Seneca's Free Software and Open Source Symposium is a yearly event at Seneca College

Seneca College

Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology is a Canadian public college in the greater Toronto area. Seneca College is currently Canada's largest college with approximately 108,000 students.-History:...

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. As the name suggests, the focus is on Free

Free software

Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...

 and Open Source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

software. Run by faculty, this event is a maintstay on many student's calendars and people from the IT industry. Speakers for the 2008 conference include members of Mozilla, Fedora, Google, IBM, Source Forge, OpenOffice.org, Novell, Eclipse and the Creative Commons. Also for the 2008 event there is a new Teaching Open Source @ FSOSS program