A Selection of Thoughts and a Checklist
Thursday, April 30th, 2009Two good links: A Selection of Thoughts from Actual Women about what working in open source is like for them. The Male Programmer Checklist, which keeps getting longer.
Archive for April, 2009
Two good links: A Selection of Thoughts from Actual Women about what working in open source is like for them. The Male Programmer Checklist, which keeps getting longer.
Applications Open for 2009 Season of Usability
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009OpenUsability's Season of Usability is a series of sponsored student projects to encourage students of usability, user-interface design, and interaction design to get involved with Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects. Students experience the interdisciplinary and collaborative development of user interface solutions in international software projects while getting into FLOSS development. If ...
Without the Hot Air
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009I finished David JC Mackay's Sustainable Energy-Without the Hot Air on the flight back from Ottawa yesterday. First response: brilliant. Second response: absolutely brilliant. A physicist, Mackay approaches the question of whether the UK can run on sustainable energy sources by doing back-of-the-envelope calculations---hundreds of them. How much precipitation falls ...
Toronto Urban Fellows Program
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009The City of Toronto has just launched an exciting new initiative to attract high calibre new professionals to the Toronto Public Service. The Toronto Urban Fellows program provides talented new professionals with an intensive introduction to the governance, operations and administration of Canada's largest city through a combination of full-time work ...
OCE Discovery 2009
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009The OCE Discovery 2009 conference is happening May 11-12 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, and the Department of Computer Science will have two booths on the floor highlighting several projects, including: Automated Ligand-Based Active Site (Abraham Heifets) ILoveSketch (Seok-Hyung Bae) Real-Time Point Cloud Alignment with a GPU (Anatoliy Kats) JSCOOP (Faraz Torshizi) SketchPad (Eron ...
The Courage of His Convictions
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009Mike Gunderloy announced this morning that he's resigning from the Rails Activists group: ...Anyone who cares to take the time to actually talk to the women who are a part of the open source community will have no trouble getting an earful about how challenging it can be to participate...[p]eople like ...
NSERC Should Just Give the Money Away
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009Not that I'm bitter or anything, but... http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all?content=10.1080/08989620802689821 Cost of the NSERC Science Grant Peer Review System Exceeds the Cost of Giving Every Qualified Researcher a Baseline Grant Richard Gordon (Department of Radiology, University of Manitoba) Bryan J. Poulin (Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University) Using Natural Science and Engineering Research Council Canada (NSERC) statistics, ...
Eclipse DemoCamp May 21
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_Galileo_2009/Toronto has the details.
Talk on Empirical Software Engineering and Scientific Computing
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009The slides for the talk I'm giving today at the NRC on empirical software engineering and how scientists actually use computers are now up on SlideShare. Weird how some graphics are messed up and others aren't, but I think it's all still readable.
Evidence of Success
Monday, April 27th, 2009The folks at Mirarco have put up a web page for the plugin wizard that Matthew Ansell built for them as a course project. I'll post more evidence of success for course projects here as I stumble upon it.