oshug October 2017

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Open Technology Workshop and Biomaker Fayre - 21 Oct 2017
by Jenny Molloy 12 Oct '17

12 Oct '17

Dear All I thought this event focused on open hardware in science might be of interest to this list - there are places left for attendees and exhibitors and all are welcome! Best wishes Jenny -- Dr Jenny Molloy Coordinator, OpenPlant and Synthetic Biology Strategic Research Initiative University of Cambridge @synbioSRI | http://www.synbio.cam.ac.uk/ @_OpenPlant | http://openplant.org/ Subscribe to OpenPlant <http://openplant.us10.list-manage2.com/subscribe?u=5a06e872cbcb323379912c47…> and SynBio SRI <http://cam.us10.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=0577ce1c25cff983caf75199a&id=f0…> newsletters and join the Cambridge Synthetic Biology Meetup group <http://www.meetup.com/Cambridge-Synthetic-Biology-Meetup/>. *Open Technology Workshop and Biomaker Fayre - 21 Oct 2017* Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge Open Technology Week will showcase and celebrate open and open source technologies for research and education developed across Cambridge and beyond. In the Open Technology Workshop, you'll see exciting talks on everything from distributed 3D printing in Africa, open hardware in Brazil and universities collaborating with companies to create open technologies in Denmark. The Biomaker Fayre in the afternoon will include demonstrations of open source biological instruments, lab and field equipment featuring over 40 teams who participated in the 2017 Biomaker Challenge <https://www.biomaker.org/>. All others with maker projects related to science and biology are invited to exhibit! We'll have everything from spectrometers for measuring the colour of penguin guano, microfluidics for tissue culture, to ultrasonic systems for measuring plant height and 3D printed modular microscopes. *More info and register now: http://tiny.cc/opentechweek <http://tiny.cc/opentechweek>* (£5-10 inc. lunch and drinks reception, free for exhibitors and those in financial hardship)

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OSHUG 61 — Reimagining EDSAC, NetBSD Updates, Semantic & Change Coupling of Software Classes, Thurs 19th October.
by Andrew Back 10 Oct '17

10 Oct '17

Hello, Details can be found below for the 61st meeting, which is in just over a week, so please don't delay in registering if you plan to attend. Best, Andrew // Event #61 — OSSG AGM, Reimagining EDSAC, NetBSD Updates, Semantic and Change Coupling of Software Classes. On the 19 October 2017, 18:00 - 21:00 at BCS London, 1st Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA. Registration: http://oshug.org/event/61 The meeting this month will start with the BCS OSSG AGM and this will be followed by a talk on recent and planned improvements to NetBSD, a report from Chip Hack EDSAC Challenge, and finally a talk on the interplay between semantic coupling and co-change of software. — BCS Open Source SG - AGM All members of OSHUG are welcome to attend and OSHUG members are encouraged to put themselves forward to join the committee. In particular we would welcome anyone to join the event organizers who arrange the speakers for each month and the occasional all-day workshops. Currently we have Sevan Janiyan, @ndy Bennett and Andrew Back as event organizers on the committee. — Updates to the NetBSD operating system since OSHUG #57 & #58 Since the workshops held earlier this year, numerous changes have been made to the NetBSD operating system to ensure future workshops are easier for users and work smoother from the outset. This talk will cover some of the improvements made so far and what's currently in the works. >From wrestling with the u-boot firmware to new tools included in the os and much more. * Sevan Janiyan is founder of Venture 37, which provides system administration & consultancy services. As a fan of operating systems and computers with different CPU architectures, in his spare time he maintains builds of open source software on a variety of systems featuring PowerPC, SPARC and armv7l CPUs. He hopes to own a NeXTcube & OMRON LUNA-88K2 one day. — Reimagining EDSAC: The ChipHack experience ChipHack is an occasional 2 day workshop introducing students and hobbyists to FPGA design. This year, ChipHack was sponsored by the BCS OSSG and Computer Conservation Society. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the BCS, the workshop was extended by half a day and attempted to reimagine one of the earliest valve computers, EDSAC, designed by the BCS' founding president, Prof Sir Maurice Wilkes. * Mary Bennett led the team putting together the technical content of the workshop. She will report back on what was achieved, from the three implementations of the computer, to the diverse reimagining of the original peripherals. The result is a legacy of lectures and videos, to allow anyone to run their own ChipHack course. — The Interplay between Semantic Coupling and Co-Change of software classes During maintenance, developers must ensure that related entities are updated to be consistent with these changes. Studies in the static change impact analysis domain have identified that a combination of source code and lexical information outperforms using each one when adopted independently. The presentation has two aims: first, to compare the effectiveness of measuring semantic coupling of OO software classes using (i) simple identifier based techniques and (ii) the word corpora of the entire classes in a software system. Second, to empirically investigate the interplay between semantic and change coupling. * Dr Andrea Capiluppi joined the Department of Computer Science at Brunel University London (UK), as a Lecturer in Software Development in May2012. Between 2009 and 2012 he was at University of East London, working as a Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering. Before that, he worked as a Senior Lecturer and at University of Lincoln between 2006 and 2009. Andrea's research and teaching interests focus on Software Evolution and Maintenance, as well as the construction, evaluation and maintenance of Social Networks. Andrea is mostly interested in the use of open technologies and in understanding how they can improve learning and teaching as well as the production of software and other artefacts. Note: Please aim to arrive by 18:15 as the event will start at 18:30 prompt. // -- Andrew Back http://abopen.com

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BCS OSSG/OSHUG meeting 6:30pm 19 Oct 2017
by Jeremy Bennett 06 Oct '17

06 Oct '17

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Rather later notice than usual, but the next meeting of BCS OSSG/OSHUG will take place on Thursday 19 October. We start with the BCS AGM (which is quite short) and then have two talks. BCS AGM - ------- All members of OSHUG are welcome to attend and OSHUG members are encouraged to put themselves forward to join the committee. In particular we would welcome anyone to join the event organizers who arrange the speakers for each month and the occasional all-day workshops. Currently we have Sevan Janiyan, @ndy Bennett and Andrew Back as event organizers on the committee. Reimagining EDSAC: The ChipHack experience - ------------------------------------------ Speaker: Mary Bennett ChipHack is an occasional 2 day workshop introducing students and hobbyists to FPGA design. This year, ChipHack was sponsored by the BCS OSSG and Computer Conservation Society. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the BCS, the workshop was extended by half a day and attempted to reimagine one of the earliest valve computers, EDSAC, designed by the BCS' founding president, Prof Sir Maurice Wilkes. The workshop used the open source MyStorm board (created by OSHUG members Al Wood and Ken Boak) and the YoSys open source FPGA tool chain created by Clifford Wolf. Mary led the team putting together the technical content of the workshop. She will report back on what was achieved, from the three implementations of the computer, to the diverse reimagining of the original peripherals. The result is a legacy of lectures and videos, to allow anyone to run their own ChipHack course. Updates to the NetBSD operating system since OSHUG #57 & #58 - ------------------------------------------------------------ Speaker: Sevan Janiyan Since the workshops held earlier this year, numerous changes have been made to the NetBSD operating system to ensure future workshops are easier for users and work smoother from the outset. This talk will cover some of the improvements made so far and what's currently in the works. - From wrestling with the u-boot firmware to new tools included in the os and much more. Sevan Janiyan is founder of Venture 37, which provides system administration & consultancy services. As a fan of operating systems and computers with different CPU architectures, in his spare time he maintains builds of open source software on a variety of systems featuring PowerPC, SPARC and armv7l CPUs. He hopes to own a NeXTcube & OMRON LUNA-88K2 one day. Third talk TBA - -------------- Best wishes, Jeremy - -- Tel: +44 (1590) 610184 Cell: +44 (7970) 676050 SkypeID: jeremybennett Twitter: @jeremypbennett Email: jeremy.bennett(a)embecosm.com Web: www.embecosm.com PGP key: 1024D/BEF58172FB4754E1 2009-03-20 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlnXMVAACgkQvvWBcvtHVOHIPACgj8k3njsFs5mSkDu2nRI7C8h/ hLUAnR8+tiLfstd7Jwr93cchY+jHGhKI =nNGr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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