Formation Algorithmique et Python pour les profs d’info en prépas scientifiques

Nous avons effectué deux sessions de formation sur l’algorithmique, Python et les bibliothèques Python scientifiques (pylab), la semaine dernière, à destination de futurs professeurs d’informatique de Classes Préparatoires aux Grandes Écoles (CPGE) scientifiques, dans le cadre du dispositif des formations LIESSE.

Cette formation s’inscrit dans l’objectif de former les nouveaux professeurs d’informatique, souvent issus d’autres matières, qui devront enseigner à la rentrée de septembre 2013 l’informatique auprès de tous les étudiants en Sup (nouveau programme).

Cette formation sur deux journées a été montée conjointement entre Télécom SudParis et l’ENSIIE.

Vous trouverez ci-dessous les transparents d’une partie de la formation (essentiellement le premier jour). Le reste correspond au contenu de Notebooks IPython portant sur l’informatique scientifique en Python avec Numpy, Scipy et Matplotlib, et est disponible en ligne (cf. les liens dans ce document PDF, vers des versions des notebooks à télécharger en ligne).

Télécharger : transparents (PDF – 1.6 Mo)

Une archive plus détaillée (avec exemples, codes source Org-Mode et Python, etc.) est également disponible : nous contacter si intéressés.

New paper “Authoritative linked data descriptions of debian source packages using ADMS.SW” accepted at OSS 2013

I’ll be presenting “Authoritative linked data descriptions of debian source packages using ADMS.SW” at OSS 2013.

Here’s the abstract :

The Debian Package Tracking System is a Web dashboard for Debian contributors and advanced users. This central tool publishes the status of subsequent releases of source packages in the Debian distribution.

It has been improved to generate RDF meta-data documenting the source packages, their releases and links to other packaging artifacts, using the ADMS.SW 1.0 model. This constitutes an authoritative source of machine-readable Debian “facts” and proposes a reference URI naming scheme for Linked Data resources about Debian packages.

This should enable the interlinking of these Debian package descriptions with other ADMS.SW or DOAP descriptions of FLOSS projects available on the Semantic Web also using Linked Data principles. This will be particularly interesting for traceability with upstream projects whose releases are packaged in Debian, derivative distributions reusing Debian source packages, or with other FLOSS distributions.

Update: If you are interested, a preprint is available here in HTML form. See also previous installments on ADMS.SW in this blog.

Update: The slides of the presentation I made at Isola are here.

First deployment of the FusionForge ADMS.SW plugin publishing projects meta-data as Linked Data

In the series of my efforts of pushing for more Linked Data to be published by FLOSS development tools, here’s another installment.

The ADMS.SW plugin for FusionForge that I’ve developped has seen its first public deployment on the ADULLACT forge, thanks to the funding of the ISA programme of the European Commission.

This means that the 500 more projects hosted on the ADULLACT forge, mainly developped by public adminstrations, are now documented using the RDF Turtle dialect, as Linked Data.

A first use can be for Free and Open source portals which will be able to harvest them from the source.

See more details at First deployment of ADMS.SW plugin for FusionForge on Adullact.

Other forges are expected to follow, like CENATIC’s or Debian’s Alioth, all powered by FusionForge.

The plugin is not yet perfect, and in particular wrt performance issues, but that was kind of expected from a first prototype. Stay tuned for more news.

Slides + Manual + programs generated from single org-mode source

I’ve been working on maintaining lecture slides and a manual, by writing a single source org-mode file.

From a single source I want to be able to generate different output PDFs, only changing a few switches :

  • slides deck
  • a manual document
  • source files for examples

The slides may contain notes.

Here’s an archive that contains an example document and complementary files. See this documentation document for more details (itself maintained with such an .org source).

“Using RDF metadata for traceability among projects and distributions” presented at DistroRecipes 2013

I’ve given a lightning talk at Distro Recipes 2013 about what I’ve been working on for several months: adding Semantic meta-data to Debian PTS, and stuff.

Here are my slides :

And the same, downloadable in PDF.

Thanks to the Hupstream staff and other participants of Distro Recipes for the interesting discussions and contacts. Looking forward to participating to the next edition.