OSEL News

Google donated $300,000 to the OSU Open Source lab, continuing to support Open Source development, hosting, and software use at OSU.  Google’s contribution will promote growth within the OSL and allow the lab to continue hosting large, innovative or essential, projects such as Drupal and Apache.

Thank you Google!

 The Official Press Release

Students from the OSL and OSEL giving a 30 minute presentation about open source opportunities at OSU.  If you have or know of open source opportunities on campus or in Corvallis (preferably available to incoming OSU freshman), tell us!

E-mail things we should talk about, ideas, etc.  to the OSEL mailing list or Sarah Cooley at cooleys at engr.orst.edu.

The OSU Engineering Expo, held in Kelly Engineering Center, gave this year’s graduating seniors a venue for showcasing their senior design projects, including the OSL’s capstone students Peter Sandin and Andrew Cunningham.

Both Peter and Andrew worked diligently to write a preliminary video chat application for the OLPC using the helix media player and helix server.

While focused on senior design projects, the Engineering Expo also offers the College of Engineering and the general student population a chance to show industry representatives, high school students, and parents what interesting engineering innovations are happening at OSU.  The OSEL was there to represent Open Source at OSU by talking about the OSL, work with the One Laptop Per Child Project, OSU’s Linux computing facilities, and general Linux use in the College of Engineering.

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.