From djac at stanford.edu Fri May 4 09:44:08 2012 From: djac at stanford.edu (Technology Training) Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 09:44:08 -0700 Subject: [opensource] No Tech Briefing today - Join us at Drupal Camp! Message-ID: <1906ECDB-6CCB-48A1-B036-8067429EC358@stanford.edu> Trouble viewing? Open in web browser. Tech Briefings are informal, interactive seminars on computer-related topics of interest to the Stanford Community. This is your opportunity to get technology updates from and ask questions of subject-matter experts. See the latest schedule at techbriefing.stanford.edu. No Tech Briefing at Turing Auditorium this week Drupal Camp at Stanford Today, May 4, and Saturday, May 5 Register for free at drupalcamp.stanford.edu All session held at Stanford Law School Time Room 280B Room 180 Room 283 Room 285 1:50 - 2:45 p.m. Mapping and geospatial with Drupal Experience level: Advanced Running Drupal at Stanford (Part One) Experience level: Intermediate Birds of a Feather Session 1 Experience level: Beginner Drupal Training Ideas - Creating Drupal Training at Stanford Experience level: Beginner 2:50 - 3:50 p.m. One Size Fits None: Say Goodbye to Distributions, and Hello to "OpenEDU" Experience level: Beginner Running Drupal at Stanford (Part Two) Experience level: Intermediate Birds of a Feather Session 2 Experience level: Beginner Basic Drupal Editing, aka Drew Paul is in town Experience level: Beginner Full schedule available at drupalcamp.stanford.edu Next week -- Cloud Computing / Folding at home Friday, May 11, 2 - 3:30 p.m. Location: Turing Auditorium (Polya Hall, Room 111) Miss a Tech Briefing? 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Tech Briefings are informal, interactive seminars on computer-related topics of interest to the Stanford Community. This is your opportunity to get technology updates from and ask questions of subject-matter experts. See the latest schedule at techbriefing.stanford.edu. This week's free Tech Briefing Distributed Computing - Folding at home, and Cloud Computing Demo This Friday, May 11, 2-3:30 p.m. LOCATION: Turing Auditorium (Polya Hall, Room 111) PRESENTERS: - Professor Vijay S. Pande, Chemistry (and by courtesy, Structural Biology and Computer Science) - Alex Chekholko, IT Services - Phil Reese, IT Services For the full description, visit techbriefing.stanford.edu. Join Professor Vijay S. Pande (Chemistry, and by courtesy, Structural Biology and Computer Science) as he details the general history and methodology behind the distributed computing model, how this is a paradigm shift from the mainframe/supercomputer model, and how the Folding at home project utilizes this novel technique. There will also be a live demo of StarCluster, an open source cluster-computing toolkit for Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). You will also learn about cloud based applications available to the campus, such as Amazon and others. Miss a Tech Briefing? Session Videos are now available! To see the latest filmed Tech Briefings, visit the Video Series site at http://itservices.stanford.edu/service/techtraining/techbriefings/tb-videos. To subscribe to the Tech Briefings RSS feed via Stanford Events, point your RSS reader/browser/catcher to: http://events.stanford.edu/xml/byOrganization/144/rss.xml. QUESTIONS? Call Technology Training at 723-4391 or send email to techtraining at stanford.edu. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From djac at stanford.edu Fri May 11 09:46:55 2012 From: djac at stanford.edu (Technology Training) Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 09:46:55 -0700 Subject: [opensource] Today's free Tech Briefing: Distributed Computing - Folding@home, and Cloud Computing Demo Message-ID: <02B3BE1A-5748-484B-BD3B-91897082A60A@stanford.edu> Please join us for today's Tech Briefing, as Professor Vijay S. Pande talks about the Folding at home project, part of the distributed computing model. Learn about cloud-based applications available to the campus, as well as Distributed Computing, a method of computer processing in which different parts of a program process simultaneously on two or more computers that are communicating with each other over a network or through the Internet. For more information on Folding at home, visit http://folding.stanford.edu. -------------------------------- Trouble viewing? View at http://bit.ly/techbriefing-May112012. Tech Briefings are informal, interactive seminars on computer-related topics of interest to the Stanford Community. This is your opportunity to get technology updates from and ask questions of subject-matter experts. See the latest schedule at techbriefing.stanford.edu. This week's free Tech Briefing Distributed Computing - Folding at home, and Cloud Computing Demo TODAY, May 11, 2-3:30 p.m. LOCATION: Turing Auditorium (Polya Hall, Room 111) PRESENTERS: - Professor Vijay S. Pande, Chemistry (and by courtesy, Structural Biology and Computer Science) - Alex Chekholko, IT Services - Phil Reese, IT Services For the full description, visit techbriefing.stanford.edu. Join Professor Vijay S. Pande (Chemistry, and by courtesy, Structural Biology and Computer Science) as he details the general history and methodology behind the distributed computing model, how this is a paradigm shift from the mainframe/supercomputer model, and how the Folding at home project utilizes this novel technique. For more information, visit http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Learn There will also be a live demo of StarCluster, an open source cluster-computing toolkit for Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). You will also learn about cloud based applications available to the campus, such as Amazon and others. Next week -- Farmshare - Shared Computing Environment Friday, May 18, 2 - 3:30 p.m. Location: Turing Auditorium (Polya Hall, Room 111) Miss a Tech Briefing? Session Videos are now available! To see the latest filmed Tech Briefings, visit the Video Series site at http://itservices.stanford.edu/service/techtraining/techbriefings/tb-videos. To subscribe to the Tech Briefings RSS feed via Stanford Events, point your RSS reader/browser/catcher to: http://events.stanford.edu/xml/byOrganization/144/rss.xml. QUESTIONS? Call Technology Training at 723-4391 or send email to techtraining at stanford.edu. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From djac at stanford.edu Fri May 18 09:34:20 2012 From: djac at stanford.edu (Technology Training) Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 09:34:20 -0700 Subject: [opensource] This week's free Tech Briefing: Farmshare - Shared Computing Environment Message-ID: Trouble viewing? View at http://bit.ly/tb-farmshare-051712. Tech Briefings are informal, interactive seminars on computer-related topics of interest to the Stanford Community. This is your opportunity to get technology updates from and ask questions of subject-matter experts. See the latest schedule at techbriefing.stanford.edu. This week's free Tech Briefing Farmshare - Shared Computing Environment TODAY - 2-3:30 p.m. LOCATION: Turing Auditorium (Polya Hall, Room 111) PRESENTER: Alex Chekholko, IT Services FarmShare is Stanford's free shared research computing environment, available to anyone with a fully-sponsored SUNetID. In this session, learn how to get started with FarmShare, see examples of the format, and learn about FarmShare features, including how it: - Supports different types of computing tasks - Maintains locally installed software on each machine - Provides a selection of software, including popular licensed applications - Supports long-running, multi-day jobs, as well as parallel processing (via MPI or OpenMP). - Includes a resource management and scheduling system (Grid Engine) More information at http://farmshare.stanford.edu. Next week -- No Tech Briefing due to Memorial Day Weekend Miss a Tech Briefing? Session Videos are now available! To see the latest filmed Tech Briefings, visit the Video Series site at http://itservices.stanford.edu/service/techtraining/techbriefings/tb-videos. To subscribe to the Tech Briefings RSS feed via Stanford Events, point your RSS reader/browser/catcher to: http://events.stanford.edu/xml/byOrganization/144/rss.xml. QUESTIONS? Call Technology Training at 723-4391 or send email to techtraining at stanford.edu. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jsalsman at gmail.com Tue May 22 19:25:17 2012 From: jsalsman at gmail.com (James Salsman) Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 20:25:17 -0600 Subject: [opensource] Choose Your Reading and Pronunciation Adventure - Kickstarter Message-ID: I'm building a free open source speech recognition-based reading and pronunciation tutor. Actually, I have been doing so for ten years but a patent recently expired so I can start giving it away if I can raise enough money to pay for the servers. I already have generous support from Google Summer of Code and the One Laptop Per Child contributors program, but still need help from an Android specialist, and money to collect sufficient exemplar pronunciation recordings and graphics necessary for engaging instructional content appropriate for all ages and experience levels. Please help support the project if you can: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jsalsman/choose-your-reading-and-pronunciation-adventure Thank you. Best regards, James Salsman From djac at stanford.edu Thu May 31 09:48:59 2012 From: djac at stanford.edu (Don Cameron) Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 09:48:59 -0700 Subject: [opensource] Tomorrow's free Tech Briefing: Open Source Software at Stanford Message-ID: Trouble viewing? View at http://bit.ly/tb-opensource. Tech Briefings are informal, interactive seminars on computer-related topics of interest to the Stanford Community. This is your opportunity to get technology updates from and ask questions of subject-matter experts. See the latest schedule at techbriefing.stanford.edu. This week's free Tech Briefing Open Source Software at Stanford Tomorrow -- Friday, June 1 - 2-3:30 p.m. LOCATION: Turing Auditorium (Polya Hall, Room 111) PRESENTERS: Mark Branom, IT Services, and Irina Zaks, Law School Join Mark and Irina as they demonstrate the multitude of Open Source tools available to the Stanford community. Learn about how you can save your department money by using these mostly free tools instead of expensive commercial alternatives. Some of the free tools they'll discuss include: - Operating Systems (Linux) - Office Suite (Open Office, Libre Office) - Image Editing (GIMP - an alternative to Photoshop) - Instant Messaging (Adium, Pidgin) - Multimedia (Audacity, VideoLan) - and more! For more information, visit https://opensource.stanford.edu/events/open-source-software-and-tools Next week's Tech Briefing - FileMaker Pro 12 Friday, June 8, 2-3:30 p.m. Miss a Tech Briefing? Session Videos are now available! To see the latest filmed Tech Briefings, visit the Video Series site at http://itservices.stanford.edu/service/techtraining/techbriefings/tb-videos. To subscribe to the Tech Briefings RSS feed via Stanford Events, point your RSS reader/browser/catcher to: http://events.stanford.edu/xml/byOrganization/144/rss.xml. QUESTIONS? Call Technology Training at 723-4391 or send email to techtraining at stanford.edu. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: