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Johnny Gill

johnny.n.s.gill@gmail.com

jgill@tokiomillennium.com

About Me

17 years working on risk modelling systems for Bermuda reinsureres
Much of my work uses open source software
Currently with Tokio Millennium Re

Thanks to Tokio for letting me be here today.

About you

What are your interests?
What are you hoping to do in your work?
What do you know about open source software?

A brief history of open source

$1M for a computer, people shared code
PC era: can sell millions of copies of software, closed source arrived
Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds: open source movement
- Give you the tools and the manual that shows you how to build them
ohloh.net 30 billion lines of open source code

Open source, open data, open science

Ideas extent to other areas:

Wikipedia
Scientific research
Open data

Advantages of using open source

Development model that scales
Empowers everyone to contribute
Results in better design
Open source developers build tools to help them work better

Open source communities in Bermuda

Education
- Children at schools, after school clubs
- College students
- Learn to code without leaving the island
Computer recycling
- Installing linux onto old computers
- Teaching people to use it
- Teaching coding skills
Mentoring
Open source projects
Climate and environmental research
PyData conference here in Bermuda

Python Language

PyCon 2014
PyCon videos

Open source in finance

Finance industry

Reinsurance industry

Bermuda reinsurers historically based on closed source
Microsoft shops
Starting to use more and more open source

Oasis loss model framework

Oasis loss model framework

Raspberry Pi