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ACCU Security Conference 2009

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Let’s take the leader of Colossus reconstruction project, the author of The Code Book, the original creator of the PGP e-mail encryption package and horde of people as hungry of knowledge & fun as a bears of berries, and what you get?

ACCU :: Security: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

You get ACCU :: Security: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow conference:

On November 7th 2009, the ACCU will be holding a one day conference at Bletchley Park, home of the legendary World War II ‘Enigma’ code breakers, and the site at which the world’s first digital computer went operational.

The event is put on the official calendar of events in Bletchley Park – National Codes Centre. It’s also announced by ZDNet.

By the way, who knows about the crucial role of the Polish Cipher Bureau and Polish mathematical geniuses in breaking Enigma? I can bet that many people still believe in this story which follows principles of canonical Hollywood education.

I think one of the things we need to make clear to Hollywood is, yes you’re in the entertainment business but the people who see your movies are going to come away thinking that’s information, not just entertainment.

By the way, I’ve read on ACCU forum that one of the speakers will probably talk about new his VoIP protocol and why his protocol spanks all other VoIP protocols as well as the effects of public policy and living in a surveillance society. The conference is going to kick!

OSGIS UK 2009 Summary

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A hot lunchtime news from Suchith Anand about summary of the OSGIS UK 2009 Conference published in this month’s GIS Professional: Open campus opens doors to OS (PDF).

By the way, check a very nice collection of photos from the conference on Suchith’s gallery. (I put mine on Flickr some time ago)

OSGIS UK 2009 on Flickr

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I’ve just finished uploading photos taken on the OSGIS UK 2009 in Nottingham, so here is the set.

I’ve re-re-re-learned the lesson that light conditions in a conference venue is bad and I should always bring a proper strobe. Otherwise, pictures are dark or very grained (high ISO) or blured (mostly, unless your name is Arnold The Steel Grip). Ah, one more thing, don’t buy a DSLR with lens included, it simply is a waste of money. The kit lens is a piece of @#$%^&!, so just buy a body and then buy a proper (read: expansive) lens from Pentax (or Sigma). To quote the classics:

you are awesome
you have awesome camera
but it’s useless
without (proper) lens

Anyway, it’s always nice to have some photolog after events, even if the pictures are of bad quality.

OSGIS UK 2009 Live

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Tomorrow early morning I’m leaving to Nottingham to attend the OSGIS UK 2009 conference. It’s been long time since FOSS4G 2007 and I didn’t make it to Cape Town last year, so I’m looking forward to meet FOSS4G and OSGeo folks in UK.

A few minutes ago, Suchith Anand announced there will be live streaming transmission available from OSGIS sessions. This is cool!

By the way, does anyone remember a kind of pioneer transmission from FOSS4G 2006 in Lausanne? The videos are still linked but seem to be unavailable. Pity. It would be cool to archive them somewhere on foss4g.org.

QGIS tracks on BoostCon’09

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In one of presentations from this year’s edition of BoostCon, I found a small track of Quantum GIS project. This is Bill Hoffman‘s presentation titled A CMake-Based Software Process for Development and Integration Testing (PDF) and the track is citation taken from Martin Dobias’ blog post Having fun with CMake:

I was quite surprised with the speed of building Quantum GIS codebase in comparison to Autotools.

All presentations from the BoostCon’09 are available to download including Barend‘s slides and article with about Generic Geometry Library. There are much more interesting materials from the conference available and as another one somehow related to geospatial works, I’d like to point Graphics Programming Workshop about programming with Adobe’s Graphics Interface Library which is a part of Boost C++ Libraries (>= 1.35.0). There are both, slides and source codes, available to download.