OSEL News

Portland BarCamp is coming up this weekend!  Show up (or better yet register as a camper) to partake in food, fun, and interesting tech talks.  This is also a great opportunity to get input on personal projects or hold your own talk/mini session.

Where: Cubespace
622 SE Grand Ave.
Portland, OR 97214

When: Friday May 2 @ 6PM - Sunday May 4 @ 3PM

 For people interested in going:
If you are driving to BarCamp Portland and have room for extra passengers or if you want to go but can’t get there or don’t have somewhere to stay please post either in the LUG mailing list, wiki or the BarCamp Portland wiki.

Jack Aboutboul, Redhat’s community engineer, came to Oregon State on Monday to meet students involved in the open source community as well as share his experiences in open source and at Redhat.

The day started with a tour of the EECS department, focusing on Carlos Jensen’s work with social computing and Tim Budd’s involvement with open source education.  After lunch, Jack visited the Open Source Lab then met the director of EECS.

 For many, the highlight of Jack’s visit was his colloquium presentation in Kelly. Students literally lined the walls to listen to Jack talk about what he describes as how a billion little collisions define everything.   In the case of open source, many small events have compounded to make a huge impact.

The March issue of the OSEL newsletter “Open Sources” has been released, the pdf version is available here. This issue centers on the Corvallis Beaver BarCamp that took place on Saturday, March 1st in the Kelley Engineering Center at OSU. Also, another article covers IBM’s generous grant towards the continuation of the OSEL.