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FOSDEM 2013 Videos are Up

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FOSDEM is a free/open source conference that is “highly developer-oriented” according to their site and it featured many interesting talks this year. The best part is that the videos of the talks are available online for free.

FOSDEM 2013 was sponsored by the following companies:

Here are some interesting videos (click to download, they’re in the WebM format) for developers:

  • Using Gerrit Code Review in an Open Source Project [download]
  • LibreOffice: Cleaning and Refactoring a Giant Code Base [download]
  • How We Made the Jenkins Community [download]

FOSDEM is only one of many conferences that can be sponsored in the free/open source community. Giving developers at your company the chance to attend one of these conferences can improve their skills and capabilities. Sponsoring this kind of conference shows a serious commitment to the free/open source software community.

Idea: encourage developers to present a lightning talk (a short 5 or 10 minute presentation) about anything they’ve worked on in the last few months. If possible, record a video of this and post it online, on your developer-oriented blog and make an effort to highlight the efforts of developers.

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Trapeze Media Releases Some More Code

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Disclaimer: I work at Trapeze Media

Trapeze Media, a digital marketing agency based in Toronto has released some source code on GitHub. Their contributions are in Python for Django and in JavaScript for jQuery and other libraries. Most of the contributions are new projects rather than patches.

Their latest release is Bento, a Django app that adds editable image and content blocks. A few days later, they also released Carton, a Django app for maintaining wishlists and shopping carts.

Django is licensed under the Modified BSD License.

jQuery is licensed under the MIT License.

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jQueryTO conference sponsored by BNotions and atendy

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screenshot of jQueryTO conference website

jQueryTO is a jQuery conference being held on March 2-3, 2013 in Toronto, Canada. It’s the first conference centered around the jQuery JavaScript framework which is used nearly everywhere. jQuery uses the MIT license and they have many contributors and developers working on making it compatible with all sorts of browsers. It’s nice to see a lot of developers using a free/open source web framework and building it up into something amazing. The conference is going to have 30+ speakers.

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