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http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/events/2012-03-20_Open_Source_Junction_3/open_sour...

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Tuesday, 20 March 2012 at 9:30 AM - Wednesday, 21 March 2012 at 4:00 PM

Venue: Trinity College, OX13BH Oxford

OSS Watch is delighted to announce a new event in the Open Source Junction series, which brings together the best minds in industry and academia to explore how the two sectors can jointly innovate and exploit cutting edge technologies using open development.

Mobile and cloud technologies

Open Source Junction 3 is about mobile technologies and the cloud. This two-day workshop will showcase a selection of successful academic and industry projects featuring mobile and cloud technologies, and will provide delegates with the relevant knowledge and networking opportunities to help them build sustainable partnerships in this field.

Economies of scale and the potential for novel enhancements to core functions make cloud computing attractive to educational, public and private sector organisations alike. The opportunity to share expertise and applications via the various IaaS, PaaS and SaaS layers make the cloud an ideal environment for open innovation between organisations.

Cloud technologies can help institutions reduce environmental and financial costs and share the infrastructure load when collaborating with other organisations. Cloud computing can provide new teaching and research environments by allowing students and researchers to better manage projects and workloads, share digital workspaces with peers, store digital artefacts and research outputs, and access them from anywhere and at any time.

Cloud computing can also boost the geographic flexibility of organizations, and, when coupled with emerging mobile technologies, increase the mobility of staff. By using a combination of cloud and mobile technologies it becomes possible to remotely engage in and manage workflows and processes. It is therefore no longer necessary for collaborators to be co-located or restricted to a specific geographic location.

Cloud computing

There are various definitions of cloud computing, but for the purpose of this event we follow Gartner, who describe cloud computing as “a style of computing where massively scalable IT-related capabilities are provided 'as a service' to multiple external customers using Internet technologies”. Three categories of services are often mentioned in connection with cloud computing: Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

SaaS is based on the concept of renting software from a service provider rather than buying it yourself. The software in question is hosted on a centralized network server to make functionality available over the web. Also known as 'software on demand', SaaS is probably the most popular type of cloud computing because of its high degree of flexibility, enhanced scalability and reduced maintenance. Yahoo mail, Google docs and SalesForce CRM are some popular examples of SaaS.

PaaS offers a cloud-based development platform for developers. This platform is often optimised for a specific type of application domain, such as mobile applications, big-data, or customer relationship management, and therefore include a suite of useful tools and services. Developers write applications that take advantage of platform services, while the PaaS provider manages the infrastructure for application delivery. PaaS provides services to develop, test, deploy, host and maintain applications, as well as some support for the creation of applications. PaaS is commonly charged for on a metering or subscription model. Some examples of PaaS include WSo2 Stratos and RedHat OpenShift.

IaaS is the delivery of computing infrastructure as a fully outsourced service. It provides capabilities such as processing, networking, security and other resources allowing users to deploy their applications and data. IaaS users enjoy access to enterprise grade infrastructure and resources on a 'pay as you go' basis. Also referred to as Hardware as a Service, IaaS is a very flexible solution because virtualization can provide almost unlimited instances of servers thus making the use of the hosting hardware extremely cost-effective. Some examples of IaaS are Amazon S3/EC2, Microsoft Windows Azure, and VMWare vCloud.

Benefits of attending:

Target audience:

The event will take place at Trinity College in Oxford. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. A number of accommodation options are available for individual booking.

Reports from past Open Source Junction events are available on the OSS Watch website [1 and 2]. OSJ1 focused on cross-platform mobile apps, and OSJ2 on context-aware mobile technologies.

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Day 1

Day 2

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Days 2 is packed with more presentations, case studies and interactive sessions.

The live blog is http://oss.ly/osjlive2 and the hashtag for all your tweets etc is #osjmob11

Day 2 (6 July 2011)

• 09.00 Registration
• 09.20 Intro
• 09.30 Steven Gray, UCL - Interactive labels and mobile mapping: crowdsourcing thoughts and visualising location-based data
• 10.00 Nick Allott, NquiringMinds - Context aware applications: industry landscape and commercial opportunities
• 10.30 Serge Pawlowicz, Open Source Geospatial Lab - Participatory HealthGIS
• 11.00 Break
• 11.20 Philipp Breuss-Schneeweis , Wikitude - Content development with Wikitude
• 11.50 Sander van der Waal, OSS Watch - Processes and tools for open development collaboration
• 12.20 Open Source Junction speed-date (interactive session)
• 12.50 Lunch
• 13.40 Interactive session
• 14.10 Rowan Wilson, OSS Watch - Open development IPR
• 14.40 Yuwei Lin and Mick Lockwood, Salford University - Using OpenStreetMap to build location- based geospatial networks
• 15.10 Open Source Junction community: next steps
• 15.40 Close

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Sam, our live blogger has already started posting at  http://oss.ly/osjlive1 #osjmob11

We're also tweeting as @OSJunction 

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Day one kicks off in less that 1hr with registration and coffee, followed by a short welcome before Gabriel and Roland's initial presentations at 09:30.

Don't forget to use the #osjmob11 hashtag in any tweets etc that you make about the event. Check back here too for updates.

We hope you have an excellent couple of days here in Wolfson.

The OSJunction team

Day 1 (5 July 2011)

• 9.00 Registration and coffee
• 09.30 Welcome
• 09.40 Gabriel Hanganu, OSS Watch - Building an industry-academia open source community
• 10.00 Roland Harwood, 100% Open - Open innovation collaboration
• 10.30 Dave Raggett, W3C - The Web of Things and context-aware services
• 11.00 Break
• 11.20 Julian Harty, ebay - Smartphones in context
• 11.50 Mike Jones and Simon Price, University of Bristol - Mobile Campus Assistant and Nature Locator
• 12.20 Open source Junction self-pitch (interactive session)
• 12.50 Lunch
• 13.50 Ross Gardler, OpenDirective - Open source business models
• 14.20 Ben Butchart, Edina - Maps and apps with HTML5
• 14.50 Interactive session
• 15.10 Break
• 15.30 Tim Fernando, University of Oxford - Mobile Oxford: a campus-wide mobile service
• 16.00 Samuel Carlisle, Sukey - Keeping demonstrators safe, mobile and informed
• 16.30 Close
• 17.30 Walk down the Cherwell to University Parks (weather permitting)
• 18.00 Drinks at Turf Tavern
• 19.30 Dinner

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Not long to go now before Open Souce Junction 2 opens next Tuesday so here's a blog post with tips on how to stay engaged, whether you'll be there or not.

We've also set up the Twitter fall page to be displayed at the event and the live blogs for Tuesday and Wednesday are ready to go.

In case you're wanting somehting to read while your waiting, here's the original blog post announcement of Open Souce Junction 2.

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Tuesday, 5 July 2011 at 9:30 PM - Wednesday, 6 July , 2011 at 4:30 PM (GMT)

Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road, OX26UD Oxford

OSS Watch in collaboration with 100% Open have put together Open Source Junction - an exciting series of events connecting industry and academic innovation in open source mobile technologies. Open Source Junction brings together the best business and academic minds to explore how the two sectors can jointly innovate and exploit open source mobile technologies.

The second event in the series focuses on context-aware mobile technologies. In computer science context-awareness refers to the idea that computers can both sense and react based on their environment. Context includes location (the users' absolute or relative position, surrounding resources, physical conditions, such as noise or light levels), but is often understood as a broader process involving users themselves (their habits or emotional states, patterns of social interaction, types of activity etc.)

This two-day workshop will showcase a selection of successful context-aware mobile projects, and will provide delegates with key knowledge of open innovation and open development, which will help them build sustainable industry-academia partnerships in this field.

More info here. 

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