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Students: Submit Poster Sessions to the Upcoming Humanitarian FOSS Symposium

Just a quick note to let all my student friends know that the Humanitarian FOSS Symposium is providing travel grants and registration fee waivers to students whose posters are accepted for presentation at the conference. Instructions and poster submission form … Continue reading

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Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Symposium

I’ve been fortunate enough to speak at the annual Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS) Symposium in both 2009 and 2010, and I’m certainly hoping to be able to attend once again this year. The HFOSS Symposium brings together … Continue reading

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Teaching Open Source Lunch at Grace Hopper

My previous post about Grace Hopper focused on all the cool ‘official’ conference activities, but the Teaching Open Source community members in attendance organized an informal lunch meetup to talk about all the great projects we’re working on at the … Continue reading

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Reflections on Grace Hopper 2010

I attended the Grace Hopper conference for the first time this year, and it was an incredibly inspiring four days for me. You can find more extensive notes on the sessions on the conference wiki, and the #ghc10 Tweet stream … Continue reading

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Open Source Track at Grace Hopper

For those not familiar with the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, a.k.a. Grace Hopper or GHC, it’s the world’s largest conference for women in Computer Science and related technical fields. It’s well worth taking a look at the … Continue reading

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