Sessions at SCALE 10x about Linux

Saturday 21st January 2012

• Bringing Linux into Public Schools and Community Centers

  by Elizabeth Krumbach

  Volunteers with the San Francisco Bay Area non-profit Partimus have been working to put Linux and other F/OSS software into area schools. Getting into schools is one of the biggest hurdles for anyone looking to bring F/OSS into education and can often be an insurmountable one, so the first suggestion will be that if the goal is to spread Linux and F/OSS in education is to start with an adult learning center, after school program or similar organization in the area.

  • Advocacy
  • Education
  • Linux

  At 10:00am to 11:00am, Saturday 21st January

  Coverage slide deck write-up

• Linux Based Personal Robotics

  by Tully Foote

  ROS (Robot Operating System) provides libraries and tools to help software developers create robot applications. It provides hardware abstraction, device drivers, libraries, visualizers, message-passing, package management, and more. In building ROS we use Linux both as a platform and a model for development. As a platform Linux provides a great development environment and tools in addition to well packaged libraries which are tested and integrated. As a model for development, the open source community built up around Linux is one of the most productive ways to develop.

  • Linux
  • Robotics

  At 3:00pm to 4:00pm, Saturday 21st January

  Coverage write-up

• Automotive: the Next Frontier for Mobile Linux

  by Alison Chaiken

  • Automotive Engineering
  • Linux

  At 6:00pm to 7:00pm, Saturday 21st January

  Coverage write-up