Sessions at OSCON 2011 in E143/144

Monday 25th July 2011

• Inkscape: Basic Tools and Techniques

  by Donna Benjamin

  Inkscape is a cross platform, GPL, graphics editor. Its native file format, Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG) is a W3C open standard.

  This tutorial guides participants through a series of tasks designed to introduce Inkscape’s interface and tools, and build foundation skills for creating and modifying vector graphics.

  Assumed knowledge: Free & Open Source Software licensing. Difference between raster and vector graphics.

  New knowledge goals: Inkscape interface, creating shapes & lines, working with colour. Inkscape techniques, path operations, object manipulations. How to edit existing SVGs from wikimedia commons or openclipart.org

  You don’t need to be a designer, artistic or know how to draw. Just install Inkscape on your laptop, bring a mouse, come along and learn how to get the best out of this brilliant tool.

  • Illustration
  • SVG
  • Tutorials

  At 9:00am to 12:30pm, Monday 25th July

  In E143/144, Oregon Convention Center

• Get Started with the Arduino - A Hands-On Introductory Workshop

  by Philip Lindsay

  Always wanted to create hardware devices that can interact with the real world? Heard about the Arduino electronics prototyping platform but not sure how to get started? When you attend this workshop you will: set up an Arduino board & software; learn how the Arduino fits into the field of physical computing; and make your Arduino respond to button presses and blink lights. Hardware is fun!

  • Arduino

  At 1:30pm to 5:00pm, Monday 25th July

  In E143/144, Oregon Convention Center

Tuesday 26th July 2011

• Mining and Visualizing Data from the Social Web

  by Matthew Russell

  This lab teaches you how to harvest, store, analyze, and visualize data from the most popular social networking sites (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.) with Python, pragmatic storage technologies like Redis and CouchDB, and popular visualization tools like Graphviz and JavaScript toolkits.

  • Python
  • Social Web
  • Twitter
  • Visualization

  At 9:00am to 12:30pm, Tuesday 26th July

  In E143/144, Oregon Convention Center

• Building Social Applications with StatusNet

  by Zach Copley, Evan Prodromou and Brion Vibber

  StatusNet (http://status.net/) best known as the Open Source microblogging platform, has a powerful plugin system for building new social networking applications. In this tutorial, the core developers of StatusNet show how to build server-side plugins, API clients, and custom themes to make your own social network tools.

  • Microblogging
  • StatusNet

  At 1:30pm to 5:00pm, Tuesday 26th July

  In E143/144, Oregon Convention Center