Due to the upcoming ICT departmental move to our Newnham campus, FSOSS 2019 will be cancelled.
We look forward to hosting a bigger FSOSS in 2020!
Free and open source software is pervasive in all areas of technology.
Join us for FSOSS 2018 where we will explore engagement of communities
with free and open source software.
Join us at the Seneca@York campus October 25-26 for two days of
presentations and workshops on a wide
range of open source topics from
community engagement to technology deep dives.
Online registration is now closed
Free and open source software is everywhere now, and the ideas of open source have outgrown software to become a standard
part of how people get things done. Seneca College's Centre for Development of Open Technology (CDOT) invites you
to the 2018 Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS)
- FSOSS Engage
This year, FSOSS is about
getting involved. Engaging with community leaders, educators, activists, government agencies and anyone else who wants
to change the world. We're looking for speakers who'd like to share their experiences using free and open source tools,
projects and practices to make the world a better place.
This year's FSOSS has 3 different talk formats
to choose from:
Thursday, October 25th, 2018 | |||||
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Start Time | Track 1: S1206 |
Track 2: S1208 |
Track 3: S2168 |
Workshop Track 1 |
Workshop Track 2 |
9:00 AM | "Security Awareness Month" Stephen Perciballi, (S1206) |
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10:00 AM | Lightning Talk 1 - emerging tech |
Values Innovation and Bitcoin | Exploring the Wonders of Motors – FREE & OPEN |
Security Workshop | |
11:00 AM | Lightning Talk 2 - community |
Open Source Assistive Technology with Makers Making Change | |||
12:00 PM | Lunch (Cafeteria) |
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1:00 PM | Innovation Sucks | OBS Studio: Creating Videos for Education |
Elytron: Next-Generation Security for Java Servers | Security Workshop | Learning Git with Github |
2:00 PM | Open Source: Four Student's Story - Panel | Our Journey to Service 5 Million Messaging Connections on Kubernetes | The Importance of Logging With the Use of Open-Source Technologies | ||
3:00 PM | "Open CRISPR - leveraging open source for scientific discovery" Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, (S1206) |
Friday, October 26th, 2018 | |||||
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Start Time | Track 1: S1206 |
Track 2: S1208 |
Track 3: S2168 |
Workshop Track 1 |
Workshop Track 2 |
9:00 AM | "If You Thought It Was Free, It Won’t Last Much Longer" Suneel Joshi, (S1206) |
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10:00 AM | Can Artificial Intelligence Solve NP-Hard Problems? | Intro to OWASP and Application Security | Monitoring Java Applications with Flight Recorder and Mission Control | Tic-Tac-Toe on the Raspberry Pi | |
11:00 AM | A Brief History of Women in Computing |
A Pentester's Paranoia - Why Hacking Can Be Fun and Scary | All About Ansible | ||
12:00 PM | Lunch (Cafeteria) |
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1:00 PM | Lightning talk 3 - deep-dive/security |
Developing and Implementing an Effective Endpoint Security Strategy |
Eclipse Che: the cloud IDE for your team | Tic-Tac-Toe on the Raspberry Pi | Learning Pixel Shaders through Creative Coding |
2:00 PM | Lightning talk 4 - emerging tech |
Machine Learning at Scale to Detect Post-Exploitation Attacks |
Why kids should learn hacking | ||
3:00 PM | "Stronger together - how security and open source are good for each other" Laura Payne, (S1206) |
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4:00 PM | FSOSS Reception (Cafeteria) |
Lightning Talk | |||||
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Lightning Talk 1 Emerging Tech |
Lightning Talk 2 Community |
Lightning Talk 3 Deep-dive/Security |
Lightning Talk 4 Emerging Tech |
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Leveraging Machine Learning for Playing Smarter Fantasy Football | Contributing to the Eclipse IDE: Quick Start Guide to Getting Involved In an Open Source Community | Two-Way SSL and Dynamic KeyStore Updates in WildFly Elytron | Test Automation with Cucumber | ||
OSTree - Atomic Upgrades and the Development Community | React-Native: Building Native Mobile Apps with a Single Code Base | 7 years of OpenZFS | Language Server Protocol | ||
React Cupertino: A React UI Component Library | Container Storage Interfaces (CSI): An Example of Collaboration Amongst Open Source Communities | Migrating From MySQL To Postgres | Open Source - Lofty Dreams | ||
Dive into Open Source |
Seneca College's Centre for Development of Open Technology (CDOT) and School of Information and Communications Technology have proudly presented the Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS) annually since 2002. FSOSS brings together developers, educators, industry, the user community and other enthusiasts to discuss free software, open source, open web and academic/industry partnerships.
The symposium attracts IT professionals, high-profile free software and open source developers, thought leaders, movers
and shakers, educators, students and those interested in open source. These delegates play a key role in influencing
the free software and open source communities and the international IT field.
Notable organizations that have participated include Mozilla, Novell, Apple, Red Hat Inc., Microsoft Canada, IBM Canada,
Sun Canada, ATI, EDS Canada, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, OpenOffice.org, Bank of Montreal, CIBC, RBC Financial
Group, HackLab.TO and the National Research Council.
This highly successful event depends on the generous support of our sponsors to help us keep registration costs low and accessible to a wider audience in the spirit of Open Source.
Please contact us to discuss sponsorship opportunities. fsoss@senecacollege.ca
"The entire symposium was intellectually stimulating, highlighting trends in open source and how to do what we do better."
- Crystle Numan, Newsforge
"If you are in Northern America and have wanted to go to a conference but the big conferences were either too expensive (OSCON)
or far away (FOSDEM), I heartily recommend this one." - Benjamin Smedberg, Mozilla Corporation
The following hotels are located near FSOSS: Hilton Garden Inn and Marriot Residence Inn - Located at Hwy 7 and Jane St., these hotels are 5 km from FSOSS - only 10 minutes on the Viva rapid bus service.
The Seneca@York campus is accessible by public transit, being served by over 1700 TTC, Viva, YRT, GO, and Brampton Transit busses per day, plus GO Train service. The MyTTC community-operated site provides transit planning for travel with Toronto. For those coming from York Region, north of Toronto, trips can be planned through the YRT trip planner. For those driving. FSOSS is located near highway 400 and the 407 ETR.
Address: 70 The Pond Road Toronto, Ontario M3J 3M6
Tel: 416-491-5050 ext. 33703
Email: fsoss@senecacollege.ca