Silicon Swamp

​Are you interested in tech and programming?

Join us at the Boyd Innovation Center for an evening of technical discussions, and networking! Every second Thursday of the month, we have a meetup where technologists and tech-interested individuals come to discuss developments in the tech industry, including new technologies and techniques.

​Esti Beaudet from FOSSA will guide developers and founders through the practical basics of open source licensing, third-party component risk, and SBOMs. This talk will explain what software licenses are, how permissive and copyleft licenses differ, how to identify the obligations attached to a dependency, and what to do when a component introduces legal or compliance risk. It will also cover how SBOMs help teams understand what third-party and open source components are in their products, audit vulnerability exposure, and report licensed components to customers, auditors, or regulatory bodies before those risks become expensive and complicated.

​Paul Starr will give a quick live tour of ephtracy's MagicaVoxel, a free 3D voxel modeling tool, followed by a perspective about the engineering lessons that might be learned from its careful design and extreme performance.

​Afterwards, we'll leave for Bangback Arcade for food, drinks, and networking.