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Open Source Bridge 2015 sessions
Open Source Bridge took place June 23–26, 2015 in Portland, Oregon.
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* "A huge green fierce snake bars the way!"; or, Building a Text Adventure Game in Python
Have you ever wanted to vanquish a dragon with your bare hands? First step is making a world where you can. In this talk, I'll give you the blueprints for my Python text adventure engine, as well as some recipes for making things in a text-only world.
|Katie Silverio
* "R" You Ready for Some Football? Hacking Fantasy Sports with Open Source Software
You've probably heard about "robot jounalism" - computers writing finance and sports stories. Well, there's just one teensy little problem with robots writing finance and sports stories: investors and fantasy sports gamers don't want the data turned into text! They want their data raw, right and fast. They need clean, timely data to make objective decisions using tried-and-true statistical methodologies. So I'm not going to talk about robot journalism - I'm going to talk about fantasy sports: getting the data, analyzing it and using statistical decision-making tools to enhance the probability of winning.
|M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
* A Developer's-Eye View of API Client Libraries
A developer's experience of an API and its client libraries can make the difference between them building on a project and giving up in frustration. If you develop an API client library, you'll learn what you can do to get it out of the way so developers can spend mental energy on putting together exciting projects, not fighting with tools. If you work with web APIs, you'll learn about factors to consider when you're choosing a framework to use. Either way, you'll learn about best practices--code-related and not--that make the difference between fun and easy development and a frustrating slog.
|Frances Hocutt
* A Matter of Time
Did you know that every so often, a minute lasts 61 seconds? If that sounds like something that might break some software, you'd be right! In this talk, we'll discuss the common ways that time is implemented in a number of libraries you probably depend on, how these representations can fall short of giving us a complete picture of what time it is, and what we can do about this state of affairs.
|John Feminella
* A Pair Programming Workshop
Pair programming is a great way to collaborate on code and to share new ideas and techniques, but the social dynamics can be challenging. In this session, we'll talk about what works and what doesn't, and practice some techniques for better pairing!
|Moss Collum, L Dean
* A Profile of Performance Profiling With pprof
When our code is slow, performance gains can often difficult to obtain. Our ideas of where to focus our attention are often wrong. pprof has become my go to tool, and it's easy to see why. Together we'll learn how to understand pprof's output to help us zero in on the parts of our code that need the most love.
|Lauren Voswinkel
* Aesthetics and the Evolution of Code
Elegance is an aesthetic experience. It's about perfectly conforming to a set of imperfect standards, meeting a need with no extraneous lines or rough edges. Elegance in code is the result of a mysterious process, just as elegance in nature is— in the case of nature, the process is evolution.
|Coraline Ada Ehmke
* Bridging the Digital Divide with SMS Bots
We all know about Twitter and IRC bots, but with about 4/5 of people worldwide without smartphones SMS has the potential to reach those left behind the digital divide. We will discuss the various methods for developing an SMS bot, the legal and ethical implications of doing so, and we will build an SMS bot live.
|Briar Schreiber
* Bringing non-technical people to the Free/Libre/Open world and why it matters
Software freedom advocates sometimes believe a myth of "trickle-down technology" — that open collaboration and freedom for programmers will somehow lead to more free and open technology for the rest of society. To build technology that truly empowers most people, we need more non-programmers actively involved in development. I'll share my story of how I started as a music teacher and became the co-founder of an ambitious Free/Libre/Open project. We'll discus lessons about outreach to others like me.
|Aaron Wolf
* Bringing Security to Your Open Source Project
With high profile breaches in open source projects, the issue of security has become one of great import to many people. But many projects, especially smaller ones, are intimidated by the idea of a security audit. This talk will discuss ways for smaller projects to experiment, learn, and even have fun improving their security. No PhDs in security required!
|Terri Oda
* Build a Web Map with Open Source Tools
Come learn to make a map on the web! In this tutorial, we will build an interactive, data-filled web map using a number of open source tools including Mapbox.js (a JavaScript library based on Leaflet.js). We will cover several options for interactivity and data sources, and show how to integrate with external APIs and other mapping tools.
|Lyzi Diamond
* Building a self learning word prediction and auto-correct module for FirefoxOS and openweb handling multilingual input
Language input for mobile devices has always been a challenge on how to provide intuitive experience along with the easy of type. One approach towards that end is predictive text input. But predictions are as good as the wordlist that it gets generated from. Often it becomes a much harder problem to implement the same approach for localized languages like Hindi,Bengali (India, Bangladesh) and languages that require IME to type effectively. One approach is to learn from users typing preference and improve the dictionary weight-age to improve prediction. This talk will discuss upon how this can be implemented in Firefox OS and how the same approach can be used for openweb apps universally without locking in to any specific language. We also will briefly discuss how it manages to improve localized language predictions and the challenges some transliteration system faces along with how we can tackle them.
|Rabimba Karanjai
* Building and maintaining a healthy community
Open Source organizations and projects are driven by the strength of its community. We have often seen but how big communities fall because of wrong ways of handling it or mismanagements. My talk will be around the lines of how a community leader or manager can take a few extra responsibilities to keep a community healthy.
|Priyanka Nag
* Building Diverse Social Networks
While only a handful of social networks like Dreamwidth and Quirell explicitly prioritize diversity, there are plenty of lessons to learn about what to do — and what not to do — from Facebook, Twitter, and others. Best practices include counter-oppressive politics, embedded in the community guidelines and norms; and the right tools, technologies, and policies. This session will look at what does and doesn't work in a variety of online environments.
|Jon Pincus, Lynn Cyrin
* Building mentoring into an open source community that welcomes and values new contributors
This session will talk about how to integrate mentoring into all the different layers of an open source project. This involves a change in the whole community which treats new contributors with respect, knowing they have something valuable to contribute to the project.
|Cathy Theys
* Calculating Guilt: Using open-source software in forensic DNA testing
DNA testing has become the "gold standard" of forensics, but linking an item of evidence to a person of interest isn't always clear cut. New open source tools allow DNA analysts to give statistical weight to evidentiary profiles that were previously unusable, letting juries weigh the evidence for themselves. This talk will discuss my lab's validation and implementation of the Lab Retriever software package for probabilistic genotyping.
|Sarah Chenoweth
* Care and Feeding of a Healthy Job Hunt
A job hunt can be a demoralizing and dehumanizing process, but there are a lot of things which you can do to make it more productive and less stressful.
|VM Brasseur
* Cassandra at the Keyboard: Whistleblowing at all scales
What do you do if you see something that needs change in your organization. How do you "say something" for your "see something"? What are the benefits and drawbacks of even minor whistleblowing?
|Heidi Waterhouse
* Cat-herd's Crook: Enforcing Standards in 10 Programming Languages
At MongoDB we write open source database drivers in ten programming languages. Ideally, all behave the same. We also help developers in the MongoDB community replicate our libraries' behavior in even more (and more exotic) languages. How can we herd these cats along the same track? For years we failed, but we've recently gained momentum on standardizing our libraries. Testable, machine-readable specs prove which code conforms and which does not.
|Samantha Ritter, A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
* Catalyzing Diversity: Practical Advice for Navigating Minority STEM Communities to Open Up Open Source
How can Open Source Software projects attract minorities? Come to learn practical strategies to implement your diversity goals into actionable outreach efforts. We will describe ways to tap into minority STEM communities that exist both online and in meatspace. The former include Tweet chats and hashtags used by people of color who are enthusiasts of science (like #BLACKandSTEM) and tech (like #LATISM). The live events include annual conferences of minority students and professionals such as the Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing.
|Alberto Roca, Shauna Gordon-McKeon
* Community Moderation: you can't always halt a flamewar with one raised eyebrow (but it rarely hurts to try)
Even in an email list, moderation isn't limited to setting the entire email list to require approval before messages are posted. You can create rules which reflect the culture you'd like to see, and call attention to ways that the community differs from that culture. You can point out when a particular post doesn't fit with that culture -- publicly or privately, whichever you think will do the most good. You can point out when a particular post exemplifies something great about the culture. You can point out particular rules that everyone needs to keep abiding by, without calling out a specific post. If a specific person, or a specific handful of people, have trouble with the rules, you could put them in particular on moderated posting for some time. If someone keeps breaking the rules, that person is a good candidate for being removed entirely. There are limits to what the rest of the community and the moderators should have to deal with, even though your project may choose to keep that as a last resort. Sometimes the problem can be solved by redirection. If the main email list is getting cluttered with off-topic posts, consider a just-for-fun or off-topic side list to divert threads to once they wander off code and into sports, kittens, beer, or knitting. It's easier to say "You shouldn't do that here" than "You shouldn't do that, period"; it's even easier to say "You shouldn't do that here, but it would be great right over there." And most of us could use a sports, kittens, beer, or knitting break every now and then.
|Azure Lunatic
* Community Public Offerings: A New Way to Engage Markets (and Investors) in Oregon
Community Public what? This session will introduce the Community Public Offering - the vehicle for securities crowdfunding enabled by Oregon law this January (2015).
|kristin wolff, Simon Love
* Consequences of an Insightful Algorithm
We have ethical responsibilities when coding. We're able to extract remarkably precise intuitions about an individual. But do we have a right to know what they didn't consent to share, even when they willingly shared the data that leads us there? How do we mitigate against unintended outcomes? In this talk, we'll learn how to build in systematic empathy, integrate practices for examining how our code might harm individuals, and net consequences that can be better for everyone.
|Carina C. Zona
* Desigining for Renaming
Renaming yourself is never easy. In Santa Clara County in the State of California, to file a petition to change one's name costs over $400, and may take six months or more. Then one must change one's name (and possibly one's gender marker) on the dozens of sites and services one uses. On many sites, that's easy, I go to preferences and edit my name. But then the site addresses me as "Mr. Emma Humphries," oh really? Other systems will correctly greet me as "Emma" when I log in. But still call me by $DEAD_NAME when they send an email. This brings us to the first best practice: When I change my name in one place, change it in all the places.
|Emma Humphries
* Developer and the DOM - A history of manipulation and abstraction
|Zachary Michael, Gregory Noack
* Dog Food is for Dogs: Escape the Crate of Your Perspective with User Research
Dogfooding—using your own products—is nice, but is it sufficient to produce good design for people who aren't you? Our familiarity with our projects and their quirks makes us poor substitutes for users in the wild. So just who are these users, and how do you incorporate them into design and development? In this workshop, we'll explore user experience design and research strategies that will help you design for people who aren't you.
|Rachel Shadoan, amelia abreu
* Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Pelican: A Comparison of Static Site Generators
Want to make a static site or blog, but not sure where to start? Tired of using Wordpress and looking for something better? This talk will get into the nitty-gritty details of how Jekyll and Pelican -- two popular static site generators -- work, and explain how to choose which is best for your project. Using examples you can clone from github, we'll cover the pros and cons of both SSGs, discuss things that neither does well, and give you a better idea of how to get your site up and running (with an open source tool!).
|Lucy Wyman
* Economics of Volunteer Labor: Three stories from Debian
What circumstances allow volunteer projects to flourish? This talk covers three examples in Debian, diving deep into the questions like whose permission is required, what technical background is needed, and more, to highlight lessons of that can help any open source community organize its activities to empower volunteers.
|Asheesh Laroia
* Email as Distributed Protocol Transport: How Meeting Invites Work and Ideas for the Future
Learn how meeting invites work and some crazy other ideas for distributed protocols built on email.
|Christine Spang
* Escapology: multilingual ContentEditable rich text editing
|David Chan
* Failing With Grace
One of the biggest challenges of building distributed systems is dealing with failure. In this talk we'll explore how distributed systems fail and then once we're good and scared, we'll cover a number of approaches and tools to help you deal with failure.
|Sean O'Connor
* Fear Driven Development
Have you ever not made a much-needed change because you were afraid of breaking something? Caution is wise, but too much fear can leave even the most agile of software organizations with a crippling aversion to change. This talk will discuss what makes us scared, why it hurts us, and my experiences helping a team I managed get rid of some of our fears.
|Ryan Kennedy
* Five years, 1000 students: The story of Open Source Comes to Campus
Since 2010, OpenHatch has been running workshops at college campuses, teaching undergrads how to get involved in open source. In 2015, we expect to reach over 500 students through 25 events. This talk presents how we've the scaled program over the years, how we've evolved our curriculum, and how you can get involved.
|Asheesh Laroia
* For Love and For Money
Let's talk about the work we want to do, the work we have to do, and how we might create systems that don't continue to force bad choices between building community, technical work, and diversity activism.
|Audrey Eschright
* Free Your Money: Open Source Crowdfunding Tips & Tools
Crowdfunding has become big business for companies like Kickstarter and Patreon. This 'corporate crowdfunding tax' can sometimes burden small projects. Is it time to kick commercial crowdfunding to the curb? Let's share new strategies for DIY marketing and funding project online with Open Source tools
|Skyler Corbett
* From the Inside Out: How Self-Talk Affects Your Community
Identifying and discouraging negative self-talk is a simple thing, but it can have a huge impact on your community in a positive way. It increases self-confidence, improves morale, and generally results in happier, more productive community participants. This, in turn, will make you happy.
|Kat Toomajian
* From the Unicorn's Mouth: Stories of Managing Multiple Diverse Identities in Tech
We each have many critical facets to our identity-- race, gender, sexuality, class, health, and family background are just a handful of examples-- and the interaction between them can shape our lives more than any one factor alone. In this panel discussion, learn about intersectionality, and what the experiences of those living at the crossroads of different minority identities can teach us about what it takes to create a truly inclusive open source community.
|Megan Baker, Thalida Noel, Nichole Burton, Lisa Sy
* Funding for Open Source Projects: Is a Universal Basic Income the Solution?
Contributing to open-source projects without worrying about making a living? What sounds like a dream could become a reality with the institution of an economic concept called basic income. The idea is currently being debated in numerous countries. This talk will introduce the concept and outline the possible benefits of basic income for the open source community.
|Luc Perkins
* GeekChoir 2015
In this session, we'll continue the grand Open Source Bridge tradition of learning how to increase team cohesion, identity, and collaboration through music, joining our voices (in our uniquely geeky way) in harmony.
|Michael Alan Brewer
* Good Enough Voter Verification & Other Identity Architecture Schemes for Online Communities
This talk is a deep dive into considerations for Identity Architecture for online communities. It's most specifically applications for political action, civic engagement, or virtual nations. I'll talk about pragmatic solutions for voter verification using the state voter registration database, schemes for peer to peer authentication, offline/online identification, Impartial Identity Architecture to control conflict, and more. The discussion is high level and appropriate for beginners, but there will be links to code and big ideas.
|Ele Mooney
* Hacking Minecraft!
Minecraft is an incredibly popular game with developers. I'll give a brief tour of opportunities to practice your craft in the Minecraft world and walkthrough some tutorials using popular open source projects.
|Jonan Scheffler
* Hello, my name is __________.
Our personal identity is core to how we perceive ourselves and wish to be seen. All too often, however, applications, databases, and user interfaces are not designed to fully support the diversity of personal and social identities expressed throughout the world.
|Nova Patch
* Hosting Events that the Whole Community Loves
So, you're responsible for a growing an open source community and you want to ensure it's a friendly place for newcomers and old-timers alike. You want to make sure everyone feels welcome and has access to a variety of events (both on and offline) with content that meets the needs of all of your user base from beginner to advanced. This talk will...
|Meg Hartley
* How Do Python Coroutines Work?
Asynchronous I/O frameworks like Node, Twisted, Tornado, and Python 3.4's new "asyncio" can efficiently scale past tens of thousands of concurrent connections. But async coding with callbacks is painful and error-prone. Programmers increasingly use coroutines in place of callbacks to get the best of both worlds: efficiency plus a natural and robust coding style. I'll explain how asyncio's coroutines work. They are built using Python generators, the "yield from" statement, and the Future and Task classes. You will gain a deep understanding of this miraculous new programming idiom in the Python standard library.
|A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
* How the Internet Works
The Internet runs the world; it connects our devices, powers our businesses, and even talks to our thermostats. But how does it all happen? We will follow an adventurous young web browser from the moment a hapless user presses "enter" and witness the trials and tribulations of many packets. Ride alongside the most fearsome syscalls as we learn how the Internet works!
|Noah Kantrowitz
* How To Be A Great Developer
Being a great developer is much more than technical know-how. Empathy, communication, and reason are at least as important, but are undervalued in our industry. We'll examine the impact these skills can have and how to apply them to our work.
|Ed Finkler
* How to Read a Stack Trace
When you're trying to make sense of an surprising software crash or an unexpected test failure, knowing your way around a stack trace can make the difference between bewildered frustration and finding a root cause.
|Moss Collum
* How to Really Get Git
You already know how to use "git status", "git push", and "git add" for your personal projects. You know how to work on a team project with git version control. How do you achieve the next level of git mastery and fix mistakes? We'll cover how to set up your git environment for a productive workflow, different ways to undo your mistakes in git, and finally, how to use the IPython notebook to automate an entire git workflow.
|Susan Tan
* How to Teach Git
Version control is a necessary piece of the open source community and git has an unfortunately steep learning curve. Here is what I have learned from teaching git to beginners, so you don't have to make the same mistakes.
|Georgia Reh
* How We Learned To Stop Worrying And Love (Or At Least Live With) GitHub
In the past few years, GitHub has become the most widely used platform for managing open source projects, thanks to the ease it provides for submitting and accepting pull requests. However, GitHub's issue tracker is not as full featured as more venerable bug trackers such as Bugzilla, and it is not as easy to use for organizations which have a large number of casual contributors. Come hear how one organization coped with the sudden loss of their Bugzilla database by restructuring their tracking workflow to use GitHub's built-in issue management features, as well as implementing API hooks to provide missing functionality.
|Jen Griffin, Athena Yao
* How you tell the story matters: telling better stories and making better technologies
What happens when we tell stories? How do we tell stories about the technology we build, why do some stories get told over others? How do we talk about our successes, and how do we not talk about our failures? Whose stories get heard: how do women, people of color, disabled people, and "non-technical" workers get left out of the stories we hear? In this talk, I'll explore the role of storytelling in technology, and share what I've found about telling better stories.
|amelia abreu
* HTTP Can Do That?!
I have explored weird corners of HTTP -- malformed requests that try to trick a site admin into clicking spam links in 404 logs, an API that responds to POST but not GET, and more. In this talk I'll walk you through those (using Python, netcat, and other tools you might have lying around the house).
|Sumana Harihareswara
* Humanising Math and Physics on Computer Science
There are some myths around Science - it's boring, useless, difficult. Many of them are heard while we are young, and many people tend to take then for the entire life. Science is very important, specially on Computer Science and Engineering, for building the basis of our logical thinking.
|Hanneli Tavante
* Internet of Things Militia: Paramilitary Training for your IoT devices
Security folk generally talk about how the Internet of Things is bad for security, but it also brings new sensors and connected devices that could co-operate in new and interesting ways. Could we use internet things to enhance security?
|Terri Oda
* Introduction to data munging with pandas and IPython Notebook
This talk will go over importing, exploring, and exporting your data, and common issues you may encounter.
|Meli Lewis
* kenny_g.rb: Making Ruby Write Smooth Jazz
For too long, computers have been shut out of the red-hot music-to-listen-to-while-relaxing-in-the-bathtub genre. Today, that all changes. Our smooth-jazz-as-a-service startup is primed to disrupt this stale industry. All we need is a little Ruby and we'll make automated musical magic.
|Tim Krajcar
* Learning and Knowing with Federated Wiki
@AlysonIndrunas RT @Bali_Maha's wonderful beautiful thoughtful #fedwiki succinct summary "it is a new approach to looking at knowledge we construct together"
|Ward Cunningham
* Leveraging Docker to Enable Learning
When giving workshops or presenting online tutorials, it's frequently the case that the system setup can take longer than the actual learning exercises. Using Docker to provide a learning sandbox solves this problem while avoiding changing the learner's system in potentially destructive ways.
|Kirsten Hunter
* Making Docker Actually Work
Workflow and tools to make Docker work the way it should, in production and in development
|Simon McFarlane
* Making the web fun again
When Geocities shut down, it did much more than delete a bunch of obnoxious dancing baby GIFs and Limp Bizkit MIDI files. It deleted the ability for people to easily create web sites, and learn how to be in complete control of the content and presentation they provide to their audience. To the economically and socially disenfranchised, it was a disaster that prevented countless people from learning programming. So we brought it back, and open sourced the entire thing (including our financial data). Leave your nostalgia at the door - let us show you our efforts to pave a better future for tech startups, the tech community, and the future of the web itself.
|Kyle Drake, Victoria Wang
* Male/Female/Othered: Implementing Gender-Inclusiveness in User Data Collection
You want to gather information about your users that you can use to improve their experience and yours. They want their identities to be acknowledged and treated with respect. This talk is about meeting both needs: How to ask about gender in ways that welcome the diversity of reality while still being able to analyze the data you get back. We'll discuss the nature of that challenge, how some major websites address it, and example solutions for different scenarios.
|Finn Ellis, Jonathan Harker
* Micropub: The Emerging API Standard for IndieWeb Apps
Micropub is an emerging open API standard that is used to create posts on your own domain using third-party apps. Web apps and mobile apps can use Micropub to post notes, photos, bookmarks and many other kinds of posts to your own website, similar to using a Twitter client to post to your Twitter account.
|Aaron Parecki
* Monads Made Semi-Understandable
The word monad is all around us. I've heard long explanations of it that seem to over complicate it or make it intimidating. At Hacker School one of my goals was to learn some category theory, and understand the beast. I finally got it, and it wasn't so bad. I wanted to explain monads in a way that would not intimidate people and that would so some solid examples so if they felt like i had before, I might be able to help.
|libby kent
* Morning Keynote — Put Up or Shut Up: An Open Letter to Tech Companies Seeking Diverse Teams
People from marginalized communities struggle to break into tech, clawing our way through a racist, sexist, classist, ableist system only to be fired, quit or just suffer in misery. I'll explore what it really takes to create a workplace that is truly welcoming of everyone.
|Kronda Adair
* On-device, open source mobile vector rendering of OpenStreetMap
Learn about the moving pieces of Mapbox GL, an open source framework for rendering beautiful maps based on OpenStreetMap-based data on Android and iOS. Find out what goes into making completely configurable world maps that are always up to date and always available in your pocket.
|Justin Miller
* Open source collaboration for tackling real world environmental problems
Public Lab is a two-part project -- an attempt at large-scale community environmental monitoring, AND a massively distributed R&D lab for inventing new monitoring techniques and equipment. The community has grown a lot over the past five years, and we are here to share stories of -- and welcome you to -- an emerging FOSS culture that spans hardware, software, data, community organizing, and advocacy.
|Dana Bauer, Mathew Lippincott
* Open Source Tools for Scientific Research
Come learn about open science and the tools available for modern scientific research.
|Amy Boyle
* Open Source Tools of the Hardware Hacking Trade
Many embedded systems contain design flaws that could lead to exploitable vulnerabilities. In order to discover such flaws, hackers and engineers use a specific set of tools. In this session, Joe will discuss his favorite open source hardware hacking and reverse engineering tools, including those that monitor/decode digital communications, extract firmware, inject/spoof data, and identify/connect to debug interfaces.
|Joe Grand
* Open Source your Circuit Design with KiCAD
I learned to design circuits in Eagle because at the time there were no good, free, open source alternatives but I would argue that's changed. Let's talk about why KiCAD might be the CAD program you're looking for and do a whirlwind tour of the current state of KiCAD tools and community.
|Jenner Hanni
* Opening Up The Current Open Source Blueprint
Accessibility, diversity, and open source holding itself accountable to its own standards of what it means to be an open community.
|Stephanie Morillo
* Probably
If you want to understand probability better (and you should), this is the talk for you.
|Bart Massey
* Project Fear
Project fear, not dissimilar to imposter syndrome, tends to affect all project leaders at some point (or many points) in their career. This session will tackle project fear by fully defining it, investigating its roots, noting its symptoms, and ultimately discussing a number of successful coping mechanisms.
|Adam Edgerton
* Reinventing black boxes
Open source has a long history of reimplementing, and reverse engineering proprietary tools. This talk will integrate the tools needed to reverse engineer into stories of how it has been done before.
|Daniel Johnson
* Removing Barriers: Ascend Project Post Mortem
Last year the Ascend Project was announced, then in the fall the first pilot took place in Portland. This year we'll report back on how it went, hear from participants, and break down what worked and what could be changed for future versions of this type of program. You'll definitely come away with some ideas for your next learning event, code school, or sponsored training.
|Lukas Blakk, Kronda Adair
* So how do you reach every person on the planet: Internationalization at Twitter
Twitter is the world's most popular platform which enables users to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers. In order to fulfill this mission, it has to provide language support for every person seamlessly. This talk will walk through Twitter's open source language libraries, internationalization and localization standards and technologies.
|Alolita Sharma
* Software Archeology and The Code Of Doom
You approach the legacy codebase with trepidation. If the vine-draped entrance and collapsing roof weren't enough warning, traces of previous explorers before you lie scattered about, caught in bizarre traps and oubliettes. What next, snakes?!
|Kerri Miller
* Stronger Than Fear: Mental Health in the Developer Community
Mental disorders are the largest contributor to disease burden in North America, but the developer community and those who employ us are afraid to face the problem head-on. In this talk, we'll examine the state of mental health awareness in the developer workplace, why most developers feel it isn't safe to talk about mental health, and what we can do to change the culture and save lives.
|Ed Finkler
* Teaching and managing for technologists
After 15 years or so working as a programmer I made two big changes in my job: first I became a manager, then I started working with college students to help them learn to code. This is a personal story of why that has been some of the most challenging and rewarding work I've ever done.
|Lennon Day-Reynolds
* Testing the Multiverse
It's a basic principle of testing that minimizing dependencies will make you happier, faster, and more productive. But what happens when you can't?
|Jason Clark
* The Graceful Exit: Approaches for Changing One's Role in an Open Community
Open culture communities are passionate, dedicated backed by people. What happens when those people need to change their roles within the community? I've played varied roles in open culture communities through the years. In this talk I'll go over what worked well and what I wish I had approached in a different way when my role needed to change.
|Kate Chapman
* The Open Source Writing Stack
Open source makes writing and publishing much easier both online and in print — provided you know what tools to use. This talk covers those tools (from LaTeX to WordPress) and how to choose between them.
|Thursday Bram
* The Public Library As An (Almost) Open Source Institution
Your public library can be one of your best allies for creating, distributing, and promoting Open Source ideas and projects. They want to help - they just need to know how.
|Alex Byrne
* The Quantified Self in the Smart City: Geo-Visualizing the Open Data of YOU
How do we track ourselves and what does it mean for the places we live? What mapping tools can help us to quickly understand the data we're collecting?
|Arlene Ducao
* Through the Warp Zone: Hacking Super Mario Brothers
Discover new worlds in Super Mario Brothers even the creators never saw!
|Emily St., Shawna Scott
* Tricking Out the Terminal: An Introduction
A beginner-focused overview of the particulars and pitfalls of the command line and several common shells, with a focus on improving developer workflows, exposing common default tools, implementing useful open-source tools, and inserting emoji into prompts (pretty much the best part of customizing the terminal).
|Lydia Katsamberis
* Troubleshooting In Distributed Systems
The shift to microservice and distributed architectures has made software products more flexible and scalable-- and a lot more complex. With so many moving parts, ephemeral conditions and the spectre of partial failure, it can be much more difficult to pinpoint how and why things break. Learn how Logstash, Elasticsearch and Kibana can be used to monitor healthy systems and investigate issues as they pop up, and what we can do outside of software to improve our process of problem-solving.
|Megan Baker
* Trustworthy software in the real world
Software is made of bugs, yet software is controlling a growing part of our physical world. As bugs and security holes become potentially life-threatening, what can we do to make our software worthy of the trust we're placing in it? Take quadcopters, for example. Toy vehicles are not just in specialty hobby shops but even in supermarkets; sports stadiums and the White House are trying to find ways to keep them out; and everyone from agriculture startups to Amazon wants to use them commercially. Quadcopters are becoming safety and security critical systems, but how are we going to make them truly safe and secure? I'll present SMACCMPilot, a BSD-licensed high-assurance quadcopter autopilot, and the new tools and technologies that make it feasible to trust a large piece of software.
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* Universal Web Design: How to create an awesome experience for *every* user
In this talk, I will describe how Universal Web Design principles can be easily applied to new or existing sites, how these principles will improve your users' experience, and how Universal Web Design will save you time and money.
|David Newton
* User Research For Non-Researchers
User research doesn't have to be time-consuming, elaborate, or performed by a UX professional. If you're willing to talk to a few strangers, you can do user research. In this presentation, I'll talk about how to do lightweight research on any product or topic, no matter what your background and training are. I'll focus on the most effective tools for quick research, and some of the common pitfalls for novice researchers.
|Jane Davis
* Using Asterisk to Stop Robocallers
Robocallers are very annoying. Even when the Do Not Call list works, it doesn't cover all robo callers. This talk is about combining Asterisk (an open source PBX) running on a BeagleBone and some inexpensive hardware to really stop these annoying callers.
|Michael Pigg
* Using Julia & D3 to analyse web performance data
If you've always wanted to play around with D3 or Julia, or both, this talk will get you up to speed very quickly. Using web performance data as the vehicle, and an aim to extract meaningful information from it, we will explore both Julia and D3 and come up with some fun visualizations that may not be possible using only one of these tools.
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* Venturing into the Spooky Science of Ruby
Grab a scalpel as we put Ruby on the table to look at this lovely language's internals. We'll start with class inheritance and method lookup, and then explore the mysterious eigenclass and how it fits in. We'll use our newfound knowledge to turn children into zombies, meet unexpected vampires, and make our own Ruby mutants. Okay, so maybe it won't be too spooky, but you'll come away having a better understanding of Ruby objects and their internals (and braaaains!).
|Zoe Kay
* What Are Computers, Really?
We'll take a whirlwind tour of the theory behind what computers do. We'll start with counting on our fingers and end with an explanation of why there are some problems where the laws of physics say "no, a computer can never do this". No mathematical background necessary.
|Clarissa Littler
* What is LocalWiki, and why is it so much fun? Let's edit it!
LocalWiki, a very friendly and inclusive cousin of Wikipedia, is a project hosting region-specific open-content wikis where a community can write about local topics in as much detail as they like. I've had a ton of fun with this recently, and I'd like to explain to you why you might like it too! We can work on some first edits together.
|Britta Gustafson
* What stuttering taught me about marketing - not your typical soft skills talk
Your weakness just might be your greatest strength.
|Sharon Steed
* What's in a name? Phonetic Algorithms for Search and Similarity
Search can be as simple as returning a word or part of word based on character similarity. LIKE and wildcard matches can be sufficient, but can only account for character or string matching, and fail on misspelled words or names. Phonetic algorithms can help us find matches for misspellings and typo'd user data.
|Mercedes Coyle
* When Your Codebase Is Nearly Old Enough To Vote
What do you do when your project is so old that technology has changed around you? (Or, how do you future-proof a project that you've just started so that when it gets that old, you'll be ready?) Come hear a case study of Dreamwidth Studios, a fifteen-year-old web app with a codebase consisting of a quarter million lines of legacy Perl and a mission to modernize ... if it doesn't break everything.
|Denise Paolucci
* Why Making a Programming Language is Awesome
Learn about the journey of creating Wake, a modern programming language
|Michael R Fairhurst
* Why Relationships Matter in Community Building: Experiences from the Philippine Cultural Heritage Mapping Project
What makes a successful project? It's not only a solid idea, firm execution and attention to the numbers. It's also successfully building working relationships between community members. This presentation will explore how one of Wikimedia Philippines' biggest projects was successful in large part to how the organization engaged its participants, and ultimately how they have come to be part of the wider Filipino Wikimedia community.
|Josh Lim
* Write It Down: Process Documentation from the Ground Up
The collective knowledge base of an organization can be difficult to crack. Some things have "always been done that way" but no one knows why. This talk will help to expose those undocumented corners of your project, and give you tools for writing process documentation for new contributors using lessons from Not-For-Profit organizations.
|Kat Toomajian
* Yoga!
Accessible yoga for people of all levels, special attention given to yoga postures and breathing that you can do at your desk.
|Sherri Koehler
* You Got Your Idris in My C++! A First Look at Denotational Design
Programmers gripe that we have two kinds of programming languages: the ones we write in for fun, and the ones we write in because we have to. We may enjoy coding that weekend project in Agda, but we have to leave that smile behind on Monday morning when we go back to Java or C++. But is that really the case? Or can we find a way of bringing the expressiveness, the rigor, or the fun of our favorite languages into our day jobs?
|Ian Dees
* You, Too, Can Contribute to Open Source!
Are you curious about contributing to Open Source but don't know where to start? Learn how we became Open Source contributors, most recently with Outreach Program internships with Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) and Mozilla. Come learn how you can get started too.
|Jessica Canepa, Barbara Miller, Adam Okoye
* Your Job is Political: Tech Money in Politics
As much as the personal is political, the old-fashioned political still is too, and companies and individuals made rich by the tech industry and by open source software have been making increasingly direct monetary incursions into U.S. politics. Let's take a look at what policies & politicians our bosses, investors, users and contributors are buying at the local and state levels, with a specific focus on current changes in education policy and future moves in law enforcement.
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I believe that animals, like all sentient beings, are entitled to basic legal rights in our society. Deprived of legal protection, animals are defenseless against exploitation and abuse by humans. As no such rights now exist, I pledge to urge Congress to pass legislation in support of the following basic rights for animals:
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Ben Affleck's movie, "Argo," claims to be a "true story" and while it's widely regarded as one of the best pictures of the year, garnering multiple nominations and awards, the truth is its portrayal contains some glaring omissions. The backdrop of the tale is the 1979 storming of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran by Islamic militants who captured 52 American diplomatic personnel and held them hostage for 444 days. However, the core story of "Argo" focuses on the six American diplomats who escaped the initial takeover and found refuge in -- and eventual rescue from -- the Canadian Embassy in Iran.
Lead actor and director, Affleck, who studied Middle Eastern Affairs in college, said he "knew the backstory, I knew the politics, I knew that I wasn't going to step on any landmines in that regard." But, at the movie's premiere at TIFF, the landmines started exploding.
Many Canadians, including former Ambassador to Iran, Ken Taylor, who housed two of the six escapees and who was a central coordinator in the ex-filtration of the six Americans, took issue with the film, which portrayed the Canadians as a minor player in the daring escape. "Argo" would have us believe that it was almost solely an American undertaking led by CIA agent, Tony Mendez.
"Tony Mendez, as courageous and ingenious as is his character, was only there for a day and a half," said Taylor. "After three months of intensive preparation for the operation…I think my role was somewhat more than just opening and closing the front door of the embassy."
It was largely the Canadian Embassy who orchestrated the escape.
That bit of "Argo's" oversight is well known to Les Harris, a former W5 producer who quit his job to direct not only a 1980s documentary on this tale, but a movie of the week (Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper) as well. According to Harris, "(Argo) was a fantastic film. What it was not was the story, the true story of what happened."
Jimmy Carter, the American President at the time of the hostage crisis, echoed Harris's viewpoint. While receiving an honorary degree at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Carter took issue with the film. In his acceptance speech, Carter said, "I saw the movie Argo recently. I was taken aback by its distortion of what happened. Because almost everything that was heroic or courageous or innovative was done by Canada, and not the United States."
Historical errors
So, what really did happen in the historical sense – and what did the movie, Argo, simply invent? A warning – if you haven't seen the film yet and don't want to spoil your viewing of Affleck's version of history, skip the next few paragraphs and go directly to "Resume reading here."
- While Ambassador Taylor is depicted as taking in all six of the American escapees, it was John Sheardown, another Canadian Consular Official, and his wife, Zena, who took in four of them. Ambassador Taylor housed the other two.
- The six Americans did not object to the plan of posing as a Canadian film crew scouting locations for a movie. In fact, they favored that option over two others presented to them.
- The group of six never ventured into the Iranian bazaar as a dress rehearsal of their fake identities. In fact, Mark Lijek, one of the Americans exfiltrated from Iran said in an with W5's Victor Malarek, "It would have been suicidal to go to the Bazaar at that point."
- The character of Lester Siegel, played by Alan Arkin, while one of the most entertaining characters in the movie, was a composite of several people. There was a real-life producer named Lester Siegal, but he had nothing to do with this episode of Canadian and American history.
- The confrontation with Iranian officials at the airport in Tehran never happened. Apart from a short delay in boarding the plane, neither the six American escapees, nor Tony Mendez were questioned or detained at the airport.
- The climactic and nail-biting car chase by armed Iranians pursuing the jetliner lifting the Americans to freedom never happened. They lifted off without a hitch.
Ultimately, Argo fails as a historically accurate representation of what truly occurred. When Victor Malarek caught up with Affleck on his way into the Santa Barbara Film Festival, the director defended his picture.
"It's hard to make a movie and you wanna jam everything that's possible in there," said Affleck. "Particularly given, one of the really nice things about this movie was the spirit of camaraderie and brotherhood and companionhood that developed between the United States and Canada."
That said, as entertainment Argo does succeed as a true Hollywood thriller And as far as film critic Leonard Maltin is concerned there should be no problem with that, after he has one piece of sage advice for us all "don't get your history from the movies."


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Thanks to the fact that Archos used GPL and LGPL code in constructing their firmware for the Archos 604 and 604 Wi-Fi devices, they're forced to release just about the source code for said firmware into the public domain. What does this mean to the average Archos 604 user? Not a whole lot, at least right now. The code is pretty much complete, but lacks a few things like signatures, and some non-GPL utilities Archos used to build, link, and generate the final firmware files.
But, if the open source community can find out what goes into these gaps and plug'm, soon enough you should be rocking out to an open source Archos capable of playing back weird codecs, streaming things to other things, and doing all kinds of stuff that it wasn't meant to do originally&madsh;similar to the way that open source users took the Linksys router and beefed it up.
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Some of you may be familiar with a Cantonese dish called yuk bang, which roughly translates into "pork pie." It's pretty much the Chinese version of meat loaf. But while meat loaf can be found on menus in both Southern and hipster diners, yuk bang is hardly ever served outside home. To call it rustic would be an overly generous. You mix ground pork with pickled mustard plant, splash on a bit of soy sauce, then press your ball of pork into a metal plate and steam it. As simple and unphotogenic as pork pie is, it tastes amazing mixed with white rice.
In the absence of pickled mustard plant, and for leftovers that I wouldn't feel weird bringing to work, I turn to these minced pork and shiitake noodles.
If you have ever been to Hong Kong, Taiwan, mainland China, or Japan, you may be familiar with a dish of minced pork ladled over a bowl of boiled noodles. It's pure comfort food whenever you're exhausted and need nourishment, stat. Like, when traveling on foot in a subtropical Asian city, or even after staring at a computer screen all morning.
The simplest preparation involves just minced pork, onions or shallots, scallions, all simmered in sake or Chinese rice wine. I throw in finely chopped shiitake mushrooms for extra flavor (lately, using these ugly shiitakes.) You can really use any kind of noodles, but I prefer soba for their ability to not become saturated by sauces.
I brought these to work 3 days in a row. I felt like I was back slurping noodles at a hawker stand, except in a climate-controlled break room and not perspiring like a maniac.
And if you're still dying for a pork pie recipe, let me know.
Minced Pork and Shiitake Noodles
Serves 4
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1/2 pound ground pork
- 8 to 10 shiitake mushrooms, stems discarded and finely chopped
- 3 to 4 medium shallots, finely chopped
- 3 tablespoons sake
- 4 tablespoons soy sauce
- 2 stalks scallions, chopped
- Prepare your noodles according to package instructions.
- While your noodles are cooking, heat the vegetable oil in a wok or large sauté pan over high heat. Cook the ground pork, stirring occasionally, until no longer pink, about 4 to 5 minutes. Remove the pork and set aside.
- Add the shittakes and shallots and cook until they begin to turn golden brown, about 5 minutes. Return the pork to the pan. Add the sake, wait a minute while the alcohol loosens the nice pork drippings on the pan, then add the soy sauce. Let everything simmer for another minute, then remove from the pan.
- Serve pork and mushrooms over drained noodles, and garnish with scallions.


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Driving in Russia isn't safe. We've seen this over and over and over again. But at least walking on the sidewalk seemed somewhat safe.
We were wrong.
As you can see here, this poor girl is nearly killed by an out-of-control driver on a snowy road. She stands still for a while afterwards, presumably because she's shitting her pants.
So, if you're in Russia, I recommend that you never go outside ever again. Dig safety tunnels or something. I don't know. I'm just an ideas man.
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Incumbent US Sen. Brian Schatz won a close Democratic primary election in Hawaii that was disrupted – and shaped – by Tropical Storm Iselle.
The dramatic race to finish the term of the late Sen. Daniel Inouye was tinged with emotional residue from the past. Schatz was challenged by U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, who at one point said that he wasn't a true incumbent because he had been appointed by Gov. Neil Abercrombie after Inouye's dying wish that Hanabusa replace him.
Now, after an election that stretched over nearly a week because Tropical Storm Iselle knocked out power and closed polling stations, Schatz has carried his slim election-night lead to a victory.
"This was obviously an extremely hard-fought race. But we're gratified that the voters heard our message and recognized that I've been working hard for the people of Hawaii," Schatz said in an interview with The Associated Press late Friday.
Schatz edged out Hanabusa, capturing 48.5 percent of the vote, compared with Hanabusa's 47.8 percent.
Schatz had outspent Hanabusa by $1 million during his campaign, and his ads — which emphasized his endorsement by President Barack Obama — dominated TV and radio.
The election was held Friday for two rural precincts on Hawaii's Big Island that were closed on election day because of damage from Iselle. In the days leading up to Friday's makeup primary, Hanabusa tried to delay the election to give area residents more time to recover from the storm, but she lost a court challenge.
In an interview with reporters late Friday, Hanabusa thanked her supporters for their help conducting a campaign with a "major money deficit."
"That is one of the most humbling and phenomenal things about elections, it's the relationships that we make, the relationships that we earn," she said. "And I just want to say 'Mahalo' to everyone who has given their heart and soul to this election."
Iselle threw an unexpected twist to an already unusual campaign battle, turning the spotlight on Puna, an often neglected part of the state that was in the unlikely position of deciding the likely winner of the U.S. Senate race. Schatz will face Republican candidate Cam Cavasso in November, but Schatz is expected to cruise to victory in the heavily Democratic state.
With hundreds of downed trees and power lines sending the region into chaos, thousands of voters couldn't get to the polls. Both candidates got to work handing out food, water and ice to storm victims and giving the decisive voters a chance to judge them up close.
Some voters preferred Schatz's way of handling the situation.
"He looked like a Puna boy with his Levis and baseball cap, and he was just working hard passing out supplies," said Sharon Turner, owner of Island Edges Beads in Hilo. "Then when I saw Hanabusa, she was passing out chili. But all the people around her had their campaign hats on."
Other voters lamented that Friday's makeup primary came too soon after Iselle, and they appreciated Hanabusa's efforts to delay voting. Some had difficulty getting to polling places because of downed trees that had yet to be removed after the storm. There was a sense of confusion at the polling station on Friday, with some voters saddened because they thought they could vote, but then were turned away because they didn't live in the precincts that were allowed to vote on Friday.
"They made a big deal that 'Yay, Puna has a say,' but the reality is people are in an absolute state of crisis," said Christina Bryan, 41, a teacher who lives in an area where the polls were open during the Aug. 9 primary but her road was blocked, preventing her from voting. Even so, she said Hanabusa's legal challenge "felt a little phony."
Turnout in the two precincts was down nearly one-third compared with the 2012 primary, with about 3,000 people casting ballots during early voting and on Friday.
Schatz said there's no doubt that that the storm impacted voter turnout, but "we decided early on that we're the players on the field, not the referees, so we were prepared to compete in the election whenever and however it was conducted."
Despite the drama of Iselle, many voters in the Big Island's Puna region still had the drama of Inouye's dying wish on their minds.
Aina Campbell, a retired caregiver, said she would have voted for Hanabusa but couldn't get to the polls on election day.
"For the governor who lost to ignore the request on a dying man's bed — I don't believe Schatz earned the position yet, and Hanabusa has," Campbell said.
But in some cases, sentiments of the past didn't work in Hanabusa's favor.
"First you're invoking Inouye's name, now you're invoking Iselle,"said Leonard Feliciano, 60, who voted for Schatz on Friday. "Don't play on our hearts. We need to move on."
Cathy Bussewitz can be reached on Twitter at http://twitter.com/cbussewitz
Associated Press Writers Oskar Garcia and Jennifer Sinco Kelleher in Honolulu and Karin Stanton and Marco Garcia in Pahoa contributed to this report.


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Moving On.../ Tweet
This blog post required a couple of passes.
I want to use the post to let you know that I'm closing Rock The Boat Marketing to take a marketing position with an asset management firm. Yep, I'm heading back inside.
A part of me—ultimately overruled by the rest of me—wanted to regale you with how I'll remember the last seven years. I had some reminiscences about the spread of social media and the progress of digital marketing within the industry, a few profound observations and one or two prophecies.
I'll save all that for if we ever meet in person and you have a lot of time and nothing to say yourself.
The most important thing I have to say today is thank you and I don't want that to get lost.
I knew few (non Chicago-based) mutual fund and ETF marketers, financial advisors or service providers when I personally became active online starting in 2008. It was a special time because lots of others were also finding their voices and experimenting with blogs and Twitter.
The encouragement from the people I've met through tweeting and posting has floored me. It's been genuine, helpful in a material way and affirming. Thank you. Your attagirls have meant so much.
Starting December 1, I'll be working as Director of Intermediary Marketing at Calamos Investments in suburban Chicago. I worked at Calamos for a short time several years ago. Marketing and Sales there is doing some cool stuff together, and I'm eager to get back on a team.
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ALEGADO Family Tree
(alegado – alleged)
Four Generations
I have a feeling the Alegado family will turn out to be one of the older families of Carcar, and as such, one of the more numerous. Don't ever think the family tree below is all of the family. I have 7 or more big branches that I'm still unable to link up to this decidedly biggest group or, of course, to each other. If I hadn't found out early on that I have Alegado blood, I'd have given up long ago. What's giving plenty of problem is the mixup of names (a sure sign that there were just too many of them the clerks confused one with the other?).
In the 2010 Voters list for Carcar, there are 360 voters surnamed Alegado, the 4th most numerous surname in the list.
[12-May-2011: While I had little by little suspected it as a problem waiting to happen but until this week, the discrepancies had never come to a head–maybe because they were just shelved. But this week, new data from Baptisms 1815-1823 afforded me the opportunity to look on it closer by re-plotting the respective personages. I am referring to Soriano Alegado and Valeriano Alegado. Previous data looked to be mixing up the two, as their names were Agustin/Francisco Soriano and Francisco Valeriano. The main cause was their wives. Soriano's was Manuela Alvarada while Valeriano (or Baleriano) had Ma. Manuela. You would not suspect them to be different persons at the beginning even if they were mixed up with each other, too, since the two names were not much dissimilar from each other, especially when worse — as in totally different — names have cropped up for the same person.
Anyway, the re-reconstituted dates for the children of Soriano and of Valeriano showed very simply the two names could not have been of the same person. The children had overlapping dates of birth. Thus, a total overhaul involving the two lines is in order. That signifies I have go over each record for each child, many of which I had placed together under Soriano. Thank God for having decided early on to take down hardcopy notes, but still a very painstaking task ahead!)
And then, the bigger hitch: is where do I place Valeriano? I have Soriano as a son of Cipriano and Ma. Galiana, along with 3 siblings. Problem is, I do not have a record for the parentage of Valeriano, thus he remains a loose cannon. Like I said about the reconstruction for the family–whew!]
2Francisco Cipriano ( ), pDn: Francisco Cipriano
–=Maria Galiana ( –1836) AKA Catalina Narcisa
—-3Agustin Soriano (calc. 1780-1837), pDn: Agustin Soriano
—-=(1806) Manuela Alvarado ( ), pDn: Manuela Albarada
——4Petrona Alegado
=Juan (Saradat) Fernandez
——4Ciriaca Alegado ( -1895) pDn: Ma. Cipriana
=(1836) Alejo Alfafara ( -1885) pDn: Alejo Abillo
(See Alejo Alfafara in Alfafara (Vicente) Family Tree page)
——4Leuterio Navillo (1819– ), pDn: Leuterio Navillo
——4Laurencio Alegado ( -1858), pDn: Laurencio Francisco
=Petrona Navares ( ), pDn: Ma. Petrona
——4Ambrocio Alegado (1828-1887)
=(1840) Apolonia Alegarbes Alcover ( -1896)
——4Marcelino Albarado
=(1840) Ma. Simona
——4Mariano Alegado ( ), pDn: Mariano Francisco
=Gregoria Bañes ( ) pDn: Ma Gregoria
——4Lorenza Alegado ( –1902) pDn: Laurencia Alvarada
=(1845) Patricio Alcover ( ) pDn: Patricio Francisco
——4Pedro Alegado ( -1908)
=(1852) Consolacion Alcuiris Alesna
——4Ysabel Alegado ( -1900)
=(1857) Manuel Dacay Binoya ( -1900)
——4Celedonia Alegado ( -1897)
=1(1858) Felix Larrios Largo
=2)1882) Leon Baradan
——4Bartolome Alegado ( -1895)
=(1860) Blasa/Blazona Sobreviña Sobrevilla
—-3Justa Alegado ( -1883) pDn: Ma. Justa
—-=(1814) Faustino Alejado ( -1866) pDn: Juan Faustino
——4Cleofás Alejado (1819-1889) pDn: Juan Cleofas, Cleofas Francisco
=(1843) Felipa Aledo Alesna ( ) pDn: Ma Felipa
——4Pedro Alejado (1821-1888) pDn: Pedro Ygnacio
=(1843) Anacleta Baradan ( ) pDn: Ma. Cleta
——4Hipolita Alejado (1823-1883) pDn: Ma. Ypolita (bapt.) single
——4Catalina Gervasia (1825–
——4Juana Celestina (1827–
——4Casimira Alejado (1829- ) pDn: Ma. Casimira
=(1854) Gregorio Barata Barasona
——4Gregorio Alejado (1831–
=(1853) Sinforosa Aleser Aledo
——4Alejandra Alejado (1833-1876)
——=(1856) Leoncio Candesa Baradon
——4Petrona Alejado
=(1851) Cirilo Aledo Alesna
——4Brigida Alejado ( -1906)
=Eugenio Camates
——4Martiana Alejado ( -1899)
=2) Roque Alegado
—-3Modesta Alegado ( -1881)
—-=(1815) Alcario Sevillena Barcelo ( ) pDn: Alcario Juanillo
(See Alcario Barcelo in Barcelo Family Tree page)
—-3Santiago Alegado ( -1876) pDn: Santiago Lucas
—-=(1818) Magdalena Aldaya ( -1868)
——4Saturnino Alegado (1819– ) pDn: Francisco Saturnino (bapt.), Saturnino Lucas
=(1842) Eulalia/Bartola Alfafara (1821-1852)
=(1853) Angela Baquilta Alesna (1834- ) pDn: Angela Custodia
(See Saturnino Alegado in Alegado, Saturnino Family Tree page)
——4_______ (1822-
——4Ma. Hemeteria (1823-
——4Ysidoro Alegado (1825-1907) pDn: Ysidoro Ybañez (bapt.), Ysidoro Lucas
=(1849) Antonia Alcuiris Alesna (1828-1898) pDn: Ana Antonia (bapt.)
——4Matea Alegado (1827– ) pDn: Mathea Albarada
=(1846) Marciano Aleson ( ) pDn: Martiano Anacleto (marr.)
=(1851) Luis Barcelona
——4Tiburcio Santiago (1829-
——4Romualda Alegado (1831– ) pDn: Romualda Bonifacia
=(1851) Donato Alcuesar
——4Celestina Alegado (1833-1905) pDn: Celestina de la Resurreccion (bapt.)
=(1857) Alejandro Languido Tanos
——4Salustriana Alegado (1835-1908) pDn: Salustiana Cleofe (bapt.)
=(1860) Vicente Mercado
——4Gaudencio Alegado (1837-1909) pDn: Gaudencio Narciso (bapt.), Candelario
=(1859) Eleuteria Bargamento Alcuesar
——4Monico Alegado (1839-1906) pDn: Monico Santiago (bapt.)
=(1877) Felipa Canaygay Cananayon (
——4Basilia Alegado
=Fernando Rosario
——4Juana Alegado (1846– ) pDn: Juana de Dios
=2) Bonifacio Tenieblas
——4Damacena Alegado ( -1897) single in Burial rec.
heavy family reconstruction going on)


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Business Manager necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 113 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
I have two post cards and a brochure that I have mailed out to dentists to attract them to come to a seminar that we deliver. I need them re-designed.
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We have been in businessfor ten years. We are in a historic part of town in a lofty feeling typeoffice. We have worked with dentists successfully increasing their businessesto a point where they can start achieving their goals. Many dentists haveforgotten what their goals were when they first got into practice. Now they areslaves of their practices just trying to survive. I want to attract dentistswho have money to pay for our services, around $45,000.00 and who want to beatthis economy by surviving in abundance. The ideal client is someone who has hita plateau doing everything they know how and want help to get their place tothe next level. They need to be a fun group who is willing to do what it takesto achieve their goals. We have proven systems that work every time! Our program takes about a year. I want tosend out the brochure out first, then a post card in one week and the 2ndpostcard in a week after that. The postcards and brochure that I have, havepulled in some pretty good clients, but it's time to step it up a notch. I wantus to appear like a company that is expensive but effective. We deliver in Colorado and California, mainly. For a copy of the three pieces to be emailed to you, including the logo and photo, please enter your email address at the bottom of this website page:
- Our logo to appear ineach item including address and phone number.
- The postcards and thebrochure are double sided.
- I want the brochure toinclude the information that it has, but be pleasing to read.
- I want the pieces toattract and not be thrown away.
- For the post cards, I wanta catchy question that would make a successful dentist, that is looking forhelp because he has hit a plateau, to be attracted to it and CALL to registerfor the seminar.
- The date for the seminaris 25 April 2009.
- The price for the seminaris $349, first person, $79 each additional for early bird registration. $389, first person, $99 each additional forthe regular registration fee.
- People in the past haveliked the photo, so I would like to keep it.
- The pieces shouldcommunicate to a dentist that doesn't want to lose in this economy.
- In the past, thesuccessful color scheme has been a yellowish gold, a terra cotta and a sea foamygreen. But, I am willing to take a lookat something else if it's going to work. Maybe a light blue and chocolate brown scheme. The trick is to make it look expensive andeffective.
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- The brochure will be printed on both sides of a 8.5" X 11
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- The early bird registration is any registration on or before 17 April 2009.
- We don't want to look cheap
- We don't want it to look like a yellow page ad
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Sources: Pentagon group finds there is minimal risk to lifting gay ban during war
Thursday, November 11, 2010; 12:47 AM
A Pentagon study group has concluded that the military can lift the ban on gays serving openly in uniform with only minimal and isolated incidents of risk to the current war efforts, according to two people familiar with a draft of the report, which is due to President Obama on Dec. 1.
More than 70 percent of respondents to a survey sent to active-duty and reserve troops over the summer said the effect of repealing the "don't ask, don't tell" policy would be positive, mixed or nonexistent, said two sources familiar with the document. The survey results led the report's authors to conclude that objections to openly gay colleagues would drop once troops were able to live and serve alongside them.
One source, who has read the report in full, summarized its findings in a series of conversations this week. The source declined to state his position on whether to lift the ban, insisting it did not matter. He said he felt compelled to share the information out of concern that groups opposed to ending the ban would mischaracterize the findings. The long, detailed and nuanced report will almost certainly be used by opponents and supporters of repeal legislation to bolster their positions in what is likely to be a heated and partisan congressional debate.
President Obama has vowed to end the ban. Senior Pentagon officials requested the survey to address areas in which a repeal might cause conflicts that could hinder the military's ability to fight.
"There are challenges here, and we want the time so we can make the process of implementation as smooth as possible," said a second person who was briefed on the report but had not read it.
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen, and uniformed and civilian leaders of the four military branches received copies of the draft report late last week.
The document totals about 370 pages and is divided into two sections. The first section explores whether repealing "don't ask, don't tell" would harm unit readiness or morale. It cites the findings of a survey sent over the summer to 400,000 active-duty and reserve troops, a separate questionnaire sent to about 150,000 military spouses, the responses submitted to an anonymous online drop box seeking comments, and responses from focus-group participants.
The second part of the report presents a plan for ending enforcement of the ban. It is not meant to serve as the military's official instruction manual on the issue but could be used if military leaders agreed, one of the sources said.
Among other questions, the survey asked if having an openly gay person in a unit would have an effect in an intense combat situation. Although a majority of respondents signaled no strong objections, a significant minority is opposed to serving alongside openly gay troops. About 40 percent of the Marine Corps is concerned about lifting the ban, according to one of the people familiar with the report.
A Defense Department spokesman declined to comment for this article.
House and Senate versions of the annual defense authorization bill include language that would repeal the ban, but it is not clear whether lawmakers will proceed with the measure during the lame-duck session slated to begin next week. At least 10 senators of both parties have said they will not decide how to vote until they read the final report.
In addition to political jockeying by groups for and against the ban, a Republican gay rights group has challenged the constitutionality of the policy in court. Its legal push led a federal judge to briefly block the military from enforcing the ban. In court papers filed Wednesday, the Justice Department said the Supreme Court should allow the Pentagon to continue enforcing it.


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Tourists in South Africa Survived Capsized Boat in Air Pockets
(CAPE TOWN, South Africa) -- A popular tourist excursion near Cape Town, South Africa, turned into a horrifying experience for dozens of people this weekend when their boat capsized in chilly, shark-infested water. Three of the tourists trapped beneath the boat for hours survived by finding air pockets. Two men died.
The charted catamaran Miroshga was near Hout Bay on the way to Duiker Island where the 34 tourists, including four children and four crew members, were headed to see a famous seal colony. The area is also known for its population of great white sharks. The boat capsized shortly after 2 p.m. Saturday, according to the South African National Sea Rescue Institute.
"Upon arrival, we found many of the passengers had been pulled onto fishing boats and chartered tourist boats that were nearby or were clinging to the side of the upturned boat," the institute's Craig Lambinon said.
One of the passengers, Peter Hyett, 64, of the United Kingdom, was unconscious and could not be revived. Rescuers immediately started search operations for the four passengers who were still missing.
"Rescuers moved onto the hull of the boat and used tools to bang on the upturned top of the boat to see if they got a response, and they did get tapping back so they knew there were people trapped beneath the boat," Lambinon said.
Anna-Marie Weaver of South Africa told the Cape Times she was one of those trapped passengers.
"It was dark in there," Weaver told the Times from her hospital bed Sunday. "The boat was moving and the water rushing backwards and forwards, very strongly. I don't know how long we were in there when we heard someone shouting from outside, knocking on the hull. When I heard that voice, it was like a sound out of heaven."
Rescue divers then began searching for the trapped passengers. About two hours after the boat capsized, they found one woman surviving in an air pocket in the hull. They continued looking for another two hours before they found more trapped passengers.
"They had searched most of the boat and found nothing. Then in a section of the boat that was almost barely accessible, they found another two women surviving in an air pocket in a cupboard," Lambinon said.
Lambinon said it took about 30 minutes for rescuers to encourage the frightened women to give up their life jackets so they could swim out of the boat. The body of the fourth missing passenger, South African tour guide John Roberts, 37, was found the next day on the bottom of the ocean near where the boat capsized.
The survivors were treated for hypothermia and minor injuries. Weaver is the only passenger still in the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery.
The catamaran has been recovered from the water, and the cause of the accident is now under investigation.
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I have met a sentence of UPC500(UPC500 is a document of rules and regulations which regulate the practices of related part of letter of credit ,like the bank ,the importer and the exporters.The documents are drafted by the international chamber of commerce .
The sentence is as follows.
Shipments made by post or by courier will not be regarded as partial shipments if the post receipts or certificates of posting or courier's receipts or dispatch notes appear to have been stamped, signed or otherwise authenticated in the place from which the Credit stipulates the goods are to be dispatched, and on the same date.
Is the most important point of this sentence is that the shipments will not be considered as partial shipments if receipts or certificates or notes are stamped ,signed or authenticated on the same date?
For a foreigner ,how to catch the main idea of a complicated sentence like this ?
Thank you all .
I would say that the place and date are equally important here.


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The Bridge Project's world premiere of "As You Like It" opened at BAM January 12. Early performances are proving again that British and American actors can collaborate to produce top-notch theater.
BAM and (London-based) The Old Vic and Neal Street Productions are producing the play, directed by Sam Mendes. It opens The Bridge Project's second season.
The play tells the story of two feuding brothers, Duke Frederick and Duke Senior, whose fight for power throws a kingdom into turmoil.
After usurping the throne from his elder brother, Duke Frederick banishes Duke Senior into exile in the Forest of Arden. After a young champion wrestler named Orlando (Christian Camargo) wins the attention of Duke Frederick's daughter, Rosalind (Juliet Rylance), the angry duke gives her the boot as well. An outcast Orlando also runs away, and unbeknownst to each other the lovers settle in the Forest of Arden.
Suddenly the forest is alive with wanderers, jokers and peasant folk—all living beneath the watchful eye of the patriarchal, exiled Duke Senior. And this being Shakespeare, of course, everyone falls in love with everyone else.
The play unwinds at its own sweet rhythm, brought along by a strong cast performance and an impressive, understated set design. The Forest of Arden is by turns a foreboding winter wasteland and a lovers' retreat of warm proportions.
The early, tragic scenes—Orlando's row with his brother, his dramatic wrestling victory and Rosalind's banishment—give way to a series of troubled romances, each more comic than the next, that unfold in a forest where Rosalind (disguised as the manly shepherd Ganymede) plays matchmaker in a quest to reunite with Orlando, her own true love.
Staged at BAM's charming Harvey Theater, "As You Like It" marks the start of another exciting theater season in Brooklyn. (Daniel Bush)
Rating: 4/5
BAM Harvey Theater | Jan 12-March 13 | Tickets $20-95 | www.bam.org


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Summertime is the season for golf...and for weddings. With the growing popularity of country club and golf-themed weddings, one could make his or her wedding reception even more special with golf wedding favors from LittleThingsFavors.com. If on the green was the place where your love first sparked, a golf-themed wedding will add an element of personalization as your guests share in your story and the love of the game.
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Throughout 2011, the Peace Corps has celebrated its 50th anniversary. This is an important milestone for anthropology as well. Anthropologists were directly involved with in its design and implementation, and through the years many anthropologists have regularly joined as volunteers, and former volunteers regularly pursue careers in anthropology. This month's contributors include Ralph Bolton; Ian Colquhoun, Alex Totomarovario and Andrew Walsh; Scott Freeman; Frank Hutchins, Ronald A Schwarz; Katherine McCardwell; and Veronica Muoio and Michael Sheridan.
Check back to the AN website through December for additional contributions by Kathleen Gillogly, Sean Kois, Courtney Kurlanska, and Jon Wolseth. AN thanks all these contributors who have helped recognize the intricate relationship between anthropology and the Peace Corps as this milestone year comes to a close.
All AN content is available at www.anthropology-news.org during the publication month, plus one month after, and subsequently through AnthroSource. Be sure to rate articles and share your comments on the AN website.


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An Air India flight was cancelled after a 'minor' mishap at the John F Kennedy Airport here when the plane's wing touched another aircraft which was being pulled back for take off.
'The minor incident occurred when an Air India 102 plane,a Boeing 777 aircraft,with over 250 on board,was taxiing to the aerobridge after landing and a JetBlue145 plane,an Airbus A320 aircraft,was being pulled back for take off,' an Air India spokesperson said in New Delhi yesterday.
No passengers on either of the plane were injured,but the incident has resulted into an investigation by the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) into the circumstances and cause of the incident.
The Air India jet incurred damage to the aircraft's left wing tip.
FAA said that around 6:15 am (local time),JetBlue plane,was preparing for departure when the Air India plane was already on the ramp.
The wingtip of the Air India plane made contact with the horizontal stabilizer on the tail of the JetBlue plane.
Another Air India spokesperson said that the aircraft had been grounded and the New York-Delhi flight on March 9 was cancelled.
The spokesperson in New Delhi said that about 280 passengers for the next flight to be operated by the aircraft have been accommodated in the Air India flights from Newark today and tomorrow.
According to JetBlue,shortly after pushing back from the gate,its plane sustained damage to its tow bar. While retrieving a new tow bar,the aircraft remained stationary just short of the gate.
At that time the Air India aircraft taxied into the area and made contact with JetBlue's plane. The JetBlue aircraft sustained damage to its rudder and taxied back to the gate.
All 150 passengers from the JetBlue aircraft bound for West Palm Beach,Florida were removed and transferred to another plane.


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Friday, July 27, 2007
Illustrated Books
Here's a sketch of my friend Barry Klugerman. He drove up from New York City and we spent an afternoon in the screen porch looking at art books. Barry is a collector of illustrated books and knows a lot about American and European illustrators from the "golden age," around 1890-1920. Through him I've learned about amazing artists like Jose Segrelles and Fortunino Matania who are not well enough known.
Posted by James Gurney at Friday, July 27, 2007
Labels: Illustrated Books, Portraits
2 comments:
Charles Vess has turned me on to quite a few illustrators I'd never seen before. He and Mike Kaluta are a bad influence on my wallet! ;-)
- August 6, 2007 at 11:33 AM
I was talking to Barry at IlluXcon this year and he told me about all these amazing artists I still need to discover, I'm looking forward to this, very much so
- November 19, 2011 at 5:18 PM
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