Welcome to the 2011 Open Source Developer Retreat!
Spotlights
1. Keynote & Panel: How to run a successful Open Source project
2. Whitebox topics: Programmer tech talks on interesting emerging technologies
3. Slam Poetry: New community projects with an emphasis on the cool core technology
4. DIY Learning DIY machine learning algorithms with examples
Schedule
Harvard Open Source Informatics Community: Progress and Next Steps
2009++ Progress towards a shared Software Development Lifecycle and areas of improvement.
Andrew McMurry (CHIP, CBMI, I2B2)
Keynote: "How to Run a Successful Open Source Project"
Dries Buytaert (Founder, Drupal)
Whitebox Topic 1: Hadoop In Action
Justin Quan (CHIP, CarraNet)
Coffee Break
Slam Poetry: New Projects, Grand Opportunities
"Hello World" starts at home. Discover what is going on in your backyard and get involved the open source way. This year's slam highlights new Grand Opportunity Awards for cool new technology. Borrowing from MIT's dangerous ideas, each presenter will answer three questions: 1) What should I tell my mom about your project? 2) What is so interesting about your specific technology? 3) What do you have that I can copy-paste-reuse in my project?
Eagle-I: Schema-less databases with RDF
Ricardo DeLima (CBMI, Eagle-I)
CarraNet: Dynamic Construction of Multiple Overlay Networks
David Ortiz (CHIP, CarraNet)
GARLIC: Genomic Analysis Results Library Integration Cell
Brian Wilson (I2B2)
Lunch Break
DIY Learning: Mining Medical Free Text in Java
Learn the state of the art in mining doctor notes and research publications. Talk will focus on the pros and cons of using regular expressions, word counts, and part of speech parsing trees. Examples will be given in Java so you can DIY.
Guergana Savova (I2B2, CHIP Faculty)
Whitebox Topic 2: Massively parallel computing next generation sequencing
Luke Hutchinson (MIT PhD student and TED Fellow)
Coffee Break
Panel: Open Source Partnerships
Why are these companies open sourcing at all? What benefits do they see? What can they recommend to us towards building open source partnerships?
Panelists
Eclipse Foundation
Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director
Recombinant Data Corp
Aaron Abend, CEO
Black Duck Software