Presenter: Michelle Casbon (LinkedIn profile) Director of Data Science at Qordoba, where she helps companies improve their global reach by simplifying the localization process through the use of machine learning. Previously she built tools for generating predictions on textual datasets as a Senior Data Science Engineer at Idibon.  Michelle completed a Masters at the University of Cambridge, focusing on NLP, speech recognition, speech synthesis, and machine translation. She loves working with and contributing to open source projects and has contributed to Apache Spark and Apache Flume.

Session 2:
Want Students Ready to Contribute?
Let’s Discuss What They Should Know!

To contribute to an open source project, students should learn open source methods, tools, and culture. However, many computing degrees do not cover these topics. We will describe why we think learning open source is important, what blockers exist now, and the possible paths to a solution, including a National Science Foundation-funded effort to advance FOSS learning in undergraduate computing programs.

Presenter: Gina Likins (LinkedIn profile) has been working in internet strategy for more than 20 years. She’s passionate about finding ways to help our open source communities thrive and be more welcoming for everyone. In addition to her interests in communication, conflict resolution and open source community dynamics, Gina also has a long history with and interest in education.  Gina also  taught both high school biology and environmental science. Her current role on the the University Outreach team at Red Hat exists to help universities incorporate open source into their curriculum.

Presenter: Heidi Ellis (LinkedIn profile) Professor Western New England University, has been active in software engineering education for the past 20 years. She has been involving students in humanitarian free and open source software (HFOSS) since 2006 and has been co-PI on four different NSF grants to support this effort.  As a part of a group of academics who are working with Red Hat to support Professor’s Open Source Software Experience (POSSE) workshops that bring professors up to speed on student involvement in HFOSS projects. She has multiple publications and presentations related to student participation in HFOSS.

Session 3:
How To Convince Your Manager To Go Open Source

I will talk about how I convinced my managers to go Open Source. Very often you hear similar concerns and sorrows about loss of business, inconvenient transparency and the loss of control. Based on some examples I will give you some guidance how you can argue against this points and how you can convince your manager to go Open Source.

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Open Source 101

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