POSSCON 2012 Day 2 – Breakout Sessions 2

• During POSSCON 2012′s second day, second round of breakout sessions: – follow us @POSSCON for little-itty-bitty-blogging

  Technical - Shawn Hartsock, Speaker, Author, Open Source Contributor ( @hartsock ) - Introduction to Grails

  Grails is an open source web development framework that is built on best of breed Java technologies. In order to create a highly productive environment Grails leverages the linguistic power of the Groovy Programming Language. These tools combined allow you to produce robust, powerful applications that thrive in the same places Enterprise Java does without all the weight. Learn how to leverage all the benefits of Java without paying all of the penalties. Grails is here to help.

   

  Big Picture - Bdale Garbee, Chief Technologist for Open Source and Linux, HP, Board Member and Lead Technologist, FreedomBox ( @hp ) - FreedomBox

  FreedomBox puts into people’s own hands and under their own control encrypted voice and text communication, anonymous publishing, social networking, media sharing, and (micro)blogging.  Learn more here.

   

  Education - Carl Twarog, Professor, East Carolina University ( @EastCarolina ) - Open Source in Art

  Open source software, such as Processing and hardware, such as Arduino microcontrollers, find their way into artworks large and small, professional and amateur, and into the hands of artists of all ages and levels of experience and exposure. This talk will present some of the landscape of open source projects in art and then specifically present two in depth art projects that utilize open source software and hardware.

   

  Demo - Michael Waldrop, Director of Solutions Engineering, Alfresco ( @Alfresco ) - The Alfresco Open Source Cloud Connected Content Hub

  Michael will be discussing and demonstrating how the Alfresco platform can be used to manage content on premise, in the cloud, and to mobile devices.  Alfresco provides a proven, secure, and innovative platform for managing content and creating the content centric applications that will fuel the modern mobile workforce.