Nerd Herd: Trucking Over to Raleigh for All Things Open
Open source is people, Danese Cooper pointed out to attendees at the All Things Open conference this week in Raleigh North Carolina. Cooper (picture above) is a noted open source advocate, and her message resonated with the warm, friendly vibe of the conference, a labor-of-love for tireless organizer Jason Hibbets. The importance of people to technology was reinforced by an inspiring talk by Safia Abdalla who reminded the audience that, in this sometimes-intimidating industry, it is important to share not just code but knowledge, especially for newbies. And Jeff Atwood hammered home the point that open source software, by its very nature, “encourages us to be our better selves.”
Raleigh is a lovely hospital city to visit. Next time you find yourself downtown there, be sure to try to mac ‘n’ cheese at Poole’s Diner. Amazing!
Party Pix
Shane Curcuru of Punderthings Consulting and Jim Jagielski of Capital One.
(Right to left): Jenna Tollerson, Kendra Skeene, Nikhil Deshpande, all of Digital Services Georgia.
Danese Cooper (left), with TNS founder Alex Williams
Quotes, Observations, Presentations
.@alexwilliams of @thenewstack kicking off this year's #AllThingsOpen pic.twitter.com/OnflH5gDf4
— The New Stack (@thenewstack) October 23, 2017
#OpenSource is all about “enlightened self interest,” and works as long as we remember the “enlightened” part … @DivaDanese #ATO2017 pic.twitter.com/Z72y9wxZZC
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) October 23, 2017
How young girls are learning to program @jewelbots smart friendship bracelets (in C++!) to share secret messages @SaraJChipps #ATO2017 #IoT pic.twitter.com/5BxZ0aA3HE
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) October 23, 2017
To concerns re school use: “If your daughter is writing C++ to cheat on her 6th grade English test, that is awesome.”😂 @SaraJChipps #ato2017 pic.twitter.com/T522jGV4QV
— Bridget Kromhout (@bridgetkromhout) October 23, 2017
@kelseyhightower using Tetris to explain scheduling is one of my favorite demos. #ATO2017 pic.twitter.com/BSPZ0ETfSs
— Briana Frank ☁️ (@FranklyBriana) October 23, 2017
Open source is the heart of how tech is innovated. @tbyeaton #ato2017 pic.twitter.com/rY9d4OvCvx
— Bridget Kromhout (@bridgetkromhout) October 23, 2017
W/ automation scripts you must anticipate every failure; with #K8s you describe the workload & #Kubernetes manages-@kelseyhightower #ATO2017 pic.twitter.com/TM3sxvb2qg
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) October 23, 2017
Wrapping up first pitch from @ReechikC of Percipient.ai on machine learning computer vision #ATO2017 #AllThingsOpen pic.twitter.com/NUc87UoTJN
— The New Stack (@thenewstack) October 23, 2017
The #ATO2017 startup pitch judges include @CaretakerBob, @mrostick, @jflomenb, Jesse Wu, and Karen Levert pic.twitter.com/tdXIIauBhh
— The New Stack (@thenewstack) October 23, 2017
"You could be losing 50% of your time to environmental configuration" says @drud at #ATO2017 startup pitch competition. #AllThingsOpen pic.twitter.com/KmtVvehKVV
— The New Stack (@thenewstack) October 23, 2017
Hearing from @ianfolau of @GitLinks on #opensource monitoring for #security at #ATO2017 #AllThingsOpen pic.twitter.com/Hulj4GK3PG
— The New Stack (@thenewstack) October 23, 2017
Hearing from @DaveDri about collaborative software documentation tool @corilla for #ATO2017 startup competition #opensource #AllThingsOpen pic.twitter.com/u0g9kspRFE
— The New Stack (@thenewstack) October 23, 2017
Rocketman @gabriel_engel of @RocketChat wraps up the startup competition at #ATO2017! #opensource #AllThingsOpen pic.twitter.com/wRIm0X5YeE
— The New Stack (@thenewstack) October 23, 2017
Check out the job board at #ATO2017… Plenty hiring in #opensource and beyond #AllThingsOpen pic.twitter.com/HgurmAPkHO
— The New Stack (@thenewstack) October 23, 2017
"You still need tests with #containers! That's the first big takeaway." @kelseyhightower #AllThingsOpen #ATO2017 #Kubernetes pic.twitter.com/FUGx0K0pHz
— The New Stack (@thenewstack) October 23, 2017
Hearing from @captainsafia of @nteractio: "Don't just share code, share knowledge." #AllThingsOpen #ATO2017 #OpenSource pic.twitter.com/x5CsjYMVQh
— The New Stack (@thenewstack) October 24, 2017
There's value in deepening relationships with other #opensource contributors, especially for newcomers #AllThingsOpen #ATO2017 pic.twitter.com/zK8PJmt6sU
— The New Stack (@thenewstack) October 24, 2017
Developers are the kingmakers, @mjasay validating @sogrady at #AllThingsOpen #ATO2017 pic.twitter.com/i5YeX2Pq1S
— The New Stack (@thenewstack) October 24, 2017
Next up is @burrsutter of @RedHatNews talking about #DevOps and the death of the zero sum game #AllThingsOpen #ATO2017 pic.twitter.com/UMTiU4aREY
— The New Stack (@thenewstack) October 24, 2017
Getting a (very) fast walkthrough of optimizing #DevOps for delivery w/ @burrsutter #AllThingsOpen #ATO2017 pic.twitter.com/XBmSrupwUI
— The New Stack (@thenewstack) October 24, 2017
Progressive web apps, #JavaScript frameworks and more with @John_Papa #AllThingsOpen #ATO2017 pic.twitter.com/ETYAu9qw16
— The New Stack (@thenewstack) October 24, 2017
Sneak peek at the original @StackOverflow concept with @codinghorror #AllThingsOpen #ATO2017 #OpenSource pic.twitter.com/Rt3Jzba7IR
— The New Stack (@thenewstack) October 24, 2017
We build open source software that encourages us to be our better selves @codinghorror #ato2017 pic.twitter.com/ayau9nBXsq
— Jason Hibbets (@jhibbets) October 24, 2017
“What do you love about coding?”
“Software is easy to change to make better, and software can also encourage people to be better.” #ATO2017— Shane Curcuru 🙀💻 #BodilyAutonomy (@shanecurcuru) October 24, 2017
.@Alfresco went with the #GPL because it was the most proprietary of all the #opensource licenses — @mjasay #ATO2017 pic.twitter.com/PZHBeZIvq7
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) October 24, 2017
“Progressive Web Apps” are designed minimize loading time by paring back the code to only what is needed at that moment @john_papa #ATO2017 pic.twitter.com/Fs4qdHf5Mr
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) October 24, 2017
“Not everything is a problem to be fixed.” Sometimes it’s just about empathy — @codinghorror #ATO2017 pic.twitter.com/gLHqRUycIz
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) October 24, 2017
Imposter syndrome, individual competence, and how to handle it w/ @jesslynnrose #ATO2017 #AllThingsOpen pic.twitter.com/kvLMqdxpOo
— The New Stack (@thenewstack) October 24, 2017
An introduction to #Kubernetes and the value of #containers by @TheAmyCode of @Rancher_Labs #ATO2017 #AllThingsOpen pic.twitter.com/f9ZA9vsN7E
— The New Stack (@thenewstack) October 24, 2017
Books about successfully implementing #Devops w/ @ChrisShort at #ATO2017 #AllThingsOpen pic.twitter.com/ewnNWvFywj
— The New Stack (@thenewstack) October 24, 2017
C is good at many things, but concurrency, or protection against memory errors, are not among them @bstrie on the design of #Rust #ATO2017 pic.twitter.com/GD4687FHBa
— Joab Jackson (@Joab_Jackson) October 24, 2017
Some great, open feedback from the #opensource community to wrap up the closing of #ATO2017 #AllThingsOpen pic.twitter.com/GDhOlFqTek
— The New Stack (@thenewstack) October 24, 2017