Wellington Sneak Peek – Nic Cave-Lynch

Software Freedom Day Wellington is being run as an unconference – but several of Wellington’s finest have already put their hands up for a speaking spot. We’ll be telling you about several of them to give you an idea of what to expect.

3 – 330 : Nic Cave-Lynch -  Creating a Lighting Desk with Open Source Tools

Nic Cave-Lynch is a freelance software and hardware engineer who primarily works with embedded systems: the computers that don’t look like computers! He’s developed systems for many fields including touring rock bands, multi-megawatt power conditioners and nationwide radio networks. Through much of this he’s preferred open source over proprietary tools.

A recent project has been the development of a lighting control desk aimed at smaller venues. This has been developed using open source tools (as far as possible) and used another open source project to jump start some areas. The project is getting to the point where it could be a commercial product, or released as an open source project or, perhaps, both.

Nic’s talk will cover aspects of this lighting control desk project, including choice of tools, experiences using an open source project to jump start some of the development, and some of the factors he’s considering as he tries to decide whether to open-source the project.

And there should be some shiny, flashy lights to look at, too!

Don’t forget to register for Software Freedom Day Wellington at our website!