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OpenForum Europe
The closing remarks for Cyprus' Open Digital Future Week were delivered by Laszlo, who expressed deep gratitude to the organizers and partners that made the event possible. He specifically thanked the Cypros Institute for hosting the initiative as well as their knowledge partners and sponsors, ackno …
CNI: Coalition for Networked Information
The Marriott Reparative Metadata Assessment Tool, known as MaRMAT or Marmot, is an open-source software designed to help libraries and digital collections assess metadata for harmful, outdated, or problematic language on a large scale. Developed by the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University o …
Linux.conf.au 2011 -- Brisbane, Australia
The speaker, a technical writer at Google and executive VP at the Apache Software Foundation, begins by admitting his lack of formal expertise in crisis management but highlights how open source software has become vital for saving lives. His perspective shifted dramatically when he was unexpectedly …
Research Computing and Engineering
The video features a discussion on MEEP, an open-source software tool designed to simulate Maxwell's equations using the finite-difference time-domain method. Hosted by Brock Palin and featuring Jeff Squires from Cisco Systems along with MIT professors Stephen Johnson and Artavan Oskui, the conversa …
LibreOffice - The Document Foundation
The video titled "Join the LibreOffice community! Build up your skills and learn new things" serves as an inviting introduction for individuals interested in expanding their knowledge within the open-source office software ecosystem. It emphasizes that becoming part of this global community is not j …
Tom Bilyeu
Rodney Mullen, widely recognized as the godfather of modern street skating and a member of the legendary Bones Brigade, is celebrated for inventing foundational tricks like the kickflip, 360 flip, and impossible. His journey began at age eight on his family farm in Florida with limited resources, ye …
Lex Fridman
Jeff Atwood, co-founder of Stack Overflow and author of Coding Horror, argues that what primarily motivates programmers is the intrinsic joy of solving puzzles through a brute-force process rather than fame or fortune. He illustrates this with examples like the "shuffle problem" in casinos and the M …
Lex Fridman
In this episode of the Lex Fridman Podcast, Donald Knuth reflects on his early programming experiences at Caltech in 1957 using an IBM 650 mainframe that operated with decimal machine language rather than binary bits. His first program factored numbers by punching instructions onto cards and debuggi …