Events

You may be interested in learning about the legal issues surrounding free software in Brazil with this speech (in Portuguese; also the second part).

Title: Desenvolvimento de Software Livre: Aspectos Culturais e Tecnológicos (Free Software Development: Cultural and Technological Aspects)

Authors: Fabio Kon e Nelson Lago

Date: 13 de fevereiro de 2009, às 14:00h

Place: SERPRO

Abstract:

A course on the importance of automated tests, dealing with the main technologies and associated methods.

Total course time: 20h.

The material (in English):

Programa:Histórico. Configuração mínima. Onde conseguir. Comandos básicos. Ambiente de trabalho. Aplicativos. Simulação de uma instalação.
Pré-requisitos:Conhecimentos básicos de sistema operacional.
Público:Interessados em aprender a utilizar um sistema operacional livre.
Carga Horária:20
Local: CEC
Taxa: R$ 110.00
R$55,00: taxa especial para professores da rede pública de ensino (mediante apresentação de "hollerith")

Title: The Business of Open Source
Author: Anthony (Tony) Wasserman
Date: 05/01/2009, 14h00 (Monday)
Place: IME (bloco A, auditório Antonio Gillioli)

Files: Slides

Abstract:

Title: Uma introdução à linguagem Scala
Author: Filipe Ferraz Salgado (Master Student)
Date: 08/12/2008
Abstract:

Scala is a programming language adequate for both small and large scale components. The extensibility of the language allows for a lot of flexibility, and a frequently used extension is similar to Erlang's actors. This seminar will present and introduction to the language, its expansion mechanisms, and the actors library.

Title: Decentralized development process at Canonical Inc.
Author: Christian Robottom Reis
Date: 28/11/2008, 14h00 (Friday)
Place: Sala 136A, IME-USP
Abstract:
Canonical is a peculiar company, as it uses distributed development a lot: beyond a few exceptions, all engineers and development managers work from home. Almost all coordination is done online or by phone.

Title: Groupware Workbench: A set of components for the development of groupware systems
Author: Marco Aurélio Gerosa (Professor IME-USP)
Date: 24/11/2208
Abstract:

In this seminar, we present a set of components for the development of groupware systems aiming to foster the prototyping, experimentation and creativity in the development of groupware applications.

Title: Balanceamento de carga em GNU/Linux
Author: Fernanda G. Weiden
Date: 12/11/2008
Abstract: Fernanda G. Weiden (from Google-Switzerland) will present the currently available solutions under GNU/Linux for load balancing: what is supported, what works, how it works, what doesn't work, and why. Also, new initiatives are currently under way, some of them leaded by the Google load-balancing team, and so future developments in this area will also be presented.

The CCSL has promoted a short course on "Free Software use in the industry: intelectual property and business models" during the ESELAW 2008, at Salvador, on November 7th.

O CCSL tem o prazer de convidar todos a participar do minicurso sobre Ruby on Rails na próxima semana! Quinta-feira, 06 de novembro de 2008, das 14:00 às 18:00, no IME-USP.

Instrutor: Fabricio de Sousa
Data: Quinta-feira, 06 de novembro de 2008
Horário: 14:00 às 18:00
Local: Auditório Jacy Monteiro

O CCSL está promovendo um tutorial de desenvolvimento em C++ no ambiente Eclipse. Será uma sessão bem informal no dia 21/10, das 12:00 às 14:00 no Lab. Eclipse no CEC.

Como o espaço é limitado, interessados devem se inscrever a priori escrevendo para ccsl@ime.usp.br. Você receberá um email confirmando a sua inscrição. Se lotar, podemos marcar outra data futura.

Os tópicos abordados serão:

Title: Open Source Software Project's Attractiveness: an empirical evaluation of its causes and consequences
Author: Carlos Santos Jr. (PhD candidate, Southern Illinois University)
Date: 15/09/2008

Em parceria com o INdT (Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia)

The IME-USP FOSS Competence Center and the IndT (Nokia Institute odf Tecnology) promote at IME-USP, from 08-25 to 08-29, the Mobility Week with lectures and training on the platform maemo (languages C and Python).
The novelty will be the involvement of designers who will speak on design for software (mobile applications and open source).

The IME-USP FOSS competence center receives CELEPAR, informatics enterprise of Paraná government, one of the most active institutions in the production and dissemination of free software in the public sphere, to promote the Paraná Free Software Circuit on August 22 and 23. The event has been done for more than two years itinerantly around Brazil. This year, the stage of São Paulo has the endorsement of IME and the CCSL. Participate!
 
*The registrations is free (in Portuguese):

G-POPAI promotes the presentation "The Ironic Rise of Free and Open Source Software and the Making of a Hacker Legal Consciousness", by Gabriella Coleman, New York University.

The presentation will be in English, at anfiteatro 3 (bloco didático) - EACH (USP Zona Leste).

Resumo:

No dia 16/junho, segunda-feira, na sala B-5 do IME/USP das 10:00 às 13:00 teremos um par de palestras sobre empreendedorismo em desenvolvimento de software com Métodos Ágeis. Começaremos com uma palestra do Cícero Torteli da empresa Paggo cuja metodologia de desenvolvimento, baseada em XP, foi moldada pelo nosso ex-aluno Alexandre Freire. Em seguida, para ressetar as papilas auditivas, teremos como sorbet tecnológico uma palestra do Prof. Jef sobre modelagem e implementação de bases de dados em contextos ágeis.

• Cicero, Paggo
• Jef, IME
• Daniel, LocaWeb

Palestras sobre empreendedorismo em desenvolvimento de software com Métodos Ágeis

The CCSL promotes the presentation on "What is service science", by Claudio Pinhanez, an IME/USP alumnus and current IBM researcher, at the Antonio Giglioli Room.

More information: http://www.pinhanez.com/claudio/

CCSL promotes the presentation "What are Service Sciences", by Claudio Pinhanez, an IME/USP alumnus and current researcher at IBM Research, T.J. Watson and IBM Brasil, at Antonio Giglioli room.

Palestra sobre a escolha do embaixador da Sun no IME/USP.

A Sun microsystems, no intuito de ampliar o conhecimento sobre seus produtos e os diversos programas com licenças livres integrados a eles, promove regularmente um programa de "Embaixadores" vinculados
às intituições de ensino.

G-POPAI promotes the presentation "Creative Industries", by Volker Grassmuck, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

This presentation will be in English, at auditório vermelho - EACH.

Abstract:

Presentation on the Ambassador program by Sun at IME/USP.

Some USP employees will take a course on intermediate linux at the CCSL, dealing with shell scripting and network services configuration, such as SMTP, HTTP, DNS, NFS etc. Classes will take place on June 04th, June 11th, June 18th, June 25th, and July 02nd.