The Linux Society

2009 Software Freedom Day Dundee Talks available on HackerPublicRadio.Org

The following talks have been released on HackerPublicRadio.Org from the awesome Software Freedom Day Dundee 2009;

What is free software and why is software freedom important? - Arron Finnon

This week We'll be having a talk from Axel, on Smart Card Aware Application Development.
"Smart Card Aware Application Development
-Both smart cards APIs CT-API and PC/SC will compared, with SC being compared in more detail. -An overview about the specification and the architecture. -How to setup a development environment for Linux and debug the application. -An overview on the smart card reader itself. -A short introduction to the different smart card reader security classes -An overview on the issues with significant readers"

This week we will be meeting at our new location in the University of Abertay. We will meet in the foyer at 7pm, where one of the officers will be available to take you up to the room we have booked. There we'll have Robert Ladyman, an excellent speaker at the society, with a talk titled "Borderless Networks: there goes the neighbourhood"

Software Freedom Day is fast approaching us, and as many have noticed i have been pretty quite on the site. This is due to the active preparation for this years Software Freedom Day event, that we are hosting at the HMC. Last years was a roaring success, and everyone was very proud.

This years promises to be an awesome event, and anyone that has been following the site will have seen the recent post detailing the talks being held and the blurb being released (http://thelinuxsociety.org.uk/content/dundees-software-freedom-day-event...).