FLOSSIE

Tessa Alexander, Nov 11th 2013

Not quite

flossie

women and software libre

Flossie 2013 brought together FLOSS women developers, entrepreneurs, researchers, policy-makers, digital artists and social innovators for a mix of talks, spontaneous discussions and open workshops.

Themes

• Internet of Things & the Maker community
  
• Open software & hardware
• LIBRE graphics
• Programming workshops
  
• HTML5/CSS
  
• Python
  
• Ruby
  
• Game design
  
• Inclusive / multi discipline technology usage
  
• Accelerators & Seed funders

Python, you say?

Mentoring in a beginners Python workshop

Highlights

• Arduino & MaKeyMaKey
  
• IOT talks
  
• Games
  
• Diversity of topics
  

LIBRE graphics

Team Arduino!

Inspired

• Arduino & Makey Makey
• LIBRE Graphics
• Flask
• Variety open source applications
• Collaborations with other makers
  

Possible Collaborations

• Maker and artists - HackSpaces
  
• Further mentoring opportunities
• OpenTechSchool - possible London branch
  
• EPIK - Encouraging Programming in Kent
• Pervasive games - Bristol group
• FOSSBOX
  

Let's play