and other fun stories)
Mike Nolan
MSS-2100 (Sound Mixing Room)
Led by Will Nilges
MSS-3190 (upstairs)
Testing Open Source Software for Accessibility
Yasmine El-Glaly
MSS-2150
Open Source within the Maker Movement
Dan Schneiderman
MSS-2175
Supporting the Open Web in FOSS
Nate Levesque
MSS-2100 (Sound Mixing Room)
TigerOS - A Linux distribution built for RIT students
Tim Zabel
MSS-2150
Csound: A Case Study in Open Source and Culture
Steven Yi
MSS-2175
Open Mapping Data and Digital Humanities
Jessica Lieberman
MSS-2100 (Sound Mixing Room)
Is there a (mis)perception of quality metrics among developers? An empirical study in FOSS
Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer
MSS-2150
Student Panel on Open Source Software
RIT Linux Users Group
Moderated by Jeffery Russell
MSS-2175
Open source in educational games
Victoria Van Voorhis
Brian Regan
MSS-2100 (Sound Mixing Room)
A Life in Open Source
Remy DeCausemaker, Open Source Office Director, Twitter, SOIS ‘15
Wegmans Theater
