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developers for five days in July in the French Canadian summer, | developers for five days in July in the French Canadian summer, | ||
the first european OctConf | the first european OctConf was be held in Milan, Italy on June 24-26 | ||
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== Summary of activities == | |||
== Opening keynote speaker: John W. Eaton == | |||
John (aka, jwe) gave us another update on GNU Octave's development in the last year. Things look good for Octave but we still need to improve the flow from users to contributors. The optimal way would be to get more core developers (i.e. people who update and improve the core of Octave's) however users can contribute in many ways, some ideas follow: | |||
* Helping with the Wiki. | |||
* Commenting on bugs/features in [https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/octave/ tracker]. | |||
* Maintaining/updating/contributing packages to [http://octave.sourceforge.net/ Octave-Forge]. | |||
* Organizing events (talks, courses, etc.). | |||
* Donating. | |||
Finally, we discussed a lot about economic sustainability of the project. How can people make money using GNU Octave without damaging/endangering its freedom? Do you know business models that could fit? How can we organize a pool of developers to offer support for companies wanting to use GNU Octave? | |||
=== Teaching engineers with GNU Octave === | |||
[https://staff.ti.bfh.ch/sha1/ Andreas Stahel] from Biel, Switzerland gave a talk about teaching GNU Octave for Engineering. All his material (code, lecture notes, etc) is available for download, reuse, remix, reshare. | |||
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=== FEM mash-up and Octave === | |||
[http://www.graduate-school-ce.de/index.php?id=481 S. Schöps] showed a mash-up of proprietary and libre (FOSS) software to solve 3D coupled electromagnetic problems. | |||
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=== New sparse matrices for Octave === | |||
[http://librsb.sourceforge.net/ Michele Martone] presented his (future) Octave package for sparse matrix using recursive blocks (quad-tree blockification of matrices). He is very willing to collaborate with any development that could use his code. | |||
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=== Hardware and GNu Octave === | |||
The Octave-Forge [[Instrument_control_package instrument-control]] package allows to interface Octave with hardware. [http://reslab.elis.ugent.be/drjpi Juan Pablo Carbajal] gave a very short demo on how to do serial communication with the [http://www.dwengo.org Dwengo] board. [http://www.dwengo.org/node/486 Here are the details], [http://youtu.be/d1If8XOL73c watch the video]. | |||
== Registration (closed) == | |||
Please go to | Please go to | ||
[http://www2.mate.polimi.it/ocs/index.php?cf=42 the registration website] if you wish to attend. | [http://www2.mate.polimi.it/ocs/index.php?cf=42 the registration website] if you wish to attend. | ||