Today is Saturday, the 20th day of September 2008 and this is the first time that I attended a seminar that is IT related, I wasn't really excited about it though. There was nothin much in the seminar that will arouse your interest(for the non IT and non geeky people), but for the sake of saying it, here's my summary(and comments) of what was said on that forum:
(I'm actually referring this from a site I "googled"coz i can't remember some of the details anymore :P)
Open source is a development methodology, which offers practical accessibility to a product's source (goods and knowledge). Some consider open source as one of various possible design approaches, while others consider it a critical strategic element of their operations. Before open source became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of phrases to describe the concept; the term open source gained popularity with the rise of the internet, which provided access to diverse production models, communication paths, and interactive communities. [read more about it here: [link]]
They provided some examples of Open Source software, such as as the:
RUBY (Programming language) which has a very understandable english-like syntax, object-oriented, functional, and as what I understand almost everything seems automated [read more about it here : [link]]
GIMP, it stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program; this program as the name implies is an image manipulation meaning it is like the famous photoshop, and it is totally free(now you don't have to buy oneof those pirated photoshop cds')! [interested enuff? go here: [link]]
BLENDER, it is a software for 3D creation, really amazing. Now I know how garfield was made! hahaha [heres their [link]],
they had other examples too but I don't like talking all about it here, if you would like to know other contents of the seminar click this. (Seriously! Should I consider renaming my domain name to linkgalore.blogspot.com?)
Also, in the seminar there was this speaker(amateur) who was a blogger, and
he kept on saying "dili man gud mo ka-relate" trans: "it's so fuck*n hard to speak here, you all can't relate with me". He kept saying this while he was going through with his presentation and it got almost all of us pissed off. As a speaker it is also his job to relate with the audience, right? And by what he was saying it gave us the impression that he belittled us as IT people. From the looks of it he might really be a brilliant person but he seriously needs to develop his charisma and some speaking manners before he get into stage again.
After that tiring seminar our schoolmates offered(or rather we asked) us a ride out of the UM campus, -thank you upper year people :D. Then we ate at McDonald's, and someone said something that is groundbreaking!!! he said ........... hahahaha, what happens in McDo stays in McDo! =P
We've also watched this, enjoy!
//My opinions on open source will be discussed later on this blog. :D
-soul aetherius
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