Call for Code - Project OWL

Advance Tech Podcast

Written by Alexandra Moxin

In this episode I spend some time with Dr. Angel Diaz, Vice President of Developer Technology, Open Source & Advocacy at IBM, and Bryan Knouse and Nick Feuer from Project OWL the winning team of the Call for Code hackathon.

Before getting into Call for Code I ask Dr. Diaz about his background which includes working with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), on some of the original web standards and technologies. We talk about the Call for Code program, what it is and how it all began. Dr. Diaz comments on Project OWL’s solution and how you can get involved in the next Call for Code in 2019. We also discuss the benefits of open source along with some of Dr. Diaz’s favourite open source initiatives at IBM.

Next up, I speak with Bryan Knouse and Nick Feuer from Project OWL the winning team of the Call for Code hackathon. We delve into Nick and Bryan’s backgrounds and the fluid leadership style the team used during the competition. We chat about Project OWL, the solution which uses LoRa technology, clusterducks and duck links, some of the challenges the team faced and the personal impact behind creating the solution.

Show Links

• Call for Code
• Project OWL Website
• Call for Code - Code Patterns
• Dr. Angel Diaz
• Bryan Knouse
• Nick Feuer
• Magus Pereira
• Taraqur Rahman
• Charlie Evans
• American Red Cross
• United Nations Human Rights - UNHR, Office of the High Commissioner
• New Enterprise Associates - NEA
• David Clark Cause
• Linux Foundation Open Source Summit
• Sir Tim Berners-Lee
• Bill Clinton, Founder, Clinton Foundation and 42nd President of the United States
• Kate Gilmore, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights
• Irwin Redlener, MD, Director of National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP) at the Earth Institute of Columbia University
• Deborah Dugan, Chief Executive Officer, (RED)
• Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, The Linux Foundation
• Grace Kim, Design and Research Lead at Twitter
• Cloud Native Computing Foundation
• XML
• Open source at IBM
• The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
• Dr. Angel Luis Diaz on twitter
• LoRa