NewBase 19 April 2024 Energy News issue - 1717 by Khaled Al Awadi.pdf
Fame and Fortune from Open Source
1. Fame Fortune from
Open Source
Robert Coup
robert.coup@koordinates.com
http://rob.coup.net.nz/
2. Run-down
• Who am I?
• What is Open Source? Who uses it?
• Why get involved?
• How to get started?
• How do the projects work?
• Fame fortune
3. Rob
• Founder CTO of Koordinates
• making geospatial data more accessible
• One Track Mind
• Navman
• UoA business school
• BE (Computer Systems)
BCom (Operations Mgmt)
4. Rob
• Been involved as an OSS user for 8 years
• Contributing significantly for the past two
years
• Mainly: Dojo, Django, Geospatial apps
• Google Summer of Code organiser
5. What is Open Source?
• a community of people collaborating to
create software