--- title: notes --- Going through the speaker list at [thenexthope][], and seeing how many notes I have written in tasque made me realize I consume way more than I can follow up on. Prioritization aside, just getting this down for posterity is important, and what better way than to public random notes on the internet? (Seriously, I need a better scheme than this, preferrable one that following the [antihacking][] idea I posted earlier. This post will probably be split into a few ones later, but its better to push early and often, before this stuff slips away. FossCon ------- Great convention, organized by JonathanD * Lots of talks involved open education, not just in using FOSS technologies for IT infrastructure, but to take advantage of real world excercises, contributing to code/documentation/art/testing in projects that people will actually use. * hkcmp * freebay / nomoola * collectivefoundation * aaaarg.org * publiccollectors * collectivefoundation * thepublicschool.org * learningsite.info * From the talk on community management given by kloeri * define what you want from the community early on * changing direction is ok as long as everyone is moving in the same direction * leave trivial bugs as low hanging fruit * be open about exploitation of users to turn them into contributors * take "bad" patches to illustrate ease of contribution * attribute contributions even if the contributor did not do any of the real work * upstream gets contributors <> contributors get credit and learning * users can socially engineer the developers to do work for them! (just pose the question as an interesting problem) * for another good example, see BFS from Con Kovilas * POSSE * productively lost is a good thing, stumbling around means you have a greater learning potential * RiT has a good FOSS movement going on, check out the foss@rit projects page! * Professor Stephen rocks, and so does the OLPC * Openhatch - job site++ for FOSSheads * Would be cool to add mission badges, integration with statusnet * Civx.net - git history of laws! * Both built on pygears < turbogears2 < moksha Music ----- Music to check out - stuff that sounds good at first glance but I should consider putting into my regular rotation / radio show. * fabriclive 50 * faded paper figures * clermont * frog eyes * slothbeat kids * icarus himself * hyperbubble * the humms might have a song that flaming lips took the chord progression for 'I dont know where the sunbeams end and the starlight begins...' Projects -------- Its important to document work - really, *really* important. Here is a crappy start. * Get pics from Prof. Jose * Fix arduinome * Build Problem Light (have a good chassis...) [thenexthope]: http://hope.net [antihacking]: antihacking.html