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SFD2009schedule

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Schedule of Events

 

View PDF of the final schedule : ttcs-sfd2009-schedule.pdf

 

 

 

Open Minds, Open Source: For Beginners

 

Time
Presentation Presenter
 
10:00 - 10:45 About the Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society and Software Freedom Day Dev Anand Teelucksingh   
10:45 - 11:00 Setup Break    
11:00 - 11:45 Introduction to FOSS tools to replace proprietary (and expensive) apps Dev Anand Teelucksingh   
11:45 - 12:30 Lunch    
12:30 - 1:15 Better web surfing with Mozilla Firefox (demo Firefox and several extensions) Kurt Ceasar  
1:15 - 1:30 Setup Break    
1:30 - 2:15 Introduction to Ubuntu Richard Bailey   
2:15 - 2:30 Setup Break    
2:30 - 3:15

Where is Open Source used? We are all Open Source users

looking at web sites like Facebook, Wordpress.com, Google Android, Google Apps, OLPC 

Anil Ramnanan   
3:15 - 3:30 Setup Break    
3:30 - 4:15 Open Ended Q&A with TTCS Members    
4:15 - 4:30 Thank you, Program Close    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Exploring Open Source Possiblities: For Intermediates

 

 

Time
Presentation Presenter
 
10:00 - 10:45 About the Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society and Software Freedom Day Dev Anand Teelucksingh   
10:45 - 11:00 Setup Break    
11:00 - 11:45 Better documents and projects with the use of OpenOffice.org Taran Rampersad  
11:45 - 12:30 Lunch    
12:30 - 1:15 Virtualisation (MythTVand Open Source Media Centers) Naresh Seegobin ?  
1:15 - 1:30 Setup Break    
1:30 - 2:15 Experiences with Open Source in Business Richard Hamel-Smith   
2:15 - 2:30 Setup Break    
2:30 - 3:15 Hacking the Nintendo Wii with Open Source Software Anil Ramnanan, Mike Tikasingh   
3:15 - 3:30 Setup Break    
3:30 - 4:15 FOSS applications used in Education and for Kids Dev Anand Teelucksingh, Richard Jobity   
4:15 - 4:30 Thank you, Program Close    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Building with FLOSS: Open Source for Developers

 

 

Time
Presentation Presenter
 
 
1:00 - 1:20 About the Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society and Sofware Freedom Day  
1:20 - 2:00 Starting your own Open Source project with Sourceforge Anil Ramnanan  
2:00 - 2:10 Setup Break    
2:10 - 2:50 Behavior Driven Development Garth Lezama  
2:50 - 3:00 Setup Break    
3:00 - 3:40 Leveraging the Drupal Content Management System Shivan Jaikaran  
3:40 - 3:50 Setup Break    
3:50 - 4:30 Creating a Social Network using BuddyPress Nissan Dookeran  
4:30 - 4:40 Setup Break    
4:40 - 5:20 Building a Local Software Industry with Open Source Taran Rampersad  
5:20 - 5:50 Q&A and Session Close    

 

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