[PLUG-ANNOUNCE] Reminder: January PLUG Advanced Topics: Recoupling Computer Science and Computing

[Michael Dexter]

Portland Linux/Unix Group Advanced Topics Meeting Announcement

Who: You! Brief presentation by Michael Dexter
What: Talk and Roundtable: Recoupling Computer Science and Computing
Where: Free Geek, 1731 SE 10th Avenue, Portland (Left Entrance)
When: Tuesday, January 15th, 2013 at 7pm
Why: The pursuit of awesome, open technologies.

There is no question that hybrid telecommunication/computing appliances 
like those running iOS and Android have put more open source software 
into the hands of users than any other effort to date but vendors and 
carriers consistently choose user control over user freedom. While many 
users and vendors will argue that "people want their systems to 'just 
work'", intentional and unintentional decoupling of the user computing 
experiences from the underlying computer science is the norm, despite 
the fact that developers and systems administrators are equally lazy and 
"want their systems to 'just work'".

Because no technical barrier exists between these two experiences of a 
given system, this talk will explore the historic and modern systems 
that provide the best balance of user and developer experience and open 
up to a roundtable discussion of other such systems and how to bridge 
these two experiences and foster computer science in society.

Please be prepared to talk about your experiences, particularly on 
platforms like Android and web frameworks which can offer full-stack 
access to sources yet deliver a competitive user experience.

See you there!


Many will break for the Lucky Lab on Hawthorne afterwards.

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See you there!

Michael Dexter
PLUG Volunteer