Put open source to work
July 16–17, 2018: Training & Tutorials
July 18–19, 2018: Conference
Portland, OR
Jon Manning

Jon Manning
Cofounder, Secret Lab

Website | @desplesda

Jon Manning is the cofounder of independent game development studio Secret Lab. He’s working on the critically acclaimed award-winning adventure game Night in the Woods, which includes his interactive dialogue system Yarn Spinner, and Button Squid, a top-down puzzler. He’s written a whole bunch of books for O’Reilly about iOS development and game development. Jon holds a PhD about jerks on the internet. He’s currently writing Practical AI with Swift for O’Reilly.

Sessions

1:30pm–5:00pm Monday, July 16, 2018
Open source game development with Godot
Emerging languages
 Location: E143/144
Level: Beginner
Paris Buttfield-Addison (Secret Lab), Jon Manning (Secret Lab), Tim Nugent (Lonely Coffee)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 3 ratings)
Paris Buttfield-Addison, Jonathon Manning, and Tim Nugent walk you through building 2D games using the open source game engine Godot. You'll get a hands-on, rapid-fire introduction to using Godot's IDE and its programming language, VisualScript—a visual block-base environment—as you learn how to build games that run on almost any platform in a powerful, entirely open source environment. Read more.
1:30pm–5:00pm Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Machine overlord and you: Building AI on iOS with open source tools
Artificial intelligence, TensorFlow
 Location: E143/144
Tags: tensorflow
Level: Beginner
Jon Manning (Secret Lab), Tim Nugent (Lonely Coffee), Paris Buttfield-Addison (Secret Lab)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 2 ratings)
Join Jonathon Manning, Tim Nugent, and Paris Buttfield-Addison to get up to speed with the new machine learning features of iOS and learn how to apply the Vision and Core ML frameworks to solve practical problems in object detection, face recognition, and more. These frameworks run on-device, so they work quickly with no network access, making them cost effective and user-privacy conscious. Read more.