The November issue of the OSEL newsletter “Open Sources” has been released. This issue features articles on the OSU LUG helping an ECE class install Ubuntu, a look back at the first year of the OSEL at OSU, and an OSU student’s work on one of the media players for the OLPC.
Finally, here is the pdf for the issue.
Students Mike Burns and Justin Gallardo have been getting a lot of good press lately, with stories in the 
Eugene Weekly and the Corvallis Gazette Times. Mike and Justin helped forge the connection between the United Nations sponsored OLPC project and OSU. Mike made the initial connection, and Justin ported the word processor for the OLPC. That has led to many more connections to the project. Picture shown is from the Corvallis Gazette Times article.
The March/April issue of “Open Sources”, the OSEL newsletter, is now available as a pdf download. This issue features articles on students visiting Australia for Linux.conf.au, open source classes at Oregon State University, a profile on Darcs author David Roundy and more.
Would you like to be on the “Open Sources” mailing list? Email us at osel@lists.oregonstate.edu.
Michael Leibowitz, OpenOffice.org developer, gave an overview of the tools and processes used in developing OO.org. Particularly he concentrated on the steps a developer must take to get a patch into the project. A video of the presentation can be found on Google Video.
Eclipse Foundation members Bjorn Freeman-Benson and Ward Cunningham came to OSU to give a presentation in Professor Budd’s Open Source Development class. The title of the talk was “Software Creativity the Wiki Way.” Ward Cunningham is, of course, the inventor of the wiki-web concept, as well as being coinventor (with Kent Beck) of CRC cards, and part developer of the ideas of extreme programming. After the talk Bjorn blogged some nice comments on the experience, which you can read here .
Update: a video of the presentation can be found here.
Four OSU students successfully fund raised for a trip to the best free software conference in the world, linux.conf.au. The trip is now complete and all the travel log can be found at their homepage, http://pleasesendustolinuxconfau.info/.