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
  • Pervasive games - Bristol group
  • FOSSBOX

Let's play


FLOSSIE 2013

By Tessa Alexander