This year’s FSOSS at Seneca College, Toronto was the thirteen iteration. Three keynote speakers
were invited to this year’s conference. . They are David Humphrey (CDOT
Researcher for Mozilla Foundation), Bob Young (Red Hat, Inc. Co-Founder) and
Chris Aniszczyk (Head of Open Source at Twitter). And thirty-five speaker have
presented at the conference. I participated this event as a volunteer. Fortunately,
I listened two keynote speakers’ presentation and the Kieran Sedgwick’s
presentation besides my duty shift.
All of the three presentations expressed speakers’ enthusiasm to the
open source. Mr. Young generally introduced how open source work with business
from the entrepreneur aspect. Mr. Chris talked more details on open source on technical
side. With more experience and profound understanding on open source, He
clearly shows the craft and culture of open source and presents how open source
works in a large scale a company (Twitter). He explicitly expresses he loves
open source and gets a lot of advantages from it. Moreover, he hopes there are
more and more people joining open source development.
Mr. Kieren is an intermediate open source developer, who works in CDOT, an
open source organization. In his presentation, he did not explicitly mention
his view point on open source. But from his words, audience can strongly
receive the message that he has a very positive opinion on open source. He
starts his career at an open source organization with the open source projects.
He learns cutting edge technologies and grows rapidly in the open source
environment. He gets many benefits from open source community. In his
presentation, he uses an open source project to illustrate how the mentioned
technologies work. It is inevitably showing audience how open source works in a
small scale - a project from some aspect.
I am glad I did contribution to the big event held by CDOT at Seneca College. And I had deeper understanding on open source from this conference.
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