OctConf 2013: Difference between revisions

== Summary of activities ==

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.

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?

[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.

* [[file:slides_octconf_andreas_stahel.pdf|Slides]]

[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.

* [http://www.schoeps.org/octconf_2013.pdf Slides]

[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.

* [[File:slides_octconf_michele_martone.pdf]]

The Octave-Forge [[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].

Please go to  

[http://www2.mate.polimi.it/ocs/index.php?cf=42 the registration website] if you wish to attend.

Limited amount funding for travel and accommodation support is available, if you need such support

please mention it in your registration.

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=== Hosting Institution and Local Sponsors ===

Modeling and Scientific Computing lab at the

[http://www.mate.polimi.it Department of Mathematics] of Milan Technical University ([http://www.polimi.it Politecnico di Milano]),  

=== Venue ===

of the "Leonardo" campus of Politecnico di Milano in the

[http://www.mate.polimi.it Department meeting room].

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