Monday April 14 4:00 - 4:50 PM Kelley 1001
Jack Aboutboul Red Hat, Inc. Crash: How a Billion Little Collisions Define Everything All things are infinitesimally small, given the proper perspective. That being true, the Open Source and community software/content development models can be metaphorically likened to being the product of a billion little collisions, all adding up to something big; not unlike certain models in astrophysics. If we are to abide by this model, we must strive to make our collisions, or interactions, as meaningful as possible in order to ensure success and continuity. In a community environment, the individual has high value. In an age where technology seems very cold and impersonal, what lessons can we extrapolate from science and technology, that teach us how to maximize each individual's potential and feed that into the community feedback loop? Biography: Jack Aboutboul is Red Hat's Community Engineer and has been a Linux and Open Source user, developer, advocate and enthusiast for over a decade. Jack has the unusual honor of being dubbed "godfather" of the Fedora Ambassadors and currently spends his time working on Fedora related community outreach projects. Jack has previously worked on Gentoo Linux amongst other Open Source projects, including working with Creative Commons to help create the groundbreaking LiveContent distribution, last August. Jack is a true believer in the philosophies of Open Source Software and Creative Commons and in 2007 founded the Jack Aboutboul Foundation to help "build bridges between open technology, open content, art and education in a directed effort to enrich the lives of people and children worldwide."
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