Stream of Ry

Last September 19, UnPLUG was in-charge of the film showing at the SFD celebration at UST. There we showed Big Buck Bunny and Elephant’s Dream (yes, in that order) as examples of Free and Open Source Movies (FOSM?).

I checked out the Blender Foundation’s site and it seems that there is another Open Movie project in the making (codenamed Durian). In fact, it is already done and passed to the Dutch Film Festival just two days ago. No title was released yet and will be saved as a surprise for the Blender conference.
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Last September 8, we attended the DevCon at Y4IT. It is a mini-event, hosted by PSIA and G2IX.

What is DevCon?
From the site:

DEVCON is designed to be a premier gathering of all Filipino software engineers. [...] to encourage collaboration, interaction, and mentoring among the leading practitioners of the Philippine Software Industry. DEVCON adapts the global best practices for skills improvement and professional advancement among Filipino software engineers.

The template that they wanted people to adapt consisted of Birds of a feather, Lightning talks and a Hackathon.

Lightning talks
Lightning talks are, as the name implies, talks that are spontaneous (or at least are supposed to be) and could be about any topic that is related to technology. Ideally, they’re supposed to last no more than 5 minutes (or was it 10?) to discuss a topic.

Birds of a Feather
Birds of a feather is a discussion, or a debate if you will, about opposing views regarding technology. It serves as a way for common, and uncommon, points and counter-points to come up. This way, it gives the audience a more rounded view on the issue being discussed.

Hackathon
A portmanteau of “hacking” and “marathon”, Hackathon is basically a coding-session. This part was not implemented at this particular DevCon due to time constraints.

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