In school we are taught to write everything. Modern applications are built on the backs of great frameworks, let's explore the process.  This talk-shop will walk students through the process of growing an idea from a seed into a full fledged application while focusing on leveraging existing frameworks and code as much as possible.  The example will be based on a proposed documentation publishing system for Fedora.  The concept grows from "Publish AsciiDoc" to have an automatically publishing container based pipeline for maintaining a documentation website.  Technologies used will mostly include: AsciiDoc, AsciiDoctor, AsciiBinder, OpenShift, and Jenkins.

We'll learn to use the Firefox Developer Tools like a regular web developer so we can Inspect The Web. This activity will allow people to get a better understanding of the DevTools baked into Firefox and what they can do to increase their proficiency.This is a hands on talk, no slides attached, we're going to cover the Page Inspector - with CSS, Selectors and Animations - the Console, Debugger, Storage Inspector and then we'll showcase the Firefox Developer Edition.

We've taken deep, data-driven and analytical approach to understanding Mozilla's contributors and communities -- these are our findings!

How to engage people in your open source community using social networks? Which problems can you encounter and how can you solve them? In this talk we try to answer these questions, starting from my point of view here at WikiToLearn. We are discussing the meaning of community building using social networks, their strength and weaknesses. Social networks are one of the most powerful means of community building nowadays, if used properly! In this talk we try to point out the difference between getting likes and getting people involved, using socials. Getting likes is only the starting point: we discuss how to go from likes to real engagement... For example the organization of an entire conference dedicated to your project, as we did this year with WikiToLearnConfIndia2017!

Mozilla Meetup

What happens when users design software? Adam will present Editoria, an open source monograph system, designed by the staff of the University of California Press and the Californian Digital Library. The software is a very innovative approach to workflow problems many publishers share and the process challenges the embedded notion that 'users dont know what they want'. Adam will also discuss the methodology used to enable users to design their solutions and how they work with developers and UX specialists to build it.

LibreOffice Meetup

Commercial and business use of technology

All mighty things what you want to know how to run games on Fedora Linux.

The long way to empower people to control technology Software is deeply involved in all aspects of our lives. It is important that this technology empowers rather than restricts us. Free Software gives everybody the rights to use, understand, adapt and share software.  These rights help support other fundamental rights like freedom of speech, freedom of press and privacy.The Free Software Foundation Europe is a charity that empowers users to control technology by:- helping individuals and organisations to understand how Free Software  contributes to freedom, transparency, and self-determination.- enhancing users' rights by abolishing barriers to Free Software adoption.- Encouraging people to use and develop Free Software.- Providing resources to enable everyone to further promote Free Software in  Europe.                             In this talk Matthias will talk about how he joined the FSFE, highlight theimportance of Free Software for society, give some examples of the FSFE's work from the past 15 years, and show how you as individual or organisation can work with us the FSFE for software freedom.

Nextcloud is open source software for file sync & share, calendars, contacts, video calls and much more. We are a welcoming community where you can easily get involved – so let’s get you started! :)

We will discover Copr, create a demo package and push it to Fedora's easy-to-use automatic build system, using Copr to host our package and make it publicly available.

Servo is a web browser engine written in rust programming language. Hence it adapts to the features of the rust which are high performances, memory safety; no data races, automatic memory management and concurrency built in. Servo is a project sponsored by Mozilla, it is also an open source free software project which anyone can contribute towards it. The main aim of servo is to create an architecture that uses parallelism in multiple ways whilst preventing bugs/ security issues that can end up affecting memory management and data races.Servo aims to parallelism as much as possible as servo aims for high performance and safety. What sets Servo apart from other engines, such as Google's Blink or Microsoft's Edge Html, is its use of parallelism, which sees tasks distributed across multiple processor cores.

Frameworks such as Meteor.js are simplifying and streamlining the user experience and create fast and responsive interfaces on the web. Why have traditional applications completely missed out on this trand? With the help of Qt, we can change this situation.At the end of the talk the attendees will know how to create multiplatform applications (for desktop AND mobile) using only native APIs: those applications will communicate a remote backend just like they were Javascript code running in the browser.

LibreOffice migration protocol, as suggested by The Document Foundation to organization deploying LibreOffice.

How to use Mautic to implement marketing automation for your projects.

Keeping your data safe is increasingly important in a world of Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple & co. That’s why we develop Nextcloud to be as easy and useful as the proprietary platforms – but with you in control.

You may find your self travelling to different places around the world like just right now, you are visiting a conference in a city you have never been before, or you decide to go to the mountains. You find yourself in a situation that a map could really help or you need to fix something in your code and you just forgot that syntax for this big npm module that isn't even installed? This topic could give you some tips and tricks. A workshop focused in offline-first internet. 

Whilst anyone can inspect the source code of free software for malicious flaws, most Linux distributions provide binary (or "compiled") packages to end users.The motivation behind "reproducible" builds is to allow verification that no flaws have been introduced during this compilation process by promising identical binary packages are always generated from a given source.This prevents against the installation of backdoor-introducing malware on developers' machines - an attacker would need to simultaneously infect or blackmail all developers attempting to reproduce the build.This talk will focus heavily on how exactly software can fail to be reproducible, the tools, tests & specifications we have written to fix & diagnose issues, as well as the many amusing "fails" in upstream's code that have been unearthed by this process. In addition, you will learn what to avoid in your own software as well as the future efforts in the Reproducible Builds arena.

This talk will describe what it means to do Open Source engineering while working for Red Hat. We will go into the details of the challenges, cooperation and satisfaction that make up my daily work.We'll look at it both from the high-level philosophical point of view of "why the hell does Red Hat spend salary money on free stuff!?" to the low-level detail of what I do all day.I'll also provide a quick introduction to how I ended up from the desks of the Technical University of Tirana (Universiteti Politeknik i Tiranës) to the open source engineering teams of Red Hat.

A brief introduction to Ham Radio, SDR and the RTL-SDR dongles with Debian.

An overview on phpList, the open source email marketing system

This workshop is designed to help users who are new to QGIS to find their way around, and to understand some of its main features. It doesn't assume an understanding of GIS, though if you are familiar with GIS you'll be able to move through much quicker.

12 year before Snowden the EU already knew they should not trust US tech but chose to make itself more dependent on it anyway. We need a radical change in the way we select the tech that runs our society.Without reliably working software and data-processing the modern world stops working. From the supermarkets where you get your food to the electricity or gas that heats it up to the water that cleans your plate afterwards; IT is everywhere but still has a long way to go to reach the reliability of older technologies (such as the basic elements of the powergrid). IT is still developing very rapidly and new developments are stacked on top of slightly older ones. So on the one hand we now have 'smart' thermostats you can control via an app but on the other hand those thermostats can easily be hacked and then operated, in their millions, by someone else. When these same technologies are applied to industrial systems things risk start to look more like a bad Hollywood thriller scenario and less like the paper wisdom of ITIL-certification courses.The Stuxnet case and the revelations by Edward Snowden have shown how fundamental the problems (and challenges to fix them) are. Most systems and platforms in common use are, by design untrustworthy in ways that cannot be fixed barring regime change in the US. While a lot more work needs to be done on detecting breaches of security sooner this does not really solve any problems, just cleans up the mess afterward.In order to re-gain trust in systems because we can *trust* them we need to be willing to move away from proprietary systems and 'cloud' computers under the control of foreign powers. Even the most common used hardware platforms and CPU-architectures need to be up for discussion and replacement by more trustworthy alternatives. Nothing is irreplaceable and by replacing what we know we cannot trust by things we can a future of computing under control of citizens is possible.

I'm going to start with a light lecture that shows to people what Virtual Reality is, when and why it was invented and thing related with that and than continue with a lecture about MozVR and at the and a demoing for all attendees about WebVR / MozVR

Edubuntu and LTSP can help a teacher to manage easily the computers of a class room. In this workshop we will see how.

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Learn how to build a secure system for anonymous transmission, acquisition, storage, and processing confidential and otherwise sensitive data in the world where privacy and liberty are not granted any more.

This workshop is for folks who want to contribute to the development of the FLOSS community by organizing events or activities (meet-up, [un]conference, lectures, dojo, …), for a project, at school, in their home country or anywhere else. Participation does not require previous experience organizing FLOSS activities but everyone must know which community they wish to support.After briefly covering types of events that are possible to organize (to inspire), dispelling some common myths about what's required to make a positive difference on the FLOSS community (to build confidence) and introducing ourselves and our communities or interest, I will walk the participants through a basic creative thinking and interactive excersize to help everyone prepare a strawman proposal and get them committed to taking the 'next steps' to organize the FLOSS event of their choice. Plus free tips and hints!

Data now is very important as thing to understand and to know how to use and how to play with, with Data we can lie and we can bring the right insight and solutions for any complicated things. Every piece in this world Machine, language, application we can find data behind it. In my workshop I will explain why what and how we get Data to let them leave the present how it's useful, with a simple example and simple open source tools.

The Web evolves at an incredible speed, from 90 to now days we have seen the born of Email, Mobiles, Cloud, Browsers... Many business many great companies today relies on Internet that is why is very important to provide a great user experience. Online users are growing every year but not every of them can rely on a fast internet connection or a powerful device. 

Amazon found that every 100 milliseconds of latency cost them 1% in sales, google found that an extra 0.5 seconds in search page generation time, dropped traffic by 20%. A broker could lose $4 million in revenues per millisecond if their electronic trading platform is 5 milliseconds behind the competition.

Progressive web apps are current and future technologies  that we can use today on our web application, without needing to re-write from scratch our applications by introducing progressively new features and improvements.  

What is shaping the software development world now?

How is software built nowadays?

Is there any change in how software is structured, served, consumed and generally used?

What's the big deal with big data, microservices, the javascript frenzy, containers etc?

Is any of this stuff valuable, open, usable? Is it worth the effort?

How do I decide what to use and what not?

Copyright digitisation and related rights are increasingly being used to lock up our cultural heritage beyond the original, and already too long, copyright terms. We need to safeguard access to our cultural heritage and a positive definition of the public domain.

With WorldBrain we work on developing a scalable solution to online misinformation.

Doing so with an open-source search engine for your personal knowledge that lets you share your information bubble and explore the bubbles of the people you trust.

By doing web-research and consuming content, everyone builds their own personal information bubble. These bubbles, in which people mentally evaluated every article they saw for its relevance and trustworthiness, as well how they were related, hold immense value to themselves and others.

Imagine a world, where you can translate all the mental associations that make up your bubble into data and exchange it with your friends, followers and other applications in a self-determined way. #ownyourdata

In this talk you'll learn how we aim to get there and how this network of sharing can contribute to fighting online misinformation as well as lay the foundation for many other use cases.

This talk will reveal the very basics of what usability is and how it is measured. Renata will show a simple way to test usability of open source software with minimal resources, to get useful feedback for you and usable interfaces for users.

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It takes a good team and a lot of open source tools to turn billions of Firefox transmissions into quality datasets. We will learn how Mozilla's built a pipeline with nginx; Kafka; Hindsight and Lua; AWS EMR and S3; Spark and Parquet; Postgres; and d3.js. We will see that SQL solves some hard problems and creates some new problems (that we will learn how to fix). Coders will learn recipes for compressing big data to laptop scale with controllable and transparent losses. Managers will learn how to build a team that makes data valuable and easy to use. Principles discussed are independent of toolsets.

MusicBrainz is an open source music encyclopedia powered by community-contributed metadata. With MusicBrainz, it’s possible to not only contribute artist, album, and track information for your favorite music, but using the MusicBrainz Picard app, you can take back control of your local music library to have it use correct metadata, album artwork, and more. Laptop with some local music files recommended for the best experience.

In this session, Joni Baboci from the Municipality of Tirana will explain the process behind the Open Data Tirana portal, launched in April 2017 and its importance towards the decentralization of information and data.

Protect your privacy. NSA, GHCQ, BND, Google, Facebook & co are watching you. You know it, you have heard it over and over again, and there's probably a little voice in your head that tells you that you should do something about it. But what? Get all the tools, encrypt all the things, use TOR, PGP, OTR and the rest. And that is where you stop listening to that voice in your head. Only few of these tools are easy to understand, to get started with, and to use on a daily basis. User pain level: too high. This is why movements like CryptoParty exist - and it shouldn't be the case. CryptoParty must die!

Free and open source software and open data in public administration.

Being one of the most used Open-Source website building platforms, Bootstrap revolutionized the way we design & develop websites. The workshop will cover Bootstraps core features like responsiveness, the 12 column grid and their order, the components, the way it handles JavaScript and how to customize Bootstrap for your own purposes. The workshop will also cover the design thinking & doing in Bootstrap with its iconography, typography, colors and how to combine them to come up with a better looking and user friendly design.

A workshop dedicated to online security in today's digital world

My topic is being referred to TEMPEST. TEMPEST it's an complicated attack of offline computers using EMF. It is referring to spying on information systems through leaking emanations, including unintentional radio or electrical signals, sounds, and vibrations. TEMPEST covers both methods to spy upon others and also how to shield equipment against such spying. The protection efforts are also known as emission security (EMSEC), which is a subset of communications security (COMSEC). The NSA methods for spying upon computer emissions are classified, but some of the protection standards have been released by either the NSA or the Department of Defense.Protecting equipment from spying is done with distance, shielding, filtering, and masking.The TEMPEST standards mandate elements such as equipment distance from walls, amount of shielding in buildings and equipment, and distance separating wires carrying classified vs. unclassified materials, filters on cables etc.

I would like to talk about playing mainstream AAA games on Fedora, from the native ports to using Wine. I would go through the most common issues which Gamers on Fedora can face and provide solution for them. I will give few recommendations how to increase gaming performance on Fedora. Preview of actual situation around drivers for GPUs, few benchmark scores with direct comparison of performance on Windows. I will also talk a little bit about graphics APIs which are used nowadays by developers. In the end, I'd offer my own view on how will Gaming on Fedora evolve in the future.

Fedora Meetup

Wikimedia Meetup

The talk will be focused on activities every tech-related individual can be involved into, including ways to contribute to communities and Open Source projects, hopefully encouraging more people to invest (intellectually) in Albanian Open Source projects.

One of the most well-known writers of literature, J.K. Rowling is a master of storytelling. What you might not have guessed is that open source and J.K. Rowling have something in common. The importance of storytelling in open source projects is as important as some of Rowling's famous characters in Harry Potter. In this session, speaker Justin W. Flory introduces the role of storytelling in open source projects and how to uncover that narrative. There a variety of tools and methods that can be used to help tell the story of project, particularly with data analysis. By the end audience members will understand the role of crafting the story of their open source project and how it motivates the community, what methods are available for writing this story, and what the outcome of focusing on storytelling results in.

OpenStreetMap Meetup

An open source community is made up of a mixture of professionals and volunteers from all over the world, working together. Diversity is one of the huge strengths, but it can also lead to communication issues and unhappiness. In this talk we will see the strategies to improve communications, avoid conflicts and create a more inclusive community opens to all the newcomers.The strength of the entire chain depends on its weakest link.

Open Source Design Meetup

Free & Open Source Software is dominating the world. It can be seen everywhere nowadays - computers, phones, smart devices. What is the true power of such technologies? That would be the communities. Thousands of people, coming from different backgrounds and living in all parts of the globe, contribute their time, talent and skills for the advancement of their favourite projects.Communities can sometimes be very large as well as extremely diverse, with contributors working seamlessly together. It is not always the case, however - communications are frequently less effective, goals are not met, or even conflicts arise.What does it take to foster a good community environment? What are the Do's and Dont's? During this talk, participants will have the opportunity to become acquainted with some of the best community development practices followed by leading organizations such as Mozilla.

There are many things that can help you your community on the localization and the glossary is the best way to start and create a team!

Discovery with the experience of the WordPress Polyglots team!

Coders use printf() and "step" to debug problems. On big distributed systems that doesn't work. You can get stuck. We will learn how to code fast and well on terabyte-scale data.First, we look at the problem: does your code break, is it too slow, or does it give strange answers?Next, you bring a sample of your data to a local process and debug your code using printf(), step, or whatever. Then you redistribute just the sample and see if it still works. Finally you try the debugged code on all the data.If it still doesn't work, the cause could be heterogenous data, exponential algorithms, or toolchain limits. You will learn six more techniques to find and solve the problem. Examples will use Spark, iPython, and AWS; principles and techniques apply to any distributed data system.

We will going to presentation the firs steps of editing OpenStreetMap .

This talk will present OONI (i.e. Open Observatory of Network Interference), a free software project that aims to empower the public around the world by enabling it to test networks and to collect data that can serve as evidence of internet censorship. Hundreds of users have run OONI's software over the last years, contributing to the world's largest database of internet censorship events from across the globe. This talk will shed light on key findings, explain how you can contribute to transparency around internet controls and how you can use OONI data as part of your investigations.

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Due to a heavily sedentary job, developers aren't usually the healthiest bunch. Throw in a freelancer's lifestyle for good measure, where every hour spent working can be turned into money, and it's hard to stay away from the computer - especially with bills to pay. A recent trend are standing desks, but in this talk, we'll talk about why they're doing more harm than good, what you can do instead, and where to go to get tips, tricks, and read about other people's experiences in becoming fit devs.

Javascript is a scripting language. CoffeeScript is another scripting language that compiles into Javascript. Currently Javascript runs not only on browsers but is also used to run on servers.  It is the most popular programming language on the Web. CoffeeScript on the other side is "just Javascript" which tries to amplify the good parts and minify the bad parts of Javascript. CoffeeScript has classes implemented naturally in the syntax of the language while Javascript requires developers to use classes. These, and many other differences, as well as similarities will be discussed throughout this talk.

JHipster is a free and open-source application generator used to develop quickly a modern web application using AngularJS and the Spring.

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Technologists often boast that "Thing X" will be a revolution that will change society. While the internet, personal computers, the world wide web, smart phones, tablets, and virtual reality are changing society at an incredible pace, there is another revolution which helps make all of those revolutions possible- that is open source and free software. However, FOSS projects and communities have always lacked one thing: designers. Luckily, this is starting to change, and like all revolutions, in order to succeed in shifting power balances- strategies and tactics are needed. This talk will explore how open source designers, developers, and makers can unite and continue to change the world.

Moodle is powerful tool that can support the teaching and learning process in universities and high schools. We will see how to install, manage and use it.

Horetu exposes Python functions as other user interfaces. When applied to a function, horetu automatically constructs corresponding command-line interfaces, web interfaces, IRC bots, graphical interfaces, and configuration files. In addition to being a very practical tool, it is interesting because its implementation demonstrates the capabilities of Python function objects and the merits of following conventions: Horetu can construct powerful interfaces and detailed documentation from functions that were written with no intent of being called with Horetu.

Mutation testing is a technique in which the software under test is modified in order to verify how good your test suite is. I will introduce this technique, share practical examples in Python & Ruby and show a few bugs which were exposed during testing.  I will also give a few hints about getting started with mutation testing in practice.

CoreOS Tectonic enables deploying same configuration Kubernetes clusters on multiple cloud providers. All based on open-source technologies.

From webassembly.org: "WebAssembly or wasm is a new portable, size- and load-time-efficient format suitable for compilation to the web".  This talk introduces this stuff and illustrates how to permit to run binary code directly from browser.

AutoWikiBrowser (AWB) is a semi-automated MediaWiki editor designed to make tedious or repetitive editing tasks quicker and easier. We will make a hands on introduction of its features. We will answer questions and discuss ideas of how improve its functionality.

We'll talk about Docker and the challenges of running a local repository. We'll continue with presentation of Portus as a reliable solution

A look at the history of the CII, from its foundation as a response to Heartbleed to today. A look at the projects it supports and a description of how to apply for funding.

Create a plugin for WordPress with Composer and many other libraries with a code generator in a nutshell.

Seems a boring topic but can speed up your knowledge of WordPress with live coding of a plugin from the speaker

Lua is a scripting language popular in the game industry, automation and many other areas.  This talk will give an overview of the Language, it's goals and implementation.

GNUemacs is one of the earliest pieces of the GNU system, which started the Free Software revolution.  This is an introduction to using Emacs for editing and everything else, with explanations of some of the key concepts; mostly as a user, but with some mention of customizing and programming it.

The topic involves addressing the possibility for transforming most of the open source sdk of Google cloud into web services fully integrated with the cloud infrastructure. This would promote further software development and chances to exploit existing services with an open community to collaborate with  such as Google Developer Experts (https://developers.google.com/experts/) . Attendees should interpret this as an opportunity example into the open source development oriented towards cloud systems supported by Linux based Virtual Machines.

Proponents of free software are frequently asked "Can we replace Skype, Viber, Twitter and Facebook?".  Is this the right question and how does it relate to free software development today and in the future? Pocock talks about the social consequences of this issue, looks at some of the successes we have had with examples based on Debian, some of the challenges that remain and ways that people can help either as developers or end users.

ManageIQ is an open-source cloud management platform capable of managing containers, virtual machines, networks, storage from a single pane of glass. As it supports a huge scale of providers, it is a good example of the collaboration across open-source communities. This talk introduces the project and demonstrates some of its features.

I am going to introduce the flagship game engine for game development in java. jMonkey has been around since 2002 and now is getting its next stable release. With lots of cool features to come, its a great choice for indie game developers to start their game development career. In the session I am going to explain in a few words what jMonkey history is. After that I will explain its features, make a presentation of its demos and last but not least, make a presentation of a demo project developed by me.

Rust is a systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety. Let's talk about that!